Sunshine Journal

I think it’s been established that things have been a bit chaotic in our household. Even with these challenges going on it’s so easy to see how blessed we still are! Our support system is incredible and not a day goes by that I don’t take a moment to look at my family/friends and see how fortunate I am.  I've been taking life one hour at a time as of late. It's been nothing short of challenging. I can finally say that tax deadline has past. At least the real big one. There's still plenty of work to do but it doesn't feel quite as intense. Which just means I feel less pressure to suck it up and keep going. To be clear, this pressure only comes from myself. Most people don't know or understand how much I struggle each day. And that's fair, because I try to put on a good face. I don't want to be a sick person. Thankfully I do have people that just get it and see me and I don't have to explain a thing. It's no longer unusual to disappear to the quiet roo...

Here we are again. I don't know if I've ever thought, surely this is the hardest thing I'll go through. I mean challenges will continue to happen in life. But I did however think I might get a wee break, maybe, possibly?! We'll come back to that in a minute. At work we've been focusing on client experience. We've embarked on a multi-session training course about it. In one of our sessions there was a theme that kept popping up, how we make people feel. This is all very valid, but I think I was still a little in awe that in the corporate world we were talking so much about feelings. I personally love talking about feelings! No one is surprised by this. Anyhow, this discussion made me think about the keepsake I recently got after Ginny passed. Several of us ordered something with Ginny's fingerprint embossed on it. On the back we could engrave whatever we wanted, but with only so many lines and characters. When we were planning her service we reflected a lot o...