Bliss and Mayhem

not just any plate

A little tear left my eye a couple of days ago. You see, this plate had been a constant in our household for the last 10 years. Not just any plate, but a plate that saw many great times and not so great times with Ethan growing up and his Autism. I don’t even remember where it came from. How we got it. I don’t even really like monkeys. Ethan saw the plate broken on the bench and didn’t even flinch. I was the one that was sentimental and emotional about it all – it had meaning to me not... Read more →

Legacy

I really thought that I knew it all – you know, back in the day when I was a ripe old age of 18! The time when being 30 and being responsible was decades away and when my biggest concern was how I was going to afford a big night out and to make sure that I remembered the guys name the next day. And looking back, I did know everything then, for me, at that time. But the older and older that I am getting, I’m coming to the realisation that I know nothing of what I once thought,... Read more →

Dear Uterus

image source and credit I recently had my first date with PMS. I mean seriously people! This shit is BAD! I have always had a tumultuous relationship with my uterus ever since I can remember. Painful periods, endometriosis, a very scary cancer scare last year {ladies, get a pap smear EVERY YEAR!}, we really were not on the best terms for ages, but I can give my lady area some credit – it helped me create these two beauties: But through all my hormonal trouble I had never really experienced this so called “PMS”. I thought “oh yeah, so you... Read more →