*quick note about the post. It ws written Sunday, June 2. My wonderful, amazing sister edits for me, because, otherwise I would read a hot mess. And she is crazy busy! I am incredibly grateful for her support! I love you, Melody!!!

Happy Sunday! As tends to be the trend, I’ve been busy achieving, batteling nerve pain, being grateful for my husband & kids, emotional, and tired. I’m sure I’m not the only one feeling this.

This kid, 🥺, turned 18 and then graduated. I am so incredibly proud of him! Two down two to go. Lol, seriously, so proud. All of them have been put in a very difficult situation, not the worst, but hard none the less.

Oh and I got to go!!! The year our oldest graduated it was held indoors and we oppted, not happily, to watch from home. Diffrent circumstances.

I was encouraged by a friend that I needed to share, it had been a while. Thank you, Shelly, for the love and encouragement.

My bidet came. 🤭 Still working on “sit to stands”, squats. BUT, I have a few times over the last few weeks been able to stand from the heighth of the new seaat. Sorry if that’s too much info. I am just excited I have done it at all. Now, it’s not even close to every time, but I’ll take it and mark them as wins.

My oldest turned 21 the end of May, but I haven’t seen him since then. Silly kid. In my mind’s eye, for years I have had invissioined us going out with him and having one drink with him. I was living in Ludington when I turned 21, so I missed hitting that mile stone with my parents. Neither one of them were drinkers, so it wasn’t a super huge birthday for me. I don’t know, but, it was kinda sad because my life isn’t anything like I thought it would be.

I’ve been crushing so many physical things lately, but, it for sure leaves me exausted.

Last Sat we tried a diffrent church than we had been connected with, which, was bittersweet. I was beyond happy to go, anywhere, but I miss our old church. But, as with so many things in my life I have to go with the flow of my family.

The building of this church had been the building of the first chrch we attended when we moved to Grand Haven. I had forgotten how big it was inside. The service was really good. We enjoyed it and the evening service means I should be more awake and helpful.

But, my heart still burns for our other church. My friend said it best years ago. She said, I just wanted to be were Jesus was. I smile just thinking about that because it’s so true.

Also, I went to have some new straps put on my AFO (Anklet/Foot orthotic) because they were bad and we begain talking about shoes. I came home with a special pair but had bought a few “regular ” pairs of sneakers. The last pair were falling apart. It was mentioned that Billy shoes would probably be a recommend company. I spent the whole way home from that appointment trying not to forget the name of the shoes. I wanted to look up what they had. I recognized the kid shoes but they have some really cute adult styles!!

Here is the link if you’d like to check it out. I will not get any payment. 😁 I just really want to say if for any reason you struggle getting shoes on, you might find a cute pair here. I have been a little salty (my daughter’s word) that it took so long to find this company. I could have had a shoe wardrobe that would give me opitions over the years. Sorry Matt, I might need some sandles, slippers, and supper cute boots, not too much…😁 but you love me right?

This week Friday I was able to get out to Frederick Meijer Gardens. It was beautiful! I think I had only spent time in he butterfly exhibit before. They had an art exibit created by bugs. Some of the bugs were so huge!

I had some Tropical Hydrangeas, but I killed them, not very suprising. I’ve never had a green thumb. I often joke that I might not keep plants alive but I managed to keep 4 kids alive.

But I have some really large pots from the hydrangeas and I would like to see if I have better luck with the elephabt plant.

I tried sitting up for this picture. It was a beatiful day and after about an hour I needed to go home. There are soo many annoying things that happens with a brain injry and getting tired and having to actually ask to be done is terrible.

I did get a little sun, but after we got home and I sat by myself for a bit, and a bit of encouraging from Matt, we had the best burgers and then our first fire and smores of the summer. But, by the time I finally called it a night, I took a whole 5 minutes to fall asleep.

I’ll finish this post with a funny story. 😆😆

Friday morning I was in the bathroom getting ready to brush my teeth. I decided to pour my own mouthwash…not the first time having this thought about the mouthwash. It was closer to empty than full, not good for me. 1 point for the mouthwash. And the lid was actually screwed in, I tend to leave it just sitting on the top of the bottle. Which now that I’m thinking about how bad that could be…🫣 sorry Matt.

Screwed on top. 1 point for the mouthwash. 2-mouthwash 0- Heather

I tried a few times to unscrew the top without success, when I raised my left arm and tucked the bottle into the space between. And within seconds I had the top off. I couldn’t help but think “mouthwash you won’t win this war”.

And then I set my brush down and reached for my new toothpaset tube…really?!? A spin off type of tube? Nothing like hitting therapy strong in the morning. As I was wrapping up T popped her head in to see if everything was ok and I told her about the mouthwash war, she chuckled and said she was expecting to hear me call her name for help. She had seen how low the mouthwash was.

But…I did it!!!! It remindes me of the tp war not so long ago.

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