Mr. Train and I are type A personalities. We are planners. Do you know what happens to type A planners when they have kids? That’s right… we slowly slip into madness as the chaos of life rages on. I am kidding, mostly. But there are moments in my parenting journey that have thrown me for […]
Archive for February 2020
I have had a difficult time processing my diagnosis. At my onset, I was physically very unwell. I couldn’t… function. I couldn’t walk on my own. I couldn’t come up with words I wanted to use. I slurred. I felt like I was going to fall out of chairs. I couldn’t see. I couldn’t use […]
Take care of yourself moms! Here are some interesting parenting links from around the web this week! H E A L T H Gut bacteria linked to personality via University of Oxford Nature-deficit disorder: What kids lose by not experiencing the outdoors enough via Big Think The FDA approved its first drug to treat children’s […]
You’re probably not thinking about swimming suits in February, but I live in a year round tropical island so I’m always in a swimsuit! I wrote about the flattering bikini I bought two years ago for $25; it was still in great condition considering how little I spent on it and how much I wore […]
I belong to a few Facebook support groups for people my age with MS or any kind of Chronic Illness, and one thing that always strikes me as very tragic, is that a lot of people don’t have an effective support system. My husband and I have been married almost 11 years. We started dating […]
My kids were 4 and 5 when we moved to the Philippines, and they’ve forgotten most of their lives in New York. Something they still remember clearly is when I made all their breakfast foods green for St. Patrick’s Day one year – green milk, green pancakes, and green fruit. My kids have traveled a […]
As I said in my last post, when I was diagnosed, my son was four. I was able to stay home with him the first two years of his life, and when I went back to work he went to Grandma-Care with my mom. He started preschool two weeks before my onset. When I was […]
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