Return on Effort

Posted by Kate on Jan 25, 2011 in Acceptance, Passably Parenting | 0 comments The other day I was reading tweets from @BurbDoc (be careful you might not want to go there)* and he was talking about acknowledging effort. Not judging the effort.  Not always valuing the effort based on the return.  Valuing effort. This came up again during #hcsm discussion on Sunday evening (1/16/2011).  The conversation was about getting some credit or discount from insurers if you use/d...
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Love Bigger Than You Live

Posted by Kate on Nov 23, 2010 in Acceptance, Ketilave | 0 comments I don’t pretend to be perfect.  I have faults.  Plenty of them.  I like to stay behind the scenes in the hopes of you not seeing the mistakes.  I don’t want to be perfect I just hate to let you down. I still feel this way.  It’s just not life or death.  I will not DIE of embarrassment.  But I tried. In December 1994 I tried to kill myself.  I would have been successful...
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Single-Handed Single Parenting

Posted by Kate on Nov 16, 2010 in Passably Parenting | 0 comments Apparently I can’t juggle blenders. Don’t ask me how I did it.  I don’t know.  I obviously wasn’t thinking.  I obviously wasn’t paying attention.  I don’t know exactly HOW it happened but it’s been almost a week of some intense ow! So, I cut my finger and ended up with 16 stitches.  Mike was out of town, the kids were at a friend’s house and...
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