Didja ever wonder why it is we GAIN weight, Peri People? This is the stuff that keeps me up at night. Peri don’t need no stinkin’ exercise! Or we shouldn’t! Does this sound familiar? You’re running downstairs to take care of something important, something urgent, something…you can no longer remember. So you slowly walk back […]
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There are at least 14 people in here!
Ever feel like “There are at least 14 people in here” and each one of them wants something different from you? So last Thursday, we drove down to Indy to find a house since our lease is up the end of this month. On the way down I was thinking about all the other things […]
Read the rest of this entry »Life’s been an adventure, but I’d like to get off the roller coaster now!
I remember watching a movie (don’t ask me which one, my fibro fogged brain can’t remember what I had for lunch) in which a man asked a woman to marry him saying, “Marry me and life will never be boring.” Well, my life has never been boring. In fact, it’s been quite an eventful adventure. Even before […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Great Pantyhose Crisis of 2015
The past few weeks have been a whirl wind of activity. My dd graduated from grad school and came home to say with us for a couple of weeks to finish preparations for her wedding. While attending to that, we were also running three businesses and my dh was simultaneously looking for work. All the while, my […]
Read the rest of this entry »Chronic Illness Rules
Everything has rules. School, work, even science has rules. There are laws of physics at work on earth every day. There are also rules for those of us who have to deal with chronic illness. And as is the usual case, there are penalties for not following the rules. Unfortunately, the waters are muddied by cross […]
Read the rest of this entry »What I can and can’t do thru chronic issues
Okay, so during my “Woe is Me” phase of dealing with the stress of my chronic issues (my husband’s job loss, my chronic illnesses and running a few businesses to try to bring an income into the household), I found my way out of my crying funk and was able to push forward a bit. I […]
Read the rest of this entry »Our day off–oh the irony!
This will be a short post, but I thought you’d all get a kick out of the irony. We’d been working an overwhelming and stressful 24/7 at our new business and were in desperate need of a break. We needed some time to just relax, rest and regroup as a family. So we headed out […]
Read the rest of this entry »Miracle on JoJo Street
When I was a little girl I loved watching Miracle on 34th Street at Christmas time. Things just worked out for little Susan and her mother kind of like magic. God uses his own brand of magic we call miracles to help His children in times of distress. When we pray, we get one of […]
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Two weeks ago, I shared the dark place I was in after my year of faith that never (always) was and my husband’s job loss. This week I want to share how God has begun to deliver me from that dark place into His light. As is usually the case with God, it’s a series of small […]
Read the rest of this entry »I knew I was in trouble when I lost my sense of humor
I’ve always been a clown. I love making people laugh, especially myself. The more struggles life threw at me the more humorously I saw things. Until one day when I just couldn’t find anything funny to say. So I just didn’t post that day on Facebook…or the next day, or the next day, or the […]
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