This post contains affiliate links. If you make any purchase at Amazon after clicking one of my links, I receive a small percentage at no cost to you. Thanks for supporting our family! One of my goals for 2017 was to avoid the emergency room (#4 on the list). Welp. Last week I failed […]
“So have you moved yet?” “Are you all packed up?” “How do you feel about the big move?” No, no, and I’m not sure. To recap, we found the holy grail of a handicap accessible home that had more than two bedrooms and was mostly in our price range. So we sold our house this […]
Last year I committed to the Write 31 Days movement, and this year I want to try it again. Although I didn’t manage to write for 31 Days in 2016, I did write much more consistently. Last year I chose the theme of “Happiness.” (Here is a list of all the Happiness posts, in […]
(The goal of the project is to write for 31 days. I made it 15ish days. Not exactly a glowing example of stick-with-it-ness, but the other topics I felt called to write about this month like miscarriage, stuff I’ve found in our bathrooms, and the solutions to all my problems took up time and brain […]
Today we had plans with some dear friends, and while we went back and forth about whether to cancel based on life yesterday, ultimately we decided to go. Some events are not flare-appropriate, others are. If Cee is laying on the couch at home, she could lay on the couch somewhere else, after all. We […]
Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October. My topic? Happiness. After a talk between Cee, David, and myself, today we decided to get Cee’s wheelchair out of its cobwebby corner in the garage. Cee’s pain has been slowly crescendo-ing. First the limp was a […]
Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October. My topic? Happiness. Right about the time I started blogging, I realized that we were in sort of a happiness hole. Being in survival mode for so long hadn’t been good for anyone in our family. […]
Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October. My topic? Happiness. Today Cee passed her plate to Elle and asked her to mash up her sweet potatoes at dinner. Confused as to why she didn’t do it herself, I asked if her wrists hurt. […]
Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October. My topic? Happiness. Looking back on days 1-9, it seems like a lot of “this is what I need to work on” going on. That’s great. To strive to improve is noble, but it can also be […]
Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October. My topic? Happiness. Today is Sunday. In the past I’ve participated in the “My Sunday Best” link up hosted by Rosie. If you visit that link, you’ll see a list of reasons why someone like me who […]