Manna from Heaven... 12/28/2017 Labor Day weekend my husband, Big O, was trimming some trees when his ladder collapsed beneath him. He fell just six feet, but landed on the ladder, hyper-extending his elbow pulling it out of the socket and back in. This motion broke the bone around the socket and tore some tendons around his elbow. After a quick visit to the ER, his arm was put into a cast and we were told to follow-up with an orthopedic surgeon. This was on a Sunday. He had surgery that Friday to insert a plate, four screws
Labor Day weekend my husband, Big O, was trimming some trees when his ladder collapsed beneath him. He fell just six feet, but landed on the ladder, hyper-extending his elbow pulling it out of the socket and back in. This motion broke the bone around the socket and tore some tendons around his elbow. After a quick visit to the ER, his arm was put into a cast and we were told to follow-up with an orthopedic surgeon. This was on a Sunday. He had surgery that Friday to insert a plate, four screws
Help! My Son Has ADHD!! 02/27/2017 My square peg of a son will never fit into the round hole of the public school system. He won’t fit! He’ll never be round…never. Would you ever expect a duck to run as fast as a cheetah? Then you can’t expect my ADHD son to suddenly start acting like a child without ADHD. It’s not going to happen. Not now, not ever. It’s taken me, his mother, 7 years to figure this out! And I still forget. After fostering for a year, we adopted my son, Joseph, and his two sisters six years ago when he was just
My square peg of a son will never fit into the round hole of the public school system. He won’t fit! He’ll never be round…never. Would you ever expect a duck to run as fast as a cheetah? Then you can’t expect my ADHD son to suddenly start acting like a child without ADHD. It’s not going to happen. Not now, not ever. It’s taken me, his mother, 7 years to figure this out! And I still forget. After fostering for a year, we adopted my son, Joseph, and his two sisters six years ago when he was just
I Saw A Real Live Saint Today... 01/17/2017 I wrote this in December, but it's taken me awhile to get it together. I saw a real live saint today…my mother. My mother, who is exhausted physically, mentally and most of all emotionally. She is newly retired and rather than spend her days working out at the gym and volunteering at various places, enjoying yard work, knitting or reading; she has been full-time caretaker of her mother-in-law, Mimi. Mimi suffers from dementia and has lived with my parents now for over a month due to Papaw’s
I wrote this in December, but it's taken me awhile to get it together. I saw a real live saint today…my mother. My mother, who is exhausted physically, mentally and most of all emotionally. She is newly retired and rather than spend her days working out at the gym and volunteering at various places, enjoying yard work, knitting or reading; she has been full-time caretaker of her mother-in-law, Mimi. Mimi suffers from dementia and has lived with my parents now for over a month due to Papaw’s
My Prodigal Part 2 10/02/2016 And what is that one thing that matters most? Prayer. It can seem like such a small thing; like we’re not doing anything at all! But we are. We’re doing the hardest thing any parent can do. We’re letting go of our child and we’re entrusting them to God. We’re letting them make those mistakes than only they can learn from. We’d much rather they listen to our words of wisdom, but unfortunately we humans like to do and see for ourselves. We’re stubborn that way. So now we find ourselves waiting;
And what is that one thing that matters most? Prayer. It can seem like such a small thing; like we’re not doing anything at all! But we are. We’re doing the hardest thing any parent can do. We’re letting go of our child and we’re entrusting them to God. We’re letting them make those mistakes than only they can learn from. We’d much rather they listen to our words of wisdom, but unfortunately we humans like to do and see for ourselves. We’re stubborn that way. So now we find ourselves waiting;
