What is Normal?
Dear Mal, I will be forthcoming in admitting that one of my reasons for blogging today is that I got a new laptop, and I'm really excited to try it out. Let's take a moment for me to relish this moment. It's been a really long time since I purchased something new and expensive for myself, it's probably never really happened in my married life. I'm not counting things that are required for survival, because that's where ALL of our money has gone in these grad school/young child years. So, that being said, I will say that this new laptop symbolizes a new phase of life for me. A phase of life, where my needs can be met. I'm feeling pretty great about that. I don't want to be a martyr, and I often feel like I am when I have those moments where I go "Oh my hell, my life is really freaking hard", but wasn't it though? At the retreat I went to in Salt Lake, one of my takeaways was the validation I got from the other people there who ass