Five Minute Friday - Linkups

 REWIND TIME

I am linking up with Five Minute Friday We are to free write for five minutes unedited on the word prompt. This weeks word prompt is REWIND.

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I remember good old fashioned cassette tapes. I loved it when cd’s came on seen and you didn’t have to try so hard to rewind to the last song. Or have the cassette completely come unwound.

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Sometimes life feels like a compact disc and runs semi smooth and other times it is like a tangled and broken cassette tape. The question is what do we (or I ) do in those times? How to handle it in a more positive way than I did in the past.

There are days I wish I could rewind time and go back to when my oldest kids were little and start all over again. You see I didn’t end up being the mom I’d always dreamed I’d be. I was a mom who had mental health issues of chronic depression and PTSD. I wasn’t as ‘there’ for my kids as I wanted to be. Especially when the depression was at its worst, especially when I was hospitalized and they had to stay with friends and family. I wish I could give my kids those things I wanted to give them when I dreamed of being a mother. I wish I had broken the cycle earlier. But life is not like a cassette or a cd rom, we can NOT rewind time. We can only trust and have faith…..

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Parenting with mental illness

It will be August before you know it! What are you looking forward to in the coming month? #August #BacktoSchool #AugustVibes

Seeking Serenity and Harmony is a Wife, Homemaker, Homesteader, Mom to six and grammie to 3 kids. She deals with multiple chronic invisible illnesses on a daily basis. She has a B.A. in liberal arts and minored in early children's services and psychology. She is hoping to use her experiences and education to help others. She enjoys continuing to learn. She dreams of spending time reading, photography, scrapbooking and various arts and crafts. She is always dreaming of being organized enough so that she can find that free time. She is constantly looking for ways to be more productive and save time. She is an independent Usborne Books and More consultant. Avid Essential Oil user and currently studying herbal remedies and also known as a crazy chicken lady. She is finally venturing into that dream of being a writer and putting her words out there for the world in hopes to help someone else.

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