Queen of Rambles

I didn’t chicken out of my first ever step class tonight. I swear! I really wanted to go. I’d been looking forward to it all day. It was my destiny. Why yes, I do get melodramatic the closer the clock ticks to midnight. Why do you ask? Mike has to go out to work at [...]

I was a little disappointed by my workout on Monday. It was hard, no doubt, but it wasn’t so hard that I couldn’t do it. I guess I expected to be worked like a new Army recruit. I didn’t want that, but it’s what I expected. Oh how wrong I was. Today I did the [...]

I woke up this morning feeling like a blushing bride the day after her wedding. Too bad I didn’t get to have all the fun of a bride! My workout yesterday left me feeling like a train hit me. It’s good pain, but it is pain. I have to do weights again tomorrow and am [...]

I was not looking forward to meeting my personal trainer. I envisioned a grotesquely muscular man or woman who had no understanding of the common fat lady. I envisioned being yelled at and forced to do sit ups until my abs bled. I envisioned stepping on the scale and having the trainer yell out my [...]

The tide has finally broken and I should be grump free in about three days. Until that time I have to ride the hormones and let them take me from enraged to melancholy in the span of .3 seconds. Does having a baby really make it worse or am I just imagining things? I’ve become [...]

It’s finally, finally, finally happened! The evil software contractors who’ve kidnapped my husband for the past six months have gone to Australia! Literally! They are gone gone gone and I might get to have my husband back. Instead of seeing him for a maximum of two hours a day I might get to see him [...]

When the hospital sent us home with a tiny, helpless little newborn I was in awe that they would entrust us with such responsibility. How could we keep this little creature alive? Turns out those screaming-lumps-of-flesh months, while emotionally taxing, are relatively safe. They are nothing like these let’s-climb! months. Today the boy managed to [...]

After sweltering through an outdoor playgroup on Monday morning I decided it was totally ridiculous to take our children out in the heat for the sake of socializing. My hair was dripping wet after a mere 30 minutes and the kids were less than perky. Erik won’t drink water so it was worrisome. You know [...]

I know the deadline has passed for the next issue of Mosaic Minds but we are still in need of features, prose and poetry! We’d love to take a look at your submissions. E-mail them to carrieATmosaicmindsDOTnet. The theme is Time Warp, but only personal essays need to reflect that theme. I am unsure if [...]