This February I took my sister to her very first comic con! We had a great day at Missouri Comic Con 2024, which is in its second year, but its first time at the Springfield Expo Center.
There was a bit of disorganization leading up the to the event, but I thought the actual con went very smoothly from wristband pick-up to getting autographs.
We got the official diagnosis on Valentine’s Day morning: our 8-year-old little boy has Tourette’s Syndrome, or TS for short. Now that it’s going to be a permanent part of our life, I figure I should embrace the abbreviation. His regular doctor diagnosed him with OCD, ADHD and […]
I recently pulled a suspicious looking bottle of soy sauce out of my grandmother’s pantry and checked the expiration date. Sure enough, it expired in 2017 (it is now 2024). When I hesitated to use the inky liquid, so old it had left a darkened rim around the […]
Sometimes I write about the total nonsense that happens on a daily basis, and today we have a mystery in the house. It all started with a little piece of poop on the rug. It was small, like cat poo size. We have a cat and a dog […]
I had an unplanned hospital stay last week, when I went to the ER with severe pain on Wednesday. I think it was Wednesday. All the days ran together after that in a blur of pain, drugs and awfulness. I was hurting so bad I couldn’t even get on my phone and do one of those, “Hey look at me in the hospital” social media posts, lol.
