Author: leilani

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…

Bypassing all the gory details, last week was rough. All I can say now is it involved a mental health crisis, two ambulance rides, and driving home after midnight. (I was the one driving. It was neither G nor myself carted off via ambulance.) Medical and counseling appointments have been scheduled in follow up, and…

#1 The bad: the supply line to the water heater sprung a leak today. I definitely didn’t build a plumber into this month’s already-stretched budget. In the greater scheme of things, it could be far worse. We turned the water off to the house until we could get it fixed. The good: There’s a small…