I am tired of thinking about and talking about the things that aren’t working and aren’t what I want for this family. I want to focus on what I do want. This is the vision of the life I want for us.
I want a house that gives us the space and layout to be comfortable […]
From Helpguide.org:
Chronic stress wears you down day after day and year after year, with no visible escape. Under sustained or severe stress, even the most well-adjusted person loses the ability to adapt.
Please note the use of the phrase “even the most well-adjusted person”.
It’s not any one thing, you see. You could go down the list […]
Safety keeps me up at night. I lie in bed and listen to the trucks. I can hear them coming a good distance away up our road, the drone of the tires rising, the pitch of the engine building, until they whoosh past, 18 wheels flying well over the speed limit going into a fairly tight […]
Tags: moving on · peeves · home on the range
Tomorrow, it will be a year since Davey was admitted for his last hospitalization. (Hopefully last, though what I actually mean is most recent.) It’s hard even now for me to think of what he went through, what we all went through. For the five nights leading up to it, Dex and I slept in shifts […]
Tags: moving on · family · trisomy 21 · big boys
Dex and I have been talking, quite seriously, about moving for at least 4-1/2 years now. It’s a long story, but it comes down to several key things: climate/weather, living expense, and distance from extended family - especially now that we have kids. Neither of us are from New England and - though I always […]
