That Dreaded Call at 3:00 A.M.
They are always our babies, no matter their age, ya know? Right now, things have calmed down a bit. Fingers crossed, we’ve avoided a crisis of nightmare proportions… …Monday 3:00 a.m., the incessant...
View ArticleTime to Exhale: Hospital Update
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you all for your words of encouragement, support, and compassion. It was super appreciated and really helped to cheer me up when things seemed a little touch and...
View ArticleFull Circle From Hell to Happiness
So…we’re all sitting at Gate 36 at Boston Logan Airport, waiting for our flight to San Diego, the final leg of our massive journey to bring home Angel Boy. YAY!!! We can literally see the light at the...
View ArticleWhat Does a Cosmo, the Trauma Unit, and Mother’s Day Have In Common?
For this #MothersDay, I’m honored to welcome a special guest poster on Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain’s Wife…my very own daughter-in-law, or as we fondly refer to her, DIL. I...
View ArticleEndurance and Survival
Life lessons from the garden. We dug up a stand of cactus a few weeks ago, intending to immediately replant them in a different location, but life happened in the form of my son’s emergency surgery and...
View ArticleLentil Cookies v2
Even though TECHNICALLY I’m defined as an “empty nester” because my son is on his own, married, and no longer resides at Casa de Enchanted Seashells, I don’t believe he’s ever further away than my...
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