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Mother to Alexander, 4 and stepmother to a 20 year old and 17 year old. A former US Army officer, I now work as a global strategy manager for a large Aerospace and Defense Company living and working in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I also am co-owner of a construction company with my father, manage a few rental properties and am focusing on building a life-coaching career emphasizing finding adventure and fulfillment in your life. I am active in the community in several different areas and love my down time.
My son has a laser like focus on me these days.  An entirely new world has been built up around me, without my consent or knowledge wherein I am chief...everything.  Now, I am as self centered as the next person and at first, this was cool.  I enjoyed ... Read more...
A full house, that is what I call 4 adults, three Labradors, 1 chihuahua, a teenager and a toddler all living under one roof. In these economic times I hear a lot of stories about adult children moving back home due to their circumstances. Not as many stories on par ... Read more...
"Mommy, mooooommmmmeeee" the war cry of the two year old.  He whines it as a soother to himself - with the opposite grating affect on my single remaining nerve.  Yet, these nerves are amazing powerful things, they seem to regenerate similar to th ... Read more...
So my parents are moving in.  Their stuff has already begun to move in.  They are relocating from the collapsing economy of California which is scary enough in and of itself.  California is imploding and we all just carry on worrying about which flavo ... Read more...
I am not at work right now, it is Monday and I had to call in sick.  And guess what?  The world continues to rotate.  I am not on my deathbed sick, I have a UTI and am subsequently heading to the rest room every three minutes and feeling slightly naus ... Read more...
I have visions in my head of the kind of kid I am raising...today gave me a slightly more realistic view. See, I thought I'd naturally have a child that is considerate of others feelings, I mean I do what all the parenting books tell me to do; we discuss things ... Read more...
Only 16 years to go until we have an empty nest - theoretically.  That implies that our youngest will leave the house at 18 and head off to the Ivy league school I have in mind for him. Genius that he is and all. The 18 year old left this weekend, he mov ... Read more...
My son's sandbox has been invaded.  Not by the neighborhood cat thank goodness, but by a 3 month old labrador named Maggie Mae.  We weren't planning to get another dog.  Last October I put my Ladybird, my precious momma dog to sleep in a scene that wa ... Read more...
Today, I am a mom, an employee, a wife, a friend, a daughter, and so many more things.  A few years ago I was a soldier. I was a soldier 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  I was a soldier wearing combat boots spit shined to gleaming, captains bars proudly o ... Read more...
So I just typed an entire entry, clicked spell check and the darn thing disappeared, I thought only my work computer did this after a few hours work on the promotion getting presentation I was authoring. Argh, nothing like getting up at 4:30 in the morning ... Read more...
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