Where the heck have you been?

Well there is this monster in my life that has been sucking me dry since February of 2020. Yes, we started the remodel process of our home, one month before the pandemic. Yes, the stress of a family of five at home during the pandemic and a remodel. You just want to blow your brains out. That coupled with my inability to say “NO” to anything and my inability to sit still is a recipe of complete chaos in one’s head. Thankfully I have a therapist on speed dial.

The last post I wrote, but haven’t posted yet, was completed in July of 2023. I believe I wrote it on a trip with Clem to NYC last summer. Other than that summer 2022 was probably the last time I spent a good amount of time writing. The Fall of 2022 hit, and the whole world around us blew up. Clem and I ventured into the real world after COVID by attending a wedding, and then three days later the whole family started dropping like flies. Lochlan and I both were the first to have symptoms of COVID but Clem was the first to test positive. The day before we had tested and both were negative.

Thanks to getting COVID we ended up having to miss my mother’s 75th Birthday Celebration at a local restaurant. I started writing a post about my mother around new years of 2022, but I’ve yet to finish the post. Going back to the party, we managed to do a drive by the restaurant to sing her Happy Birthday, with the kids hanging out of the car moon roof.  Sadly, you know the next chapter of that story.

My mother passed and my world became consumed with a long list of tasks, closing up her affairs. I will write more on that later, another post that I never had a chance to finish. All in all, the last two years have been pure catch up. Even the kids birthdays posts got pushed to the back burner. Paley is turning 16 in two weeks and I still need to finish writing her 15th Birthday post and to write the twins 11th posts.

When I look back at the two years. I have Ronan Keating playing in my head. When he released self titled debut album in 2000, I fell in love with “Life is a Rollercoaster”. It’s such a perfect song or theme for my life right now. The rollercoaster is so real right now. I promised so much more content is coming over the next few months, include posts on the remodel.

For now, I am not going to fight it anymore, life is just a roller coaster, and we just need to ride. I am lucky to have some one to ride this coaster with, that I love beyond this world. Yes, that’s a shameless Keating plus, seriously an amazing album. Wish that bloke would come stateside some day, but having close friends moving back to the UK, is another reason to head over to the UK finally. For now, see you in a week! And Welcome back to HKfamily5. Thank you for visiting.