
This will probably come as no surprise to anyone who knows me even a little bit: I am a social being. I took one of those quizzes once and it told me that I was an introverted extrovert. That sums me up pretty perfectly. I do need my down time and feel the most balanced if I have quiet time to read and to write and to just recharge.
On the other hand, if I am at a social gathering I become entirely energized and lose all track of time while I sit and chat with with friends of mine. I look forward to these times of connecting, so much so that I go on regular girls’ night and usually take a few solo trips a year to spend time with these people whom I hold close to my heart.



When I returned from
Last February my husband and I brought our three kids to their grandparents’ house and
I used that title on a personal post of mine that I wrote last year about my group of girlfriends, and the Google hits are still coming in. Who are the guys looking for “moms gone wild”? Would they not rather see hot college girls as opposed to women bearing stretch marks, skin tags and banana boobs?