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Normally I love Christmas. I watch all the movies, listen to all the music, and do the decorations. Last year I did some for Mama, but struggled to find the Christmas spirit. This year I can’t fi...

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This week has been extra rough for Daddy, which means rough for me, too. My best friend’s mom has been fighting dementia as well. She lost that battle a few days ago. Today was her funeral. Her f...

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The transition to bringing Mama to the nursing home went easier than expected, as far as Mama being upset. She really had no idea what we were talking about. Physically it was brutal. We couldn’t...

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So today was the day we brought Mama to the nursing home. She’s been in bed for 4 days. Her speech was really slurred when I tried to wake her up today. There’s also a significant droop on the ri...

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I’ve been a terrible reader. I keep saying I was to try and catch up, but I don’t ever get to. I just keep dumping. I just picked Mama up off the floor again. I’ve taught Daddy when he can’t get...

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We had two appointments today and ate lunch out. Rather, Daddy and I did. Mama ate 2 French fries and two bites of corn. We weighed her today. She’s down to 119. She’s lost 50 pounds. 10 in just ...

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So much in a week. Mama has started hospice. Technically it’s for “failure to thrive”. She just won’t eat. She’s weak, sleeping a lot, that sort of thing. The admissions nurse told me we weren’t ...

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I’ve missed this place, and y’all. I know, most of you I see snippets of your life on Facebook, but here I met your families, I heard your stories. I’ve really missed that. It’s my fault. This li...

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I keep thinking about this place and writing, but for some reason I always find an excuse not to. I don’t even remember where my life was the last time I wrote. About 2 years ago, after giving up...

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That’s how I feel. I just feel lost. I’m writing this for me, using it as my journal. Hoping it helps me get my head right. Life has gotten complicate and has dealt me some blows that I am reeli...

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2020 has certainly been quite a year so far. Now, it just gets more interesting. We have not one but two hurricanes headed our way. In fact the pat for both of them that they are projecting at th...

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It’s crazy that it’s still just the first week of school. It feels like we’ve been in for so long. Today was the first day I left before 6. (In all honesty, one night was after 7, one after 8, an...

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We had our Meet the Teacher. Normally that would be Open House. We would have all of our current kids an the parents, grandparents, and families that support them coming in. (Along with former ki...

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We start school tomorrow. We won’t have kids until Monday. When I let myself, I just get so full of anxiety with all of this. Normally, this is such a happy time for me. I’m always so excited to ...

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Life is slowly going on. I’m visiting more regularly with my parents. So, I’m still quarantining pretty strictly for the rest of life. I don’t want to risk bringing it down to them. I’m getting p...

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Almost a month late, Chey graduated last night. They set all sorts of regulations, but, of course, many didn’t follow them. (The parish I grew up in, and my family still lives in, is one of the f...

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Sometimes I realize that living in this rural area means I am in sort of a bubble - away from a lot of the things going on in the world. I’m ok with that. We face issues here, too, just different...

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This morning, I was planning out my day and got a call from Mama (the plan was actually to go over there to visit.) She sounded like she was crying - She admitted that she had fallen yesterday ev...

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Thank y’all for the sweet support! We got word today that the results were negative. I felt that would probably be the case, but it felt good to hear it. I drove my parents to a doctor appointmen...

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My sister, the girls, and I got together at my parents’ house Saturday to celebrate their 54th anniversary. It was a fun, low-key day. My sister and the girls left right after lunch. Chey had Ope...

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I got to see some of my kids yesterday. The weather made me have to cut it short, and there were others that I literally couldn’t find their house. (90% don’t have their numbers on their mailbox ...

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I got tired of asking my coworkers about participating in a Google Meet with the kids and I scheduled one. We didn’t have many participate (longer reason for that in the next paragraph). But oh m...

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I am taking an online beginners Birding class. I’m actually only on the second lesson LOL. So I have a ways to go. But it’s been interesting. I was trying to identify a bird that I heard by call....

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I shouldn’t write entries so late in the day, especially when I’m tired already. I had a decent nights sleep (well, fair to middlin, lol). The sun is out, and I’m better. I spent some time last n...

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Nothing major has gone wrong, but it’s just one of those days. My emotions have been all over the place, just like everyone else’s. And sometimes it feels like I’m standing in front of everyone w...

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