…. for a few days, to visit my parents who live up there. I’m taking Brendan but the rest of the kids will stay home with Kevin. Prayers and good thoughts would be appreciated. I’m a bit torn…. looking forward to seeing my mom and dad who I haven’t seen since last year, but feeling [...]
Things have been slow around here. I started to try to write on the timeless question “How will unschooled children learn to deal with struggle and difficulty” but couldn’t get my thoughts to connect. But anyway, Ron already gave the secret. I’ve been putting the house back in order — re-synchronizing. Kevin has been doing [...]
Aidan is home again — see other blog. (Why do I make this blogging thing so complicated –? I don’t know why, myself). When you get home from a hospital stay it usually takes some time to re-integrate into the family. I have learned to just ignore most or all of what needs to be [...]
I didn’t see it on their list of changes, but surely I owe Andrea and Ron a “Live Long and Prosper!” for putting in an auto-save function. My computer crashed when I was writing this yesterday and I would have lost all this — but it turns out I didn’t. Not that what was saved [...]
I remember once meeting a family with several children, mostly daughters. They argued with each other a lot (shocked me since I come from a mostly quiet introvert family) but they were quite close, too. They mentioned once that they had their own “family language” and I remembered it up till this day [...]
I have lost 7 pounds! I was getting pretty discouraged during the summer because I had gained about 25 pounds since last year. Which meant that I weighed just as much as I did when I was at full term pregnancy with my firstborn. So now I weigh about what I did one day [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
