Kristen Blog

I will spare you the video, but I think we can agree this proves...I still got the moves...😂 I've rediscovered my happy this weekend. As it turns out, five days off in a row happens to allow the me to shine a bit more like...ME!...especially if I am not sick and/or in pain...or overwhelmed by debilitating disappointment in a rebellious teenager.  Or managing some crisis or other. It's a big galaxy and here we all are...crowded on this one planet...and so many of us in this one home.  It's very truly ALWAYS something.  I wouldn't have it any other way...too much freedom and alone time isn't good for the Kristen Shanna brain!  It seems everything is about finding balance.  Like...3 day work weeks and 4 day weekends. But...you do understand what I mean by "day off," right?  It's not, like, all "rest and relax." It's certainly NOT not getting anything done, because I have been crafting out my precious little heart.  I am getting so close on

Where do I begin?  How do I ever catch up the last 2 terribly rough months? I guess I could start with: That little badword-er showed a line in "T" before "C," and I will confess, it MADE ME MAD! Haven’t been THAT miserable in a long time.  (Think Evan…pregnancy and post delivery pancreatitis style misery.). I can’t even put my finger on what it was that made me so miserable.  Constant coughing?  Repeatedly choking and struggling just to swallow and breathe? Everything aching?  (Like…my WHOLE body.). Or those jaw/neck glands on (literal???) fire.  I remember wrapping the heat pad and tying it around my neck for a meager ounce of relief.   But…why go on?  You know it’s bad.  And besides, I can complete the picture easily by telling you even Matt took the week off of work (for the first time since my sister died 2016), so…yeah.  It was bad. Who's that I see walkin' in these woods? Also…didn’t help that Dillon broke his leg right around the same time.  Because