I had intended to be here a few times last week, but real life reared its ugly head in an especially ugly way.

My mother in law was hit by a car on Thursday and sustained multiple breaks in pretty much every part of her body. She is in very serious condition in a hospital several hundred miles from our home. I’ve been on single parent duty while my husband traveled to her with his siblings, putting a strain on our already strained finances.

One of the good news items is my teenager really stepped up in the first half of the weekend to help out with dinners and his siblings as well as being extremely reliable.

The other good news item is that my mother in law is doing well, as well as can be expected and a little better than that even, surprising the nursing staff. She is a tough person and I have no doubt that she will back to herself sooner than anyone can imagine even though knowing that the road will be a long one.

I don’t think I will putting many updates here as this is a public blog and I don’t know how she (or my husband) would feel about this, although as with most of my writings, if there is a greater need to provide information (as I plan to do with other parts of my life and have done with my depression and faith), I will indeed come back to this as a topic.

My summer plan currently is to do random free writes a few times during each week, and longer pieces as inspiration strikes. I still have ideas to share from my recent trip to Virginia.

Thank you for sticking with me in spite of my inconsistencies, which I hope to remedy beginning at the end of this week.