October 20, 2009

• The Simple Womans Daybook Tuesday 20 October 2009

   

  Outside my window……..it is still dark and cold I’m sure.  Even here in the southland we have been waking up to some chilly mornings.  Yesterday I felt right at home scraping my frosted windshield on the car before I could leave to go visit my dad.

  I am thinking……..about changes and how they can be good for the heart and soul.  I must learn not to fight them but endeavor to take them as they come along, as natural parts of life.  Alas, I suffer from a bad case of what I call Anne of Green Gables Syndrome, I am very resistant to change.

  I am thankful for……..this precious time with my dad.  Much good conversation has been going on.  Although he and I have always been able to talk before it seems that there are no holds now on the topics or the depths of revelation between the two of us.   Boy do I love that man.

  I am wearing………jammies still.  I can hear my niece and nephew getting ready for school so I know that it is not my turn in the bathroom as yet.

  I am going……..to visit with dad again today for a bit then another of my nephews is coming over and I get to spend time with him.  The wonder of family and the individual.

  I am reading……..not much right now.  I am savoring my time with family and my father in particular.  There is much for contemplation right there I don’t need to add more.

  I am hoping…….that family conflicts are resolved in the wake of my father’s illness and passing.  Let us all see that life is so short and these petty differences are just that, petty in light of eternity.

  From the schoolroom………Matthew is keeping up with his studies while I am away.  I spoke with both Matthew and my husband last night and it sounds like the living is easy without the mother around.

  From the kitchen………I smell coffee brewing.  My sister-in-law is a marvelous cook I wonder what we have in store tonight.  Time will tell.

  Around the house……….my nieces and nephew are getting ready for school then Cheryl and I will have a cuppa and a chat before we get our day going.  David will be off to the office to pound salt as he puts it.  There is nothing like family.

  One of my favorite things………connections.

  Here is a picture thought that I am sharing with you………

  

  My brothers and father recently had a “guy weekend” at my brothers mountain home.  This is a picture of all of them together for the first time in a very long time.  Just the sight of this will be warming my heart for a very long time to come.

   

   

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