Author Archives: Tasha

About Tasha

Wife. Sister. Friend. Mom of 7 kids. Yes, my uterus deserves a standing ovation.

The End

He said to write an end to the story. 

I wonder seriously if that is possible. He said that if I write an end, it won’t have control over me. That I could see a finish to it. That the rest would just be choices and decisions lived out.

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Something Tangible

Rarely in parenting do you ever get something tangible to prove that you are not completely effing up your kids. At least in my parenting.

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Logic Fail

So, I decide to teach a couple of classes at my kid’s homeschool co-op. Mostly because I am a great starter, but I suck at finishing things. I get these ideas that sound awesome, but in the end, I get bored, or I realize that I am stuck because I committed, but it wasn’t the greatest idea. 

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Remembrance

Eleven years ago, I literally fell down on my office floor, a scream coming from somewhere deep inside that sounded foreign to my ears, even in the moment.

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Seventeen

Listening to Sarah McLachlan’s, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, takes me back to the beginning. It really was the soundtrack to that trip, and maybe our lives. 

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Just Write: I Hear Him

I hear him.

I don’t want to. I wonder briefly if he might find his paci and if it might be enough.

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A Letter to Anna See

Dear Anna,

We have never met. Unlike the rest of the blogging world, it seems, I have only just discovered your blog, An Inch of Gray.

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Calling

I have been a mom for as long as I have been an adult. Which isn’t to say that I was actually a grown-up even though I was considered an adult. You get me?

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First Day of School Delusions

I have these visions of how the first day of school is going to look. Why? I don’t know. I have homeschooled long enough to know it never, not ever, looks the way I envision it.

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Fifteen Minutes of {Paleo} Fame

What a week! I wrote a post talking about my Whole 30 results. With one little tweet to Dallas and Melissa at The Whole 9 Life, I was like a paleo celebrity for a day.

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