When Managing Becomes a Full Time Job: Living with Chronic Illness Burnout

Living with a chronic illness can feel like working overtime without a day off. Between managing symptoms, appointments, and emotions, burnout is bound to happen. Here’s how I’ve learned to recognize it, cope with it, and remind myself that grace and gratitude matter just as much as grit. Because even when life gets heavy, there’s still room for grace, grit, and a little Jalapeño Jelly.

Ready to Travel? Not before trying this Roasted Butterflied Chicken or Turkey!

Wherever in the world you may be, I imagine that you’ve either been in a complete lockdown, partial lockdown, or some sort of quarantine for the past several years, I know we have. With the world as we know it grinding to a halt and pretty much all travel cancelled, It’s been 2 long years since…

Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month & Nana’s Buns in a Bowl

  March is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness month so in honour of that, I thought I would write a little about what MS has been for me, and pardon me if you’ve already heard it all, but I’m just going to go ahead and blame that on the brain fog! Speaking of brain fog – You…

Perfect Melt in your Mouth Prime Rib and where the heck are my socks?

Easter 2017 Well, today I de-Eastered (I’m sure that’s not a word, but I’m using it anyway) and if you need translation, it means the lengthy process of putting things away, cleaning up, re-organizing, eating the rest of the candy (oops, no that’s not what I’m doing), dealing with leftovers, etc. I’m not complaining though,…