Hails Yeah Mama

29/05/2024

It's been a minute - sorry. We're right at the year mark, so there's still a lot of processing & healing taking place. Got to enjoy some kid-free time with my mom this past weekend, was able to actually rest & incredibly grateful for this platform as another part of our healing journey.
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Still feeling like I went skydiving without a parachute, I continued to apply for part-time jobs. Not knowing what our final custody agreement would be, it was difficult to provide a reliable schedule. Most mamas will likely agree that a law of averages means that each time you add a kiddo to the cr...

18/05/2024

Took me a few days to relive surgery day - a year can feel so long & so short all at the same time.

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My mom joined me for the trip to Children's Hospital in Birmingham. I didn't sleep much the night before. How could I? Ever since we were told about her cleft 10 months prior, this surgery was the extent of how far ahead I could plan anything. Milestones like starting solids and introducing new food...

15/05/2024

Part 17 - not a new one, sorry.
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I met with an attorney who agreed with my friends from the "intervention" that something was not adding up. The recommendation was to hire a private investigator in the hopes we would have some definitive information about what he was up to. I spoke with the PI they used most often, and we moved for...

14/05/2024

Never a dull moment...
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14/05/2024

Part 20: Easter Blessings
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13/05/2024

Beware the Ides of March...like, for real.

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11/05/2024

Whew. It's kind of all flooding back, y'all.
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We got to my mom's house the evening of March 1, miraculously got the kids settled and in bed, and I sat on the couch with my mom in a state of shock. There was no way to process what had happened in the last twelve hours. I stayed focused on the kids and just putting one foot in front of the other....

10/05/2024

Late nights at the ballpark and all the activities this week - whew!
Part 17 is here.
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I met with an attorney who agreed with my friends from the "intervention" that something was not adding up. The recommendation was to hire a private investigator in the hopes we would have some definitive information about what he was up to. I spoke with the PI they used most often, and we moved for...

09/05/2024

Sorry to keep y'all hanging - took a minute to process reliving all of this, and trying to write with the wildings running around is an exercise in futility haha.
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07/05/2024

Better late than never...Mondays, am I right?
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05/05/2024

Tis the Season.
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December was one of the hardest times of my entire life. A voice in the back of my head knew something was wrong, but the voices of the three small children excited for Christmas were louder. I pushed the dark thoughts to the back and focused on figuring out how to make it through Christmas. I acqui...

05/05/2024

Lucky #13? You tell me.
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December started with a positive, at least. That first week, as I stood at the stove refereeing the heated discussion of who got to stir the mac 'n cheese for dinner, a friend & fellow studio owner texted from the Owners' Conference to tell me I had been awarded Turnaround Studio of the Year. I was....

05/05/2024

Right now, I'm grateful for the baby's naptime so I can share a few more with you.

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We entered November with more of the same. Rarely seeing him, delayed communication, gaslighting, avoiding questions. It also unlocked a new subject of contention for us that in hindsight was glaringly obvious. Convinced his behavioral metamorphosis could be helped with professional therapy/medical....

05/05/2024

More tricks than treats for that Halloween 👻

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04/05/2024

So grateful to everyone following along. Appreciate every like, share, repost, tag....all the things. 💖

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October 2022October has always been a busy month for our family. It includes both of our birthdays, my son's birthday, and our anniversary. It's always been one of my favorites months, celebrations aside. The weather is perfection most days of the month, we haven't yet moved into "falling back" for....

04/05/2024

#9 comin in 🔥🔥🔥
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As we moved into fall, things became more and more heavy. He was rarely home, incredibly cold to me when he was, and mostly just gaslit me over financial things or rolling his eyes and sneering when I would try to talk to him. I would always hear about the grocery bill (two kids, two dogs, two adult...

03/05/2024

Y'all keep reading, and I'll keep sharing. And then you share with your friends! The circle of life.

#8 has entered the chat.

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July - August 2022We returned home from the hospital to coolers of food, stacks of diaper boxes, and a gift bag FULL of gift cards from my wonderful studio team & clients. Having all of these people hold me up when the one person I expected to chose to emotionally dismiss me is one of the main thing...

03/05/2024

Not gonna call it lucky, but here's #7
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Once we had Emily's updates and finally figured out my infections (MRSA & Enterococcus located in a MASSIVE abscess at my incision site), we received treatments that were actually helping. Over the two weeks we were hospitalized, we were so blessed by family & friends. People brought us food, prayed...

03/05/2024

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29/04/2024

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