If you’ve spend a lot of time in physical therapy (or accompanying a child to physical therapy), you’ve heard a lot about muscle memory. We do the same tasks and exercises over and over in hopes of building both muscle and muscle memory, which will help with strength and eventually make the job itself easier …
January Metamorphosis
It’s my birthday today. I’m officially 41 by this time of day, since my mother informed me that I wasn’t born til 3-something PM. I didn’t dig into it too far because somehow her story always ends with the words, “I shoved you out of my vag” and, for an easily explainable reason, that grosses …
Brace Yourselves
Y’all. I love my children. I really, really do. And that is no small thing when you consider that four of the five literally tried to kill me while entering the world and all five of them have vomited on my actual face at one point or another. I love them. And I look forward …
2020 Vision
Someone actually had the nerve to ask what my plans are for New Year’s Eve. Can you believe that? I mean, I haven’t voluntarily seen the other side of midnight in a decade and my crummy kidneys mean no alcohol. I suppose I might be tempted to sneak a sip of champagne at 9pm (Because …
Fecaliteration
“Mooooooommmm?” came the tremulous query from the living room. I’m at the stove, making mac and cheese for lunch. “Yeah?” I call back. “I think I have a poop pellet in my pants.” “.... Okaaaaaaay. Come grab a wipe to clean it up.” “Yeah, but I’m afraid if I get up, the poop pellet will …
Roosplosion 2.0
Before Bean arrived on the Bradshay scene, we had two dogs named Sam & Bailey. Now, I was never the sort of person who referred to them as my furbabies or discussed them with my parents as the grandpups, but I loved them both a whole lot. It made me super sad when both Sam …
Crikey
I’m not really an animal person, but I really liked watching Steve Irwin work with them. He was just always so awed and respectful of every creature and so chill when they’d literally try to eat his face off. “Whoooooa she’s a lively one, mate!” with sixty five razor-sharp teeth next to his head. “Crickey!” …
High Beta
We had a cookie exchange at my MOPS group today to celebrate Christmas. It was ironically paired with a talk from a visiting doctor about stress and how it affects the body, along with ways to mitigate those effects. (The topic probably wasn’t ironic to anyone but me, so I kept my observations internal. I’ll …
Rosso
My last job was an Operations Manager for an industrial supply company. I was there for three years and absolutely fell in love with it. There isn’t much about me that says “warehouse”, but leading that team and that market was easily the most fun and fulfilling time I’ve ever had in 16 years as …
Minnie Don’t Burn No Chicken
There is currently a race in my house to determine who can be the biggest butthole. For years, Noodle had this one on lock. Noodle was born in kidney failure, which we discovered when he was two weeks old. He was in constant kidney pain, couldn’t sleep and was just mean. The kid had six …
My Five Ring Circus 