Welcome to our blog - we are the Bessette family: Jackie, Shannon and Oliver! An extraordinary life is created from all of the ordinary moments....and here in our little corner of the internet you can follow our extraordinarily ordinary!
As I spend the final days of Cystic Fibrosis Awareness month on the topics related to being an adult with CF – today we are talking marriage. For most CFers’ lives they must constantly think of health first. It may not always shake down that way…. I know more than a few how have … More Living with Cystic Fibrosis: Marriage
Hey friends and happy Monday evening! It is the end of Memorial Day weekend and we are heading into the final few days of Cystic Fibrosis Awareness month. Because of living the CF life in some big ways currently, the month almost snuck away without giving me chance to share a few perspectives up on … More Living with Cystic Fibrosis: You Do You
One of my favorite things about being a blog follower is how the experience goes from just following along to eventually feeling like you are taking advice from a friend. As a result of my love for blogs, I have purchased clothes, tried hair styles, decorated mantles, read books, organized my office, discovered health tricks, and … More These Are A Few of My Favorite Things – Trader Joe’s
After the recent warm afternoons, long days where you can still walk by the light of the sun after 8pm and when flip flops were part of the regular uniform, we woke up to a rainy and cold Monday. It was like take your breath away sort of cold and the rain was coming down … More Rain Puddles with a Message
Hey friends – happy Tuesday! Today on the blog we are still working our way through our Chicago trip from this fall. It is super behind and it is way behind Post 1 and Post 2. Yup….. I used to blog about what was happening in real time. But in reality that life has sorta … More Chicago Part 3
One of my favorite things about being a blog follower is how the experience goes from just following along to eventually feeling like you are taking advice from a friend. As a result of my love for blogs, I have purchased clothes, tried hair styles, decorated mantles, read books, organized my office, discovered health tricks, and … More These Are A Few of My Favorite Things – Turbie Twists
Monday evening I sat down to write this update and it just wouldn’t come. It’s not uncommon when you like to write to have a little block, but usually if I just keep writing it will eventually un-block. That didn’t happen – it was a simple message… tell the health update, but instead I just … More Danny Health Update – A Path Forward!
It was one of our previous Saturdays spent in the walls of Hopkins. I placed my fork down and put my napkin in my lap as I leaned back in the hospital recliner and away from our current dining room table -Danny’s hospital room tray. Letting out a big sigh and a “that was great”, … More Living in Abundance
As you all know Bishop O’Connell High School LINK holds a very special place in our hearts. The reasons vary and are many: what we experienced there, the friends we made there, the mentors we found there, the faith foundation we built there, the lessons we learned there, the quality students it develops there… we … More SUPERDANCE 2019
The biggest worry I have heard from the Cystic Fibrosis Community around the movie Five Fee Apart is a misrepresentation of CF life. If we are all being honest, there is no way one movie can portray all the different versions or complexities of this serious illness. That was always Danny and I’s perspective: just … More Five Feet Apart – The Movie
