WILL THIS HAVE A HAPPY ENDING?

Remaking me!

My daughter Janel, surprised me with a

gift for my birthday ---

A gift card for Stitch fix!

I know?  Who knew she thought I 

needed a make over?

I am wondering how this will go.

You, put in your style, and they give you

a personal stylist. ($20.00 fee)

There is a questionnaire on their page,

you pick styles from pictures and tell them

thumbs up or down if this is something 

you would wear. Also a very detailed forum you fill

out telling them about yourself.

Now, my daughter got her box and

loved everything in it and kept all of it.

My gift

She sat with me and walked me through how

it all works so--

We will see.

My box will be delivered Friday the 13th!

Like oh my! could we not have picked

a better day?? 

Will this be a thumbs up? or 

Thumbs down?

UGH! I DID IT AGAIN

When will I stop doing that?

When ever I see a post of a beautiful home, 

and wonderful decorating.

I Think first of the limitations of

mobile (not movable mobile) home.

I know this is where God planted me and I know why.

Still, I let the pity party sneak in.

Well, what can I do to change things?

A little in the way of decorating, if

I would get out of my way!

BUT!!

I have a little yard!

I can design and plant and change to my 

hearts content.

 trying shade plants

Love hostas

 

 

The petunias put on a real show.

Shade planter just went crazy

Now it is time to change it all out for fall.

I am even planing winter gardening.

MAKING THE BEST

God knew

All the time I was whining,

God was directing my path.

In all thy ways acknowledge the Lord

and he will direct your path.

A verse put in my Bible when I graduated 

from high school.

A verse I have repeated a thousand times.  

Just not this time!!

God knew Steve would have a stroke. God knew I would need a place I could handle.

Yes, God knew.

Where else do you find God if it is not in the garden?

So, I set about making my space pretty.

With help from grandson Seth

we transformed this to--

This-which is now--

this and--

Just keep believing.

HUGE BABY STEP FORWARD

Many of you might know

that my husband Steve suffered

a stroke about a year and a half ago.

He has aphasia from the stroke. 

Both receptive and expressive

which means he has difficulty taking in

information and expressing that information.

We have been able to do very little boating.

 I need a great deal of help.

Boating is not a one man sport.

Monday, evening our son

Tony, took time to make sure we

had a wonderful summer evening

boating on the Columbia river.

 

To which Steve replyed

"Good time boating"

In real words.!!

Oh it truly is the little things.  

I AM NOT READY

How can this be?

With the start of the new school year. 

Zoe will be a senior!

Yes class of 2020

So, her mom with be putting

Zoe's cap straight before she walks.

As she did, when Zoe was a flower girl 

at her Uncles Wedding a couple

years ago.

Have a great year Zoe

THE BOX

My search

In my search for my daily three things.

I have started to look at things differently.

Even though I am on day two, you would think it would be easy to find things to be grateful for.

Well, not so fast. 

When you have dealt a struggle to face each day. 

When you are both grateful and sad, well finding things to be grateful for can be difficult.

Which leads me to this box.

A little music box from my son Mark, for Mothers day.

It is a music box that holds my daily earrings.

So it gets opened each day and plays

"You Light up my life"

Today's grateful  

1. Love from family

2. reminders of that love each day

3.Grateful for yet another day 

Did you know?

You can "re-wire" your brain

to be happy by simply

re calling--3 things you're

grateful for everyday for 21 days.

Today is my day one:

I know most of the time I think to start something 

on the first day of the month.

what ever it might be, a new diet or

new goals.

After reading this, I decided to start today

because 21 days can not come soon enough.

 1.  I am grateful to have a home, so many do not have homes.

2. I am grateful for my wonderful Children and grandchildren.

3.I am grateful, to be able to call this wonderful area Paradise.