• Busy,  Chaos,  Drama,  Emotions,  Frustration

    Life Reset: The Week I Tried to Get My Life Back

    The Week Everything Blew Up Coming off of a very busy time period in which my Mom had two heart procedures, a LOT of appointments, two hospital stays, home health care interviews —-> that morphed into a move to assisted living, and going through her house and prepping for an estate sale……I decided to reset my life, enjoy doing some things we wanted and needed to do, and get our life back and then THIS HAPPENED. You can watch it here. All is well on this Saturday morning. It’s raining cats and zebras here and flood warnings are out. We don’t have to get out until later today. I hear…

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    Quilts: Irony of The Love Sewn Within vs Discord it Brings

    It’s funny this thing about quilts. Quilts were made with hands, lots of thoughts processed while stitching it together over many many hours. How our grandmothers, going back, had thoughts about who might sleep with the quilt at night, who might have it draped over them as they read God’s word in the mornings, who might inherit the quilts later in life. Maybe I’m completely wrong. Maybe our family quilts were stitched out of anger, or sadness. Maybe someone didn’t know what else to do and was so mad that the only way they could calm themselves was to quilt, or maybe they baked, or wrote – like I do.…

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    Cleaning up of Life’s Messes and Setting New Boundaries

    Cleaning Up the Spilled Milk I am home today and so glad to be. I have quite the line up of things to do today. There is no milk that spilled in my house but there’s been a lot of darts and accusations in the last couple of weeks with extended family – lots of questions, a lot of speculation, and a few answers that may or may not be right or correct. But I’m trying to clean up the mess, even though I didn’t make the mess, for the sake of the family. But….For starters, here’s what’s on my schedule today and I will get as far down the…