Uptosnuff
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- Location
- Great Plains, USA
I have always been one who loved to journal. I have a couple of journals that I hand wrote but I haven't done that in quite a while. I am really happy to have a forum I can journal again where, frankly, no one in my house is likely to find it.
I had been an empty nester for about 10 years and had grown to enjoy it when, because of my adult daughter's serious medical condition she found her life in ruins and came back to live with us again. That was about a year ago. I wouldn't mind it, really, but either because of the condition itself or because of the medications she is taking for it, a host of problems are surfacing that are stressful to say the least.
At one time she had a full time job as a public defender with a heavy caseload. She had to quit that job because she could no longer handle the stress. She is now doing the same type of job but on a part-time basis with the cases appointed by the judges. She can do a lot of her work from home. Luckily, we live in a large house on an acreage which allows us some space from each other. My husband and I have the upper/main floor and daughter is on the lower level. She has her work area set up down there.
Both she and my husband are home most of the day. The benefits of this are that my home is usually nice and clean when I come home from work. Daughter is very good at keeping the kitchen clean, doing the vacuuming and she even cleaned the curio cabinet that had been dusty for years. The down side of this is that I never know from one day to the next, what her temperament is going to be. She could be really glad to see me or she might just bite my head off for any little thing I do or say. Again, I don't know if it's because of the medical condition or the meds, but it is a big problem that we are finally taking steps to resolve.
I had been an empty nester for about 10 years and had grown to enjoy it when, because of my adult daughter's serious medical condition she found her life in ruins and came back to live with us again. That was about a year ago. I wouldn't mind it, really, but either because of the condition itself or because of the medications she is taking for it, a host of problems are surfacing that are stressful to say the least.
At one time she had a full time job as a public defender with a heavy caseload. She had to quit that job because she could no longer handle the stress. She is now doing the same type of job but on a part-time basis with the cases appointed by the judges. She can do a lot of her work from home. Luckily, we live in a large house on an acreage which allows us some space from each other. My husband and I have the upper/main floor and daughter is on the lower level. She has her work area set up down there.
Both she and my husband are home most of the day. The benefits of this are that my home is usually nice and clean when I come home from work. Daughter is very good at keeping the kitchen clean, doing the vacuuming and she even cleaned the curio cabinet that had been dusty for years. The down side of this is that I never know from one day to the next, what her temperament is going to be. She could be really glad to see me or she might just bite my head off for any little thing I do or say. Again, I don't know if it's because of the medical condition or the meds, but it is a big problem that we are finally taking steps to resolve.