When I typed “caregiving” into the Google search bar the following phrases immediately came up:
Caregiving is difficult
Caregiving is ruining my marriage
Caregiving is a thankless job
Caregiving is killing me
Wow!. More and more families are faced with issues of caregiving and are feeling the physical and emotional drain of it no matter how much you care about and love the person you are trying to help.
Caregiving can be rewarding in surprising ways but it also can be challenging in ways you never imagined.
I come from a large family and I really can’t remember a time … Read More
Aging. Knowing that it’s happening to all of us is not very consoling. I see the effects of the years of living on myself, especially when someone takes a picture of me. I definitely don’t like it and I wonder how I arrived at middle age so quickly.
I know that sounds so cliché but it’s true. I see those grey hairs working their way out of my scalp and for now those bad boys get dyed. I also see lines starting to form on my face in places where I don’t want them but I don’t hate them so… 
Why is it that I think that worrying about something will affect the circumstances of the thing I’m worrying about?
It’s as though the more I worry about it, the more I think I can push the situation to go the way I want.
My siblings and I talk a lot about worrying and why we worry. Like A LOT. As in a couple of times a week.
It’s a good thing I come from a family of six children so we can rotate our calls to each other and no one ends up being burnt out from the constant… 
