Novel Mom

I apologize in advance because this one is going to be all over the place, because I have been all over the place lately.  I am doing the best I can with what I have to work with.  Life is not easy.  Lately, it's been a gigantic bucket of suck.  But I am getting up out of bed every day and making it work, or trying to make it work.  Yeah, it hasn't been pretty - there's been more coffee consumed than ever, not to mention wine, but we are making it go.  I know lots of people have life all figured out - I do, I know this.  Lots of people, apparently, accomplish their to do list every day, keep their house clean all the time, always have gas in their car, their laundry is always done and their emotional health - well, I don't know what their emotional health is, but they appear to have it all together.  And I am glad about that, glad for them.  But here on the other side, where the rest of us live, I am just trying to get by, one day at a time.  And honestly, I am pret

So what do I have?  I have a pair of broken in jeans; baggy, well-worn, comfortable jeans.  I know we all have them, right?  It's so silly, because when my house burned down, one of the things I missed the most was those comfortable, broken in comfort clothes.  You can't replace those, no matter what people try to tell you.  I don't really need to tell you more, do I? Wine, oh yes, I have wine.  Chardonnay, where have you been all my life?  Honestly, it was never my favorite until two friends persuaded me to give it a chance.  The rest is history.  Need I say more? Pictures, two to be exact.  One of them I carry around in the pocket of my pants....especially those baggy, well-worn jeans.  And sometimes, I put that picture really close to my heart, especially when I'm in bed.  I guess I don't want to talk more about that right now.  A prayer, written out on two sides.  This is also well-worn and has been folded and unfolded and carried around so many tim

Things aren't going so well. Things aren't working very well. I am not feeling very well. Everything I touch breaks. I have been having difficulty with our internet service, to say the very least.  I corrected the issue (temporarily) , but my laptop won't connect to the internet now.   No big deal, I only need it to work. ☺  Nothing I try remedies the situation.  Everything I have tried to circumvent the issue, well, those attempts have failed as well.  Hmm. I drop everything I touch.  And it breaks.  And lately, not only does the thing I dropped break, it hits something on the way down and that breaks as well.  I have always had this issue.  I can't keep drinking or wine glasses in tact.  It's just who I am.  I pulled an item out of the cupboard, it brought a glass bowl with it, which crashed and broke and hit the handle of a pitcher on my counter and the handle broke off.  Second time in two days.  My talents are expanding.  I was out this morning, in