• Busy,  Chaos,  Happiness,  Stress

    Finding Happiness in the Midst of Chaos

    On the Search for Happiness With our crazy little life since April, (moving Mom to assisted living, estate sale, someone in the family being horribly mean to me, dealing with Mom and all her wants and desires while being the only sibling willing to do it, handling difficulties at home, and getting Mom’s house ready to sell) it has left me completely dry and spent and at times unhappy. Oops did I forget YouTube which takes a lot of my week too? I have really worked at trying to at least be content, stay grounded in the Lord, and keep everything going everywhere. You can watch this week’s video here…

  • Aging Parents,  Surprises

    A Couple of Surprises – followed by Pizza and Busy Week

    A Couple of Surprises Followed by Pizza Yesterday we had to get up around 5:30 so we could get Mom by 7:15 and get her to an appointment at Centennial (across Nashville in rush hour) by 9:00 a.m. We did it with a few minutes to spare! Mom’s surprised everyone with two things yesterday. 1) She told the nurse practitioner that her UTI was back and she’d had symptoms for a week and a half. 2) She asked for Christmas ornaments from her house. So number 1 is pending and number 2, quite frankly, is concerning. It’s making me think she is really losing her memory. When I told her…

  • 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…