The Inherent Dragonfly A journey of discovering hope, change and love within myself.

 It was 2 years ago in April of 2022 that I knew something was different and wrong.  It was spring time, a usually happy time for me, but I felt miserable and each day continued my downward spiral.  What was deemed as a pulled muscle four month later was diagnosed as frozen shoulder in both shoulders.  I thought it was the constant pain that was wearing me down physically and mentally.  Maybe that is how it began, dealing with the pain, but it became so much more including aggressive fatigue, memory loss and extreme confusion that continued after the pain ceased 6 months after it’s onset.  The fatigue, memory loss and cognitive confusion continued beyond the year and a half of  my shoulder physical therapy.  It was my new normal. My life looks vastly different than it did 2 years ago at this time.  The pain has subsided and I have regained 95% of mobility in my shoulders.  I have accepted my “new normal” and have found a rhythm to my day...

The solar eclipse is crossing write over my home in Northeast Ohio on April 8th as it arches across the United States.  While there has been a big publicized anticipation for it during the past month or so,  I have been actively planning for the event since June of 2023.  I purchased my eclipse glasses from Amazon as well as a solar filter for my cell phone in June.  I even researched and made a solar lenses for my telescope several months prior.  I repaired my tripod that was not holding the weight of my telescope at certain angles with the help of a lot of YouTube videos and a toothpick. Little did I know that this would be a sign of things yet to come.  A week before the eclipse, in the brief time the sun shone in my area,  I made note of where the sun would be in the sky at 2 p.m. on April 8th when the eclipse would begin. Again at 3:14 p.m. when it would be at totality and then again at 4:29 p.m. when the eclipse would end.  I was ready!! On ...

Though I recently changed host sites from Wordpress to Blogger, I received my Anniversary Achievement of blogging for over 15 years on March 25th.  There have been several upgrades to my blog sites over the past 15 years and even a couple name changes.  I began with the site   AlwaysMy KidsMom  sharing tidbits of my life as a wife and mother, various projects and remodels, things I liked and my daily reflection of the pandemic.  After the pandemic, I wanted  a clean slate to begin in 2021.  No one felt that they had much control over their lives during and the pandemic with quarantines, mask mandates and change in working structures that were put in place. I yearned for some control of my own life and  would take it where we could get it. For me, I could have control and normalcy in my writing, but I needed a clean slate and a new starting line to begin this new phase of my life.  Many of my followers for my original blog followed me to ...