By Mary Hill
It seems with my life every trial or setback comes with blessings in disguise. I am going to keep it real today and will write my heart which includes pain and happiness all in the same breath.
I sit here watching my granddaughter explore an old science book that my daughter’s first grade teacher gifted her with because on the last day of school my husband took her and she was the only student there.
“It is a dog like Lily. Ah, that looks like your cat.” She oohs and ahs over the pages. She comes to a page with bears and it reminds her of a movie about bears. “I loved that bear movie. One page has carrots on it to eat. I want another book. I’ll go and get another book.”
My hands are burning as I type, but I forge through. “Look one is about snakes. I don’t like snakes, but let’s read this one. Ooh look at this one and this one. Look at this yellow one and this one. Look. Wow, that snake eats rats. This one looks crazy with its nose.”
After two hours of sleep because my pain topped 12 on a scale of 1 to 10, my husband calls me. “Hurry up, Mary. Come quick.”
(Later Sunday evening)
I had a great day at church. I finally slept. I will have a great Wordless Wednesday post. We just finished redecorating my daughter’s room. Gone are pink and princesses. She wants to be teenager. She reminds me daily now that she is almost 12 and has only one year left until she is a teenager.
Katie Rose just came running in. Her friend has challenged her to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. She is so excited to participate. We will do this in the morning. I now have another blog post for this week to complete.
What a week of fun and love. I know I am blessed. 🙂
Joining these hops today:
I hope that this week has less pain for you. You are doing great at keeping your spirits up. Write as much as you can!
11 and 5’8 already. She’s going to be a very tall girl. Wishing you a better week ahead.
Aw Mary I’m so sorry you’ve been in such pain. You’ve done a brilliant job at finding the silver linings and keeping thankful and grateful BUT I hope you have a very much better week this week.
Thankfuls through the pain. Joy with your family. Your spirit is strong.
odd how certain things trigger memories about similar, but different things in people. I thought about the ‘All About’ series of books that I grew up with in the 1960’s. (They were the first of the books, aim at children of my age that had glossy photo covers on them.)
Sorry hear about the difficulty with the hands… pretty damn good photo nevertheless!
(I’m sure someone has suggested ‘Dragon Naturally Speaking’ which, though it takes some training (of the application to your pronunciation), it is considered the best of the speech to print software.
I’m sorry that you’ve been in so much pain. I hope that you get some relief soon. Children, grandchildren, and books are wonderful thankfuls, though.