People come and go all the time.
Some impress me when they come.
Others when they leave!
I was reminded today that I have amazing people around me.
Four years ago I packed up my life and moved to Los Angeles, just me and the kids, knowing only Mr. Man and a cousin out here. I left behind family, friends and a community I had spent a decade living in. It was an exciting change but a big one for a girl who had a strong sense of belonging and a need for community.
Today I was reminded that over the past four years we have collected a new sort of family, we've found our people in unexpected places. Spending the day with some of the most amazing, kind, supportive and fun people while supporting all of our daughters playing softball felt like I had finally found that sense of community again. It felt like home.
It's been said that the way to a mom's heart is to love her children. I'll add to that, love my children when you don't need to or it's not required of you and I am in your corner forever. We have had the fortune to be loved and supported by an amazing cast of coaches, mom's, dad's and siblings. Sitting in a group of a dozen adults today cheering on girls we have played with for the past year was exactly what I needed. It reminded me that every time I support a kid, cheer them on or stand in their corner, it feeds them. As a mom, it sure feeds me too.
So when in doubt...say something.
Cheer a kid on.
Let them know you're in their corner.
It totally matters.
Loving my community today!
-McGee
My thoughts... Based on my own ordinary existance. And sometimes extraordinary experiences.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Here we go again!
I shoulda known.
I shoulda known when I was crying at the Rose Bowl Parade because it was so wonderful and beautiful.
I shoulda known when food sounded bad. All around.
I shoulda known when I was so dang tired I could barely make it to the KIDS bedtimes!
See...we had this problem in our house. We were going with a Brady Bunch theme, as in his and hers kids but we couldn't find ourselves an Alice for the middle square.
So we thought we would add an "ours" kid to the mix and call it good.
Baby McGee will be completing our not so little family in August of this year and we are beyond excited (and let's be honest a little nervous, I mean I AM 35 and it's been awhile since I've done the whole pregnant thing!)
As in everything I seem to do these days-here's to the journey!
-McGee
I shoulda known when I was crying at the Rose Bowl Parade because it was so wonderful and beautiful.
I shoulda known when food sounded bad. All around.
I shoulda known when I was so dang tired I could barely make it to the KIDS bedtimes!
See...we had this problem in our house. We were going with a Brady Bunch theme, as in his and hers kids but we couldn't find ourselves an Alice for the middle square.
So we thought we would add an "ours" kid to the mix and call it good.
Baby McGee will be completing our not so little family in August of this year and we are beyond excited (and let's be honest a little nervous, I mean I AM 35 and it's been awhile since I've done the whole pregnant thing!)
As in everything I seem to do these days-here's to the journey!
-McGee
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Where did it go?
WOW.
Ok.
So that just happened.
2011.
Where did the time go?
In 2011 I...
Quit a job I hated.
Started a new job that I love.
Flew back and forth to NYC 6 times.
Took our kids on an 8 day road trip.
Camped with 100+ of our closest relatives.
And survived.
My appendix ruptured and I found out 3-4 weeks later.
Spent a week in the hospital.
And survived.
(I'm like Wonder Woman with that one, I know!)
Went to countless basketball and softball games.
Coached four basketball teams.
Made a few new friends.
Tweeted more.
Stood on the top of the Empire State Building.
Wake boarded on a lake in Fresno.
Sat at Ground Zero.
Had great conversations under the stars by a campfire.
Learned a few things.
Forgot lots of things.
It was a busy year! It's the only year where we have a child at every school level-college, high school, middle school, elementary school and pre-school. Oh yes-bought a mini-van-add that to the list. Consumed more gas than God-that's just what we do.
At the end of year I realized there's a little thing called balance that would do a girl wonders. It seems like I juggled a lot but I felt off kilter much of the year. Work was new and consuming and family time was accomplished out of necessity or hospital down time. 2011's word of the year is for sure...BALANCE!
So here's to balancing more writing with work and play.
McGee
Ok.
So that just happened.
2011.
Where did the time go?
In 2011 I...
Quit a job I hated.
Started a new job that I love.
Flew back and forth to NYC 6 times.
Took our kids on an 8 day road trip.
Camped with 100+ of our closest relatives.
And survived.
My appendix ruptured and I found out 3-4 weeks later.
Spent a week in the hospital.
And survived.
