Palm Trees & Dragonfly Dreams

 Faith & Trust and a little Pixie-dust I am not even sure how to start this off without it becoming a complete chaotic word salad. Let me first off say that we both are fine and have no problems self isolating. That is normal life for us. for all you that have this as something new I want to say welcome to POMC Island lifestyle. The only changes I had to make was that now I only shop once a month and when I do it's with mask and gloves on and I wipe everything down. We have always been as close to self isolation as possible and after a decade I would say we are experts. Like everyone now I have learned how to do even more things online. one of the newest things for me is looking for a new apartment! Not just a new place but one that is over a thousand miles away from here. Yes! we are moving back home to Vermont!!  I am so excited to once again be back among the green mountains and to be around extended family and loved ones will be such a balm to my wounds!...

Ok I'm not sure both my children would agree that I am 'Hip' but I really am more 'Groovy' than Hip  that being said I just want to catch my thoughts up on Nate's second half of his grade 4 year. now as December comes to a close I am reviewing all that he has done and I am please to see he has done quite well. He wasn't ready for grade 5 back in September so I gave him a bit of a break and just focused on repeating some things that we glossed over but he needed to move forward with. January starts him in Grade 5 and he is ready.

I am hopeful that I will be able keep up with and share this  blog. I'm going to leave this short, and a promise to myself to write more this week.  Peace & Blessings 

I was approached today and asked if I would talk about PTSD in caretakers of children with Rare Diseases. Would I mind or was it too personal or too difficult? Immediately, I said 'yes, I would do so' quite willingly even though doing so is a bad trigger and I know ahead that I will have to stop and walk away from this then come back to try and explain some more. Yes, It is very personal, quite personal in fact. And as with all things in my life it is difficult. Yet, here I am typing furiously away and here you are reading. Quite often when one hears the term PTSD one thinks of combat veterans. Well I can't compare myself with that as I've never been in the military. But I am fighting. I am fighting for my son, I am fighting for his childhood. I am fighting so that others after me don't have to feel they way I've felt. My enemy is my son's diagnosis of a rare genetic condition.  I will try to make this as general as possible because I think that...

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Hello everyone! We hope you all are feeling fresh and ready for the new year and hope that it is everything you need it to be. I have our projects set up for school this month, and I thought that I would just make a quick blog and share them with you here are just a few. As everyone that follows ( www.facebook.com/POMCmomma )  Nate's story knows Monday is our Baking Day and boy I am looking forward to our monthly 'Raddish' box to help with our kitchen skills, (no they are not paying me to advertise) They have a whole lot to offer the homeschool community look for the link on their page, and their Bonus bites. I have already made little books out of the information they have on the website. https://www.raddishkids.com/ As part of our 'daily walkies' we will now be going for a lot of bike rides! Nate got a super bike just before the holidays and we had special pedals added so he could safely ride it. I love it, he loves it! Thanks to our 'evac-u-c...