Confessions blog

Join us as we share our doubts, disasters, victories and lessons in caregiving. You’ll hear from the Sisters as they work through difficult topics like “Rebuilding Relationships” and “When Financial Planning Fails” to “Why Mom Should Not Make Banana Pudding At 2am” and “When Mom Fires Emilie”. Learn, relate and laugh. We know we’re not alone!

When Medicare thinks you're dead... but you're not.

Caregiving is hard. No. Really hard. I feel like every conversation about unpaid family caregiving should have that statement included...

Diary of a Caregiver

“One day, you will tell your story about how you overcame what you went through and it’ll be someone else’s survival guide.” There are...

Calling All Caregivers – That’s YOU!

Who comes to mind when you think of caregivers? When I think about caregivers, I envision a middle-aged woman in scrubs, or some uniform,...

The Year I Would Have Never...

Never say never because you never know when life can turn on a dime.

Strategies to Repair and Reconnect Relationships with God, Others, and Yourself!

For months, Jason had been complaining about swollen lymph nodes in his neck. After nine months of going back and forth with his family...

When Fainting Goats Sing: Finding Your Song to Relieve Everyday Stress and Anxiety

Fainting runs in the family. In fact, Natalie and I have quite the history of fainting, and often. We faint at home, school, work, on...

Budgeting 101: When Financial Planning Fails

Our dad worked as a welder in coal plants most of his years in the workforce. For extra money, he fixed things. He painted cars, sold...