Author Archives: islandofmisfitmamas

As 2023 slowly winds down, I’ve started to hear rumblings of people making New Year’s resolutions. I’ve never been big on making resolutions, as they always seemed like an expectation that you may not be able to adhere to due to extenuating circumstances beyond your control. This year, SO MUCH has changed and it seemedContinue reading “Out With the Old…”

Christmas is my favourite holiday. It always has been, ever since I was a kid. The lights. The music. The decorations. EVERYTHING about it I loved. This year, however, I started to dread the holiday long before it even hit. Any Christmas spirit I had was buried deep beneath layers of trauma. While I couldContinue reading “When Trauma Meets the Holidays”

The last 6 months have been rough, especially the last 2. Trying to make my voice heard isn’t as simple as telling my story. There have been roadblocks and hurdles and detours that have made it even harder than it should be. It also hasn’t helped that there are individuals who are insisting on seeingContinue reading “When Standing Up for Yourself…”

…but you have nothing to recharge with! They say it takes a village to raise a child and they weren’t kidding. Ever since my son was about 3 months old, we’ve winging it. The village that we thought we had, albeit a small one, vanished. Once we moved, that lack of a village was madeContinue reading “When You Need A Recharge…”

As I sit here typing this, I am having trouble finding the words to say what’s in my head. There has been SO MUCH that has happened in the last two weeks. To say that I am overwhelmed would be an understatement. A lot has happened in the last year. A year where we encounteredContinue reading “When You’re Left Feeling Invisible”

I have never felt more abandoned that I have right now. Knowing everything that has happened in the last year, combined with the knowledge with what we’ll be facing in the coming weeks, overwhelmed doesn’t even begin to cover it. This is no longer a matter of ‘just breathe’ and ‘one step as a time’.Continue reading “I’m Done With the Lemons!”

For the past year, it seems like life has just been one HUGE roller coaster ride. While I agree that life itself is supposed to be a roller coaster and you take the good with the bad, it changes completely when someone else takes control and sends you down a path you weren’t even supposedContinue reading “Peace of Mind”

For the last week and half, life has just thrown us curveball after curveball after curveball. As a result, it’s thrown EVERYTHING off kilter. For a household that runs on routine and schedules (because that’s how we work best when we know what to expect when), it’s gotten REALLY rough. Things are now starting toContinue reading “The Little Things…”

To say I’m angry would be the understatement of the year. On Friday, I got mad at the neighbors upstairs for repeatedly intentionally finding a way to leave the heat off and doing so because this fellow upstairs has an unhealthy obsession with making us suffer in a cold environment. They heard and finally turnedContinue reading “As Expected…”