• Life

    Up and waddling

    After several months of being salty over my unsuccessful transition into a new career in web development, several more months of trying to find the ambition to build my personal site and several more months after that of deciding to actually deploy said personal site (I actually built this at a pretty respectable rate), the site is up and ready to rock! Now the trick is to actually use this to make it more worth-while. Not so much in a “hire me immediately as a web developer” way but in a therapeutic thought journal type of way. The good news is that I’m now in a very different spot in…

  • Life

    Getting Back Into Health

    Holistic approaches have also been a big part of my recent health journey. Superhuman protocol with red light therapy and lymph drainage really helped to balance my hormones shortly before my youngest daughter was conceived. I am slowly starting back up with these things when time allows and I am hoping to piece all of these parts together to work toward finding my long-term health plan. Health maintenance is a journey and not necessarily a destination and I’m hoping good habits will help me stick around on this earth for a while.

  • Life

    For The Grieving Hearts

    I was working out a few days ago when this awesome song that I’ve never heard popped up on my playlist. Just listening to the lyrics made me super emotional, which really doesn’t tale much these days (having a baby will do that). After losing 3 family members to terminal illness, 3 friends to suicide and overdose and a tiny unborn human to life’s misfortune, all within a few short years, I think it’s safe to say that grief is something that’s on my heart. There’s that horrible saying that time heals all wounds. This is stupid and inaccurate. The grief doesn’t magically get better. I have just learned to…

  • Life

    New Normal

    PSA- Living on 3 hours of sleep for days at a time from caring for an infant can lead to fatigue, depression, random crying, swearing, cold symptoms and may lead to an epic crash.

  • Goals,  Life

    Momumental Life Changes

    It’s been a minute since my last blog post but the time away was well worth it because it was spent growing the most beautiful tiny human. On May 20th, my husband and I welcomed a healthy baby girl named Harleigh Grace. She is my third and last baby and I am absolutely soaking up every baby snuggle and milestone to the fullest. I have always wanted to be a mom and I am thankful every day to have been blessed with three beautiful healthy girls, particularly because of my neurological condition of Moebius Syndrome. But the road here has had some interesting twists and turns. My first daughter Jadann…

  • Life

    New Year, Same Me

    Happy 2024! I’m super thankful to have had a blessed Holiday Season but I’m equally thankful that the chaos and over stimulation is over! It’s officially that time of year to reflect on where you’ve been and where you’re trying to go but I’ll admit, I’m not really an all-in New Years Resolution person. I mean I already wrote some very broad and general goals on my phone’s OneNote, mostly continuations of things I either started last year, meant to start or am actually seriously thinking about getting off my butt and starting at some point. I also only look at said list from time-to-time but it’s fun to revisit…

  • Life

    I’m Back (Again)!

    It’s been awhile! Mostly because life got busy but also because as one of my followers was nice enough to point out, my blog site randomly broke. It took a minute and some assistance to fix but I have once again emerged, much like this raccoon from the dumpster! As someone who is always thinking and feeling things, I thought this blogging thing would come much more naturally but truthfully, it’s not always as easy to put thoughts and feelings into words, let alone onto an internet site. It’s actually pretty awkward to come up with “stuff that matters.” Maybe the key is to just commit to blogging in general…

  • Goals

    Seeing It Through

    One of the best things about my new job as a Nurse Case Manager is having the ability to be more involved in different aspects of my patients’ lives and stories. This week I had the privilege of attending a funeral for a patient, which is not something that a nurse usually gets to do. Someone asked me why I would attend a funeral, implying that this is not usually part of “normal” nursing tasks. It really isn’t to be fair. My response was and still is “because I’m seeing it through.” My staff and myself were there for every other step of the recent processes (my staff more than…

  • Life

    Everyone’s Blogging

    I am fully aware that I am late to the blogging party. The thing is, I never really felt the need to start my own blog page. That was until I became aware that every Web Developer is expected to build a personal website, and in this case, I like the idea of building something that I can actually use. I absolutely refuse to title my first blog “hello world,” but this is my introduction to my blogging adventure.