• Aging Parents,  Assisted Living,  Mom,  Moving

    The Move that Never Ends, To be Continued

    Welcome to Part I of the never ending journey. Moods are lighthearted here as we pack and get ready for this move but we have no idea what is in store and what is to come. Mom is quiet and here in this part of the move, not really giving us much direction, but letting us lead. She refused to use the blue tape to indicate what she had a desire to take so that proper decisions could be made. It’s really hard to pack for other people’s move. But even more challenging to deal with what was unpacked for the move, especially when the person had no input while…

  • Drama,  Family,  Friends,  Frustration,  Narcissism,  Weekend

    The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

    Well, we are ALL so very different, but somehow God brought us together back in 1980 and 1981. And yet again here in 2024. One of our girls could not join us at the last minute, but we missed her. Quite a fun lunch and catching up in Williamson County, TN. A nice little mini reunion. One of the girls made this dessert. It’s been quite the rush of a weekend. It’s all gone by so fast. I’ve had to excuse myself from our nightly quality time to catch up on a few things. Since I didn’t get to do much here this weekend. This morning we had church, Sunday…

  • Drama,  Marriage,  Relationships

    Eclipse, Maddie, and Hubby Drops His Pants at Dinner

    Just popping in! I feel very robot-ish at the moment. I’m just always “on task”! But all is going well, I suppose. So here are just random thoughts as they come to me. First of all on Monday the eclipse. We had fairly heavy cloud cover. But I prayed that even so we’d get some glimpses. God provided. I was able to view it through the clouds and see it! We did NOT have totality in our area and it did get dimmer and much colder. I didn’t hear crickets, but the birds were kinda going wild flying around and trying to get “settled”. I do have some video so…