Raggedy Ann

My FB word of the day was "raggedy".  My mom asked me how I decided the word of the day.  I told her it usually came from something I heard in conversation or in passing that just stuck with me.  I didn't tell her that today I picked raggedy because it was the best word I could think of to describe how I was feeling.

How do you tell your mom that you feel a lot like an old doll you had as a kid: well-loved, but also a little bit like you have been dragged through the dirt by one arm?  If you're like me, you don't say a word, you just prop yourself up, plaster on the big smile and hope nobody looks too closely at the eyes.