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Mom Used To Say Monday: Grown-Ups are Just Kids With a Better Veneer

July 15, 2019 By Vicky Leave a Comment

Mom Used To Say Monday: Grown-Ups are Just Kids With a Better Veneer

I used to believe that once I became a mom, I’d be a full-fledged adult. If I’m in charge of raising other human beings, I should be done growing up myself, right? Wrong. ⠀⠀ Apparently, life-long learning is a thing & some of us are slow learners… meaning we wrestle with the same bullshit over […]

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Mom Used to Say Monday: The Burden of Responsibility is Gone

July 8, 2019 By Vicky 2 Comments

Mom Used to Say Monday: The Burden of Responsibility is Gone

Sprawled out on my extra-long twin bed, phone cord stretched to the limit, I mustered up the courage to ask the question that’d been swimming in my head for months. “Why do you think we get along so well now? I mean, we never got along before I moved out. What’s changed?” “I think you […]

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Mom Used to Say Monday: Stop telling me everything…

June 24, 2019 By Vicky 4 Comments

Mom Used to Say Monday: Stop telling me everything…

Growing up, my mom and I weren’t what you’d call “close.” Who am I kidding… we didn’t’ get a long at all… AT ALL. I knew with complete certainty that she loved me. And I was just as certain she didn’t like me very much. There were a million reasons why we never connected – […]

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Mom Used to Say Monday: Just Because You Can Swim…

June 17, 2019 By Vicky Leave a Comment

Mom Used to Say Monday: Just Because You Can Swim…

As a teenager, nothing sent my eyes rolling heavenward faster than my mom’s words of wisdom. She had a cliche at the ready in any situation. Little did I know, those quips would be rolling off my own tongue once I became a mom. Her most famous quote was this: “Just because you can swim, doesn’t mean I’m […]

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Losing My Mom ~ What I Thought I Knew

January 26, 2018 By Vicky 12 Comments

Losing My Mom ~ What I Thought I Knew

I used to joke with my mom that our family was actually a coven of vampires. My paternal grandfather died at the age of 91. Followed by my maternal grandfather at 93. My Paternal grandmother was next at 95. Lastly, my maternal grandmother, 16 days shy of her 99th birthday. At the rate we were going, […]

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