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The last time I wrote a blog (two weeks ago), I sat in a coffee shop and wrote while my daughter was being sentenced to prison in another state. I found out the details several days later when the sentence was posted online. This is […]
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I should be at work but have taken the day off as part of a plan to get through a difficult day, like mentally preparing for the labor of delivering a baby. Labor is not at all fun but breathing through it […]
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When I flew back with my four-month-old, adopted daughter, from her home country to my home, a prison scenario was not in my head as her future. I am furious; or maybe I am depressed mixed with grief. At […]
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My husband’s 108-year-old grandmother passed away on Monday, Jan 29th. Today is Friday, Feb 2nd, only four days later. Except for a few hours Monday afternoon when my husband and I went across town to pick up her personal effects from the care facility, I have continued showing up each day […]
Was it only in March that I wrote the “Jail to Job to Joy” blog? That was just ten weeks ago. After six years of what I thought was upright living by my oldest daughter, I became convinced that I needed to relax my guard and celebrate her. I thought I could finally look […]
Please forgive the cheesy alliteration in the title. I have a good reason.
My oldest daughter, age 28, has a job as a district manager for a food franchise. She keeps an eye on individual stores, orders food, hires staff, fires staff when needed and keeps the locations running at peak efficiency. In fact, she […]
Well, life has moved on in these last couple of weeks. After finding out we owe a large amount of tax from the sale of our business, the shock has somewhat worn off. Retrospect is always so much clearer. My brother-in-law is a CPA and specializes in the sale of businesses. My other brother-in-law […]
As I write this blog, my younger daughter, now 26, has withheld all contact from me for 13 months. It was December, a little over a year ago, that we were last in contact; usually by text, but it was still contact. I thought we were doing well.
That Fall a year ago, we texted […]
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 […]
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 […]
