Dijana Ibric

Since most of migraines occur at night and I like to take a hot shower to calm down, my hair is obviously wet. Sometimes I just let the hot air blow into my face, kind of like the hot shower, just to calm me down. On some nights or days when I have a severe migraine, I alternate between icing my face or sucking on ice cubes and hot tea. Also, because most of my migraines come on at night, my anxiety won’t let me sleep.

I try to live by the mantra: do whatever makes YOU feel good. but THIS list, is a list of unique ways to take care of yourself. Things that you wouldn’t usually do but can make a big difference in your day. Do whatever makes YOU feel good.

Surrounded by death and destruction this book will allow you to visualize what it would have been like to be a 9 year old trying to keep herself and her little brother alive. As she tries to balance her dream and the impossibility of striving toward it while her work and home lives feel poised to fall apart, she wakes at ungodly hours to run miles by the icy river, struggling to quiet her thoughts. But Elin’s taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept. The traumas of the Bosnian War (1991-1995) can be seen surfacing through the war letters written by brother and sister, Denis and Amela, who were only fifteen and eleven years old at the time.

I just realized that the last time I shared our chore list, the kids were 5 and 8. My kids are now 7 and 10, almost 8 & 11, so naturally things have changed. Over the years I have learned how to make chores fun for kids. Each kid and their chore list depends on ability, interest, developmental readiness, and needs.