Mommy Undressed

Category: On A Serious Note

  • It’s The End Result That Counts

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    Ever since starting my job at my high school alma mater, I’ve wanted an opportunity to work with the students. I’ve wanted to pick their brains about their high school experiences and teach them about life after high school. I finally got the chance this week when I was asked to participate in Ethics Day…

  • Too Much

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    Call it a sign or call it overeating but when I woke up this morning my pants didn’t fit. That little silver button that usually slid into its little home wasn’t going to slide. I tugged a little, and I sucked it in as much as I could, but that little button just didn’t want to…

  • Happy Holidays from The Vassiliou’s

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    Happy Holidays from the Vassiliou’s I was fairly certain as an adult I would never write a holiday letter to friends and family. Once I became a mother I was positive I never would. Yet here you are, reading a holiday letter from me and the kids. Hell has officially frozen over. Our year has…

  • My Sexual Assault Story

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    I don’t know what prompted me to sit down and write about this today. I just sat down at the table….and started writing. I’ve told plenty of people about my sexual past, the good and the bad, but I’ve never actually sat down and wrote about it. I think I was scared if I wrote…

  • Physically Stuck in a Rut

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    I haven’t been myself lately. I’ve done nothing but beat myself up, wondering why the people in my life are here and why people who have left, left. I can’t look at myself in the mirror without feeling as if I don’t physically recognize the person looking back at me. I hate how I feel…

  • I Am A Mom Doing The Best I can Do

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    At 18 I went to college…..I hated it. At 19 I tried it again…..still hated it. I just wasn’t ready. At 20 I looked into joining the military. At 21 I was shipped out to Coast Guard basic training. At 26 I got knocked up…and yes, I’m choosing my words carefully. At 27 I decided…

  • What now Governor Malloy?

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    Over three weeks ago the child care center both my children were attending closed without notice on a Friday afternoon. It closed for good and left me scrambling to find a new facility for my children to attend by that Monday. Luckily I found a facility which had recently opened and was able to enroll…

  • From Internet Cafes to Smart Phones

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    When I was a senior in high school the internet was just beginning to take off. Even at my little boarding school in New Hampshire we were only allocated 30 minutes a day on the overloaded dial up. We would wait anxiously as we watched the little bar on the computer screen fill up. I…

  • Flat Broke and Happy

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    Happiness. To me its not something that can have a monetary value or should be taken for granted. I feel like every day I see more and more couples ‘faking’ their happiness. They cover up their dirt with fancy things which cost more than I could ever imagine spending. Suddenly a $1000 vacuum cleaner takes…

  • The Truth Is……

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    The truth is, I don’t like folding all this laundry. The truth is, I don’t like cleaning my house to  someone else’s ‘standards’. The truth is, I don’t like doing the dishes after every meal. The truth is, I hate owning things that are brand new. The truth is, I miss how I was 6…