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Max Leave and Projects

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Last night, I talked to Frederick about taking today off. The week between Christmas and New Year's, his company encourages their employees to use their annual leave and take time off to spend with family. This is called Max Leave. It's not mandatory to take the time off though. I had asked Frederick to take just today off of work, as a bit of a recoup day from the holiday and he did. I told him that he didn't need to take the whole week off of work - just the 10 hours, not the 30 that he would normally work this week. He agreed to it. We had a good morning, he worked on restoring order to our home while I slept in a little bit (which is actually just me getting the remaining sleep that I miss out on when Arabella wakes up so early and wants to nurse.) When I got up, Frederick, Orion and Arabella were just finishing up their breakfasts. I joined them for my breakfast and then we spent the remainder of the morning together and Orion finished opening up his presents, which ...
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Christmas 2017

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We had Christmas lunch at our house today. We started the day off with the kids: all seven of them, as Frederick and Cephas went out late last night to pick Nhan up from Mass. Anyhow, the older kids all wanted to sleep in today, but I wanted them to get up so that we could open gifts as a family and then I could start making lunch before our guests started to arrive. Thankfully, the only extra people we had here today was Frederick's mom, Sue, and my best friend, SheaLynn and her husband, JP. Since it was this group of people, the pressure was off to have everything perfect. It is more about the people and the conversation and the time than it is about having everything perfect. It's the way it should be, but sometimes when I have other people over, I tend to lose sight of that and stress out about everything that isn't perfect, or anything that could potentially be seen as not perfect by another person (which really means that I stress the whole entire time!) That wasn...
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The Family Introduction

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Hi everyone. My name is Catalina. I'm 36, married, and a stay-at-home-mom of six kids, who has yet to master the art of actually staying at home. I have high aspirations for my family and for my life, I am a recovering perfectionist. And I'm still learning a lot about myself. Let me introduce you to my family: First off, let me start by mentioning the fact that I am divorced and then remarried. My ex-husband, Melvin, and I are on good terms. For the most part, we get along fairly well. We were married for 14 years (and had four kids) before I called it quits for the final time. It took another year and a half for us to go to court for our divorce and it was another six months (the day before what would have been our 16th anniversary) before the divorce was final. During that time frame, I moved into our good friend, Frederick's, house. Eventually, he and I ended up together. We are married now and have two kids together. We live in a nicer neighborhood in our city, with...
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