This past weekend, my husband attended a family wedding and took my kids to visit his mother while I stayed behind and covered his shift with our family business. I knew this weekend was coming, and as sad as I was to miss the festivities I kind of looked forward to the solitude of a […]
October 16, 2012
Empty Promises
In January I made a promise. It was a promise to my friends (both online and in real life), to my family, and most of all to myself. I promised to take the brevity of my sister’s time on earth, and learn from it. I promised to make the most of the time that I […]
October 11, 2012
The Post Can’t Write Itself
Do you see all of those smiles? That is the last time I have seen everyone smiling at one time. Sure, occasionally one slips through, but not since this day…the last good day, have I seen everyone cheesing like this. It was a long time before I found out there were even pictures of that […]
October 7, 2012
A Night in Tuscaloosa
We decided to take off for our Road Rally in our Chevy on Thursday night since we are both night owls and vehemently wanted to avoid an early morning while escaping. We decided to leave middle Tennessee for New Orleans and just drive until we couldn’t anymore. While we are both NFL fans, we are […]
October 5, 2012
A Very Late Wrap-up
As I make arrangements to escape from my daily life with some of my favorite Moms for my third Manic Mommies Escape, I am reminded of our previous escapes. Sadly my recap of my Road Rally and escape from last year was never posted as my sister’s prognosis crashed shortly after my return home. Better […]
September 19, 2012
The Flashlight
Yesterday I told someone that I hadn’t written in a long time because the only inspiration I could see around me was laced in grief. Oddly enough, I heard that same person later talking in metaphors about the light of a flashlight. He was describing how the light of the flashlight leads you forward, […]
June 26, 2012
When a fortune cookie makes you cry
I have had fortune cookies say some pretty crazy things, but most of them are accurate, if carefully interpreted. They can also sometimes spawn some sort of self-prophecy, making them even more relevant. However, I have never known fortune cookies to be themselves prophetic in nature, until tonight. In a hissy fit brought on […]
June 10, 2012
Re-hydration
As someone who uses her blog as therapy, I should probably take comfort in knowing that I haven’t been posting frequently. It seems as though “feeling good” is not good for my blog, so I may have to re-focus a bit. Let’s try something new…let’s talk about how wonderfully things are going these days. If […]
May 6, 2012
Happy Birthday Caylee
Seven years ago my precious miracle child took her first labored breaths. Although she was born just after 7pm, it was nearly midnight before we knew there was a problem with her lungs. All of our friends and family were long gone and sound asleep after the exciting day we had. The two of us […]
December 8, 2012
The Ghost of Binges Past
tishamarie Depression, Mercy, Self Care, Weight 1 Comment
Today I wrote about binge eating over at Fitspiration, and I think I had just a little bit more about my own story to work out. Although it is very therapeutic to talk about stuff like this, eating disorders are often misunderstood and carry with them an incredible amount of stigma. I hope by exposing […]