We went to buy Matt new shoes. He was looking for good quality, to keep his feet well enough to exercise, and he was dropping a good bit of his stash of birthday and Christmas money on these shoes. “I probably will need new tennis shoes one of these days,” I muttered absent-mindedly, as I…
Last night Matt installed the new showerhead I requested for my birthday. We stayed in a hotel on our way to Wyoming this Christmas, and the showerhead was amazing. I decided right then that this was the gift I was going to ask for. Matt thought I was weird, but I told him we do…
I drove to church the other night in a dense fog and knew right away that no one was going to attend the class I had to teach. Who would want to go out on such a dark January night in pea soup? As I write this, it is now a frigid but bright January…
I took Matt’s aunt into the Whitefish urgent care to have them look at what we thought was her sprained ankle, and I rolled her out in a wheelchair, after x-rays revealed tibia and fibula fractures. They took the x-rays and then brought a full cart full of casting supplies into the room where we…
It’s time for all of the “I’m gonna’s.” This year I’m gonna lose 20 pounds. This year I’m gonna work out six days a week. This year I’m gonna drink less soda. But have you ever, at the beginning of a fresh new year, resolved to change your language around something instead of your behavior? …
My little grandsons were restless, but it was bitter cold outside, so I took them to the crawlspace for entertainment. We go there often. Those little boys love nothing better than going to a secret cave under the house with flashlights to explore. I sat down on a Rubbermaid and let them look for treasures….
My mother-in-law had her pacemaker replaced recently, and I accompanied her to her followup visit. She sat down in the chair, and the doctor stood at the counter with her hands over the computer keyboard. “I’m going to slow down your heart a little bit, so you might feel a little lightheaded,” she said. What…
At the beginning of the year, I started telling the Lord that I really needed a better paying job to survive inflation. The part-time, entry level job I was in just wasn’t cutting it anymore. On the side, in March I became a certified Dave Ramsey financial coach and then spent months and hundreds of…
Those grown girls, my daughter and daughter-in-law, were chatting with me after our weekly Sunday lunch. The conversation turned to housekeeping, and I found out both of them watch YouTube videos of women cleaning–for fun. They watch them for fun. “It’s just so relaxing,” Jayme said. Mallory agreed. So there I was, a 53-year-old woman,…
She told me she watched a spotter plane fly around behind her house for a long time. Then came the helicopters, with water bags hanging heavy and low. They dropped bag after bag of water on a fire that had re-ignited in an old burn pile. It’s been a summer of high temperatures and no…
Hey guys, I was really something the other night at a wedding shower. The bride was opening her lovely gifts, and one present was a muffin pan. “You know,” I told the bride, “I use a muffin pan to cook meatloaf, because it takes half the cooking time.” Instant fame. Apparently that was the best…
Our dear friends stopped in for an unexpected visit a few days ago. As my friend left, she sighed, “Your place is so tidy. I just want to stay and sit down.” This is the friend who has known me for more than two decades. We’ve raised our kids together. We’ve had open pantries for…
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