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My husband and I don't really fight.  That however, is not to say we don't have arguments and disagreements.  We just disagree in a different way.  My family was rather loud and boisterous and I made a conscious decision not yell, not to insult and not to lash out.  I also was most attracted to someone who was calm, cool and collected.  Someone that was easygoing and didn't sweat the small stuff.  I then thought,  in the early years of marriage that since we didn't fight in that way that everything was fine.  This isn't true.  We have had some very difficult times.  Times when I didn't think we would make it work.  These times have taught me some extremely important lessons that I think you might benefit from too. 1.  Bottling up your problems doesn't make them go away.  When I was a kid and my brother would bug me my parents would say, "If you just ignore him he'll go away."  I have even told this to my own daughte...

Around here Caramel is it!  My daughter seems to have quite refined tastes for a 6 year old and her favorite sugary flavour is also a quite popular one in the culinary world.  Salted Caramel.  Lately every time she gets to pick out a treat at the dollar store it is either Rolos or those little plastic wrapped square caramels.  My son veers towards chocolate but he follows along right behind his sister and picks those little chocolate wrapped caramel bundles called Rolo and if ever I am in the grocery store and see Rolo ice cream I tend to pick up a tub since it is a favorite of the husband. As a bit of a side note about Rolo ice cream, have you notice how it hardly has any Rolos in it anymore?  When it first came out it was loaded with them but now, even though it says right on the tub "Jam-Packed" there are hardly any in it at all.  Who are they convincing?  I am certainly not fooled.  Maybe I should complain. Anyway, in short caramel is a bi...

This whole insomnia thing is not working for me.  I keep waking up early, I remember a LOT of dreams (don't ask me why I was dating Chad Kroeger, sliding down laundry shoots or trying to get my brother to hide me in my own house), taking a long time to fall asleep and waking up numerous times per night.  Some nights are slightly better than others and I have noticed a marginal difference with taking the vitamins my pharmacist recommended to tide me over but I really am looking quite forward to my doctors appointment on Wednesday.  I am very hopeful that he will be able to re prescribe my former insomnia medication because really, enough is enough. Though I am quite good, if I do say so myself, at still being functional and acting like there is nothing the matter the truth is it's getting to me.  When I don't sleep enough I start to get overly emotional.  I already cry quite readily so it's really something to behold during these times.  I am ...

Last week was an interesting one for me.  I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping again and had close to 2 weeks of very poor sleep with frequent waking.  Wednesday I felt like a zombie and, as I frequently remember during these insomnia "flare ups", keeping someone awake is used as a form of torture.  I think this stint of sleeplessness was started off by a pinched nerve in my shoulder/neck that was painful enough to keep me from sleep for a few days.  After I was finally able to get that dealt with it had become a trend.  The last few nights I have gotten better sleep but it still hasn't been ideal and I am looking forward to my Dr. appointment this week where I will hopefully be able to get a prescription for my old (and super awesome) sleeping pills.  It strikes me as quite ironic that I don't ever sleep through a full night where as my brother falls into some sort of comatose sleep of the dead that is very difficult to wake him from.  I don't k...

Yesterday must have been a very musical day.  I had so many people on my FB feed talking about music and I was one of them.  It almost seems like I am discovering music again and that is thanks to a Christmas gift.  You see, the way we play music is changing.  We have been big CD collectors and have been somewhat resistant to the change over to digital music.  The problem with that was my only way of playing music in my kitchen/living room was through our DVD player.  That meant switching sources on the TV so the kids were unable to watch TV.  Since my main music listening time would be while making meals that was also a time when I would try to occupy the kids with the TV.  End result being I haven't been listening to a hole lot of music for a while so a few months ago my husband rigged up some old computer speakers and an ipod so that I could play a little something.  The only problem with that is the ipod always seemed to be dead and I had...

There is something amazing and magical about music.  It has the power to somehow with words and sounds express an emotion far better when put together than either one can do on their own.  Listening to a song that touches your heart can do so many things.  It can change your mood, making you either happy when you are sad, sad when you are happy or enhancing the feelings you experience at the moment.  Songs can remind you of a moment in time, a relationship you have or even express what you are feeling far better than you could.  I must confess I'm a lyrics girl.  I love the poetry in a good song.  I love the way the voice can melodiously add power to those words.  I love a song I can sing along to and really get behind.  My husband however, is a music guy.  He plays bass and guitar, he has a far better grasp on the music side of songs than I and in a lot of cases he doesn't really "hear" the lyrics.  It is through our relationship...

It's been a really long time since my last post and there is a very unusual reason for that.  It's because it's winter.  Our computer is in the basement and it's cold down here!  I haven't been coming downstairs to use the computer hardly at all either since my father gave us a tablet that he bought but wasn't using.  Since he gave us that I pretty much have been doing all my internet stuff upstairs...where it's warmer.  It is a new year though now so I thought what better time than now to get back into the swing of things.  This is the time of year where people tend to both reflect on the past and dream of the future.  I am not immune to these musings myself.  I have been doing some reflecting on this last year and I assume that like everyone else, there were some tough times and some good times.  I had a few pretty rough patches and issues that I worked through emotionally this year.  Some really good progress was made but a lot of i...