Tag: spouse
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Too Many Glass Balls
To reuse Amelia’s metaphor, I’ve dropped the plastic balls, which includes this blog. My slow down in posting started by me living in the moment and enjoying life and my family. I wanted to soak the good in not try to process it in words. I had the energy to participate fully in life, which…
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Banana Pumpkin Bread Recipe
Banana Pumpkin Bread I just realized neither Amelia nor I have posted this week, and I haven’t had time to formulate a post, so I’m going to share a recipe I created all on my own, and that I’m quite proud of. It’s also a recipe that I have never tried because I made it…
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When crap hits the fan
I’ll be honest that I have been procrastinating writing a post for today. I’ve not felt well for the last 2 weeks. And then the last 30 hours happened. I was just about to write my post when my daughter yelled “mom the sink is leaking!” So instead you get pictures of minor catastrophies that…
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The passive Cheerleader turned active Cheerleader
A couple of weeks ago my husband wrote about initially being a passive cheerleader in my chronic illness journey. A few days ago I expressed to him my concern over a new symptom I am experiencing. His response? Go see the doctor and make sure it isn’t something serious and the next day I scheduled…
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Don’t be like me-a passive cheerleader
My wife told me on numerous occasions of her new symptoms. She couldn’t quantify or qualify them other than “I hurt”; other times it was “I am exhausted”. These talks rarely occurred in a sit-down or even sick-in-bed kind of way. For the first year, they were mostly just part of the day-to-day check-in one…
Emotional Support Sisters 