Hello ♡
It's been a while. Once again
2020 has not been easy so far, but I have hope!
If you know me though Instagram, you might have seen that my grandmother passed away on the feast of Saint Brigid, and her funeral was yesterday.
She had been ill since autumn (and not doing well for much longer) and for the past few months we knew what was coming. We have sort of spent the last month mourning her, and figuring out what life is like now without checking on her every day and worrying about how she is doing. But it is so comforting to think we have another saint, a St. Maryann, praying for us now ♡
Over the years I've realised that I deal with grief by concentrating on new life. Every little beauty that hints of spring is cheering me; new leaves and pollen catkins, days warm enough to sit in the grass with a hot cup of tea, early flowers blooming and my dear turtles waking up.
A day or so after grandma passed, I found some Gulf Fritillary catterpillers in the garden. So (of course) I threw myself into setting up my big mesh butterfly house for them.
In the end I found 8 catterpillers, and my sister and I named them all after painters ~ Bouguereau and van Gogh, Davinci, Michelangelo, O'Keeffe, Picasso, Kahlo, and Dali.
Yup, we're nerds.
Rare Disease Day was today - Happy Leap Day, by the way! - and I'm still dealing with all my lovely rare diseases. I'm up to 7ish diagnosis (Dysautonomia, POTS, Hashimoto's, Celiac or extreme gluten sensitivity, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia), but have started some new meds that we hope will help! I always over do it at Christmas time, but I think my body is finally beginning to recover just in time for real spring ♡
Until then, I'll just keep curling up with a hot cup of tea under a pile of blankets and cats.
I hope you all have had a lovely February!
