Category: Memories
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Daily Prompt 3/19/23
Who was your most influential teacher? Why? This is really tough because I’ve been fortunate enough to have so many awesome teachers in my younger years. There’s my incredible kindergarten teacher that was so loving and understanding of small children at school for the first time. My second grade teacher really loved me but I…
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Daily Prompt 3/15/23
What was the best compliment you’ve received? The best compliment I ever received was from a person who didn’t like me very much. We had a couple run-ins at a previous base and then he became the squadron commander at a deployed unit I left just as he was arriving. The combat flying crew I…
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Hard conversations
Tomorrow I am going to have that super serious conversation with the ex. I have already drafted my list of concerns and points I need to make. I actually feel really good about this conversation. Although I plan to use some of the same language from the healthy relationships program my dad and I did…
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Daily Prompt 3/10/23
What makes you most anxious? This question taps into some of my most vulnerable areas. But I haven’t been in the business of hiding from vulnerability when I blog, so I will share. I am most anxious about losing the people closest to me. When Boy #2 was young, I used to dream about him…
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Daily Prompt 3/5/23
Write a letter to your 100-year-old self. Dear Self, I bet you never thought you could live this long, did you? How do you feel? Is getting old as bad as Grandma said it would be? Haha, I wish we could’ve done this the other way around, with you telling me what to do and…
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Priorities
There are possible developments on the the horizon that may challenge me. I guess that’s true of anyone, at any given time though. I have struggled in the past with prioritizing things properly. Like always putting myself last or putting work before my family at the wrong times. It feels like I’m looking at another…
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Daily Prompt 2/25/23
Describe the most ambitious DIY project you’ve ever taken on. I feel like I intentionally find some strange, obscure way to interpret daily prompts but for this one I have to say the most ambitious DIY project I’ve taken on is healing myself. It is true that I see a therapist regularly, but that amounts…
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Honoring Grandmothers
As a kid, I loved my birthday up until I was about 8 or 9. I can’t exactly explain what happened, but I think it had to do with being old enough to realize what was going on. Like I was suddenly aware of how I was being treated. My birthday became a day I…
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Daily Prompt 2/23/23
Do you enjoy your job? Sometimes these daily prompt questions are kind of silly. I like this question though, because I wish everyone could enjoy what they do. I don’t have a job right now and I definitely enjoy that, although I do feel like I am supposed to do something more with my life…
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