So... I haven't written in a long time, like a couple years. Sisters keep having kids. I love my nieces and nephews, however, they still solidify that I am not ready to have children, and I don't really want kids of my own.
One situation in particular that was brought up yesterday between one sibling and my father is letting her son play dress up, and him choosing to wear a princess dress, and she chose to post pictures of it on her Facebook page. My father's response was "she needs to teach him to be a man and not a girl!" What does that even mean? I get that my father has a different parenting view, but how is it hurting him to be playing dress up/make believe with his sister and he chose a dress? He is THREE YEARS OLD.  I apologize if my view of it being harmless offending anything be, that is not my intent. My intention is to lose the question, is it okay for parents to go off to on their children's parenting skills, if it is not harmful to the child? To elaborate, he and my sibling got into a heated Facebook/text message conversations about this last night. My position, though I am not getting in the middle of it with them, is that I feel my dad should stay out of it. He didn't like his mother being critical of his parenting, I don't see how it is okay for him to do to my sister what his mother did to him. Here's hoping they do not carry this into tomorrow's birthday gathering at my job their siblings house.

In other family news, my dads my them whom I was referring ttoo, is in a nursing home. She is confirmed Alzheimer's, along with pancreatic cancer. The cancer when found is in a spot where they could remove it, however she is not a candidate due tomorrow medications she was the n as well as no t being t handle anesthesia. She has had this for about a year. We got through periods where we do not know if she will be alive in a week, and then she seems to bounce back. Her memory is shot- it's like a series of doctor who within a five minute conversation. I have a hard time visiting her because I is so heartbreaking. The last time I visited, she didn't know who I was. In between the time I left the nursing home which is 2hours away and got home, she had fallen again. She has many falls, including one that broke one of her hips. It seems after one of us visit, she falls again.  I know it sounds cowardly, but I don't feel like I have the strength to keep visiting her, yet I don't want to not visit her and miss an opportunity to say goodbye if it gets close, you know.

Anyway, that's a snapshot of what is going on I my life currently. On a completely different note, a lot of the fictional blogs I read are ending. Does anyone have any suggestions of fictional blogs to read? Please leave them in the comments. Thanks! 😸