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My Favorite Kind of Exhaustion

I have recently been given the privilege of babysitting two of my grandchildren every Tuesday. I love spending time with

God gives me tests. Really obvious ones. And I fail. Take yesterday, for example. I’d already helped my 95 year

About a week ago my daughter and I were sitting out on the deck with my 95 year old mother-in-law,

Guilt. It seems to be an ever present shadow in this journey of caregiving and grieving. Some people seem to

I wish I could see how Mom and Dad are celebrating their first anniversary together in the presence of Jesus.

It will be here in a few days. My first Father’s Day with no Dad on this earth with me.

It’s a cottonwood heavy kind of spring. I’ve never noticed so much of the bits of fluff drifting through the

Mother’s Day stirs up so many kinds of emotions. I wrote this a few years ago. I thought it might

My first birthday as an “orphan”. Daddy passed away less than three weeks ago. Mama about 17 months ago. I

Some days we are ditch diggers. But there are lessons and blessings to come… Mama is hollering and yelling and