Very random post ….

in coming….. 🤭

It’s one of those seasons where I feel everything is coming at me all at once.

I feel blessed that people resources have been available to offer tips and encouragement for this season. I can handle a lot and have, but sometimes too much comes at once and we must accept that it’s okay to allow people in our spaces, to bless us with their special gifts and talents, words of encouragement or even just an invite to have a cup of coffee and do nothing but breathe.

This is the first year that I don’t have a vegetable garden growing. There is still time but I would have 6 inch to a foot tall plans by now, had I been on my game. It’s okay but I feel a sense of loss that I do not have the time to tend to a garden. 🪏

My crockpot and instant pot are my great friends. Hot Meals without much thought or effort.

I think I need to find a specialist for my house. I feel there is still some moisture trapped somewhere from the storm and flood last fall.

I have asthma and allergies and haven’t had such difficulties with both since my last surgery. There is mold or mildew or something trapped in my house. I feel it.

I have asthma and my spine surgeries have been the WORSE for my asthma, partly from being under anesthesia for so long, and also trying to get lung cleared ….. once awake.

My miracle baby is turning double digits this month. We survived being tboned in my old Minivan a decade ago when I was 8 months pregnant. That is what wrecked my body and made me disabled. I don’t like to call myself disabled because I am able to walk now after surgeries and physical therapies. I was blessed to have a trauma surgeon who put me in traction, had she not done that I would have had irreversible damage from all of the swelling in my broken cervical vertebrae.

I am blessed to have my child and walking. I remind myself living with pain means I am alive and blessed to be here with my husband and ALL of my children and grandchildren.

I’m trying to find a specialist to see my adult son who lives at home. He’s had trouble since being injured on the job but workman’s comp doctors said he’s fine. We’ve witnessed him having random back and arm spasms and his hands changing colors red, blue and purple without him doing ANYTHING to cause it. He pretty much lives in pain just like me and neither of us believe in taking strong pain medication so we just live with it.

Post Covid society feels lazy and disheveled and uncoordinated. Many people can work from home and be more productive and focused. Other people do not work and solely collect paychecks, while making everyone in their circle miserable. Too many people were pushed through nursing schools, med tech phlebotomy and other medical related professions. They have no idea what they are doing. People Will Die Because of it and it’s worse than having a shortage due to abusing those who were very qualified but refused to be a guinea pig for poisons. I’m venting about the person, not even knowing where the vein was or how to draw blood or even put a pressure dressing on my son’s arm, causing him more pain and her having to redraw tubes of blood. Many people go into healthcare for the paycheck but they absolutely hate people.

Too many nepotistic hires also who cannot do their job but keep it because a family member is on the company. Ruining an otherwise amazing company.

This concludes the end of my random post. I’m busy and time to move on to my next thing on my to do list.

I hope everyone is having an amazing day!

Love and Bless You!

Angie

I never realized how much our life revolves around our kitchen! It isn’t just meals either.

Our small house felt super tiny and cramped for about a month with everything put into the living room, stacks of boxes , a shelf I bought from Amazon and put together for my temporary kitchen near my front door with the microwave, a dorm refrigerator, our air fryer, toaster and Instant Pot. Decorative baskets housed bread and bagels, healthy chips and other snacks, condiments, etc. Our Berkey and Alexapure were nearby also filtering our water.

Less than a full month later, we have a REAL kitchen again!. YIPPEE SKIPPEE!!! That was surely an experience!

I thought I was somewhat of a minimalist, but found out we still had too much stuff. I’ve made several trips to drop off donations of extra items. The National KidneyFoundation came by and picked up some large items and Habitat for Humanity also picked up items.

I have nerve damage from a car accident 7 years ago. I broke my neck in several places an still to this day can’t feel a couple of my fingers. I decided to make life easier for myself. During our kitchen renovation I donated 99 percent of my Fiestaware Collection, and decided to use Correlle Dinnerware because it’s lightweight and fits easier in the new cabinets. I also donated our melamine dishes. I didn’t realize those were darling husbands favorites. He absolutely HATES the Correlle. I kept a set of fiestaware bowls that my teen boys use to eat often. They’re heavy and on the very top shelf, since my boys are all tall, even the 10 year old is my height (5’6), they unload the dishwasher and put those dishes on the top shelf. I accidentally broke most of our drinking glasses because they’re so heavy and just slipped out of my hands usually while I’m washing dishes. We’ve been using my heavy Rae Dunn coffee mugs, I haven’t dropped those but I have a handle to grasp. I would like to purchase a small set of lightweight pretty simple drinking glasses.

I want my kitchen to run smoothly, be easier for me to navigate and keep clean and still look beautiful.

I’ve made a list of what I need to make our normal meals. I realized I’m in a season where I cook basically the same things but switch it up slightly. I plan our meals out 2 weeks at a time but leave a bit of room to change my mind.

We’ve ALMOST returned to normal life. I babysat my sick grandson for a few days, he must be well for 24 hours before returning to his “preschool” so my children have been sick with a virus now for a week, taking turns being sick. We homeschool so I’ve made them read, but I’ve also allowed them to play Xbox, but they’ve mostly slept. I pray everyone is 💯 by Monday so we can return to our normal schedule.

Have a most excellent Friday!