ChainedChrysalis

Mama to 5 kids. Wife of 20 years and going on. Childrens photographer. Classic DIYer. Simplistic living, old fashioned, bunny owner. Bipolar, anxiety, autoimmune disorder. Gentle soul, seeking kindness and love. Slow down living, farm life, summer loving landlocked mermaid.

The devil asked how i knew my way through the halls of hell. I replied. I do not need a map for the path i know so well.

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Er visit fun in Bittersweet

T went into Afib this weekend. He does it sometimes but normally can snap out of it. This time he went in at 4 pm and went all night long. So we went to the ER this am. They ran a bunch of test...


You know, You birth this fucking child, You bring it into the world. You do EVERYTHING in your power to keep them alive. Despite them wanting to unalive from the first moment they breathe... On...


EditLuna just tried to step on the table and fell flat on her face again... Shes the clumsiest cat ever!  NEW KITTEN PIC!  Just trying to document random daily life. Weeek went fine, Work i...


March 10, 2026

Random shit. in Bittersweet

Im on my spring time plant kick. I got a few new ones and have been repotting some of my older ones. I made a spreadsheet to track my "rarer" plants though with some greenhosues mass producing ...


March 05, 2026

Of COURSE... in Bittersweet

I had a dentist appt. They got a new endodontist and wanted me to see him because i have an abscess under a root canal. He gets updated 360 scans. Hes like im going to try REALLY hard for you. ...


February 26, 2026

gunna cry in Bittersweet

Saying goodbye to Z tomorrow. Im onboarding a new clinician and then offboarding him.  Literally so proud and so sad at the same time. My work baby is all grown up and flying free. Sigh... 


February 20, 2026

exhausting in Bittersweet

Another fight, another panic attacks. My arms are fucking ugly. I dig in really badly to calm myself down. Both my arms and now my chest. My assistant had her financee stop by with some cream h...


February 18, 2026

Work is a thing this week in Bittersweet

Its only tuesday. My work baby put in his notice. He came to me at 22, finishing his masters degree which is so impressive. He said cool cool to every bad thing we mock played to teach him some...


Back to the box dinners do whatttt??  Link to the inspo! So here is what I did. ( keep in mind for 8 and 4 of which are oversized boys between 14 and 21, plus the husband myself and mother in ...


February 12, 2026

Radio Silence in Bittersweet

Ive been gone a week. My mom had semi emergency heart surgery and I drove 1200 miles to get there before they got her in. She had 1 fully blocked artery and 2 at over 70% and they found out on ...


My 18 year old man child... He blew a tire last month. Hes been immobile for a while and FINALLY got into the shop and activated the insurance and got it replaced. Only they noted he now had a ...


January 29, 2026

Work jokes in Bittersweet

My boss ( Licensed clinical social worker, non practicing much now due to running a freaking  big ass company) She over heard me coaching one of our new interns. Last year of their masters degre...


January 20, 2026

Mental Load in Bittersweet

None of this is the husbands fault. Its my own mental load. We onboarded 4 interns today. I now have 20 interns. Maybe more. I SHOULD count them. Its a lot.  My work bestie came back from mat ...


Here was my tiktok wild hair. I got like ... idk a ton of these little ideas. Im just going to post them. Who knows, maybe ill get popular and make some money. Wouldn't that be nice. I ran our ...


January 17, 2026

when 2025 follows 2026 in Bittersweet

My mom called. She is cancer free.. Yay.. Did I write about that? My mom got cancer last summer. That was a fun convo with the kids.. It was after my cousin killed himself and before my grandpa ...


January 10, 2026

First time in a while in Bittersweet

I felt like baking for the first time since July. I mean i did some holiday stuff but not a ton this year. Depression and relationship stress were really hurting me this year. Today is in part t...


January 03, 2026

Day trip in Bittersweet

We took a half day trip up to Denver last night. The botanical gardens is having their last week of holiday lights and Ive been wanting to go since we moved.  So T and I went. We dont bring the ...


December 29, 2025

Post Christmas flu in Bittersweet

Welp it figures. Co was sick on Christmas day. he had a flu and slept all day.  Week before my coworker I drive to work and some of our other guys had a flu. So its my turn. I slept all day yes...


December 25, 2025

woopsie in Bittersweet

lol. I did my 4 hrs at work, gave my team their gifts and came home.  Little girl and I made fudge, shortbread cookies and sugar cookies ( dough is a chilling still) Then we cleaned up, she ha...


December 24, 2025

Done deal in Bittersweet

We got the check from insurance today. So the car saga is done. We used half of it to pay off credit cards. The other half is sitting in the account. Should just dump it in savings and try not t...


December 18, 2025

HA in Bittersweet

Stupid Hyundai. They emailed me saying they have been trying to reach me about my case this week. WTF. No you havent. They said my contact information has changed. My phone hasnt changed in 6 ye...


For future reference. I made sme perfume blends. The first is gingerbread. 5 drops cinnamon bark 5 drops sweet vanilla 1 drop tangerine 10 drops total gingerbread blend 2 drops ginger  1/...


I wish I had the energy to write about so much taht has happened. But frankly im not sure I want to remember a lot anyway...its been a SHIT three months. My husband went into a nasty downward sp...


December 01, 2025

Shop stuff in Bittersweet

Welp. With my car, we did a black Friday sale. I mean we always do one, but we started it at the start of Nov seeing thats when my car decide to spontaneously combust.  We had a few stales thro...


November 30, 2025

Am I an asshole in Bittersweet

Ok Quickie seeing im headed out the door. I signed up to do a angel tree kiddo at work. Kid wants legos. L has about 2k worth of legos he outgrew. And im talking HUGE amounts of legos. I s...


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