Hello Friends! January is almost over! Can you believe it? At the beginning of January, I spent some time thinking about my blog.....wondering if I should close it out and stop these sporadic posts I've been writing for the past few years, or start it up again writing more. I really thought about it and I decided to give it a try and start it up again. If you have never blogged, then I want to tell you that it really helps in life. It helps if you are sad or struggling with life...you can come here and get it all out. If you are happy and want to share something fun....you can come here and re-live your event or your happiness. It gives you a place to go to get away for a while and just be creative. And there is something about knowing that maybe one person will read what you have to say and maybe be happy if they had a rough day, or if they are struggling with life, they will read and know they are not alone. Another rea...
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Covid hit right after our Dad passed. I swear he had it and they didn’t know what it was yet….We will never know. I dealt with Covid fine I thought, but thinking about it, I think it affected me more than I thought. Worry, isolation, a different world. I didn’t get Covid and thankfully didn’t lose anyone close to me, but still….it did something to me. We lost our priest, my boss in April of 2021 . We found him unresponsive in his room and he passed a few days later. It was a scary and heartbreaking thing to have happen to this man of faith. I was concentrating more my job, and cleaning out the rectory to prepare for our new priest so I still didn’t find time to deal with my Dad, my Mom, or my Covid feelings, which me and my Sis have named, “The Trifecta”. It wasn’t until my new boss moved in in July, and things are getting into a routine that I am realizing that something isn’t right....
My Momma. She is our best friend. My sis and I, and later, my daughter, did everything with her. We were in church groups together, went shopping, out to eat, visited a few times a week. My sis, and my brothers and I all live in a very small town, and our houses surrounded our parents house. All our kids grew up literally running over to Amie and Poppas house for snacks, to play games with her or puzzles, or to play in the yard where my Dad has built them a playhouse complete with electricity and a TV! My Mom was the best grandmother to our kids. Babysitting, hosting holidays, baking, ice-cream parties…you name it…they did it with their grandkids. We noticed changes in our Mom about 8 years ago. She was 71. These changes became more changes and we became aware that she had a bit of dementia. It wasn’t until my Dad went into the hospital that we realized how much it has progressed and how...
Hi Friends! The crazy thing about having your own blog, is that you can be gone for while, not post for months, and it's ok, because your blog is mostly for you. A place to come and share your thoughts, your days, your ups and down, and it's for you. It's therapeutic. Most of time, you don't even know if anyone is even reading it or not. You just put it out there and there it is. It helps you feel good! The last time I wrote, it was about my Dad passing away. He has been gone almost one year. My life is so different today, dealing with my Momma who has Alzheimer's, their home, finances, even Maggie The Puggle. All of these are little things, but they are still things that, a year ago, I didn't have in my life and now I do. My life up until now, has been perfect in my eyes. No real problems. No long-lasting drama. Just small town living, and me living my life with rose- colored glasses on. I h...
My Dad passed away. It is still unbelievable to say that. My Dad passed away. He left us on November 27. Thanksgiving Eve. He was admitted to the local hospital on November 6th. He was transferred to The Cleveland Clinic on November 23, after the local hospital was unable to figure out what was wrong, and passed away 4 days later. He had been struggling with shortness of breath off and on since March, had every test imaginable, all coming back negative....and now he is gone. My mother has dementia and now she is alone. I got the phone call from the Cleveland Clinic that my Dad passed and I can still hear the Dr.'s voice. He couldn't believe it as much as I couldn't. I spoke with my Dad at 3:00 that day. He passed at 4:55. He sounded weak, but better than the day before when we drove to see him. He wanted to transfer back home as soon as he was feeling better. He never come home. Two days before, he...
I've been up and down and all over the scale my whole adult life. I have come to realize that it is not the plan that I am on that isn't working, it's my head that needed tweaking. I've always been completely honest here, and I am not ashamed of anything that has happened in my life....It has all been a learning experience. My highest weight was 252. That was...I wanna say 10 years ago maybe? My sister and I joined Weight Watchers and I lost 50 pounds in just under a year. I didn't do it the correct way. I restricted. I juggled. I deprived myself. I could gain 7 pounds in a week and shed it in 3 days. That is not healthy. That is not sustainable. After I left Weight Watchers later that following year, I gained around 25 pounds back fairly quickly. I didn't learn my lesson when I joined Weight Watchers again a few years later. I gained and lost the same 10 pounds in the year that I was going to meetings....