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Trippin With Dad

This exciting ( and sometimes funny) blog will help you visualize the potential you have to expand your travel horizons as a caregiver! Yes, you CAN travel with an older loved one who has disabilities. You are not stuck! With a little planning and flexibility you can still travel and see what is out there in this wide wide world. There are few barriers and even more opportunities that you can make work for you. Join us as we explore the country trippin with dad!

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February 23, 2019

Stone crab mania

Looks like our ship was stranded on the Cay.

My Disney booty

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The Big Chop

March 28, 2019

There comes a time in every womans life when she knows it's time for a change. There's a subtle and discernible shift in the air around your brain where everything starts to look off. My time came during our church fast in January. Fasts are great times to confront LOTS of things, such as our cravings, our shortcomings and the dross that clutters up our lives. Funny thing, my hair started feeling like part of the clutter. On a hot day, there it was suffocating and clingy. While cleaning and cooking? There it was hanging all over the place. Falling into my food while eating? All too common. Then there were the constant comments and apparently hard to control urges to touch my hair by stranger after grabby stranger (without permission of course). I started feeling like my hair could have hosted its own Facebook page and been waaaay more popular than me! So my white roots started growing out but I had no particular plan in mind for the ...

Me, Myself, and I

March 15, 2019

I have been trying to take better care of myself lately and surprise, surprise, I've been succeeding. I think it's one of those things where you take your eyes off the ball for a season and the ball balloons up from a tennis to a basketball! Lol. Seriously though, I think some of us are better wired to effortlessly juggle multiple responsibilities; I didn't get that wiring. It's the ability we all seek in life but unfortunately strive too hard to achieve. And striving tends to be futile and unbecoming. As a caregiver I've found that it was all too easy to make excuses about taking good care of my temple. I could recite Romans 12:1 easily and part of me wanted to be that acceptable sacrifice. But another self-serving part of me wanted to wallow in the seemingly overwhelming desire to stuff my feelings of frustration and fear down with food. I just couldn't seem to get 'it' ALL done? I can remember recently sitting in the d...

Our next trip awaits!!!

February 11, 2019

Dad and I are busy getting ready for our next adventure. Ok. I'm the one whose busy while Dad is chilling. But we can't wait to set sail on our 4 day Disney cruise to the Bahamas. One might think packing for a four day vacay wouldn't take much energy but you would be sadly mistaken. Whether you are traveling overnight or for a month, certain necessities must go with. Those necessities take up a whole small suitcase so, be prepared. I always plan for the worst and hope for the best that way I am rarely disappointed. I meticulously pack using a detailed checklist of items Dad needs. This ranges from his favorite night cap to toothpicks. No item is too small to be catalogued and packed. If it truly matters at home then chances are it will matter in another location. This is a task that takes days to accomplish well so, start early and save yourself considerable stress. We took this trip on another Disney ship two years...