Okay, so maybe Mental Health Day isn’t exactly a thing to be all happy about. Like melting snowmen, or something. Anxiety has been killing me slowly. Every morning. I can’t kick it. My heart races, my head aches, I sweat, I shake, and I feel ill. And I get annoyed and short-tempered. Little things start [...]
Wascana Lake, Regina, January 2010 A couple days ago, Liliana said to me: “Mama, can you go to my school and ask my teachers to take off the January month and put up the February month?” She is not a fan of January, but for very different reasons than me. She wants it to be [...]
January is severely kicking my butt. I visited with a friend yesterday — who also suffers from depression that is worst in January — and it was so good to talk with her and find that we are so similar in our crazy, meaning that I’m not the only one who’s, as she put it, [...]
Our toilet decided, yesterday, that it was no longer going to work. It decided that, when it was flushed, it was going to flood the bathroom floor instead of doing what it was supposed to do. None of our kids are at the age of putting things in the toilet (although I’m sure Preston will [...]
I had to leave Preston for four hours this morning. I had anxiety about it in the days leading up to it, I had anxiety when I dropped him off, I had a lot of anxiety when I was away from him, and it only stopped when I picked him back up. I completely, 100%, [...]
