😦 Extended family issues that make me feel caught between a rock and a hard place and like I can never do the ‘right’ thing.
🙂 Children and grandchildren. We are so blessed.
🙂 My husband finished a table made with an old sewing machine base, that we have had for years. It was much easier than he envisioned He could have made it more difficult and better, no doubt, but it is beautiful, none the less.
🙂 This gets the dollhouse, that my mom made, off the floor. The dollhouse is one of five my mom made. She wanted to make sure that there was one for each of her children. Each is filled with her personality. This one has several items that are special, because they remind me of my mom or dad.
😦 Selling off most of my mom’s other things. The rush to do all this. The rush to sell the house and now the mess of the next occupant getting in early. I happened to walk in on people painting the bedrooms. Two were already done and I had no idea. We had gone to help with moving things out. The whole thing is stressful.
🙂 God went to such lengths to give us peace. He still does. Reading today about Gideon and how many times the Lord showed him over and over that he was with Gideon and would win the battle for the Israelites is amazing. Though I have read and heard the story many, many times, I saw more in it and took more away from it. Wonderful word; wonderful God!!
So sorry for what you are going through, Kathaleena. My SIL & I had to go through my mom’s stuff pretty quickly, because new tenants would be moving in soon. SIL had been through that a couple times already, with her mom’s house & then her aunt’s house, & she handled more of the work than I did. I was so thankful for that.
Yeah, my siblings and I had something like two-and-a-half days to sort through my mom’s stuff (no one even thought to look through her pockets before we donated her clothes), because we were all from out of town and it would have cost too much (plus time off work) to go back later. Super stressful, and on top of her sudden death and the exhaustion of going virtually without sleep for something like five days. It’s not fun at all.
😦 Need to have a couple difficult conversations with Emily. Had the first one, quite brief, about one matter this evening at dinner. Things were tense for a while, but we got over it, & were chatting amicably again after a little while.
😦 Next one is going to be more difficult. Lee & I need to talk about it first.
🙂 Somehow, I know, it will all eventually work out for good.
🙂 Long day taking Carol around, with some mishaps along the way — walking to our table in McDonalds, we inadvertently moved in the same direction at the same time and my backpack tapped her humongous punch drink … which spilled everywhere. Quite spectacular, quite sticky.
😦 I think we got on each other’s nerves after a while, I was worn out and I guess she was, too, by the time we called it a day. She bought a ton of junk food (this was her monthly pay day) at walmart & dollar tree and (as usual) had no money left to pay for her lunch (which I figured she wouldn’t, so no surprise, but it would be nice if she could set aside a couple $$s to help, at any rate).
🙂 But we ended on a positive note, got her day’s “haul” into her room and freeway traffic wasn’t too bad coming home, though there was a lot of bumper-to-bumper miles in the beginning on the Hollywood Fwy where it transitions to the Harbor in the downtown area.
🙂 Hollywood looks a lot different in some ways than it used to — better, cleaner, really, but still the usual weird people everywhere. 🙂 You always see lots of strange fashions and body art.
😦 Catastrophic failure at our printing plant last night so lots of papers not delivered — plus our phone lines crashed on top of all that. One commenter posted this which actually made me laugh:
Jeeze, you win one lousy Pulitzer and suddenly you’re all, “Oh, la de dah, we’ll deliver it when we feel like it.” 🙂
😦 Getting out of my Jeep in the parking lot at Petco a huge gust of wind grabbed my front door and whacked it into the parked car next to me. Oy. A sweet, white older model (’60s?) but obviously loved. No dent, just a blue mark from my door. So I wrote out a note, said it looked like it would buff out easily, but if not I left my cell #.
🙂 When I got back to my car after buying the dog food, the young guy was getting into the car and had just read my note — he looked at me, I said, “yeah, that was me, I’m so sorry!” and he said “no worries,” very nice about it all. … It wasn’t the first blemish on his car, but I did feel bad leaving it without a note
🙂 I inherited a lot of my mom’s clothing when she passed away. There was always a neatly folded kleenex in one of the pockets of any garment. It made me smile that she was always prepared and very neat.
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😦 Extended family issues that make me feel caught between a rock and a hard place and like I can never do the ‘right’ thing.
