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Everyday I’m Struggling

I’m back in the blog world. For the last couple of years I have been STRUGGLING, but this has increased ten fold since fall of last year. I just feel lost for lack of a better word. Who is this woman looking back at me in the mirror? I don’t even recognize her anymore. I have really felt like a shell of myself. When I try to pinpoint the moment that things started to change, it’s when my last baby started school full time. It ROCKED my world.  I grew up as the daughter, softball player, athlete, sister. I became the student, English major, cashier, girlfriend, and eventually moved on to teacher, fiancé, wife and last but not least mother. I lived under these labels that gave my days purpose and direction. Most of these labels also came with built in communities and relationships. I was busy and distracted and focused on fulfilling whatever duties came with those roles. Then all of a sudden massive life changes rocked my very core. I became the griever of a lost parent, the last wom...