Exhausted Parent Network

10/07/2023

Tell me the best memory you have of traveling with your kids when they were young.

08/20/2023

Things are going to be very interesting in 24 hours💨🌬️⛈️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️

08/28/2020

The heart of a parent has to be as big as possible. For when pieces break off.... you can’t always put them back where they belong.

06/30/2020

I do not like walking “up.” One might say that I have a phobia of walking “up” while others say that I’m just lazy when it comes to putting one foot in front of the other in an attempt to gain elevation. I’ll go “up” in elevators and “up” on stairs (if I have too) but for some reason, I have this aversion to walking up, up and away. [ 693 more words ]
https://thiscrazylifebystaceypowells.wordpress.com/2020/06/30/an-aversion-to-up/

I do not like walking “up.” One might say that I have a phobia of walking “up” while others say that I’m just lazy when it comes to putting one foot in front of the other in an attempt to gain elev…

06/18/2020

It's early evening and a husband and wife are sitting on the couch watching a television show. The husband sniffs something in the air. Husband Hey, do I smell one of your banana cinnamon muffins? Wife I baked them this morning. Husband Can I have one or do I have to wait for breakfast? Wife Muffins make a great dessert. Go ahead. [ 721 more words ]
https://thiscrazylifebystaceypowells.wordpress.com/2020/06/18/the-muffin-top-microplay-9/

  It’s early evening and a husband and wife are sitting on the couch watching a television show. The husband sniffs something in the air. …

06/11/2020

This was previously published in 2012, before my children hit their thirties. It's still appropriate today. I hope they didn't roll their eyes after hanging up with me but they probably did. Because Mom's of 20-somethings can be so annoying. I’m surrounded by lots and lots of twenty-something people all the time and most of the time I keep my mouth shut. [ 663 more words ]
https://thiscrazylifebystaceypowells.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/tbt-20-somethings-and-entitlement/

This was previously published in 2012, before my children hit their thirties. It’s still appropriate today. I hope they didn’t roll their eyes after hanging up with me but they probably…

06/03/2020

It’s so difficult these days, trying not to be angry about so many things going on right now. At home, abroad and all over the planet there is so much unrest, externally as well as internally. Reading various news outlets about what has been happening has made me so appreciative of the way I was brought up and heartsick for those who are so broken. [ 950 more words ]
https://thiscrazylifebystaceypowells.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/a-path-for-an-empath/

It’s so difficult these days, trying not to be angry about so many things going on right now. At home, abroad and all over the planet there is so much unrest, externally as well as internally. Read…

05/20/2020

When we are born into this world our diet is very limited. We have milk in some form, either from mom or from a can, for at least the first few months. Slowly but surely our parents add food to our diet that won’t send our relatively new and delicate G.I. systems into overdrive. We begin to eat meat (unless the family is vegan) and pureed vegetables so our system can digest food without stressing our stomachs. [ 689 more words ]
https://thiscrazylifebystaceypowells.wordpress.com/2020/05/20/when-im-85/

When we are born into this world our diet is very limited. We have milk in some form, either from mom or from a can, for at least the first few months. Slowly but surely our parents add food to our…

05/14/2020

THROWBACK THURSDAY STORY! ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN "The Mammoth Times," June, 2015 The tinnitus in my ear finally subsided and I was able knock out just after midnight. My brain was in sleep mode and I had a dream about not having to wake up until the granddaughter came knocking on our bedroom door at about six in the morning, wondering if she could watch the Disney Channel, eat blueberries, and ask me at least 20 times when her new play-dates were going to come over. [ 588 more words ]
https://thiscrazylifebystaceypowells.wordpress.com/2020/05/14/pecans-a-bear-a-granddaughter-and-the-man-from-kansas/

THROWBACK THURSDAY STORY! ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN “The Mammoth Times,” June, 2015 The tinnitus in my ear finally subsided and I was able knock out just after midnight. My brain was in s…

05/11/2020

A HUSBAND and WIFE are relaxing after a hard day in the garden. They are in their living room, sitting on their reclining couch, watching “Jeopardy” on the tube. The WIFE picks up her smart phone and again, tries to solve the FreeCell puzzle that has had her flummoxed. Husband: How long have you been at that FreeCell game? [ 273 more words ]
https://thiscrazylifebystaceypowells.wordpress.com/2020/05/11/free-the-cell-microplay-8/

A HUSBAND and WIFE are relaxing after a hard day in the garden. They are in their living room, sitting on their reclining couch, watching “Jeopardy” on the tube. The WIFE picks up her smart phone a…

05/10/2020

This is an interesting day. So many different emotions resonate on this day in particular. We all have mothers or we wouldn’t be here. Some of us have been blessed with wonderful mothers, while others will tell you their mother was a challenge. They hope to have a better mother in their next life and never give the woman who was their mother in this life a second thought. [ 256 more words ]
https://thiscrazylifebystaceypowells.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/some-mothers/

This is an interesting day. So many different emotions resonate on this day in particular. We all have mothers or we wouldn’t be here. Some of us have been blessed with wonderful mothers, while oth…

05/08/2020

Who would have thought that at 50 years old I would have moved in with my boyfriend, but there I was, trying to claim my own little corner of the house he had purchased with his first wife in 1984. I eventually obtained permission to take over the sunroom which doubled as a playroom for his daughters when they were children. [ 1,191 more word ]
https://thiscrazylifebystaceypowells.wordpress.com/2020/05/08/writing-space/

Who would have thought that at 50 years old I would have moved in with my boyfriend, but there I was, trying to claim my own little corner of the house he had purchased with his first wife in 1984.…

01/07/2020

Taking away your child's biological family is like erasing part of that child's history.

11/03/2019

Raising my two boys on my own was not easy. It became very difficult when I really started paying attention to what they were doing and not saying to myself, “It’s just a phase.”

02/22/2019

You haven't heard from me for a while because I am exhausted. I have an adult child who made some really bad choices in his life over a year ago and it's taking me a long time to sort myself out over this. I haven't known what to say. That's about it.

12/28/2018

It's hard being so far away from my granddaughter.

02/05/2018

It just never ends. You try to teach them right from wrong. And then they get a taste of Free will. And then... it’s anyone’s guess what can happen next.

09/01/2017

No matter how old they are, it's always something.