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A Important Announcement

Doing what I do is very rewarding. Being able to help people and provide for my family is a true blessing. It's taken a lot of time, patience, energy, and sacrifice to build this platform. I'm very lucky and I know it. At the same time, there's a dark side to this that I don't often talk about. I tend to quietly deal with it because I've always just figured it was my fault for putting myself out there. The truth is, I have at least two online stalkers and I don't know what else to call them. The leave disgusting comments on the blog, you've probably seen them, messages on social media, and now they're creating social accounts in order to impersonate me. They're stealing pictures of my kids…

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April 29, 2021

My thoughts

Update on Emmett’s foot

This is one of those posts that took a shameful amount of time to finish. Better late than never but this was supposed go out Monday night and it's currently Wednesday morning. I had to take Emmett to urgent care this morning because his foot was still in a lot of pain. I don't have a problem with telling he needs to play through the pain, as long as I know for certain, he's not going to worsen an injury. We went for x-rays and thankfully, nothing is broken. He has to use crutches for about a week but is already doing better. He's able to finally put some weight on his foot and the doctor said to keep trying to do that. Progress is progress. That kept Emmett out…

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April 28, 2021

My thoughts

Well that was fun (insert sarcasm here)

It's been a really trying day, from a parenting standpoint anyway. I suppose that spills over into everything else as well. If you're a parent in general, you've probably had those days where it's one thing after another and there is this little voice in the back of your head suggesting you run away and join the circus. LOL It's been one of those days. I'll just focus on the two most recent things and I'm going to try and keep it short cause I'm pretty tired. Elliott has an opportunity to go somewhere with a group of friends in the near future. He really, really, really wants to go and I'd love to just say go for it but we're still in the middle of a pandemic. This will…

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April 26, 2021

Cool Stories / Fergus / My thoughts

Thank you Lauren Holly helping name our new dog

So we got a new dog recently. I hadn't planned on that but I was trying to help someone out and honestly, we've wanted a second dog since Maggie died three years ago. It was one of those things that just kinda happened in the moment and wasn't really thought out. The kids are thrilled and Ruby seems to be happy as well, so it all worked out. He's a 4 month old Corgipoo and his name was Toby. We're weird about names in our house and if we are going to do this, we're going to do it our way. He needs crate trained and broken of some bad habits but we're making decent progress. One of the things we decided to do was change his name. He wasn't…

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April 24, 2021

My thoughts

What’s up folks

What's up folks. It's been a eventful week and I've not had much time for writing. There's been a lot going on and I'm actually doing pretty good. I don't really have anything to complain about. I feel incredibly lucky to be completely honest. I knocked out two fantastic recordings this week and I've cleared my entire recording schedule. I'm booked for a few interviews in the near future but I'm not going to be recording anything myself for probably a few weeks. I'm so far behind on editing and I have enough already recorded to get me through the summer. I'm pretty excited about that. Also, I'm down another 20+ pounds since the beginning of the year and it feels pretty amazing, I'm not gonna lie. As of roughly…

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April 22, 2021

Inspirational Posts / My thoughts

My Moment of Clarity

I woke up this morning, super early, filled with clarity, and laser focused. The laser focused part might be a bit of an exaggeration but I wish I was laser focused. The clarity part is very true, however. Life is full of twists and turns, detours and delays, setbacks and forward progress, joys and heartaches, successes and failures. I have found that moments of pain can lead to a certain clarity that I wouldn't have gained otherwise. Sure, it's messed up that I can't seem to find that same clarity elsewhere but it's still positive, right? I'm going to keep being me. I'm going to keep bettering myself. I'm going to keep moving my kids forward. I'm going to keep growing my business. I'm going to keep believing in myself.…

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April 20, 2021

My thoughts

Let them be who they are

Elliott made his triumphant return to the classroom, if only for a day. He had state testing and it went well, at least as far as he can tell. Mr. Elliott decided to dress up in his cosplay outfit, which I wasn't sure about. Personally, I didn't care if he wore it but I was a little concerned about how people would react. It wasn't anything crazy but it certainly wasn't street clothes. I didn't want him to be in an uncomfortable situation. He told me he wanted to do this while last night and I had my concerns but ultimately decided to let him be him. Apparently, cosplay is a big thing in his class, so no one thought anything of it. Also, I respect the shit out of…

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April 16, 2021

COVID19 / Emmett John / My thoughts / Planning

Emmett returned to the classroom today

Today was such a big day, especially for Emmett. I haven't mentioned this in a little while because I wasn't sure what was going to happen. Today was the moment of truth and here's what happened. State testing is ridiculously mandatory this year, despite the pandemic. I have made my thoughts on that quite clear. It's flat out fucking stupid that we didn't skip testing this year. We know the scores are going to be lower but it's because our kids were surviving a fucking pandemic, not because they're incapable of learning or the teachers aren't doing their jobs. Sorry, I get pretty fired up about this but I digress. Anyway, Emmett was required to return to school for the testing process and he will be required in and off…

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April 6, 2021