I am waking up in a Holiday Inn Express. Thank goodness they will have breakfast. There will not be a lot of restaurants open today, at least not this morning. We had dinner at the Bob Evans down the road last night and it was closing at 6 p.m. until the 26th. We packed food for this contingency. We have been in a hotel on Christmas morning ( Read more... )

B had to make a trip to Florida. A lot of driving for one person in just a few days, so I tagged along. We spent a day and a half driving and most of the people we ran into were not the typical "hustle and bustle" crowd that you see at the mall. True they are probably headed somewhere for their "Christmas" holiday or just heading south because ( Read more... )

"Joy is elusive. Just when we think we have found it, joy can be snatched from us in a single moment. Despair threatens to take its place and we find ourselves searching again for meaning ( Read more... )

I wanted to make my birthday special this year. As you get older that becomes harder to do, so what I did was to ask B to take the day off. I had grandiose ideas of how we might spend that day. I thought we might go to Cincinnati because there is a Container Store and REI and then I thought that was too far to travel. I thought we might go to ( Read more... )

It seems like just last week I was in Canada soaking up the sun. Where does the time go? It is interesting to me that time seems to just keep flying. B and I are in "waiting" mode right now. We are waiting for something to happen. It could be one of many things. Mom's house could sell, B could lose his job, I could turn 65 (that is 368 days ( Read more... )

I just returned from a wonderful weekend with my family and this was the first of my two daily devotionals today. "Having enough. That may be the biggest single issue that leads to human conflict. Somebody is afraid of not having enough and so tries to make up the difference by taking from somebody else. But Scripture tells us again and again that ( Read more... )

We just spent six days with family in Texas. It was great. We ate wonderful food, walked all over the neighborhood where our one son lives. Enjoyed being together, which hadn't happened for a year. And, just had a great time. Of course there were two kids, our four (almost five) year old granddaughter and our ten month old grandson. They ( Read more... )

I spent more time than normal the last four days "stuck at home." It rained nonstop and I just didn't want to go anywhere. It was gloomy and dark and wet, wet, wet. If it had been snow I would have put on my boots and headed outside to shovel, to walk, to just be out in it. But, it was rain, and I sat inside and watched it. I didn't go ( Read more... )

Today I was waiting for my Tai Chi class to start when my phone rang. I thought, "Oh yeah, I need to put my phone on vibrate," but I answered it anyway. It was the centralized showing service that my realtor uses. They had apparently tried to call last night when I was in a meeting and I hadn't taken my phone off vibrate before the message that ( Read more... )

Thursday it was just me and Levi. Well, we went to school to meet L in the morning and then we went again in the afternoon. Since I had her car to do this we also had to pick her up, so between the afternoon visit and picking her up little L and I went and walked around Yankee Candle. When I was here in the spring I did that several times and ( Read more... )