Showing posts with label Just keep Swimming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Just keep Swimming. Show all posts

Saturday, July 31, 2021

Just Keep Swimming

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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.