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Have any of you ever stopped what you were doing and thought\u00a0 what in the world am I doing<\/em>?\u00a0 The everyday stuff of being an adult?<\/p>\n

Grocery shopping.<\/p>\n

Taking the kids to school<\/p>\n

Paying the bills.<\/p>\n

Why do I ask this, you wonder?\u00a0 Well, it’s because I don’t feel very grown up.\u00a0 Yet I keep doing all these grown up things.\u00a0 I mentioned it to a friend a while back, somebody I’d known from high school and she said she’s had similiar thoughts cross her mind.\u00a0 This grown up mom thing, doing the responsible adult thing, just sometimes doesn’t seem quite real.<\/p>\n

Even sitting here with a WIP calling my name and a baby exercising her lungs (she’s discovered she can make REALLY loud nosies)\u00a0 I still don’t always understand how it happened.\u00a0 Well, the technical know how, yeah, that I get.\u00a0 Just seems odd because it feels like just yesterday the DH and I were just boyfriend\/girlfriend and arguing with each other about things like birth control, whether or not I was ignoring him and whether or not I should go into the military (yes, it was a thought) or stay home and go to college.<\/p>\n

Talk about weirdness….in a few more days, my oldest will turn 8.\u00a0 My baby is eight months old.\u00a0 The middle one starts kindergarten in the fall.\u00a0 And I’m still having moments when nothing around me seems quite real….<\/p>\n

Okay, enough of the confusion that is my brain.<\/p>\n

Gotta start looking around for books for next month’s BOMC<\/a>.\u00a0 Just a reminder, if you haven’t joined in this month’s BOMC, it’s here<\/a>. I may end up doing March’s one Innocent in Death or Born in Death by JD Robb, since I’ve recently read one, and will shortly be reading the other, and because there are people who haven’t read the In Death books… ~shocking!\u00a0 ;o>\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you have recommendations for reads, feel free to shout them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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