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Pain with a side of happiness
Part of our journey with Alzheimer’s Disease is accepting help. Damn, it is hard. Help with not just financial things, but emotional needs and just relying on my friends to help me with the most...
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Expectations
Brad relaxing with our buddy team from South Korea at the Odyssey of the Mind Wold Finals.Thank you Michelle Carpenter for this great photo. Expectations. Expectations are the root of all unhappiness....
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We are a TEAM!
When I started this blog a year and a half ago, I had no idea what would happen. Would people read my words? Would anyone care about what was happening to our family and in turn so many other...
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Looking for the Easy Life
Jim wearing his Air Force blues with Frances and Brad for Career Day at school. Nov. 2010 Sometimes in life, nothing seems to go right: lines are long, rain comes with no umbrella in sight, a drink...
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Help your Caregiving Friends.
Jim carrying the tree to our vehicle at the tree farm. Dec. 2006. It’s that time again. You either love it or hate it. Few and far between are the ones with no opinion. The Christmas season brings back...
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Happy What?
Ice Skating, Dec. 2014. There have been so many wonderful things that have happened in my life over the past month. But there have been so many horrible, ugly things too. I feel as if my life is one...
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Doctor Day Sucks!
Jim and I. Dec 2014. Today was DOCTOR DAY. I think in general we usually look forward to going to the doctor, even subconsciously, to get healed. Healed from whatever is ailing us. Healed from...
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Leap Of Faith
It is getting more and more difficult to share our story. Not because I don’t want to, but putting into words the decline, the heartache for our family, the frustrations that are commonplace and the...
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Tentacles
Jim has tentacles in me. Every part of my being.They are wrapped around my mind, woven throughout my body and engrained in my soul. His warm, soft tentacles encircled my heart and as they balance it...
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Battles Within
Enjoying Chincoteague Island and thankful for The Refuge Inn! Mother’s Day 2015. It has been time for a new post for quite a while and I have written many in my mind. But sitting down to express my...
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Nap Time
I have nothing. Nothing to say. Nothing to feel. Nothing to do. I am numb. I am going through motions and I am doing the obligatory foot in front of another, but the reality is I am dazed, confused and...
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Phantom Lover
I’m in love with a man who cannot love me back. I think of him all day, every day of every week of every month. From my first moments lying in bed in the morning until my last tired thoughts trying to...
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Used to be Mine
http://missingjim.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/10-She-Used-to-Be-Mine.m4a While listening to this song by Sara Bareilles (I am a musical emotional hostage on many occasions) I realized something: I...
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