What a day … I mean what an absolute day. You know it’s going to be a bad day when you step on your own pajamas getting out of bed, trip yourself, and don’t make it to the bathroom … You know it isn’t going to get any better when you lean over to fill [...]
Woo Hoo … Whoopeee … The new dishwasher was installed today! The old one died a week ago so this is a real good thing! This week, though, as Kaitlyn and I were doing the dishes together it reminded me of the good old days when we kids had the assignment of doing the dishes. We didn’t know it then … [...]
Let me introduce you to FiFi, our ten year old Persian mix. Friday night late (after hours of course) she broke off her incisor tooth at the gum line and it has started to abscess. I took her in today but they can’t pull her tooth until Thursday because she is a now a “senior” [...]
Why do kids whisper to you when you are taking a nap? Do they think you can answer without waking up? If they knock softly on the bedroom door is that so you can stay asleep? We have three grandchildren who live with us, ages 7, 8, and 12 who have yet to learn the sacredness [...]
I’ve been trying to figure out why these years are called the golden years and I think I have! It’s because once you are over 55 it costs a lot of gold to keep your body going. There are all kinds of weird maintenance tests you are encouraged to have done. It’s called “preventative [...]
There are a lot of reasons to be in love with technology, but probably none as good as the fact that it connects me with my scattered family. When my daughter got married and moved from Southern Utah to Seattle I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have survived if it wasn’t for Messenger. It makes [...]
For a long while we just stood there, one foot on each side of a deep, mountain chasm. Then suddenly it separated farther, forcing us to jump hand in hand to the other side. We left behind us a noisy, beautiful camp sight, where for so many years our time was spent guiding [...]
Sweet baby girl, so tiny, so new to earth Unknowing, yet full of infinite wisdom and grace, I see that mixture deep within her eyes. It rests upon her perfect little face. What would she teach her teacher If her sweet rosebud lips could speak? Already she is teaching me of love. Perhaps our Mother’s [...]
by Edna Henke 4/3/98 In nineteen seventy-seven, I was seven months with child, I had a rare experience. In fact it was quite wild. We had a long, deep freezer in a storage room out back, But things were stored around it just as tight as we could pack. To get the inside frozen stuff [...]
This experience was special to me because it happened on a day we’d received some disheartening news about one of our children’s health. We had stopped to get a bite to eat on our way home from the hospital and as I watched this older couple I realized that love is what makes the difference, and we [...]
