Tag: gratitude
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April Gratitude & Some Reading And Viewing
To Tony My sweet Tony, I know impulse control is something you have to fight to improve every day. For you to remember without mistakes the kind of things you couldn’t do around me when I was recovering was a feat that many might not recognize, but I do. I know you don’t speak often…
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November Gratitude & Some Reading/Viewing
Miss Emily Somehow even when I know the way time can slip through the fingers and the mind, I still struggle to math that there have been enough days to add up to nearly 9 years now that we’ve known each other. From Tony’s second music therapist to one of my closest friends, you will…
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Word Light, Gratitude Heavy
The biggest challenge for me as a mother, the one-to-one aide for our son Tony, and his hab therapist has been keeping me functional while neurological evaluations and diagnostics are happening. What has been happening with involuntary movements and muscle twitches has been impacting my sleep when the medication balance isn’t working, and when that…
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Some Gratitude & A Quick Note
A few months back, they replaced our local swirly slide with the above…and Tony’s been afraid to go down it because the decline angle comes with increased sliding speed, which is harder for him with his sensory differences. This past week, he worked up the courage and found a way that worked for him to…
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A Small Bouquet of Gratitude
For all the weeds of life (i.e. identity theft), I want to acknowledge the varied blossoms of happy moments I have experienced lately and gather them into the tidiest bouquet possible for this post, from the most literal (being able to wear a perfume with strong floral notes without sneezing, wheezing, a runny nose, or…
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Gratitude & A Conversation About CBD As An Option For Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
Second screenshot is citation source, photos and screenshots by Ariana. Allergies can come and go. For an item to which a person can avoid exposure, sometimes in as little as a year a person may no longer react to the item. My life has taught me this many times over. My earliest memories are filled…
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Quiet Moments Of Puzzle Joy
There is so much uncertainty in life. A great many people before me have said it, perhaps many more after me. The quiet successes and happy moments in the now have to be the joy we live for, because the rest is just a maybe, a hopefully…a maybe, hopefully some day. But today, this day,…
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“He Has Benefited From Having You Here”
Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of meeting briefly with the current principal for Tony’s school to discuss how things were going for him and whether or not I’d be returning to assist him at the school next year. She remarked about how well he was doing, we talked about the growth he’s had in…
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February Gratitude & Some Reading
To My Children Words can be spoken or written as no more than hollowed vessels that propriety and circumstances may dictate be served up and spiced at the appropriate intervals. These customs surficially demonstrate to others that we love, we care, we rejoice, we are grateful. But to render them with every depth of feeling…
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Some Halloween Gratitude
My friends, family, and loved ones: I have so many things I need to do still tonight and for the remainder of the week. My eloquence is toast, my desire to create artistically pleasing phrases to describe our circumstances is worn to silence by hand-wringing over the to-do list. So briefly: I am grateful for…