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| Clematis buds - yay for spring. |
Let me think (since this is sort of a journaling effort) what has happened. (And that's asking a lot since my memory takes lots of little vacations these days.)
- It was lovely to have The Husband back from CA last week. We just thoroughly enjoy being together. We've had lots of conversations about what to do, it seems like there's so much stuff going on. Some decisions to make and hope they're in line with what Heavenly Father desires.
- The guy came to work on the deck off the bedroom. He said: it'll be done by Saturday for sure. Here we are several days past Saturday and he's roughly halfway done. I'm not frustrated. Not too much. Not quite yet. He is after all doing this as a side job. I'll be so glad when it's finished - another thing to check off.
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| Poor bedraggled peonies, hopefully they'll revive. |
- We went to dinner and a movie with friends. Had family over for dinner, it doesn't often happen, but it turned out ok, everyone seemed to leave with smiles. I went to lunch with a couple lady friends. Pretty much spur-of-the-moment we went to another movie, the only other one currently playing that at least one of us wanted to see. There's been lots of time with people. Which can be a teensy bit challenging for this person who's pretty comfortable playing it solo (except for The Husband) most of the time.
- Our daughter's car was backed into. Gratefully she wasn't in it at the time and further tender mercy: the woman who did it left her name and number. The car is scheduled to be fixed next week.
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- Church on Sunday was in the dark. Saturday was a pretty day weatherwise. Saturday evening the weather turned, we came out of the ice cream-ery to snow. Woke up to several inches of the stuff, my peonies and daffodils and bleeding hearts were all suffering. A power pole on the street to the north of the church actually snapped, taking the lines and power down with it. Sacrament meeting is our weekly sacred meeting so it is important and I'm grateful they didn't cancel. (Though it was kinda fun to have only the one hour of church!) We had portable speakers for the battery powered microphone, and windows that let in just enough light to see. It made for a calm meeting (I suspect more than a couple people slept through it) and I enjoyed it.
- And amongst the errands, cookie baking, laundry and not enough reading, I've contemplated a conversation I had with a friend. We were talking about the challenges of families/parenting. I mentioned that The Husband and I have pretty much always been just us, not really had extended family around. It's been interesting trying to find an evening to get together with these friends because of schedules. And she said that even though there's lots of obligations and baggage and yes, even drama, she's grateful we have family. She posited how hard it would be to be completely alone in this world. She said in her daughter's job, the daughter talks daily with people who are all alone and how lonely and sad that is. Most of us have some connections - children, siblings, cousins, friends, co-workers. But to be so alone without any of that? Yeah, tough. How I needed that reminder.
After a week of not keeping track of those random thoughts that swirl through my head all the time (I know there was more I wanted to write about) there is lots to be grateful for. I'm grateful for people who are honest about their mistakes (instead of just leaving the munged up car). And for insurance that will fix the mistake up so the car is like new again. I'm grateful for grocery stores and new recipes to try. I'm grateful for hugs from grandchildren, and for grandchildren that have real conversations with you. I'm grateful for those with good ethics, especially those good work ethics that make for a comfortable life for us. I'm grateful for ice cream and chocolate to make my tongue happy. And most of all I'm grateful for hope. However would any of us manage without the hope for better things to come?
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