Raindrops and Sunsets

Ashley | 25 | Single Mom | Learning to Breathe Again

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I needed this.

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Thank you to all the people who posted this so I ended up seeing it. I really needed this right now. Thank you!

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WWM goals May 12-14

Need to get some words in? The Weekend Writing Marathon (WWM) is a writing challenge designed to help you do just that. You set your own writing goal for the weekend and work to achieve it before reporting back to the group on Sunday night.

How do I participate?

1. Reblog this post with your goals for the weekend.

2. Start writing on Friday 12:01 am local time. Work to meet your goal by Sunday night at 11:59 pm local time. You can work on whatever you want during this time.

3. Post your accomplishments on the WWM Final Count post (even if you didn’t reach your goal).

4. Whenever you post any work written during the WWM event please submit it to us so your fic can be included in our weekly Fic Roundup on Wednesdays.

How do I turn in my final word count?

A Final Count post will go up on Sunday. Reblog that post with your final word count/accomplished goal by Monday at 1 pm PST/4 pm EST/9 pm GMT (time zone converter). Totals from the weekend will be posted on Monday evening.

Let us know if you have any questions!

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My goal is 10,000 words - I don't have any plans and I planned out a lot so...time to crack down. :)

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I wrote a bit of something today. Not a scene or anything but I struggled with where to take the next 95 pages or so for awhile and I figured it out. After my protagonist starts to redeem herself from a long list of mistakes, she is forced out of her makeshift home and is eventually arrested. I thought I could be kind to Catherine (protagonist) but then she'd never grow. Like me. I guess if I've learned anything from the last seven weeks, it's that I've got some growing to do. It may not have been my choice but I do have a say in how I react.

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I used to get upset when Declan would throw tantrums because my kid is sad and that makes me sad…now I’m just unphased because he has no reason to be upset (clean diaper, not hungry, just good old-fashioned cranky) so I just calmly eat my breakfast and watch his funny little tantrums because nothing is more hilarious than a tiny human shaking his head all over the place and stamping his tiny little feet like he’s trying to thrash his way to China.

May seem kind of heartless but oh well. It gets me through the day.

I kept meaning to post all weekend but I had a lot going on and then was sick all day Sunday. I’ll whip up some stuff at work if I have time. It’s usually slow on Mondays so I don’t think the owner will be hanging around too much and there’s not much to do except wait for customers to show up.

I hope y'all had a good weekend!

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I am currently training Declan to only use a pacifier at bedtime so I asked for his paci and put it in my stash next to the bed…and he wanted it back but I refused to give it to him. His solution? Curl up and wait for me to stop paying attention so he could sneak one.

I gave him an A for effort but a D for execution.

Declan: 0 Mom: 1

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I've always struggled with opening posts so I decided to post some Instagram stuff first to ease myself into a new blog. I abandoned my old one because it was my husband, Sean's, idea to blog about depression and he's no longer my husband and it was just too hard to keep it going sooooooo here I am. New blog. New me. A fresh start. I'm Ashley. 25, creative (drawing, painting, cross stitching, violinist, writer) and a single mom. Soon to be a college student again (for hopefully the last time). You'll see Declan, the main subject of my life, in just about every post because he's my partner in crime and I don't do anything without him. Like ever. He's going to be two in July and I can't believe how time has flown by! So I'm constantly documenting. For the majority of his life, I've struggled with depression and I spent most of it in a fog thanks to many different medications. I finally put my foot down and said no more of those and I've actually been doing a lot better without them. I'll mention my therapist, Anthony, a few times here and there as well if he says something relevant to more than just me specifically. I plan on posting easy recipes I make, before/after UFYH posts because my apartment gets really bad sometimes and that's the only motivation I have to make it pretty again, crafts, really stinking cute pictures of Declan, and the highlights and struggles of being a young single mom just trying to make the most of a really awful situation.

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TBT Thursday when Declan was looking like a GQ model at Walmart. My handsome boy. ☺️

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He did not like grandma laying on his bear chair!!

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We're going on a trip in our favorite rocketship! #kingofhisworld #andmine