the wall has been hit

I felt like I'd been doing fairly well the last two weeks settling into working from home, helping the youngest try to keep up with some schoolwork and being a mother all at the same time. It's a lot but I thought I was doing okay with it all. Today though, I have this deep …

busy in uncertain times

Well, we've just finished our second week of the new normal. Thankfully, we still have only one confirmed case in our city but I expect that to change in the coming weeks as all the vacationers have now come back from the March break trip they just 'had to have'. I know not all of them …

living life in uncertain times

Does anyone else suffer a mild heart attack every time their phone rings in the nighttime. I don't sleep well on a good day so when my phone rings at 11:41 pm it sort of sends me into a heart-racing, state of panic. And it wasn't only my house phone. I also received a call …

stuck in the in-between places

I'm not sure what to say these days. Things have been, I don't know the right word, rough I suppose, and I've found myself in a very bad place. As in those really dark places. I know you know the ones. Where your words won't come and you find yourself distant and alone and just …

feeling yuck…

Last Thursday I saw my dermatologist in the morning and my family doctor in the afternoon. I absolutely love my dermatologist. He's one of those doctors who doesn't give up until he gets an answer and if he doesn't like the first answer, he keeps working at it. He's one of the few doctors who …

a new year…

If I'm being totally honest, last year felt quite challenging in a lot of ways. M left home and moved in with his dad and while I'm still not used to the way things are, I'm working on being okay with what is. While I hoped that things would calm down once M left, there …