{sometimes} Marriage Makes Me Want To Yell
412 days of loving more! Dearest Orange Rhinos. I share this post for two reasons. 1, so that you know that while I have gone a year without yelling everyday I am still taking the Challenge right along with you, especially now and 2, to share about a real personal trigger of mine that I […]
Truth or Dare?
408 days of loving more… I pretty much remember all the “Truth or Dare” games I played in junior high school, shoot probably even before then. They were all the same. We sat in a dark room in a circle and all of us girls squealed out “not me, not me, YOU go first” while […]
The Emergency Yell!
405 days of loving more! A few weeks ago during dinner time the doorbell rang. I had of course just settled everyone down to eat, I mean complain over what I served, and the last thing I needed was an interruption. I tried to ignore the ring but it was followed by a knock. Clearly […]
Lesson from a Lost Lovey
401.5 days of loving more! Well, crap, I lost one of my son’s loveys AGAIN. You would think I would have learned the first time…and the second time…and the third time…and the fourth time that no matter what “friends” stay in beds and cribs all day. But clearly, based on my digging through trash, and drawers, […]
10 Things I Learned When I Stopped Yelling At My Kids and Started Loving More
399 days of loving more! Someone asked me this past weekend, “So, what were your findings from not yelling for a year? Did you learn anything?” Huh. Pretty good question. And it got me thinking, “Well, what did I learn?” I’ll tell you this; I learned a lot, a lot more than I can possible […]
I’m (not) Taking Care of Me.
398 Days of Loving More! The first pimple was easy to attribute to P.M.S. The first day of back pain was easy to attribute to “standing in one position too long.” And the first night going to bed early was easy to attribute to “staying up too late the night before.” But then when the […]
The Orange Rhino, a.k.a. {…}
395 days of loving more! Hi. My Name is The Orange Rhino. I am also known as T.O.R. in my email replies when I am really tired and I am also known as mama to my baby, mommy to my older boys and babe to my husband. When I was in elementary school I was […]
Managing My Anger.
393 days of loving more! This is a hard post to write. You know, sometimes it is just really hard to share the truth. And not because it is that horrifically awful but because I don’t want to hear myself speak the truth. Because I don’t want to relive the truth. I don’t want to […]
L.O.V.E. Saved the Day!
390 days of loving more! (This is not intended to offend anyone. I share it because it is real and a real trigger. When I identified this trigger back in October (read here), it helped me to acknowledge it and work with it instead of letting it make my desire to not yell impossible!) * […]
“The Yelling Phase”
387 days of loving more! Since my boys are up at the crack of dawn, well, really before the crack of the crack of dawn, come 6:45 we are all ready to get out of the house and I am ready for them each to be buckled into a car seat unable to touch each […]