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Playing Cards
I played cards as a nurse. I’ve been a nurse for 14 years. I started thinking about Sen Walsh’s speech and what it meant to me as a nurse. Degrading. To lead people to assume that my career of saving lives has been a leisurely 12 hours of frequent rest breaks and card playing blows…
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Dear Autism
Dear Autism, There are so many things I want to tell you, I want to ask you. I want to tell you how much I hate you. Yet, thank you at the same time for changing my outlook on so many things in life. Strange, I know. I want to ask you, “why us?” –…
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The Donahoes Go Green in 2018
2018…The year that has 100% proven to me I don’t have all my shiz-it together! So here we are, four days before Christmas – deciding to write a blog post, have an electronic Christmas card – and using the excuse “The Donahoes are going green!” 2018 has come and gone – We have hit the…
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You’re needed….but you’re tired.
The sun hasn’t come up yet, but the sound of the alarm and your husband shaking your arm wakes you. You’re sick, but you can’t sleep in. You’re needed. You’re tired, but you’re needed. It hasn’t even been a restful sleep. You feel as if you just fell asleep from the night full of responding to…
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A snapshot from Ben….
As parents, there comes a time where you send your kids to the hands of someone else and hope they take care of and live your kid as much as you. I’ve been through this three times, but there is a fear that some may not be as patient as what may be needed.…
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Life Lessons and Zip Locks
I remember when I was pregnant with all three of my kids, I received so much advice on the things I would experience or things to prepare for. As luck would have it – I’m pretty positive the things I’ve learned to be the major valuable lessons – NOBODY told me. Let me take you…
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One year Ago.
One year ago, If I only knew what I’d wake up to the next morning – I would have spent my evening a little different. May 28th, 2017, my life changed significantly. In a way, you’ll never understand until you lose a “parent”. Even in the absence from my life, he was my father. A…
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No Way to Prepare: Failure and Fierce Love
Today is a day. Some things, you’ll never be prepared for. Nobody can provide words – that can remotely prepare you for this stuff. And I will never be able to put into words or explain the full scope of how the/a diagnosis is NOT the hardest part. It’s actually the easiest part. The hardest…
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“It Doesn’t End Here”
Throwing myself a pity party this morning, so decided to share my heart via blog… Easter Sunday and my babes 5th birthday. Big day full of big fun…..then, the GI bug hits Abigail last night. ? What should be a day of Church, family, celebration of so many things – my family is split up.…
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Grief and Glass Floors
Sometimes it doesn’t matter how much or little time….but the wall of bricks hit you out of nowhere and there is no way to prepare yourself for the impact. Tonight was that wall for me. While watching American idol…..I hit a wall. When someone you love dies, the cliche yet words of comfort that you’ll…