#mamanadoptive

[hollymarlow]

My children really struggled with the heat today. This is not a picture of a child falling down the stairs. This is a child getting themselves intentionally into a strange position, because they can't find a way to function in this RELENTLESS heat and do not know what to do with themselves! If I had £1 for every time he's said to me today "I don't know what to dooooooo," I could probably pay his university fees for his first year! 😂🙈🙈🙈 #kidsdoingthings #cantfunction #canthumantoday #toohottofunction #feelinghothothot #parentingstruggles #thestruggleisreal #relentless #heatwave #coping #notcoping #momlife #mumlife #mamaleben #viedemaman #mamanadoptive #familleenfrance #familie #familiadeacogida #familledacceuil #pflegemami #pflegemama #stairs https://www.instagram.com/p/ChLOIPwsYfq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hollymarlow]

This clever "upright" computer mouse is such an essential tool for me, I felt it deserved a shout-out. I'm so grateful that this mouse exists. The normal ones are so painful for me to use. I've mentioned before that I'm a #writer who can't really write. An #illustrator who can't really draw. I have #fibromyalgia and #hypermobilejoints, which mean I can't hold a pencil or use a normal mouse for more than a couple of minutes at a time, or my hand seizes up, and my elbow and shoulder pain goes from tolerable to horrendous. I really wanted to #illustrate my recent #fostercare #book "Room in the Nest," by myself, so I learned how to create backgrounds digitally (I love making clouds and rainbows 😍) and how to digitally edit pictures. So I don't need to draw very much at all. I draw the bare minimum, and use digital tools and this hero of a mouse to change the raw sketch into something pretty. #hypermobility #fibrowarrior #illustratorlife #disability #disabilityhack #disabilitytool #fibromyalgiaawareness #hypermobilityawareness #chronicpain #painwarrior #hypermobilejoints #ehlersdanlossyndrome #ehlersdanlos #fostering #fosteringstories #fostercarestory #fostermama #pflegemama #pflegemami #adopcion #cuidadodeniños #mamandaccueil #mamanadoptive #parentsadoptifs #pflegeeltern https://www.instagram.com/p/CikYagaMhOh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=