A Window to Insanity: Tips for Staying Sane

We have been back in the hospital with my little Saucy boy since January 4th. He developed a viral infection after the take down on his hands and required several days of IV fluids. In addition, the graft on his finger did not take and he had to undergo an additional surgery where they re-grafted his finger as well as grafted the tips of his other 3 fingers on the same hand. My poor little boy has been through so much and still has such a long way to go to heal. The doctors have said to expect a hard year as this initial year will require a lot of intensive intervention to help with healing as well as to keep the functionality of his hands. It makes me so sad to know that in a blink of an eye his little hands sustained such extensive damage. He is such a little trooper though and keeps his spirits up throughout the whole experience. Not only did he celebrate his first Christmas in the hospital but he also turned a year old while here! Not to mention that his first birthday was spent in...

It has been several years since I last blogged. I have to admit it is a little humorous to read my past posts, especially as so much has changed in life, yet so much remains the same! Today is the first day of a brand new year and, once again, the grand resolutions of what we all aim to change. I decided that today would be a good day to begin blogging again. Not necessarily for others to read but more for my own outlet in tracking life through an electronic journal. First, a quick update on where life has taken me over the last few years. I finally completed my PhD in clinical psychology! It was a very long road and the journey was quite treacherous at times, but I pulled through and have the diploma to prove it :)! I also went through a traumatic divorce, re-married, and had another child. Of course, nothing is as easy as it appears and my romantic life continues to be tumultuous and best left for a post all its own. In other news, I relocated to California and am finishing up my pos...

The last couple of days I have been plagued with migraine headaches which have impacted my ability to write, think, or read, of course also limiting my ability to blog.  These headaches, born of a new diet, or rather reset, are finally subsiding, although I am still feeling rather exhausted.  In addition, the reset (Beachbody's Ultimate Reset) that I have embarked on is a miserable concoction of sprouts and seaweed (okay, there is more to it than that but I swear that is all I feel like I am eating).  While I swear I am downing sludge scooped from atop the ocean water; a mixture of salty algae, seaweed, slime, and smelly scum, I pray that it will end up making a difference and helping me to start losing a few pounds.  Regardless, my poor kids are dealing with a very irritable mom!  The more I force the food I hate down my throat, the more I crave real food (meaning junk food) and the worse my mood becomes.  I must admit that due to the severity of the heada...

I have to say that today was a great day!  Not because we did anything exceptionally amazing but because the kids behaved most of the day and kept themselves occupied with playing that did not involve fighting, destroying anything or getting into things that are off limits.  It is quite the rare occasion when we have a day at home that is semi peaceful and the house remains intact!  You know that you are a parent when you find yourself deeply gratified and overjoyed by the simple pleasure of having a day that is not spent battling with your children and where everything in your house, including pens and paper remain undisturbed.  Days like today remind me of weather and how a thin ray of light seeping through a dull grey forest of clouds having plagued the landscape with utter dreary, weighing down even the foliage with the dense, drab staleness that comes from a colorless sky can change the outlook or course of a day by simply appearing.  For, just when the ver...

Today has been one of those days where I had to stop myself a few times and gauge my own sanity (okay, most days are like this in the life of a mother!).  I have only just sat down after an exhausting day of slaving to others, my eyelids are dragging shut on me and the throbbing in my feet feels like a full scale orchestra has struck up a deep reverberating ballad in them, yet I am determined to write a quick tip that came to me earlier as I was driving to the garbage dump and pondering the many intricacies of life, mainly my own.  As I have reflected many times over the years (and yet still get surprised by the fluidity in which this happens) being a mom and wife brings with it so many unique opportunities to dance through the rainbow, brilliant colors emanating emotions and moods, while the dance steps swing from the tango to the waltz in less than a minute and display as bright bold or pastel hues which color the landscape of life.  Today I have painted a brilliant col...

This blog I dedicate to busy moms who feel their toes perched precariously on the ledge of their own sanity, the soft breeze playing secretly against the bottom of their toes as if begging for them to take a step forward and dance on the clouds of insanity.  As a mother to 6 ambitious little ones and a full time student seeking my PhD and also a wife and breadwinner I can honestly say I live my life on the edge and the soft tickle beneath my toes has become, at times, a grating so ominous that it tugs my feet a little further over the cliff.  It is times like these that I seek solace among my tears and feast on quotes of those who have gone before me and made it through all the ups and downs and highs and lows of parenting.  The point of this blog is to provide daily tips or quotes that help keep me moving even when the tide of life tries its best to tug me down and lay a wet and salty balm upon my furrowed brow, eclipsing me with the lovely shade of darkness that settles...