Thoughts for the day

Hi Friends....

 

What a sight as Tami and I watched an African-American mother and her son play in the rain today from the kitchen window that rises a couple of stories high from street level.  The mother let her son walk through the gutters running fast with the run-off from the heavy rain.....they threw water on each other and laughed as the heavy rain descended.  At first when I saw them, I felt sad that they had been caught in a down-pour.....I kept watching, and then realized how much fun they were having......After watching "The Help" with Tami tonight, that scene is all the more poignant.  Tami really enjoyed that movie and we realized how far we have all come since my high school days when Martin Luther King was shot......Anyway, We had a quiet and restful day today because Tami wasn't up to doing a lot.  We took a couple of walks in between the rain and enjoyed the cool breeze and uneven cobblestone walkways and raised cement.  We enjoyed the walk and took a breather at a stone fence just right for the sitting and resting.  She had a cane, and I a large umbrella that I used for a cane.......(So no Cane and Abel.....just two canes!)

I'm sure we looked like two sick people from the cancer home.....we just enjoyed it all. 

 

Tami gets up about 6:30 for breakfast and then needs to rest for a couple hours after that, then shower, clean her open wound, and clean clothes.....go get something to eat......walk around the circle inside the Hope Lodge a couple of times and then rest, go eat, take meds all in between and hope they stay down and don't make her sick,,....and do it all again a few times.....In between we talk, laugh, cry, talk to wonderful people at home and pass the day.....All in all we have hope for the future, reality checks in time it takes for healing and thanks to the Lord for letting us have the journey.

Love you all,

Judy