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Is it coincidence that the one year anniversary of Eliza’s cardiac arrest falls today, on Good Friday? I don’t know.
I feel quite emotional today thinking about how the events of March 29 unfolded last year. How everything was so normal and nothing-to-report-here… until it wasn’t.
Watching her lif...
Eliza has been so dreadful this week - mad crazy tantrums. Drinks thrown at the laptop. Drinks thrown at the wall. Constant complaining, nothing good enough… it’s exhausting. For some periods, it takes over the entire energy of our house. We get collectively DONE as a family, Eliza included.
I supp...
It's been four years of sobriety today. Therefore, the obvious has happened - not one alcoholic drink consumed for 1,461 days - no bubbly on my birthday, no red wine with my steak, no cocktails before dinner, no JD & Coke late at night when I probably should have should have stopped already.
I'm ...
Roddy and I celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary yesterday.
When we got together, we both were married - not the best start to any relationship. I used to carry a lot of shame about that, because of the way I was brought up I really didn't even think it was possible for me to do something li...
Do you ever just feel GIDDY with joy for no particular reason? I think I delight in those moments more than any others.
I dropped Roddy off at PBI yesterday, a he flies to San Diego and is away for the week and you know, it’s been an exhausting few weeks with Amelie being so sick and all. He feels a bit bad leaving me with all of it.
So I said “As long as none of the kids are off sick this week, I’ll be good”
A...
We finished our Facebook live this morning, switched off Zoom, and we both just kind of sat there quietly for a second.
As someone who’s quite melancholy, I get so much strength from bizarre things. I laugh at some of my saddest moments. Gallows humor is my jam. It just fits for me… When the doctor said to us, babe in arms “Oh! I think a bit of Eliza’s brain is missing” (like you do) and abruptly left the room, Rod
...In the spirit of laughing at the not-necessarily funny-ha-ha...
So recently, I've been feeling a lot of ways, and when I start to feel like this, I get myself in therapy. I've been to therapy for many stages of life, and it really really helps me - being able to offload on someone separate from...
Dinner time. It's become a bit of a running joke in our family. Our ideal time to eat is around 7 PM, but I'm always running behind. I start cooking too late. I like to walk the dogs when it's cooler in the early evening. I like to work out later in the day. I've not been grocery shopping yet.
I'm ...
Only I could leave my phone in a random location in the UK, and it somehow is found and shipped back to me in the US. It arrives Friday... so if you've texted me... I'm currently totally offline. I can't even get into my main email due to 2FA and authenticators on my phone.
I am extremely lucky...
So, I'm back. Lots going on 😂 I've read every comment on Facebook (321 and counting) in response to my blog from the other day, "Why I'll Never Read Think & Grow Rich Again." And every private message :) You know that joke Roddy makes about giving positive feedback at the Maxwell training event? He ...
