08/16/2026
Sunday-Finnday: well, it’s been a slow week around here. Mama gets up every day, looks out the window and says to me, “Well, looks like it’s gonna be an inside day again. The clouds and rain have just been relentless. I’m kind of feeling cooped up but mama plays tug-of-war with me and the blue baby because that’s my favourite thing to do in the whole, wide, world!
Last week a lot of you told me that I talked about my brother from another mother, but that I forgot to include the picture so you’re gonna see him in this week’s pictures.
The little dog at the end of these pictures— he always comes to visit me and he gets so excited that he can’t help but ti**le a little bit on the porch. Not my favorite.
This week mama was talking to me about something. She is always talking to me about grown-up things which I don’t really understand but I sit there with my eyes big and my brows furrowed as if I’m deep in thought about what she is saying. Truth be told, I’m just thinking about when we can play tug-of-war again.
Anywho, she was telling me about her patients this week and how one was talking about how other people in her household don’t have a lot of patience for her fears around food and kidney stones.
Mama spends a lot of time talking to patients about this. She says that when patients have been through medical trauma and the preventative measures include changing diet, that it can cause a lot of anxiety. She understands this because of her own stomach issues. So she has a lot of empathy for it.
There’s so much misinformation about kidney stone disease and the trauma of having a kidney stone can really cause a lot of anxiety. She says her job is to teach people the facts so that they can be less scared and make friends with their food again.
Mama spends a lot of her time writing articles about this topic and many others on something called a website. She says there’s lots of free stuff there so go read about the facts so you can feel better. That’s always her point— to make you feel better and less afraid.
Mama says I’m hogging up all the words and this is too long so I better go.
Love, lil Finn