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dahgurl (Shawn)

dahgurl (Shawn) has written 230 posts for DahGurl

Youngest child redefines the phrase full of sh^!

I turned 37 on April 28th and I sat thinking about all of the good advice, comments, stories I’ve been told (or that I’ve told) about parenting, motherhood, childbirth. One of my favorites came from DahMan’s (DH) maternal grandmother and she said that Children are for the Young. I know you’ve heard it, but it [...]

Mothers discuss discipline, communication over dinner

Well, I gotta tell you that I was not planning to do anything special for Mother’s Day, but a good friend of ours from college invited us to D.C. to have dinner and to just hang out. After a hectic day in the nursery at church (it’s once a month and I tell you…I couldn’t [...]

Barack, Britney, Birthdays: A time review

It’s been 5 months today that my alter ego has spoken a word to you all, well, it’s not my alter ego technically, it’s me, but I haven’t been silent for 5 months just not blogging, but I’ve been thinking about blogging a lot and as you can tell, blogging is confusing.
Not just confusing, but [...]

Mom chokes on own words, children reflect the hypocrisy

I don’t know about any of you, but as a coach and as a friend, counselor, sister…all-around “tell everybody else how to make themselves and their lives better while my life under a microscope looks like a rare flu epidemic that’s prone to choke the life out of a summo wrestler within seconds”…I’m a little [...]

Mom celebrates Independence Day in November

No, I don’t have my holidays mixed up people. Today, I am writing from my mobile office where no one in my family knows how to find me and I have wonderful surroundings, safe, quiet and most of all, no one here knows me as Mommy. Should I feel bad about the excitement that’s running [...]