Shrinking Momster

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!My husband and I separated in April. Our daughter is living with him. I’m living on my own for the first time ever at forty. It’s been terrifying, heart-twisting, healing, and about a dozen other emotions all at once. I’ve […]

I turned 40 in February.  This obviously means lots of people I grew up with are also turning forty.  My high school friend, Ashly, issued a #thisis40 challenge on Instagram.  I stole her caption and adapted it just slightly: “So many of my closest friends are, or will be, 40 this year. I remember when […]

I have spent big chunks of the last week in the car.  My daughter, a rising high school senior, is attending several week long resident pre-college programs.  Last week I drove her to Flagler College in St. Augustine, three hours north of us.  Saturday I picked her up and drove her home to repack.  Then […]

I was looking for something totally new and different to do a few months ago.  I wanted a distraction from my normal life, but I didn’t really want to be in a social setting.  I wanted different, but not socially uncomfortable.  A friend mentioned on Facebook she had her tea leaves read.  I called for […]

I started writing again after a long break this week.  I set a 100 day writing challenge.  My goal is to write a blog post every day for the next 100 days. Except I messed up on day 3.  But I haven’t gone to bed yet, so it still counts, right? I’m wide awake at […]

Yesterday I wrote about feeling like I was drowning.  This is a public service announcement:  be careful how you say things when in crisis.  You might send concerned friends into a panic. There’s a big difference between feeling like you’re drowning vs. feeling like drowning yourself. Big. Difference. I was talking metaphorical drowning, not literal. […]

I was not okay.  I was drowning. That’s the best way I can describe the last year. Maybe longer. No, definitely longer. Way longer. Drowning. I’d been saying, “I’m not okay,” for at least a year. To my husband. To my daughter. To my best friend. My family didn’t understand. My friend wanted me to […]

This post is sponsored by Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. Personal opinions and thoughts are my own. I am rebuilding my life right now. All of the sudden, I turned 40 and realized I lost myself in motherhood, being a wife and trying to have a successful career. Part of my rebuild is making all of […]