Devil and Dove Newsletter January 25

No holiday bug this year but it has not been a good year again. With the exception of our second grandchild. When our little 3 year old granddaughter asked if her aunts and uncles would
be there. I decided that any good Nanny would start kicking up her Christmas heels.

Okay so don’t paint me that cheerful. Regardless I would very much love having the time with them. I know Jack is feeling anything but festive this year and that’s okay.

The age of marriage and children is the generation we are in at the moment. We don’t have that second childhood feeling as when we were bring ours up. I hope they’ll take a few of their fond memories from childhood and bring it forward with their own babies.

We are well into January and the anxiety level is through the roof. Anxiety is in my opinion a terrible condition. Fear of what ? anything. The fight or flight instinct is triggered. Depending on what is going on, who drops by, how many times the phone rings. Text notifications, yup. Doorbell, yup. Then there were the 12 doctors appointments.

So exhausted is a bit of thing in our house at the moment. Talk therapy is all we have been doing to keep him from having a full very painful panic attack. Jack also suffers from

Hashimoto’s disease. He is in the middle of a swing so he has the get up go of a lizard on a hot rock.

We are looking forward to the warmer weather. So much of the stuff we have taken up are dependent on tools that you just can’t use in the house.
I pulled some stuff from the store for new photos, several of them were taken poorly. A few needed some changes and a couple because they were plain awful.

I am trying to learn to solder prettier. I know the process, practice makes perfect! Hoping to get a decent piece this week that I will post. I am going to try another solder pen we have, the one I am using doesn’t seem to heat up evenly. Investing in the right tool for the job seems like a generational thing. We have at least 2 solder guns, but I don’t really think that much heat is what I need, and my silly arthritis is particular about how much weight my hands will hold.

I am Caucasian, petite frame and barely over five feet tall that makes me predisposed. Admittedly I did come of age in the 80″s ;} So add in Psoriatic arthritis with osteoarthritis and who knows what type it is. I do know that not doing anything is bad and I am a little young to throw in the towel and rock till the end!!! I’ve been tested for RA with negative results and that is my best scenario. The tremors are caused by one of my inhalers. It listed as a side effect on all of them . I recently had the one I thought it was changed, I had a headache the first day on the new one but not since the switch. So I will call it a win.

Now back to business, my store is failing. So I am find myself in a position of having to be a maker and not an artist. I think now is time to try while the store will keep it’s original items and additions of the items that we choose to work with.

We do hope to find more spoons those rings are a lot of fun.

Keep in mind it is Okay to not be Okay.

Best wishes for the New Year.

Jack and Ree