The last few days have seen me taking a renewed interest in cooking and house management.. it's been a time of feeling incredibly blesse...

  As    we shared before , I  am supposed to  be getting help in cleaning our home. But it has turned into a mess  and I  have fallen in  th...

  So I haven't been feeling the love for weeks now. In fact I seem to be enduring the mother of all flares with slight variations on the...

  The rain is pouring down but it's not cold just pleasantly warm after the last few days of summer heat. Xena is still asleep on my bed...

In trying to come to terms with my sore hands and lack of energy with my fibromyalgia, I have come up with some new tricks to help in cooki...

So yesterday I woke up without the usual muscle pain and fatigue that characterises fibromyalgia. I sensed that I had some spoons in abundan...

  So I am often low on spoons and it necessitates a hands on approach. I must pace myself and rest up in the hope that I can find some spoon...

As you probably know, I cannot bend anymore. Thanks to back issues and torn knee ligaments, bending is a thing of the past. I had a front lo...

  Recently someone asked why do we make our bed? I gave it some thought as I have recently been making my own bed daily, in spite of regular...

As you know, I have had to resort to using a wheelchair when I go out.  It is not something I am happy about, but it is a necessary part of...

  Since turning 70 last May, I have noticed a rapid decline in our health. Heart issues are worsening, pains are hurting, fibromyalgia is ma...

So I have a bad habit of leaving my dishes until I feel like doing them. This is a big mistake because we all know that they multiply overni...

  The Australian government allocates $53,000 pa in a care plan to try to keep aging people in  their own home if possible. It works out che...

Today was a busy day in that I was organising aged care help for Chris and I ... we arent coping all that well... lots of phone calls that h...

After nearly a whole day on the phone, I am happy to report that we were approved for help.  Our aged care home package will start in 3-4 we...

  So I have had such a flare up of my fibromyalgia that I went back to bed leaving a kitchen full of dirty dishes. Dishes that sat on my dra...

  If housework and you were married, there'd be no divorce... it would be a co-dependency relationship though. You need a clean environm...

  If ever a picture epitomises you and your home and lifestyle, it's this one. A lady dressed sensibly and warmly with knitted socks loo...

  Yep, it's still Safeway for me!  With fibromyalgia brain fog and old age, tell me the new name of a place or person I knew, and it is...