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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!

The Three Amigos are in St. Augustine

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March 22, 2019

Hi blogger family! No long post today as I. Is. tiyad. We boot scooted off to St. Augustine for a weekend of seafood and music. I will write more later. Much love! Sylvia

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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

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From San Antonio to San Antonio and back again

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Sometimes, you just get these crazy ideas and you think, 'why not?' That's how it generally is when Raymond goes out of town for a class reunion or a golf outing. I always say, "when the cats away, the mice will play", so my mind immediately constructs some fun adventure Dad and I can get into. See, I used to sit at home and mope a bit when he'd leave. You know, the old, 'woe is me!!, why can't I be having any fun?!?!' * cue the violins * Then, it dawned on me one day: Why AREN'T you having fun? Fun is a CHOICE. I flipped the script and next thing you know I've got us booked to go to San Antonio. No...the OTHER San Antonio. You may not already know this dear reader but, I actually live in San Antonio, FLORIDA ( people who live right up the road in Tampa have never even heard of San Antonio Florida so, don't feel bad. LOL). Anyway, I've never spent any real time in Texas so, I says to Dad, "You wanna go to the OTHER San ...