Come What May

Time to think.

Lil Miss is back in school where her Momma takes her in the mornings and I pick her up after school dismisses for the day.  This allows me to have a very slow start to my mornings.  A load of laundry will go in the wash, coffee time with quiet moments to follow.  Prayer time un-rushed and my soul will swell with joy.  It's been awhile since I felt like I wasn't needing to hurry through.  

I do love the sound of my active Grand repeatedly saying "Grandma Grandma."  It is a sweet name to be called.  Music to my ears from all the grands.  Say it again.  I need this.      

Three months went into childcare with the longer days.  From a quarter to eight in the mornings until four forty in the afternoons.  We stayed busy and I had fun with my Grand daughter.  Almost nine hour days.  A nap here and a snack there.  A little television, a drive about town to get the mail and buy a newspaper.  Seeing the wide open sights of the Flint Hills and shop a tad.  Read and go through old papers to sort.  Walk, talk and day dream.  Nice days.

Now I am ready for Quiet Time.  This week I shall see how it goes.  

Husband has a biopsy this week and then we wait it out to find out what's going on with this enlarged lymph node in his neck.  I cannot keep from thinking what shall we do if this is cancer?  God is with us.  He will help us.  My confidence shall be in the LORD.

Come what may.

I am waiting patiently for the new dose of medicine to help me be better.  It has been a rough road having hypothyroidism take so much out of me.  Walking is difficult and the sweating awful.  The fatigue is life changing.  

This past week-end Husband finished painting the smallest bedroom in our 'ole stone house.  I think it is a very sweet room.  It is a delight to go to this room and see the change that has taken place.  Soon the mattress and box springs will be moved into the room through an upstairs window where I will make up the bed with a green and white duvet.  Throw pillows adds a comfy feel.

Pictures soon.

Certain pieces of furniture have to go through an upstairs window.  Believe it or not.  We're making arrangements and hopefully in a few days this dilemma will be no more.  Our HOME morphs along at a slow pace.  I have to keep reminding myself that we are further along than we were.  

The pictures prove it.  One very nice thing about having before and after pictures.

We ate supper at the newly opened cafe downtown.  Wonderful to have this building reopened for business.  Wish the Grocery Store would open again.  I miss the small town feel of small town businesses.  

Also the BIG EVENT of the SUMMER happened on a HOT NIGHT.  A large car show took place.  I'm running behind with the down loading of pics.  I am not one that has a camera in my phone that I can post within a few seconds.  So the pictures will have to come later.

Snagged this off of the internet.
Snagging.

As we walked downtown and ate on Saturday evening, we viewed autos in the show and walked HOME.  I over heated.  Nearly collapsed on the sofa.  My temperature was 96.7 dripping with sweat on a 82 degree day.  With having no thyroid, I easily overheat, have excessive sweating when my body is actually cooler than norm.  Feels like being in a furnace and it takes longer than average to actually cool off.  Husband is the same way.

With upping my meds, I had heart palpitations that made me ill.  Very uncomfortable and they take one's breath away.  Felt better today and feeling more rested.  

Literature tells me to tell my doctor about these symptoms.  I do.  I do.  I do.  I do.  It goes nowhere. Very  frustrating to still have the symptoms with nothing different done.  SO I research on the internet and get better informed by others that are going through similar things.  Very helpful.  I've been told to ignore the internet….by the ones that are suppose to be doctoring me.  I still can read and reason. Surprise.  I am not completely daft.  Imagine that. 

Hopefully I will get laundry caught up this week and start rearranging the utility shelves for a cleaner pantry.  I have to continue to gather childhood memorabilia for my grown children to give them for their 40th birthdays when the time comes.  That means I have to return to the garage in the heat of the SUMMER to locate items to box and wrap.  Stack them high and wide in the upstairs hallway. Sounds neat, huh. 

Return the Dining room back to her glorious self.  She has been a staging room this SUMMER.  Once again she is cluttered with items that need to find a HOME somewhere else and not in the Dining room. 

The Christmas items must be thinned out.  This makes me cringe to think about it.  Grit my teeth and get 'er done.  Perhaps by the end of September it will be a thing of the past.  It will make me feel so much lighter having this thinned down and out.

After I get caught up a tad, I will attempt to stitch balloon shades for the bump-out.  I have sewn these in my head hundreds of times...now to actually do this.  By Christmas, the four windows will be prettied up with see through panels that greet passerby's that glance at this HOUSE.  I think I need to put hurricane lamps on the window ledges.  How nice this would be.  

These are my late SUMMER projects that need attention.

SO that's: get the laundry caught up.
Utility room shelves reorganized.
Mattress and box springs relocated upstairs.
Children's memorabilia gathered, boxed, wrapped and stacked.
Tidy Dining room.
Christmas items gone through and thinned out.
Stitch Balloon Shades and install.
Wait for the Kitchen to turn into a charmer.
Shall see how it all goes.

SUMMER has been a better place with finished projects.  Helps to calm my nerves.

Husband painted our porch and painted our Guest room this Summer.  What a sweet advancement he accomplished.  I am so grateful to him and for him.  He continues on our Kitchen a little here and a little there.  The day this room is completed I won't know what to do with myself.  The room is too small for me to leap with joy in.  SO perhaps I will twirl in a circle and get really dizzy.  It will be so nice to have this room finished.  I have talked and talked and talked about OUR KITCHEN. Someday soon, I pray.

A Grandson turns ONE this month!  Two other Grandsons start Kindergarten.  Off to school they go.  Two Grandchildren are in Third Grade and one will be a Eighth Grader.
  
Thoughts of Autumn Thanksgiving are manifesting and then Christmas with the Holidays not far behind.

SPA DAY on Fridays will be really popular with me as I soak in the tub, shave my legs and scour my feet.  A facial, tweezing eyebrows, whitening and flossing my teeth will be necessary as I let my hair be conditioned with olive oil.  Then shower off washing my hair to style.  Pretty up the fingernails and toenails.  Refreshing.  We all need time to go ahhh.  Treat oneself with pampering.    

I will smile and rejoice that we are making progress,
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