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One Thousand Tiny Vacations

How I cope with circumstances rendering me unable to travel   I want to see the world as much as the next girl. So far, I have visited a handful of other states but only a few major cities, and only one other country: America’s next-door neighbor, Mexico. Most of these experiences occurred between the year 2000 and 2013. My husband got the chance to live all over the country growing up, But as an adult has faced many financial challenges as well as  vocational challenges,  Which meant that he could take us on some small getaways  within our home state of Florida,  but there were no big-ticket adventures. Even our honeymoon was here in Florida. Since we have been parents, I have only been outside of Florida A handful of times. Most of them were for work-related training for the bank job I had Up until I gave birth to our second child. One was for my grandmother’s funeral and celebration of life. The very last one before the beginning of the pandemic was  A w...
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Pregnancy After Traumatic Micro Preemie Birth

In case my birth story in my other blog was too long to read...   When I scan social media and the various blogs hosted online, I see many women’s accounts of losing a baby And then having what is referred to as a “rainbow baby”- A pregnancy and birth after loss. They describe, in detail, the anxiety and emotion  That goes into the experience. While I see some accounts of pregnancies  after a traumatic live micro preemie birth, I don’t see as many. That is why I have decided to talk about how that scenario Affected me when I had baby number four.   On May 1, 2022, so early in the morning that my husband And two sons were not awake yet, I gave birth to my third son at an inner-city Jacksonville hospital. It happened so fast that there was not even time For my husband to get there, even if he had been awake. The shocking fact was that my third son was not due Until August 21. He was 16 weeks early, and only 1 lb, 5 oz. He was born because one week earlier, my wate...
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Exodus From The Small Space Life

   Exodus From Condo Life   An event awaited for nearly five years,  one that normally should have taken months to line up, only took 31 days.   Our fourth child and only daughter was born on June 6. It had been established before her birth that  we would most likely still take our time searching for the right living situation, even though we were now and the state of Tennessee had a law  a family of six living in a two bedroom apartment. This is why I put in the work to create a tiny nursery  in a bedroom closet when I was still only 22 weeks pregnant.   Shortly after her birth, I was scrolling through a  Stay-at-home-moms Facebook group and saw a post where a mother was ranting about being denied on an apartment application because it was a two bedroom and she had three children.  It would have meant a family of five living in that unit, that denied more than four people living in a two bedroom rented space. I google this law....
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