(I'm like Wonder Woman with that one, I know!)
Went to countless basketball and softball games.
Coached four basketball teams.
Made a few new friends.
Tweeted more.
Stood on the top of the Empire State Building.
Wake boarded on a lake in Fresno.
Sat at Ground Zero.
Had great conversations under the stars by a campfire.
Learned a few things.
Forgot lots of things.
It was a busy year! It's the only year where we have a child at every school level-college, high school, middle school, elementary school and pre-school. Oh yes-bought a mini-van-add that to the list. Consumed more gas than God-that's just what we do.
At the end of year I realized there's a little thing called balance that would do a girl wonders. It seems like I juggled a lot but I felt off kilter much of the year. Work was new and consuming and family time was accomplished out of necessity or hospital down time. 2011's word of the year is for sure...BALANCE!
So here's to balancing more writing with work and play.
McGee
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
fog.
I'm not a fan of driving in the fog.
I can't see what's coming and it's too scary to take my eyes off the road enough to look behind me at where I came from.
I don't like not seeing what's coming.
At all.
Control freak?
That's me.
So right now I'm feeling the fog.
I feel like I'm flying down the grapevine in the fog without lights.
It's exciting.
But naseating.
I don't do well without a clear plan laid out in front of me.
Someone remind me why God doesn't just lay it all out for us again? I mean really...give a girl a hand drawn road map even?
Ahhhh...the fog.
-McGee
I can't see what's coming and it's too scary to take my eyes off the road enough to look behind me at where I came from.
I don't like not seeing what's coming.
At all.
Control freak?
That's me.
So right now I'm feeling the fog.
I feel like I'm flying down the grapevine in the fog without lights.
It's exciting.
But naseating.
I don't do well without a clear plan laid out in front of me.
Someone remind me why God doesn't just lay it all out for us again? I mean really...give a girl a hand drawn road map even?
Ahhhh...the fog.
-McGee
Monday, September 26, 2011
Why I love Mr. Man. aka Happy Birthday!
In order to properly celebrate a birthday in this household there must me a blog, so to you,
Mr. Man, I say Happy Birthday McGee style!
Top 10 reasons I love Mr. Man
10. He's tall, darker than me and oh so handsome!
9. He can really work a room. So fun to watch.
8. Mr. Man really knows how to plant a good kiss!
7. Every day our girls are around him, he improves their "picker" by showing them how a man should treat them when they finally turn 46years old and are allowed to date.
6. Mr. Man makes me laugh. And lots of other people too.
5. He also makes me blush for reasons that I won't get into.
4. He is so dang smart AND the best salesman I've ever met.
After all, he did convince me!
3. He has an uncanny knack to remember things I mentioned long ago I wanted and surpise me with them on Christmas or my birthday. I know he's always secretly wanted a blog all about him so I clearly have that knack too. Hence the birthday blog.
2. He's all in. When he loves you, he really does.
He forgives, he accepts, he loves.
And the number one reason I love Mr. Man...
Mr. Man is so aware of who he is and who he wants to be in this life. He works so hard and so intentionally to be the man he is today. He is a good man. Truly. The best.
And we are blessed for it.
Happy birthday baby!
You are so loved.
You are so loved.
-McGee
Monday, September 19, 2011
the most loved kid.
Soapy D is now four and a half.
She splits her weeks between our house and her moms.
Tonight when I was tucking her in we were talking about how lucky she was to have two different houses. She grinned as wide as her little mouth would let her like she had a secret. And then she said...
"I think that makes me the most loved kid because I have two families and a lot of people love me!"
In a day and age where blended families, single parent families and non-traditional families outnumber the rest and can sometimes be challenging or contentious, I am so glad this little girl has figured that out. If nothing else, she understands that her two houses have a great deal of love for her in common.
This kid really gets it.
-McGee
She splits her weeks between our house and her moms.
Tonight when I was tucking her in we were talking about how lucky she was to have two different houses. She grinned as wide as her little mouth would let her like she had a secret. And then she said...
"I think that makes me the most loved kid because I have two families and a lot of people love me!"
In a day and age where blended families, single parent families and non-traditional families outnumber the rest and can sometimes be challenging or contentious, I am so glad this little girl has figured that out. If nothing else, she understands that her two houses have a great deal of love for her in common.
This kid really gets it.
-McGee
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