Two Homes

May 17, 2010

Two to three Thursdays a month, anxiety begins to set in just after cleaning up from dinner.  In just a couple of hours, I’ll need to pack a bag — once again.  Friends and family find it amusing that packing stresses me out so badly, because I do it so often.  It does so because I’m [...]

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MLI Discussion: Did You Keep Your Married Name After Divorce?

May 10, 2010

More than two years post-divorce and it’s still strange to me that I have a son, yet I share a last name with my parents and younger, unwed sister.  A Navratil again – better yet, still.
There are so many factors to consider when deciding whether to change your name after divorce — pros and [...]

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Not Just Preaching to the Choir

May 4, 2010

For those of us who share our stories of successful co-parenting, thriving after divorce and personal growth, we often feel as though we are preaching to the choir.  Who reads our stories, tips, opinions?  Other people like us, who agree with us.  On some random website, to which I’ve already lost the link (shame on [...]

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Ain’t It Great to Go Through Life Together?

May 3, 2010

When music turns to talk on the radio, I hit the next preset button.  But today, while listening to K-Love on my ride to work, I stayed tuned to the conversation between Lisa and Matt Hammitt of Sanctus Real.  Not sure why I didn’t change the station.  I’m sure it was a God thing.
Matt’s wife, [...]

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Post Divorce Insanity

April 30, 2010

Last month, on The Co-Parenting Matters Show on Blog Talk Radio, I alluded to the difficult time I had the year following the split from my ex-husband.   Which reminded me of something I’d been meaning to write about here on MLI.  I’ve mentioned it once or twice before, but never dedicated an entire post to it. [...]

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Bad Word

April 22, 2010

After a nice dinner of spaghetti and meatballs (Brady’s favorite), I was in the kitchen cleaning up and Braden was in the family room playing with his Bakugans.  Suddenly, I heard him start to whimper.  “Mommy, am I a bad boy?”  These words spoken through the quivering lips of a four-year-old can crush a mom.  [...]

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This is Frank

April 21, 2010

My parents are coming to visit in two weeks.  My mom will be here for two and a half weeks; my dad for one week.  He doesn’t care much for being away from home, or being a guest in someone else’s home, so he draws the line at one week.  Who can blame him?  His [...]

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Indigo Braden

April 8, 2010

I kid you not.  This is a true story.
Date: March 29, 2010
Time: 6:30 a.m.
Place: My bed
Braden had come in my room 15 minutes earlier for our daily morning I-don’t-wanna-get-out-of-bed snuggle.  There were no books, no TV, no radio, nothing.  Just me and Braden.  I had started to slip back into dreamland when Braden broke the [...]

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Complicated

April 5, 2010

Mondays seem to get more complicated as I get older.  Is it circumstantial, or inevitable?  I don’t know.  As a kid, I actually enjoyed Mondays.  I looked forward to going to school and seeing my friends.  In college, I rarely planned classes until mid-afternoon on Mondays, so I enjoyed sleeping in and watching soap operas with [...]

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Thankful This Thursday: Ally, Truth, Passion and Opportunity

April 1, 2010

A few months after Ex-Husband and I split, I had the pleasure of hiring my best friend as my assistant at my former company (while she thought she was in between jobs).  We worked together in that capacity for about six months before she stopped working to finish her pregnancy, have her baby and be [...]

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