Random Musing About Caring and Homeschooling
December 6, 2014 Old Blog, Uncategorized
Last month my Aunt was admitted to hospital after a fall and my mother has asked that the hospital keep her until she is more mobile. We hadn’t seen her for three months because of my husband’s breakdown and we…
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October 29, 2014 Old Blog, Uncategorized
OK, so I’m not a son and to be honest I haven’t been off spending my father’s money on riotous living either but I sort of feel like the prodigal son coming home. When I was a child our family…
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October 26, 2014 Mental Illness, Old Blog
It may seem obvious but when someone has a person in their life who is mentally unstable it is not their fault and it’s not easy. There are some things that you might be tempted to say to them that…
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October 18, 2014 Old Blog, Uncategorized
This has been a very difficult week in many ways. Following the missed access last Sunday we had a suicide attempt on Monday. Apparently my husband thinks that swimming is a good way to end his life at the moment….
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October 14, 2014 Homeschooling, Old Blog
Everyone in the homeschooling blog world seems to have their “Why I Started Homeschooling” post and they are always an interesting glimpse into the myriad of ways that God calls on us to homeschool. So, in the hope that our…
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October 13, 2014 Old Blog, Uncategorized
My husband missed out on access with Mowgli yesterday because he didn’t bother organising anything or telling me what the plan was. He finally got in touch five minutes before it should have been ending and complained that he didn’t…
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October 12, 2014 Mental Illness, Old Blog
Living with a person with mental illness is full of what if moments. What if I had known that they had this illness before I married them? What if I had realised sooner that they had a mental illness? What…
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October 11, 2014 Old Blog, Uncategorized
I admit, I was surprised to find that my grocery list has changed so much now that I’m shopping for me and two teenagers instead of my husband, me and two teenagers. Some things I could sort of predict but…
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October 4, 2014 Caring, Mental Illness, Old Blog
Sometimes living with someone with a mental illness is like playing a game where no one will tell you the rules and when you do figure out the rules someone changes them. I’ve been married to someone with a mental…
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October 3, 2014 Homeschooling, Old Blog
Over the weekend we had an interesting experience that made me think about how children often don’t hear what we think we are telling them. We spent the weekend at my brother-in-laws house and their children attend a public school….
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