Posted in Craftiness, FASD, Out and About, Psychiatric Stuff, Special Days on Dec 24th, 2008 13 Comments »
… it’s Christmas Eve. All the planning and preparation is finished. The gifts are finished, wrapped and hidden away. The ham is ready to put in the oven for our dinner later today, and I’ve got a little time to rest and reflect. It’s really been a lovely December… I was apprehensive heading into the [...]
Posted in FASD, Friends, Psychiatric Stuff, Random Acts of Kindness on Dec 17th, 2008 11 Comments »
I got the most wonderful Christmas present from my friend L, the other day. She brought it over to the house on Monday, and her timing was absolutely perfect… It’s a prayer quilt. Isn’t it beautiful? It was pieced by a sweet 90 year old woman at L’s church, then L tied the quilt… and [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Out and About on Dec 9th, 2008 18 Comments »
R has always had a big heart. Not just regular big, her heart is BIG. She has a special place in her heart for horses and other animals, of course, and this caring leads her to want to fill our barn and house with animals that need her. But she also feels very deeply for the [...]
Posted in Psychiatric Stuff on Dec 5th, 2008 6 Comments »
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. ~Carl Gustav Jung (Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology)
Posted in Psychiatric Stuff on Dec 4th, 2008 6 Comments »
Nope, it’s not a blizzard… but it’s enough to keep us home today. I’m trying not to be too gleeful… (M was looking forward to seeing the pdoc)… but it’s hard. I do feel like I should explain about the pdoc… She isn’t a bad person or a bad physician… She’s actually one of the best [...]
Posted in Psychiatric Stuff on Dec 4th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve increased M’s haldol to the point that he’s doing pretty well now (for him). So, until about a week ago, I would have thought that worrying about a 72 hour hold was an unreasonable fear… except that very thing just happened to a good friend of mine. Her daughter had been struggling for a long time with an increase in [...]
Posted in Psychiatric Stuff on Dec 3rd, 2008 12 Comments »
… even just a localized one. Say at about 39.5 degrees latitude and -104.7 longitude (yes, that’s roughly where you’ll find Woodstone Prairie). I was thinking that 2′ of snow should be just about right. But then I felt badly praying for something that would inconvenience so many people, so I starting wondering about a localized storm. [...]
Posted in Craftiness, Homeschooling, Nature on Dec 1st, 2008 8 Comments »
We finally had our first real snow this past weekend. We’ve had a couple of the fine, light, barely-stick-to-the-ground kinds of snows… but those hardly even count as snow. This weekend’s storm was a good one… a snow blowing sideways, drifts (almost) up to your knees, wind howling down the chimney, barn door frozen shut, [...]
