Day 30 Celebration!
30 days down, 335 to go! Dear Day 30, WOW! I so never thought you were going to come. I mean really, me, not yelling for 30 days straight? That’s a joke. I still don’t believe it. I am pretty sure my mother-in-law wouldn’t believe it either but she would be thrilled. She never really […]
The Orange Rhino’s Revelation
29 days down, 336 days to go! Dear Orange Rhino, Yesterday you admitted you needed help. Today you need to admit that you can’t blog every night. If you want to succeed at your challenge, you need to be relaxed and rested, not cranky! You need to go to bed earlier, spend more time with […]
Darn you / Thank you
28 days down, 337 days to go! Dear Orange Rhino Community, I mean this with the upmost love and sincerity, but Darn You! Every time I want to quit, that I want to throw in the towel and say I can’t do this, it is too much, it is too hard, I am going to […]
Why the big tears?
27 days down, 338 to go! Dear Leap Day, You’re just the Day that keeps on giving! Last week you helped me realize that I need to have more faith in myself that I can take on The Orange Rhino Challenge, that I can succeed both in not yelling and in sharing. Well in realizing […]
Too many “Oopsies” don’t make it right
24 days down, 341 to go! Dear Day 24, Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you for being so kind and taking it down a notch because quite frankly days 20, 21, 22, and 23 have sucked. No, that is putting it mildly. They have been miserably depressing and horrifically challenging to […]
A Leap of Faith
23 days down, 342 to go! Dear Leap Day, You came and I was so busy being cranky that I missed celebrating you! But as I write today, a day later, I thank you for reminding me of something. This project of mine, the not yelling for 365 days and blogging about it hoping someone […]
Poop and Self Awareness are cool. Soap Suds are not.
22 days down, 343 to go! Dear Orange Rhino Readers, In honor of Leap Day, I took a day off from blogging. Instead, I thought I would share one of my original posts written before I decided to go “live” and share my thoughts with the world. I am glad I pulled it up – […]
“Knowing is Half the Battle”
21 days down, 344 to go! Dear G.I. Joe (Jane), Aren’t you the one who says “knowing is half the battle?” Well if I feel like half the time I don’t know anything about being a mom does that mean I have half a battle ahead of me for the next 25 plus years or […]
The Shortest, Longest Days of my Life
20 days down, 345 to go! Dear Day 20, Wow, you sure know how to go out with a bang…and a splash! As if I hadn’t had a long enough day as is, you seemed to find it necessary to have my 2 ½ year old bang against his door incessantly for 20 minutes in […]
All the yelling stopped and…
18 days down, 347 to go! Dear Tom Cruise, This post is dedicated to you Tom Cruise and a friend who helped me get this blog going who is in Labor right now! She sent me an email saying “I’ll be out of touch for a bit, I’m in labor.” I laughed because that is […]