INDEPENDENCE
Mother has been saying for months that she has been popping the air out of her bag during the night when she gets up to pe. Two days ago, she showed me how she did it! Sure enough, she has taken care of that! This morning, she led me to the bathroom and showed me that she had emptied the bag of it's solid contents. Mother just keeps getting better and better. I am so proud of her. It looks like she is re-claiming some of her stubborn independence she had when I was young.
BRILEY AND HER SISTERS
It was Friday, March 26th. The little girls had helped me wash Todd's truck, which I had been wanting to do for two weeks. They were rewarded by spending the night with us.
They wanted me to read to them when they were ready for bed, and I would have, normally, but I had gotten hot and sweaty and I told them that I stunk. (They would have normally gathered round me in the bed for the reading.) I offered that I would read to them in the morning.
As I was going through my social media on the computer, I heard Briley reading to them. She read the Creation story and about Adam and Eve in The Garden. Then, I heard her say, "I'm sleepy." and there was only the sound of the book falling to the floor.
What a great big sister she is!
copied from "memories" on facebook
POOR NEIGHBORS
A man came to the house Saturday and loaded up the riding lawn mower after the kids left for points unknown. Mother watched from her window and told me all about what was going on. I went outside and confirmed that the kids were gone and Greg had come to take possession of the mower that he had negotiated for. No problem.
Then, a few days later, Mother told me that Michelle had loaded up a bunch of bicycles to go sell. She wanted me to let the kids know that they could have her money. She just KNEW that they were desperate for money, since they were selling all of their belongings.
I assured her that they were just fine, since they live on a budget.
THE FAR COUNTRY
Mother is sitting in front of the television watching a western movie. She tells me that she has sixty something dollars in cash from Valentine's Day. I ask her if she has change for a twenty and she says she does. She fumbled to get her "money bag" open and made change for me. I gave her the twenty and she asks me what I needed that much money for. I tell her that if she counts her money, that it is the same amount she had before she made change for me.
Then she goes off on to her favorite subject of emptying her bag before we go to bed. I have said many times that I will be picking up Michael at 10 o'clock and it isn't even 8 o'clock now. anyway, I ask her if she is ready to go to bed and she says, "no, I'm watching this western. I think it's a new one. I've never seen it before.
The name of the western is The Far Country starring Jimmy Stewart. He died in July of 1997. Nothing like watching a new western. smh
There is no one like my Mother. I love having her with me.
CORN BREAD MUFFINS
THE LONE RANGER
