ChaosCoordinator

Yesterday for work I had a training titled, 'Working With Families With Mental Health Challenges.' I thought to myself this would be a boring unimportant thing for me because A. I have mental health challenges and can relate and B. I deal with people as crazy if not crazier than me regularly already. It was taught by a therapist, that's new and gave him some credibility in my eyes, so I was interested a little in what he was going to tell people. It started with a simple question for...

There are seven children that we are responsible for. What exactly does that mean? There are seven children that I consider mine and am responsible for making sure are cared for. One is off starting his adult life at college and working and there are still six living in our home. Four of our own and two that circumstances have placed with us. I do not want to go into a bunch of detail, but I tell people they are my nephews in a round about small town sort of way. I love and care for them just...

Most days are creatively scheduled and full of reshuffling of activities. I could not make my house run smoothly on a daily basis without my dedicated husband and color coded dry erase calendar on my refrigerator. I am infamous for double and sometimes even triple booking myself with family events and activities, but I ALWAYS make it work. I pride myself on that. I am dependable. I show up. This past weekend was no exception. We had work, a band performance, a visiting family member from out...