Clare and I watched Persuasion. A sweet story, and both the little ones fell asleep; a very rare mother-daughter time with nothing else on the agenda except dinner baking in the oven. She is presently reading through my old Jane Austen collection. Brendan and I have finished reading Beowulf. The tentative plan is to go [...]
Here, in the mountains above California’s central valley, we are seeing unusually hot temperatures. Kevin made the garage shelves with Aidan’s help and then dug out a flat space for the pool (with a bit of help from Sean and Brendan). Then Kieron was put on guard while the pool filled, which took about an [...]
This past week has been full. The older kids have been filming their movie almost every day. The younger kids are spending a lot of the day outside. Sean has had football camp, except that on the last day he got some stomach bug and stayed home. Kevin bought a soft-sided pool when he [...]
I wanted to write down a quick reprise of our trip last week since I ALWAYS forget the details and wish I’d at least made an outline for future reference. This was the trip on July 9th to 14th. Here goes: Sunday, the 9th — left about 9 am and drove north for about 8 [...]
I got a walk in today! Dinner was over, the kids had cleaned up, the little ones were occupied upstairs so I just sneaked quietly out and roamed through the trails around the back of our forest. (Now that I have my camera, I should bring it some time). It was so fun and since [...]
For now, I’m going to skip over the next section which was about medical causes for fatigue, and go onto the section about work conditions, which is a little easier to tell about without checking the book for spelling and definition of medical words like endocrinal systems and pernicious anemia and so on. The section [...]
I haven’t been journalling much on here. Life has been so busy the past week or so, with a 14 hour round trip journey last week. I could go on and on just about all the events of that trip, but of course there’s not time. Then there were a couple of days of recovering. [...]
The next section of the book was on dealing with losses of different types. Major life events such as illness, moves, job changes, death or parting with loved ones, and divorce bring with them stress, and stress and fatigue are strongly associated. Of course, this is natural and normal. But sometimes, we have a tendency [...]
The next part of Women and Fatigue rather disappointed me. It was about fatigue stemming from emotional conflict and difficulties, so I was thinking that it would get to the “heart” of the matter. But instead it turned out to be a bit of a manifesto for feminism and a rant against our patriarchal system [...]
Tomorrow we are on the road, driving up north for a few days in our trusty old Suburban. So this blog will be quiet for a few days. We’re ready!
