November 25 2014

November 25 2014 Greetings My Friend, I woke up with severe hip pain yesterday. I could hardly walk and I decided it was time to go to the ER. Before leaving I asked for prayers on Facebook. The ER is 40 minutes from our home so I would peek on my cell phone from time to time and I saw the “praying” etc. comments which helped me. After the x-rays were taken and looked at the doctor came in to tell me that there were no broken bones. Just that fact alone made me happy. He prescribed a muscle relaxer and a moderate pain medication. I spent the rest of the day in my recliner sleeping. Today I am fairly much pain free. I am stiffening up a bit as I write so I am sitting on a heating pad which seems to help also. As a last resort I may take another muscle relaxer, we will see. I woke up this morning full of energy. I’ve cleaned, swept, made fudge, a crock pot of soup and now I am relaxing and writing. Junior finished the end table and shelving unit he was making and has them in place. My agenda was to organize and make pretty these two units. I found some crocheted doilies to hang over the edges of the shelves. Next are baskets filled with things I need like note paper, bedtime medications and a tea cup of pens. It looks real nice and I am so proud of my work. This is the latter part of my day so I am in wind down mode. I now sit in my chair taking in our home. I have a contentment with the decorating part. Junior builds and I decorate and it works out rather nicely. I consistently tell Junior what a great job he is doing and he in turn tells me how nice the house is looking. We are giving gifts to each other in this remodeling and decorating mode. I like to think that I am doing a good job of making our home “pretty” and “comfortable.” He likes building me/us a home that says “Junior and Janet” all over it. Learning to give gifts has been a wonderful journey. For the longest time I felt gifts were tangible objects. Lately I see that the best gifts are the ones given from the heart and don’t necessarily cost a lot of money if at all. I give Junior a gift of my health by exercising and he does the same for me. Our goal is to have the best quality of life for as long as possible. I give Junior home cooked meals often to nearly daily anymore. The good food sustains him as he works around our home. Junior gives me the gift of washing dishes since he doesn’t want a dishwasher and I am sensitive to the soap. These little gift giving moments are precious to me and I know Junior likes them also. He loves picking flowers from the garden and placing them in a vase next to where I sit. His face beams when I notice and thank him. Through the years we’ve bought each other presents as well. I know that Junior loves tools and flashlights so I get these for him. He likes to see a certain style of clothing on me so he picks out clothes from time to time and frankly I love them. He has learned it is not the price tag that matters to me as much as the thought. He is happy that if he finds something on a discount rack that I will be happy. It is the little things in life that truly make life sweet. May God bless you and keep you make His face shine on you. Love Janet