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1 day ago | 
marriageconfessions.substack.com | Katie Brown
I woke up this morning with this feeling of IMPENDING DOOM. You know what I mean? It’s like waking up with your own personal little gray cloud hanging over your head. I thought maybe that sense of IMPENDING DOOM was because the night before we discovered that Gracie’s hamster, Chip, had died. Poor little guy. But he lived a good hamster life. RIP, buddy.
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1 week ago | 
marriageconfessions.substack.com | Katie Brown
Have you guys seen this new trend on social media where people are taking pictures of their pets and asking ChatGPT or whatever AI you prefer to turn their pets into humans??? This is a rabbit hole you want to go down, people. Trust me. Yesterday around 5:30pm, my sister sent me a picture of her “humanized” dogs. I didn’t know about the social media trend, so I thought Ginny was just sitting around the house and randomly decided to ask the internets to make her dogs human.
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1 week ago | 
marriageconfessions.substack.com | Katie Brown
My mom planned her wedding by herself. Every now and then she would reach out and ask for a second opinion on something, but she really did it all by herself. So when my family got into town on Wednesday night, we spent the first two days downloading Mom’s vision for her wedding so that we could be her hands and feet while she was in bride mode. On Thursday, Ginny and I ran errands all day in preparation for the rehearsal dinner we were hosting at her house on Friday night.
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1 week ago | 
marriageconfessions.substack.com | Katie Brown
It is Sunday late afternoon as I write this. I’ve just gotten home from a seven-hour drive from Atlanta, where we’ve spent the last five days celebrating my mom’s wedding. I’ll share play-by-play details of the weekend throughout this week, but I’ll start today by sharing the wedding ceremony that I officiated. It was a beautiful day surrounded by big, big love.
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2 weeks ago | 
marriageconfessions.substack.com | Katie Brown
Life lately has been a little… well… boring. In the best way possible, though. It’s been easy evenings after work with low key dinners, backyard sitting, March Madness (RIP my bracket), early bedtimes with the windows open. I keep making Michael drive me around places on the weekends since he turns 16 in June and we are trying to log as many practice miles as we can. This weekend, he drove me and Gracie to the mall where we all three shopped around for a dress for my mom’s wedding this weekend.
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3 weeks ago | 
marriageconfessions.substack.com | Katie Brown
Gracie turned 14 last week. Crazy, right?! How in the world has time gone so fast? I feel like I blinked, and she went from a fussy, clingy baby to a fussy, clingy teenager…. KIDDING! Gracie is growing up so quickly, it truly blows my mind. And yet…. This was the conversation at my dinner table tonight: Gracie (explaining a new way to peel an orange that she learned on TikTok): And then you turn it so that it goes in and out.
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3 weeks ago | 
marriageconfessions.substack.com | Katie Brown
Last week was spring break for my kids’ school district and UCF. It was my first spring break at the university and, turns out, no one works that week! It was so quiet all week long. I ended up taking Thursday and Friday off so that I could hang with my kids a little. Thursday, we hung around running errands and just goofing around. Then Thursday afternoon, my sister texted me and said, “Come see me!” And it took about 2.4 seconds for me to say, “OKAY!” This post is for paid subscribers
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1 month ago | 
marriageconfessions.substack.com | Katie Brown
Earlier this week, I got an unexpected phone call from someone I hadn’t talked to in a long time. The person was calling to apologize for how they handled a situation that involved me almost a year ago. They said they’d wanted to call for quite a while, but they hadn’t known what to say. It was a really kind phone call. I admired their ability to humble themselves voluntarily like that, and to have the desire to make something right that no one was asking them to fix.
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1 month ago | 
marriageconfessions.substack.com | Katie Brown
Y’all. Florida is having a moment right now. Sunny days. Cool nights. No humidity. Flowers blooming. Green everywhere. Don’t get excited. It’s just fake spring. In other places in the country, fake spring means that it gets warm for a while before plunging back into cold temperatures. In Florida, fake spring means that it’s perfect weather for a few weeks and then it’s blazing hot until the end of time. Amen.
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1 month ago | 
marriageconfessions.substack.com | Katie Brown
This winter has destroyed our yard. It always gets dry and the grass goes dormant in the winter, but for some reason this year it has been really bad. Add to that the regular wear and tear of winter months, and our backyard has become overgrown and… well… gross. Usually, we have a couple weekends of winter clean up in the backyard and everything returns to normal. It’s one of my favorite weekends, actually.