Tag: mental health
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What are you putting off today?
Projects and More Too many people think that teachers get the summer off. That’s simply not true. You see, we are not employed for the days we are not working. My particular employer separates our yearly salary into 24 checks, so I’m getting paid twice a month all year. At the same time, it’s like…
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Nerd Summer
Wow, it’s been a really long time since I’ve posted on my blog. I was having a huge issue with logging in and my portal showing nothing–I couldn’t even manage a couple comments. But, now that my issues have been resolved I hope to get back at it and post more consistently. One of the…
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#Poetry | “Cringe”, a poem about regrets
Looking back…hindsight is always 20/20, as they say. It’s not easy to shake the past and move forward. Recently I’ve seen many of my my friends sharing memes promoting mental health awareness and acceptance. It’s hard for me to be to be as sympathetic and compassionate as others. I really struggle with expressing my self…
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Happy Annual Revolution Around the Sun
This is the first New Year’s Eve I’ve spent almost completely alone. My daughter and I have been watching Disney+ in the mix of doing laundry and washing dishes. This year has been a season of changing and adapting to new situations with family. So much has changed, but mostly for the better. Most of…
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Thankful 30: Day 6
I’m thankful for talents. Everyone has something different. I watch my siblings bicker about who is better at certain things, and I see something that is wrong with society as a whole: we are too busy comparing. You have something special about you. Something God gave you, and it is just as good as anyone…
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Thankful 30: Day 2
Thank you for joining me for day two of the Thankful 30. You can read Day 1 here. I will do my best to keep up with this each day! I hope you’ll share your challenge link in the the comment so I can follow yours too. Day Two: I am thankful for my brother…
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Embracing Joy
In the midst of a lot of family drama that’s been going on, I’ve been putting a lot of effort into getting rid of things I don’t need and reorganizing the house. Cleaning isn’t just physically tiring when there is a lot to do–it’s emotionally draining. There has been a lot of “letting go” lately…
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10 Year Challenge – Reflecting on Life and the Top 10 Songs that Kept me Going
10 Years Ago Ten years ago I was a senior in high school. I created my Facebook account in 2009 from a school computer because I was the nerd that bypassed the security software (can’t take full credit, our Dual Credit adviser showed me how the first time). Each time there was new software, there…
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Sweet Dreams with Lavender
Lavender for All For the most part, my almost 2 month old is actually a really good sleeper. Good as in she fits the sleeps schedule that a baby her age is suppose to have, what with having to eat and get diapers changed and all. She does do what I call the “6PM Gripe”…
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Coming soon, this fall:
When I first snuck a pregnancy test home I had no real hope of getting a positive result. I just wanted to know. I had missed a couple periods and only when my mom asked if I had any tampons did I realize: I haven’t bought any lately because I haven’t needed any. So initially,…
Designing Lorri 