Every morning I wake up is a good morning...I am greatful every day. I have bad days, but I am grateful for every day I have on God’s green earth. Even though we struggle at times out here, we love it in this peaceful place. I have learned so much these past few years, not enough...but, I am willing and able to learn more. I just hope my body holds out for me, it seems to take longer and longer to recover from injuries, but the nice thing is...I am not on a deadline and I have learned to pace myself a bit better over the years.
I am going to have a houseful this year for Thanksgiving,..and I am grateful for it. The surprise is my son is coming to visit from California, I have not seen him in almost six years! I can’t really afford to fly to California and I don’t think my body could handle being shoehorned into an airplane seat anymore and still be able to walk when I got there. It is tough leaving home, for both of us...we both have a lot of animals to take care of and his wife is not coming with him, she will be taking care of them. I was hoping she could, I would love them to move out here one of these days. I will have both my sons here, my surrogate son, my stepdaughter most of the spouses and the young ones! They won’t be here for a few days, but I look forward to seeing them all.
My surrogate son and his wife invited me to go with them running around Shreveport and then to Jefferson yesterday, one of my favorite things to do is shopping...lol, there is not too many places I actually go around here, but yesterday it was nice to get out and see places I had not seen. We went to a place in Shreveport that had a variety of different things, it was kind of a home improvement store/furniture store/interesting stuff store...I would like to go back some day. Jefferson is only about 20 miles from us and yesterday, I finally got to visit the little town I keep hearing about. We had lunch at a neat little hamburger joint and then went and perused a few Antique stores...lol, I love doing stuff like that...I would have loved to forget about the animals needing to be fed and watered, but I was afraid that my husband might be upset with me if I didn’t make it in time to perform my task...he took care of them! Something else to be thankful for! My husband loves me, and I never go do anything but errands anymore,so he wasn’t to unhappy with me getting home later than expected...my surrogate son even came in with me and offered to help feed the critters, but my husband had already done it.
I loved a cabinet at the home improvement store, it reminded me of a barristers book case, kind of...it was very tall, probably 7 feet, it had a lot of shelves and glass doors on it. It is crazy, but I loved the latch on it, it went all the way from the top to the bottom...and was kind of ornate iron. I think it would make a nice linen cabinet. There were several things in that store I really liked, some of the dining room tables were gorgeous, as were some of the rugs we looked at, some of the large mirrors...and they had barn doors and ship lap too! Lots of good stuff and the prices were good too. They had some patio furniture and kitchen and bathroom cabinetry, and faucets and sinks too. I am sure I didn’t see it all...but I really enjoyed looking at what I did see.
I look forward to getting to see some of my grandchildren soon, and my kiddos...the worst part of moving out here is not being to see my family very often. I will take what I can get though, and since I can’t really travel very far anymore without pain I am grateful they are willing to come visit me.
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