Something I learned early on in my marriage to Alpha Hubby (and applies to almost all couples) is that we had to learn one another. He had to learn how to be my husband, learn what turned me on, learn what melted me, and learned what triggered an apocalyptic meltdown in the house. We had… Read More The Power of Touch
I think if you have followed me for any time that you know that I believe in positive focus, positive talking and staying far away from anything (or any one) negative. Recently someone said to me that they believed I was setting up a false standard by telling only the positive stories of my marriage… Read More Think on These Things
Click on most pictures to enlarge if you want. So my dad died in 2004. It was sudden and unexpected. I was on vacation and couldn’t get back before he moved on to heaven. I am always grateful the last things we said to one another were things like “Love you” and we had hugged… Read More Who’s Your Daddy?
We just had a majorly COLD ice and snow storm (bad for Arkansas). I know for some Northern people, this is no biggie; however, the one thing I missed when I moved to Arkansas was SNOW. I was raised more in snow-areas than not, and while there were times I thought, “I can’t take any more… Read More Let It Snow!
So Alpha Hubby left me. Oh, don’t worry. It was against his will. He had to go out of town for work. He hates going out of town. I love it but he can’t always take me. I hate when he can’t take me. So before he left, I fixed him an awesome preview of… Read More Blessed the Broken Road
(Re-do of older post) ****DISCLAIMER: Although I majored in Psychology in college, I do not profess to be an expert in anything other than myself. Sort of, “I’m not a doctor but I play one in this blog.” So this being a blog, don’t take anything as a professional discourse – it’s opinion and experience.****… Read More The IT Girl (Redux)
Years ago, I heard a description of Alpha Male in relation to wolves. Every wolf pack has a leader. This leader is known as the Alpha Animal who dominates and leads the other members of the pack. The Alpha is the boss who makes decisions for the entire pack. The Alpha trait is to do… Read More Living with the Alpha Male, Redux
I can honestly say that Alpha Hubby is very good at putting the fun in dysfunctional at our house. There are so many, many, many, many irritating precious stories. I want to tell this story on him because it has the longest running joke going on in our family. When Alpha Son was 11 or so, and… Read More The Fun in Dys-Funk-tional