Well it's been a hot minute since I last posted on here.  Many things have been going on, mostly stressful in some way, shape, or form, which is why I haven't been posting.  There have been some non-stressful things, too, so that's good, right? Let's start with my mother.  She's been going...

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When my mom went to the family reunion back in 2013 when The Great Awakening happened, she told the entire family "I don't know why Shay has never done anything with her life."  Funny, I was a mother of two young boys, who I homeschooled.  My mother?  Was the one who...

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Poor Amanda Bynes.  I remember watching her when my kids were growing up on Nickelodeon.  Then I saw the expose on Dan Schnieder and I wasn't surprised at all.  I had always followed what was going on with her, as I felt so badly for her predicament.  She once tweeted how...

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I can't write much about this, because I am trying to not think about it too much right now, as it just happened yesterday and it's so horribly painful.  But my beloved dog died yesterday.  In 2023, we lose three dogs, one to a stroke in January, and our two boys...

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I don't tell my mother things that she doesn't need to know.  This is a part of keeping to the boundaries I've built with her throughout the past five years.  In the past fear years, she never knew I had an upper GI, that I got sick in December of 2023...

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There comes a point in my life, over and over again, where everything is either just too much or everything is not enough.  And sometimes...it's both.  I am at that point now.  As are my children.  We've all had enough.  But we've also not had enough for a long, long time.  And...

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So my son was having a super ADHD day today and made a mess in the bathroom.  It's not bad, and he normally doesn't do it.  But today he just left some clothes and a towel on the floor.  And so my mom comes to my door and says "Hey, guess...

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