Thanks, everyone, for your patience these past couple of months. My mother passed away in December and it’s taken me a while to get back into regular life, much less this blog. So. Here we go…. If there’s one thing I’ve learned this last year, it’s that most of our problems revolve around a basic—but [...]
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How to Save Time, Lessen Your Frustration and Help Get Your Relationship Back on Track
Frustrated and pissed off at your spouse? Wondering how you’ll get through another stressful, jam-packed holiday season? Sure you are. We all are. It’s tough enough to stay on top of things during normal times, but how are you supposed to do that during times of high-stress, when you’ve got 65 daily to-dos that need [...]
Come Join Our Attitude of Gratitude
How are you doing out there? Anyone losing their minds lately, like me? If so, I’ve got something for what ails you (no, no, not that–go put that bottle of wine down). It’s our old friend, gratitude (or figuring out how to be grateful for all the good stuff in my life again, otherwise known [...]
Never Underestimate a Potato Masher (and Other Immigrant Secrets)
One of the super-cool things about being the daughter of immigrants is learning how to travel with copious amounts of food at all times. For a long time, Ken used to make fun of me when he saw me jamming my bag full of food every time we went to the airport. “You know there [...]
How Resentment Kills a Marriage (and 5 Ways You Can Kill Your Resentment)
The more I talk about this blog with strangers, the more people open up to me with stories about their own marriages. Like the woman who told me this: “I got divorced when my youngest child was ten. But my divorce didn’t have anything to do with what was going on then–it had everything to [...]
Finding Space for Yourself
Ken and I have just come out of a few crazy weeks, and I’ve been thinking a lot about space. As in: there isn’t any, at least in a marriage with young children, right? Well, maybe. My mom spent most of April living with us, which was great in some ways–I got to hang out [...]
Taking The Leap
Meet Ingrid Ricks, the woman who spent a long time dreaming about writing her memoir, Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story. For years, it was all she talked about. And even though she didn’t have enough time to really knock it out–outside of work and raising her kids, that is–she chipped away at it, and she [...]
Hiding Behind Our Children (or Our Work)
After Gabriel was born, I was so damn exhausted that I couldn’t finish a sentence, much less carry on a conversation. I mean, I was still wiped from when Nico entered the picture, and now that I had a 2.5 year-old and newborn to juggle, I was a blathering mess. Gabriel wasn’t the easiest baby, [...]
Book Giveaway: Strip Off Your Fear
To celebrate Laura and her kick-ass reemergence into a new, more positive world, I’m giving away a free copy of Betsy Talbot’s Strip off Your Fear: Slip Into Something More Confident. I’ve been a big fan of Betsy and Warren’s Married With Luggage blog ever since a friend turned me on to them and I [...]
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I'm a part-time writer who works from home, alongside my work-from-home hubby and our two boys, ages 5 and 3. Welcome to our crazy little space shuttle! Tanja Pajevic
