Such A Bad Ass




I'm such a bad ass caregiver...I slay dragons and show bad guys my badge, make them do what I need done and...an... make things right for my mom, that's what I do!

Then I feel like the age I am in this picture, crumple in a heap in the couch and want everything to be the way it was before she got sick.  Sometimes Wonder Woman goes western an stuff.  Sometimes I'm just a 5 year old.
Sometimes I'm just rung out. That was this weekend.

I had a long, difficult week for a variety of reasons and I slept all day Saturday...until noon on Sunday actually.  Phone off, take care of myself like I have a cold - SLEPT.  Damn, it felt really good too.

There were at least three calls from mom on my cell phone voice mail.  I felt like I abandoned her.  I shook it off, got dressed and took her out to shop for yarn and groceries.  I actually missed her, lil twerp.  I made dinner for her, trying to get her to eat salmon...she liked it.  Went home to my husband, had a good cry.

Cried tonight when I returned home from work too.  Damned holidays with their mixed emotions.  I want to be a bad ass, be able to handle everything well - organized and on top of ALL of her care.  And inside, sometimes I'm five and I want my mom.  Nothing brings that out more for me than Christmas.  Damn it.

Who says a Sheriff doesn't cry every now and then?  Wonder Woman has a tissue in one of those cuffs....I know it.

Please pass a frosted Christmas cookie ;)
Voyageur

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