Week 11/2025: Eclipsed
Week of 10 March 2025 This week continued a bit like last week but without all the art exhibitions. I watched the moon instead. Eclipsed: the partial lunar eclipse I took some time to go to the beach and experiment with long exposures, which was fun. I’m limited in...
Week 06/2025: Planes and boats . . . and a whale
Planes and boats . . . and a whale Week of 3 February 2025 A hard week. Perhaps the hardest one yet. But also some light. The final week And not even a full week. The week leading into the day I’d been dreading since I found out Kramstable...
Week 05/2024: Cheese and noodles
Week of 27 January 2025 This Sunday was the last day I got to cook mac and cheese aka cheese and noodles (or was it cheesy noodles?) for Kramstable. (If you’ve been reading along, Kramstable is about to leave home to go to university in Melbourne. It’s been a...
Conversations and change
Some more of week 3 and the start of week 4. Conversations and change A wonderful conversation My post about Kramstable getting ready to leave home received a lot of responses, and I thank everyone who took the time to leave me a comment. I appreciate your kindness and...
Week 03/2025: An amazing week
An amazing week Week of 13 January 2025 This week was a little better than last week, but I still found myself bursting into tears at random moments as I continued to think about Kramstable’s impending move. I have much more to say about this, not all bad. But...
Week 02/2025: Sadness settles in
Sadness settles in Week of 6 January 2025 The first full week of 2025. It was . . . challenging. The story of moving out The story begins when Kramstable said he wanted to live in Melbourne. He first mentioned this a few years ago but that’s all I...
Week 49/2024: Falling apart and picking things up
Week of 2 December 2024 Another week where everything fell apart, and I know that’s black and white thinking and everything didn’t fall apart but at times it sure felt like it did. I was still recovering from the injury I did to myself last week, and a lot...
Week 48/2024: Endings
Week of 25 November 2024 This week I was tired. Things just didn’t work out. I didn’t sleep enough, I hurt myself exercising, I am very tired, and to top the week off a family member who I don’t live with, but had visited the day before, tested positive...
Week 34/2023: Life is pain, Highness
Week of 21 August 2023 (part 1) Life is pain, Highness Anyone who says differently is selling something. I’m writing this week’s post in two parts because one part is great and one is . . . Not. Let’s get the misery out of the way first. Week 34...
Week 6/2023: Beginnings
Week of 6 February 2023 The 2023 school year begins This week Kramstable started his first year of college; the first year of his final phase of school life. My school experience has changed a lot since Kramstable started kinder in 2011. Primary school was eight very long years,...