Moxie: Feeling groovy

Highly Recommended

Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi: The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
Reading this book explained a whole lot of things about why so many families I know are struggling financially, even though we don't spend extravagantly. Simultaneously enlightening and nauseating.
Elizabeth Warren: All Your Worth : The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan
If other personal finance books have frustrated you because they assume you have money to invest and you don't even have enough money to buy a large coffee, this is the personal finance book for you. Reading this book showed me that it's not that I waste money on stupid things--it's that our basic expenses are too high to begin with. Reading this book is the end of financial guilt and the beginning of getting out of the hole.
Adele Faber: Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
Lots of great ideas to think about and put into practice about not assigning your kids roles and how to approach fights. Also goes over some of the stuff from the How to Talk So Kids Will Listen book about making kids feel understood. Because, really, that's all anyone wants--to be understood. And kids are people, too.
Anne Lamott: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Just perfect. A beautiful, funny, sad, accurate account of what the first days, weeks, and months with a baby are like. This is exactly what your journal would be, if you could write as well as she does.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc: Random Family : Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
LeBlanc's writing and pacing makes you want to keep reading despite the tragic story. Think you have an informed opinion about welfare reform and how to strengthen families in this country? Not until you've read this book.
John Taylor Gatto: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
This is the red pill. Don't read it if you want to stay comfortable with the American school system. Gatto goes into why government-owned schools were created and the things they actually teach us.
Ellis Avery: The Smoke Week: September 11-21, 2001
If you have any curiosity about what it was like for New Yorkers during the World Trade Center attacks, this is the book to read. A brilliant, crystalline, spot-on memoir of the week or so after the attacks, this book is an ode to New Yorkers. Realistic, clean, and completely un-maudlin, it's just the story of what it was like for us. This is what should go into a time capsule to represent September 2001.

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Feeling groovy

Yeah, I'm just happy. Not much more to it than that. Sorry I'm so boring, but things are really nice in my life right now. Too much work, not enough time to do it all in, a never-ending cold, but I have funny happy children and amazing friends who love me, am seeing someone who keeps impressing me more and more every day, and I can help people. What else could I want?

I think about where I was three years ago, and I'm just grateful grateful grateful. Grateful for all the worry and pain and sadness that brought me here and turned me into me. And grateful that that's not my life anymore, and won't be again. If life was like slogging through thick cold mud back then, it's like skinnydipping in a warm lake on a moonlight summer night now.

I hope you guys have a wonderful, relaxing weekend. Mine is probably going to be a little bit nuts, but that's perfect.

February 06, 2009 | Permalink

Comments

Sexual healing makes me feel groovy, too! (Like how I just go and make some juicy stuff up?) Enjoy it!! You deserve nothing less!!

Posted by: hush | February 06, 2009 at 06:45 PM

Mox, i have to think about you on my darkest days. I'm so happy to hear how HAPPY you are.

Posted by: Katie | February 07, 2009 at 08:36 PM

I just reread this comment and it sounds snarky. It wasn't meant to be at all. It was really like, you are an inspiration... I hope you know that? Uhg... Sorry if you read it wrong, love!

Posted by: Katie | February 08, 2009 at 05:10 PM

It's so nice to have you do all of the research for us. It makes our decision making so much easier!! Thanks.

Posted by: MBT Shoes | July 21, 2011 at 04:47 AM

I love those kinds of buns too! Oh, and they are everywhere in Japan as well. The Japanese have sort of made them their own by filinlg them with all sorts of crazy things. I believe they call them 'budamon.' While we were in Japan we had ones filled with pumpkin (yummy!), pickles, and bean paste, to name but a few. My husband made up a few batches and put in some thai flavoured tuna which turned out pretty good too. I'll have to ask him about the dough recipe to see if his worked out better.

Posted by: Rico | March 10, 2013 at 05:19 AM

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