I have thought about writing this blog for a while and now want to set my thoughts down. I am a Christian mom of five young-adult kids…maybe not so young-adult anymore as the youngest just turned 26.
Last Fall, my second son “came out” as a trans female and has asked the family to use […]
This is what I wrote in my last post a year ago, in September of 2021:
“I’m going to post this now and go to bed. I will try to post shorter posts but more often going forward.”
Well…THAT didn’t happen. Surviving the business ended up taking precedence.
Where to even start? Around mid-2021 we had a […]
I decided to write a blog tonight and just reread my last blog.
Last March I wrote…
“It’s like every fiber of my being is exhausted and no one can tell me why.”
Wow. I am sooo glad that I’m beyond that period of feeling unwell! That exhausted state that felt like I was on the brink […]
(Whine warning.) Have you ever had a nightmare where you are running away from something scary, but you feel like you are running in slow motion and unable to make forward progress? Then of course you wake up and it was only a dream. I feel like I woke up to find that it […]
Our oldest son and his wife are having a baby! I’m so excited for them. We found out in a fun way a few weeks ago. My son called me from out of state and let me know that a belated Christmas present was coming and that they wanted to Facetime with us when […]
I have been especially worried about my youngest son this past year. He just turned 24 a few weeks ago. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. I have managed my anxiety, but he got it in spades, so much so that it has derailed his life. I haven’t blogged about how tough […]
There is a Simon & Garfunkel song called “I am a Rock” that often goes through my head when I think about being vulnerable. Here is the last verse:
I am a rock
I am an island
And a rock feels no pain
And an island never cries.
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Paul Simon
I Am a Rock lyrics © Paul Simon Music, […]
Like the rest of the world, I am gladly saying goodbye to 2020 and on this third day of 2021, am looking ahead hopefully to an end to the heartrending COVID deaths. About 350,000 people in the U.S. began 2020 without any knowledge that they would succumb before the end of the year to […]
I just realized as I sat down to write that it has been three months since I posted. I have had a number of blogs bouncing around in my head but have not put them to paper. Sometimes the weeks fly by with a mind of their own. I hang on during the week […]
A friend of mine used the term “forbearance” recently in reference to getting through this pandemic. I have been thinking about that word ever since.
I remember back in March when everything first shut down and parents started to work from home. After a few weeks, my husband and I would walk around the block […]