🙂 Children and grandchildren. We are so blessed.
🙂 My husband finished a table made with an old sewing machine base, that we have had for years. It was much easier than he envisioned He could have made it more difficult and better, no doubt, but it is beautiful, none the less.
🙂 This gets the dollhouse, that my mom made, off the floor. The dollhouse is one of five my mom made. She wanted to make sure that there was one for each of her children. Each is filled with her personality. This one has several items that are special, because they remind me of my mom or dad.
😦 Selling off most of my mom’s other things. The rush to do all this. The rush to sell the house and now the mess of the next occupant getting in early. I happened to walk in on people painting the bedrooms. Two were already done and I had no idea. We had gone to help with moving things out. The whole thing is stressful.
🙂 God went to such lengths to give us peace. He still does. Reading today about Gideon and how many times the Lord showed him over and over that he was with Gideon and would win the battle for the Israelites is amazing. Though I have read and heard the story many, many times, I saw more in it and took more away from it. Wonderful word; wonderful God!!
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So sorry for what you are going through, Kathaleena. My SIL & I had to go through my mom’s stuff pretty quickly, because new tenants would be moving in soon. SIL had been through that a couple times already, with her mom’s house & then her aunt’s house, & she handled more of the work than I did. I was so thankful for that.
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Yeah, my siblings and I had something like two-and-a-half days to sort through my mom’s stuff (no one even thought to look through her pockets before we donated her clothes), because we were all from out of town and it would have cost too much (plus time off work) to go back later. Super stressful, and on top of her sudden death and the exhaustion of going virtually without sleep for something like five days. It’s not fun at all.
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I hope to “downsize” our belongings, little by little, to make things easier for our daughters one day.
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😦 Need to have a couple difficult conversations with Emily. Had the first one, quite brief, about one matter this evening at dinner. Things were tense for a while, but we got over it, & were chatting amicably again after a little while.
😦 Next one is going to be more difficult. Lee & I need to talk about it first.
🙂 Somehow, I know, it will all eventually work out for good.
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Prayers, Karen & Kathaleena …
🙂 Long day taking Carol around, with some mishaps along the way — walking to our table in McDonalds, we inadvertently moved in the same direction at the same time and my backpack tapped her humongous punch drink … which spilled everywhere. Quite spectacular, quite sticky.
😦 I think we got on each other’s nerves after a while, I was worn out and I guess she was, too, by the time we called it a day. She bought a ton of junk food (this was her monthly pay day) at walmart & dollar tree and (as usual) had no money left to pay for her lunch (which I figured she wouldn’t, so no surprise, but it would be nice if she could set aside a couple $$s to help, at any rate).
🙂 But we ended on a positive note, got her day’s “haul” into her room and freeway traffic wasn’t too bad coming home, though there was a lot of bumper-to-bumper miles in the beginning on the Hollywood Fwy where it transitions to the Harbor in the downtown area.
🙂 Hollywood looks a lot different in some ways than it used to — better, cleaner, really, but still the usual weird people everywhere. 🙂 You always see lots of strange fashions and body art.
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😦 Catastrophic failure at our printing plant last night so lots of papers not delivered — plus our phone lines crashed on top of all that. One commenter posted this which actually made me laugh:
Jeeze, you win one lousy Pulitzer and suddenly you’re all, “Oh, la de dah, we’ll deliver it when we feel like it.” 🙂
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😦 Getting out of my Jeep in the parking lot at Petco a huge gust of wind grabbed my front door and whacked it into the parked car next to me. Oy. A sweet, white older model (’60s?) but obviously loved. No dent, just a blue mark from my door. So I wrote out a note, said it looked like it would buff out easily, but if not I left my cell #.
🙂 When I got back to my car after buying the dog food, the young guy was getting into the car and had just read my note — he looked at me, I said, “yeah, that was me, I’m so sorry!” and he said “no worries,” very nice about it all. … It wasn’t the first blemish on his car, but I did feel bad leaving it without a note
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🙂 I inherited a lot of my mom’s clothing when she passed away. There was always a neatly folded kleenex in one of the pockets of any garment. It made me smile that she was always prepared and very neat.
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