Life With Us...

It's her birthday. The mother figure I am blessed with. My best friend.  My superhero (I have several superheroes, and they are all blessings beyond what I have words for). I know my life would not be what it is today without her support. God has done it all to make me who I am, and get me where I am, but get support and encouragement and understanding, and willingness to spend anywhere from 2 to 4 hours every single week on the phone with me, and read every email sometimes as many as 3 or 4 in a day. Sometimes just a sentence, sometimes pages. Who has that kind of willingness to endure?  I have seen her not endure others who seem to be far less needy than I have been over the last quarter century, yet she loves me. I don't understand it, other than God did it.  But she has had to be a willing vessel in the Master's hand. If she didn't want to she didn't have to. I am so thankful to know her, to count her my friend and to be able to call her mom...

It is a small thing, and maybe a stretch, but it makes me smile. So on Friday I spent literally 3 hours trying to clean a house somewhere in this town, I clean empty rentals between ranters.  Anyway. I went to one house, no water.  I went to another house, also no water, and so much sand in the meter box, I couldn't find the spout handle to turn try to turn the water on at the street.  So I went and bought a small shovel. I went back to the second house, and dug until I found  something to turn. I don't think it was the right thing, and it didn't turn much, and there still was no water.  So we (the kids are almost always with me) went back to the Realtor's office and I told them my problem.  They said they would send the water company out to get the water fixed for me. We went back to the first house, still no water.  So, I had a third house, I was wanting to wait and clean on Monday, but I was frustrated and wanted to feel like I accomplished SOME...