Being weird

I actually hate that word: “weird”. I don’t use it as a bad word in this house – but I do discourage the kids from using it. And? They are using different words to describe someone. I want the kids to understand that being weird applies to ….. animals or something like that. Not people. […]

Chocolate

Y’all .. still waiting for my test results. But I started a supplement regimen from the doctor. My hands are getting better (i have terrible eczema) but we’ve hit a new low in my “I’m allergic to everything under the sun” journey. I am now allergic to chocolate. So I thought something was up after […]

Deidre

In todays chronicles of how weird marriage is: my husband and I got into an argument of how to pronounce Deidre… Blaze (nickname for my daughter): here’s the character DEE-DREE Me: that’s pronounced DEE-DRUH Husband: no Jess, it’s DEE-DREE Me: dude…are you a girl? It’s pronounced DEE-DRUH! Husband: where’s the A?! Blaze: here’s dee…uh…how do […]

Confessing

Ok I’m confessing the truth … I opened up my Instagram account again. There’s a certain draw to that app. It’s weird. Well .. I honestly started it up again so I can find out more information on POTS. And I did – but then I started noticing other things. I was looking for attention. […]

My eyebrow

Looking at me .. I look fairly normal except for my eyebrow. You may think I have a political statement or fashion statement. But it’s really much simpler…I’m chronically ill It looks like I have half an eyebrow .. cause I do. Because of my POTS symptoms .. or hypothyroidism or family genetics .. or […]