Silver City Heritage Farmstead
Can't stop now (formerly Dragons Wish Farm)
Let me start this topic by saying that I'm grateful God gave me ENOUGH during all this. ENOUGH faith, ENOUGH patience and kindness, ENOUGH strength to hold my tongue. ENOUGH peace that I looked unbothered--most of the time. If you say prayers, ask God for what everyone else needs. For myself I'm just saying "Thanks".
Last Wednesday I bought the new mini. See "My secret" thread on main forum.
Saturday my husband's mother (in El Salvador) went to the clinic, was sent home later that day with instructions to not be left alone. Sunday she was found--alone--dead in her kitchen. My husband isn't an easy personality, he kept making two demands: "why was she alone" and "are you sure she's not/wasn't/isn't breathing". He paid cash for her funeral and to transport her and the family to a neutral part of El Salvador for the funeral and burial. The way I understand it, funerals in San Salvador (the capital and where they live) are INVARIABLY crashed by gangs who defile and rob the corpse and all attending mourners. Sometimes people are kidnapped and held for ransom as well.
Monday, my second grandson was born with my daughters' fiance's family in attendance. When Taylor's mother posted the news of her grandson's arrival to Facebook she also mentioned her very close friend had been murdered on Sunday. So mixed feelings for that family as well.
A young family we know had an emergency Tuesday and I had to take care of their little girl from 9-9. She was so good! She didn't cry, not even one time, until her mom walked through the door at the end of the night.
I don't feel stressed or tired while these types of things are going on. I just deal with them as kindly as I can. Then, like today, I just crash. I'll be sitting comfortably doing something, then wake up several hours later when drool drips into my cleavage. Fortunately it's not much cleavage so it's easy to clean up. Spent the whole day distracted, leaving things behind, spacing out when I stopped moving. I even found 4 non-emergency phone messages and a half-dozen text messages late this afternoon, the majority of which were from YESTERDAY afternoon. I could have sworn they weren't in my in-boxes before 6 this evening... :-/
So prayers for the family are appreciated. I'll keep my rose-colored glasses on.....'cause I look too chic in them.....my shawl of faith draped around me, and the gift of nature's peace in the cycles of life that God gave me with the new mini.
Blessings too on each of you who read this.
Last Wednesday I bought the new mini. See "My secret" thread on main forum.
Saturday my husband's mother (in El Salvador) went to the clinic, was sent home later that day with instructions to not be left alone. Sunday she was found--alone--dead in her kitchen. My husband isn't an easy personality, he kept making two demands: "why was she alone" and "are you sure she's not/wasn't/isn't breathing". He paid cash for her funeral and to transport her and the family to a neutral part of El Salvador for the funeral and burial. The way I understand it, funerals in San Salvador (the capital and where they live) are INVARIABLY crashed by gangs who defile and rob the corpse and all attending mourners. Sometimes people are kidnapped and held for ransom as well.
Monday, my second grandson was born with my daughters' fiance's family in attendance. When Taylor's mother posted the news of her grandson's arrival to Facebook she also mentioned her very close friend had been murdered on Sunday. So mixed feelings for that family as well.
A young family we know had an emergency Tuesday and I had to take care of their little girl from 9-9. She was so good! She didn't cry, not even one time, until her mom walked through the door at the end of the night.
I don't feel stressed or tired while these types of things are going on. I just deal with them as kindly as I can. Then, like today, I just crash. I'll be sitting comfortably doing something, then wake up several hours later when drool drips into my cleavage. Fortunately it's not much cleavage so it's easy to clean up. Spent the whole day distracted, leaving things behind, spacing out when I stopped moving. I even found 4 non-emergency phone messages and a half-dozen text messages late this afternoon, the majority of which were from YESTERDAY afternoon. I could have sworn they weren't in my in-boxes before 6 this evening... :-/
So prayers for the family are appreciated. I'll keep my rose-colored glasses on.....'cause I look too chic in them.....my shawl of faith draped around me, and the gift of nature's peace in the cycles of life that God gave me with the new mini.
Blessings too on each of you who read this.
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