I work very hard, sometimes I wonder if it’s too hard, at respecting other peoples boundaries in my relationships with them. This is especially true in high stakes relationships, like with my birth sons parents…but is also true to my other relationships. My marriage, my friendships, in therapy…all of them. I am really good at […]
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I had therapy last night, despite the odds of school starting and everyone starting to get sick again. Miraculously, my son hasn’t brought anything home yet. Which is actually shocking. It went well and it felt positive and productive, which is something that I desperately needed. Despite my life being…my life, and just genuinely hard
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When the very first thing out of your mouth as soon as your eyes pop open at 6am is “what’s that smell”…you just know that you’re about to have a bad day. A very bad day. Turns out, “that smell” was nail polish. A lot of it. My 2 older kids, who very unfortunately share
“Have kids”, they said. And a very Monday kind of Monday Read More »
I’m putting it out there. Today is going to be a good day. It’s Saturday, my husband is home, he’s helping out with the kids, I actually got to heat a hot meal this morning…everything feels okay. For this moment, this hour, things feel good. My husband took the kids to the park this morning
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I had a tough night last night. As I’m writing this, I’m sitting in the school drop off line. It’s 7:30am, I already dropped my husband off at work, and I have to be at my neuromuscular doctor by 8am. It seems like I’ve been doing nothing but driving around the last few days. My
Ah, life. It just keeps on going, doesn’t it? Yesterday was as Monday as it gets, in a not so Monday way. I took my son to his therapy appointment (the counseling kind), and right at the end, my husband calls to tell me that his car is officially dead. And I have to go
Have you ever woke up at 6am and promptly had a panic attack? No? Well, neither have I…until this morning. As soon as I woke up this morning, I felt absolutely crushed and overwhelmed with anxiety. The thought of having to do this all over again…the routine, therapies, appointments, stuck with my kids who really
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Things have been weird lately. After spending 3 weeks in my own while my husband was away taking care of his dad, every day just started to look and feel the same. He’s been back for a week now. But even since he came back, weekends have given me a certain sense of anxiety and
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It’s been kind of the week from hell, and while I normally don’t love Fridays, I am SO glad that we’re finally here. The week started off with my oldest son getting an EEG. Then he had an appointment with the sleep medicine doctor, and he’ll be getting a sleep study soon. The next day,
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I think it’s fair to say that the hardest topic for me to write about it my kids and their struggles. All 3 of my kids struggle physically, a courtesy of the genetic disorder that the 4 of us share. But sometimes, my oldest son in particular, struggles with behavior as well. Now, this is
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