Welcome to BonSanity!

Hi everyone! My name is Bonnie Holt. I have been a nurse for twenty years, living in a small Texas town with my husband, son and daughter. After my daughter (a high school senior at the time) was diagnosed with cancer in March 2015, a very close friend said I should write about the experience. Now with a little distance, I will share our story with you and strive to give hope, a little understanding and maybe even a belly laugh along the way. But the truth is, this blog was being planned long before my daughter was diagnosed with cancer

Before our lives changed in such a drastic way giving this blog a new meaning, I was actually in the planning stages of starting a blog simply to share the insane fictitious stories that always find their way into my head. By fictitious stories, I mean ones that were, and still are, constantly coming to my head during my thirty-minute commute to and from work every day. As I drive, I see things along the way that trigger this brain into hyper drive! It always starts as a normal drive. I will see the strings of Pampas Grass growing at the end of a long dirt road…..AND THEN BAM!!! A kid will be running out into the road, scared half to death. I, of course, nearly hit him so I jump out and go around to check on him and CRAP, he's got a gun. Then the next thing you know, someone else starts shooting at us from down the road....the chase is on.....and the story grows and grows. It’s like that tiny piece of liver getting bigger and bigger as you chew it (c'mon you people that can't stomach this wonder food, know exactly what I'm talking about.) I can't sleep, I think about it constantly. I see them like movies playing in my head. It’s been that way a long time, reels and reels of movies playing through my mind. I even used to tell my children some of these stories at bedtime, but as you can see not all were age-appropriate and they needed a voice!

Outside of these epic melodramas taking place inside my head, my life was fairly ‘inside-the-box.’ By that I mean I went to work, ran after my kids (fighting for justice as all mothers do) and that was about it. So a couple of years ago when my oldest was in college and youngest in high school (that is enough blog fodder in itself!), I thought to myself now would be the time to get all these crazy stories out of my head and start a blog!

With tons of help from a very gifted writer, tech savvy Texas Tech Red Raider (who just happens to know more about sports than any man I've ever met), Shelby Hilliard, (check out her stuff at www.coachandplayer.com / www.coastalplain.com) we started the process. And of course as life would have it, just as we were ready to launch this sure to be epic train wreck (in the best way possible) of a blog about all of the above…. We got the news that my daughter had CANCER – and just as our lives took new shape so has this blog. So hang on tight and be prepared for a little bit of everything as I take you through the insanity that is my life, post by post.

XOXO Make Everyday Count,
Bonnie