Blog
Creative & Mobile Home Office Ideas
Working from home is a challenge. It can be wonderful and freeing, but it can also be isolating and stressful. Much of my experience working from home has not been by choice, but for health reasons. Most of the information I find about home offices don't apply to me...
How to Buy & Customize Crutches
You need crutches and want to know where to start? If you are recuperating from injury or surgery, and need them for a couple of weeks or months, you want to make the right choice without breaking the bank. Crutches are not all the same and choosing wisely will make...
Hospitals & Doctors
After Surgery – Hospital Room
So here you are, in your hospital room, your new home for the next few days. Lets take a tour, shall we? Your Bed The hospital bed is a wonderful thing. I find it easier to get comfortable using all the buttons to get into position. I usually ask for an extra blanket...
Surgery Day – Recovery Room
Wake Up! I have a very predictable and unusual reaction to anesthetic, so I can't tell you how you will feel when you wake up after surgery. I always wake up suddenly and am very lucid and freezing cold. Once I am warm and have my little morphine button, I tend to...
Surgery Day – Operating Room
My last post about the check-in was a little dry, so I will try to spice this one up a little. So there we are all sitting around in hospital gowns, waiting to be called for surgery. Some of us are already dragging around IV poles, wearing stupid paper booties on our...
Caregiving & Friendship
Losing My Parents
Last week my dad died. My mom and dad moved in with my husband and I ten years ago, when we were planning to have children. Their health was beginning to fail and the maintenance of their home was becoming too much, so it was me or a condo. They lived halfway across...
Rest & Recuperation
Coping With Crutches
There is an art and a science to living with crutches that not everyone is aware of. Half of the time, the hospitals send you home with crutches after 10 minutes of instruction, which usually leads to a week of fumbling and frustration. But it doesn't have to be that...
Things to Do During Bed Rest & Recuperation
Bed rest and recuperation is boring So what are you going to do about it? Seen every television show and movie you ever wanted to see? You have read everything you wanted to read, at least for now?Sick of all things passive? Thought that story would be uplifting, but...
Wellness & Recuperation
Wellness is surviving illness, injury, doctors, hospitals, recuperation, recovery, health and rehabilitation. It is keeping up your spirits. Guidance for you and for your family and friends who want to help. No fad diets or marathon training plans. Just the...
Happiness & Resilience
9 People Who Inspire Me to Keep Going
Whatever your situation, odds are that you are facing an uphill battle. If you have been injured or ill then you have to get back on your feet; if you are dealing with a life changing condition, then you need to adapt. You need the tools to develop and keep up a...
Your Life Binder – Make It Actionable
Check out the other Life Binder Posts and Printables By now hopefully you have your version of a Life Binder and have begun to create a mental and physical picture of your future. Remember, if it is important it doesn't happen overnight. This is a journey and...
How to Have a Midlife Crisis
I am having a midlife crisis. At 40 I had it all: child, partner, important job and house full of stuff, and I had never been so miserable. For many this may sound familiar, but why anybody would get a younger girlfriend or boyfriend at this point is beyond me; talk...
Family & Home
10 Tips to Stop Fast Food Guilt
Stop feeling guilty about takeout and delivery As a working parent, nutrition is always a priority both personally and parentally (is that a word?) and we all worry about getting a healthy meal on the table. But let's face it, that's easier said than done. You leave...
Organize Your Calendar And Maintain It
It is that time of year again. Summer is coming to a close and fall is almost upon us. It is time to get your schedule in order. And get on top of your time before chaos reigns. I love starting the fall with a clean slate. The student agendas have always been my...
Get Ready to Go Back to School
It is that time of year again, Back to School, and if you are like me, you are not going to deal with it until you have to. For a planner and a list maker that probably sounds surprising, but one of the advantages of being organized is that you can choose to...
Put Off Back to School Shopping
I was grocery shopping recently and saw the back to school shopping displays and chuckled to myself. It is nice to be older and wiser. Back to School Shopping is a waste of money. My attitude about back to school goes against everything I usually say about...
Great Road Trip Activities For Your Pre-Reader Child
Road trips with kids is terrifying. Keeping little ones busy and happy in the car for days is an unenviable task. And when they can't read? What are you going to do? These travel activities kept my 5-year-old daughter happily busy for our 5,000 mile road trip. Last...
Have a Great Family Road Trip
Want to strike fear in the heart of parents everywhere? Say "Let's take a road trip!" The logistics and planning alone are overwhelming. But they can be manageable; it just takes a few great tips. Ever want to take a road trip with your kids? This time last year I was...