November 11, 2013

This picture was taken at my brother's house 2 days ago.  We were talking on the phone and they were in his backyard.  He took it and sent it right then, Awesome!  He has put a water trough in his yard because he doesn't want them to get hit crossing the road to get to the river.

This week has been very stressful.  My Dad who is 85 years old has been in the hospital in intensive care.  Long story short, he's diabetic and had a septic should.  Because of his diabetes his white blood cell count was way down and not fighting the infection and it spread throughout his body creating a whole slue of problems.  They had to put a drain in his shoulder and when they did that he started to get better.  He should be out of ICCU tomorrow.

Time is a precious thing, isn't it?  We have but a little time in this life to accomplish what we need to.  When our children are young we're so busy and then in the blink of an eye they're all grown up and a person wonders, "where did the time go?"  I never seem to have enough time to do the things I want to.  Seems like I'm always working.  This is one of the reasons I think we should take just a few minutes every day to enjoy life.  If we don't one day when we get to be my dad's age, we'll turn around and wonder where life went.  I know it's hard and there's always one more thing to do, just do it anyway.  Last week when I talked about sitting on the porch with my husband and remembering all the fun times we had on that porch with our children and how much fun it was, that's what I'm talking about.  Laugh with your spouse, children, siblings, neighbors.  Just enjoy this time you have.  And, in 30 years when you look back will your memories be of a clean house or of how happy your family was and how you made them laugh?

For me, I think I'll take the latter :)   Have a great week!