A Time For Everything

I have returned to the State of Texas...along with my momma. It really is a state of mind, lol.

Anyway, due to health reasons, she's a member of our household now. I promise that not every post is going to be about this. :0) I'm hoping to get back to my regular planned topics, but we're still in a bit of an adjustment phase, getting her set up with doctor's appointments and settling into routines and such.

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Oregon was as beautiful as you'd expect. Lots of trees and green-ness. Also--deer where my mom lived out in the country. Two other things that there were a lot of in Mom's neck of the woods--double wide trailer homes and solar panels!

Here are a few pictures from Oregon...

 Hello...

*waves*

I had to make a last-minute trip out of state to help facilitate my mom's move to Texas. In fact, I'm writing to you from Oregon.

It's been a challenging couple of weeks trying to keep up with a minimum amount of day job and make progress here, plus keep up with Mom and her three fur babies.

I don't have much brain power or energy left for much else.

So there will be no posts for at least another couple of weeks.

Thanks for you understanding, patience, and any prayers you want to send our way.

Take care.

My big 2022 Goals post was ready to go. Pinky promise / pinky swear. But then life happened. My momma is uprooting her life and moving here to Texas. In with us. Due to medical issues. (Hers, not mine.)

It's all fine...

Except...

 The trajectory of my life for the next year or two or three just changed. As a result, my goals for the year needed to be adjusted. My original list had twelve goals on it. Some of them were big. What was I thinking? I was already stressing about them. That's no way to feel about your goals at the start of a brand new year.

So I had to do some serious re-vamping of that list. And I did. And you know what?

I feel relieved.

I wanted to be super ambitious this year, but I already felt the weight of that, and then I got to thinking and maybe a fallow year as far as actual writing goes is really more to my benefit for various reasons. And that was before my mom's arrival came into the picture.

So give me until Thursday and I'll share the updated, more realistic goals list for 2022.

I'm also really looking forward to spending time with my mom. I haven't seen her in years and years. On the other hand, it's going to be interesting around here with two mother-daughter dynamics going on, lol...

Have a great week.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!

Hope you have a super day tomorrow.

Unfortunately this is the only "recent" picture I have of my mom and me--and it's a good five years old now. We've lived so far apart for so long and traveling to her neck of the woods isn't a day's drive. And airfare is usually beyond the limits of my pocketbook.

But I suppose I should try to make something happen....neither of us are getting any younger.

to all the women who are pioneers in the movement for gender equality.

Thanks, Mom! I love you. Hope you're having a super day.