Rabbit Trails

Granted, it hasn't been very long since we've had an *empty nest*, but here are my premature thoughts about it anyway. I KNOW I won't always feel like this...but today, I do. I KNOW I will get over the sadness, just not today. I KNOW one of these days, I won't think a thing about getting groceries for just two people.  Right now, it feels like I'm just going, to NOT buy things. Like noodles, girl shaving cream, animal cookies, expensive shampoo.....you know.  Those kinds of things.     The Lord allowed us to have six kids, almost seven. I have been pregnant for around 60 months. Can't say I enjoyed every minute of that..... but I did so love having babies. I had names for LOTS more children, but that is hardly a good reason to keep having them.   I lived cloth diapers, clothes pins, piles of little books, striped socks, baby spoons, fun bowls, kid radio, coloring books, play money, war cards, magic markers, Happy Meals...

Tuesday morning....out by the flower beds. I was wondering what was wrong with the camera   It was SO humid, the lens was fogged up. It was photo-shopping the picture AS it was being taken. *add softness*      I didn't exactly know what *Tuesday* things were with Heather and the girls. I soon found out. I soon found out that it was PURE TOODLING That's what it meant. Nothing serious. When you go to Hobby Lobby, then Carino's, then Penny's, then Bath & Body, then Sonic, it's TOODLING.      I know I've looked for miniature clothespins before. And couldn't find them. Well, here they are bigger than life, (well, not really) in Hobby Lobby. Colored or natural. As soon as I set my house in order, I'm going to buy the plain colored ones. And think of something to do with them. Like hang up mouse clothes?      I don't ever get the memo on what to wear so I...

It was Monday, not Tuesday.  But I didn't know that for most of the day. Went to D & K's apartment.  Or their ship.  Whatever. For pizza. We got Sonic and Daniel got a hot dog, while we waited for pizza. This wasn't the pizza I was planning on, but it was still tasty. This is no normal sidewalk.  This is the sidewalk in front of Kroger.....that runs right close to D&K's apartment.  It is pretty neat to walk to Kroger.  I always wanted to live close enough to my church, to walk to church.  Never has panned out. Listened to the Happy Song....everybunny in the apartment loves it.  Including the little 7 year old. Klarisa gave me a late? or very early birthday present.  It is a box full of papers she wrote *happy* things on for me. She knows me pretty well. I guess I'm just an open book. Last night I opened the box..... The slip of paper said: What the Deaf Man Heard It's just about the best movie I've...

 It Finally Happened! Last night my wife and I were out till about 10:30 which is late for us.  It isn't that we have not been out this late before and even later on a few occasions.  But last night was the first night no one else cared or needed to know how late we were going to be.  It was our first night as true empty nesters. It was a little over 32 years ago when m ... y wife and I entered a covenant relationship before God.  I was 19 and she was well.....a few years older. We were married at the end of May and by the middle of July we were expecting our first child.  From that day when we realized we were going to have a baby till yesterday "the kids" were the focus of much of our attention.  Sara came along the following March, two years later in February Caleb was here and two years later Oliva made her grand entrance with one of our friends announcing it's a boy; well not quite :-)  The situation was reassessed very quickly....

I of course notice all the flowers planted along the way.... I'm not a great lover of petunias..... but these were pretty neat..... being striped and all. And purple.    I also don't normally drink CODE RED MOUNTAIN DEW. It was pretty good. I'm also not normally in Iowa. It was a beautiful farming state. Loved to see the green fields.    ahhhhhhhhhhhh My husband and I LOVE these places. They have a coffee called: Camp Fire It is G.O.O.D. Wish there were one closer..... much rather go here then where we end up sometimes.    This was a spot in a cool Amish type store..... I dunno about those Amish stores.... they're always run by NON-Amish people.... something doesn't seem natural even though everything is *home-spun*    I love to see morning glories on string up the side of something. I only have wild morning glories that grow on my fence and don't bloom.   Oh well.  ...