Have you ever had your routine interrupted?
Most of us have heard and said respectively: God is good…all the time and all the time…God is good!
People who are around me often hear me say, “God is good. Therefore, my day will not go the way I planned it!” Lately, God has been very good to me and therefore, my days have not been going at all the way I’ve been planning them. What can I say? He knows what He’s doing.
If things had gone the way I planned them, I’d have been Read more…
How about a good rant today?
Let me begin by reminding you that I’ve been a long-time care giver and have over the years provided care for a number of family members. Since January 9, 2000, 4:00 a.m. (I just remember the time since that was when she arrived at our home following her whirlwind trip from Helena, Montana - long story), I’ve been taking care of my developmentally disabled sister-in-law, Elisabeth, or as we call her, Beth.
Beth
Beth has been and is a tremendous blessing to our family and household. She has a great sense of humor and loves to carry on both sides of a conversation. To listen to her go on and on with herself about who’s getting in trouble (she absolutely loves it when someone else is in the “hot seat”) or who is going to be in trouble is quite an irresistible eavesdrop.
She knows and accepts the fact that part of my “job,” the reason I get paid the big bucks, is to be a pest to her.
All this is to say Read more…
Have you ever had a case of whiplash?
That’s when you have any “sudden involuntary forced movement of the head in any direction, and the resultant rebound of the head or neck in the opposite direction.”
As any of you know who’ve been reading my posts lately, we’re in the midst of constructing a new care giving room in our garage. This room is laid out in such a way that what will remain of the garage for garage-purposes is about ten feet in the front, that is, at the large car-door side of the garage.
This front ten feet is now where all the junk that is traditionally stored in garages (no, not cars) is being kept - like bicycles.
Since lots of work has been occurring in that space, the big garage door has been wide open virtually all day long for the past several days.
Two nights ago, Carrie came in the bedroom after having done her nightly walk-about to lock all the doors and said, Read more…
