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Aoife is back home in Portland!! Here she is using her new skills of pushing a cart by herself.

Of course, she is adorable in her Irish nightwear and silky white hair and dimples!!

With my new extended sewing room, I have started having fun.

Pulling fabric is awesome.  Putting it away, not so much.

I find it very, very difficult to depend on the good graces of others, 

when my own family can no longer help.

My sister came for a visit today, which was wonderful.  However, she cannot fix the broken things around here that my husband or son could fix.  Handymen are scarce now-a-days and/or all booked up.

 I am healing myself by talking...Some people try to fix me by diverting my pain into positive. Just listening to me is so therapeutic.( for me, that is:)..  

I did  get some awesome advice from Sherry.....Just Keep Swimming

I have tied my new little cart to my sewing machine before I load it up.  I love it...

The latest excitement is a new lock for the front door that does not require a key.

Good for the kids, good for Grandma, just plain good.

To lock the door, just put your hand over the pad.

To unlock just put in the code.  Wish I had done this years ago.

Six months after my husband died, we were robbed.  CPI came that afternoon to see if we needed security.  The kids and I were all so shocked, I signed up immediately.  I never regretted it.  They have these lock pads, though I am sure you can get them other places.

My hair is down my back again.  My hairdresser broke her wrist in a wind gust on the Fourth of July.  She offered to come by my driveway on Monday, her first day back.. I am one lucky old lady!!!!

 I would not be surviving at all if it were not for such good people.

  Paula...big, big, hug....sending the children all their school supplies from Amazon.  

Kindness.....the good part of life.