Author: leilani

Y’all… over the past few weeks I’ve bought a LOT of material. I also broke down today and bought the pretty blue-flowered dressmaker shears I’ve been coveting for probably 2-3 years. The handles are padded, which should make my arthritic hands a lot more cheerful. (Look up Joann fabric. They’re going out of business and…

With no kids in the house, I’ve been doin’ stuff. Photography stuff. Cooking stuff. Sewing stuff. Photography has been mostly on the back burner since getting back from vacation, partly because of the weather and partly sequential houseguests. Add recent demands of the new job, and taking pictures slumped even further in priority. While it…

I’m not going through everything I think about the cataclysmic political mess in Washington and beyond. I’m aware of it. I’m not okay with it. I simply cannot deal with it now. There aren’t enough spoons. Yesterday, the older daughter and grandson flew to Iowa, which had been the hope for a while. She left…

Franken-Family Life in our little box has somewhat evened out. It’s tough to gauge since “normal” is relative when it comes to my relatives. There have been no more of the extreme meltdowns in several days, merely typical annoying-kid stuff. For this child, I’d say he’s been downright angelic. It accompanies doses of some pretty…

Backtracking to my previous entry. Our family is all too familiar with neurology gone sideways. We have family members on the autism spectrum. God knows how many times we’ve dealt with depression and panic attacks. We’ve got ADD and ADHD. One of my great uncles was institutionalized with schizophrenia back in the 1960s. We’ve dealt…