Harvest

Nineteen pints~from one tree

This past week we realized the mulberries were ripe, and when we started picking them...we knocked the branches and caught them in a sheet instead.  I plan to make sauces for pancakes and use them in smoothies.  I considered a pie until I realized how much sugar it would take, and we limit sugar in our diet right now. 

The tomatoes are so good freshly picked!

Tired

I am looking around at all the things that have been neglected in the home over the past month while I spent my time in the hospital with my son...and I can't do anything about it.  I am just too tired today.  I close my eyes, and drift off to sleep in a matter of seconds. I realize how stressed I have been.  

My body is telling me. 

I am grateful for a God who hears and cares for the little things.  He knows what my needs are. I am too tired to read, so I review in my mind the promises He gives that mean so much to me right now. 

Oh taste and see that the Lord is good! Ps 38:4

Home!

Be Still and Know...That I am God...Ps. 46:10  is a verse that means a bunch to me right now.

The nurses joked about bringing a tent in for us...

We brought my son home from the hospital today.  Twenty one days... It feels so good to have him home.  Now we all can get back to our routines.  There will be a new normal around here as the intense cancer chemo days are finished and Jethenro heads into the maintenance phase of his treatment. We got to know the nurses as family and are always grateful for their commitment to the care of the cancer kids!

That Fall

Day 1

Day 3.  No, my eye was not swollen shut~but can see the black~n~blue
Still 2 weeks later my face is sore, but healing.
I had slipped on oil, my feet went out from under me, and my glasses helped do the damage as I landed.

These Dayz

A week of driving back and forth to the hospital 

Getting to know all the nurses personally at the hospital~learning which ones are favorites

Watching my son shaking with chills and burn up with fever

Wondering if I may have cracked my skull from a nasty fall~but no side effects besides a black and blue eye, and a 1 inch cut near my eye.

Finally getting to the optometrist to get my glasses fixed.  They didn't break but were so very bent out of shape.

With  no pictures to share with all this excitement...

R&R~In Pictures

I requested a day with my family for my birthday~and this meal was thrown in~

What we fixed for lunch before checking out of the motel that hubby and i stayed in. These pictures are not in order, but  takes too much time to fix~just read the captions~

One of my favorite stops

To see the injured/recovering/rescued sea turtles being rehabilitated 

I never get tired of the view

~especially on the beach~

Watching the kite boarders~something father and son had planned to do for  birthdays this past year was to get lessons
~but cancer got in the way this year~

The view out our  hotel window

This is the  first place we were going to stay~but their prices had already been inflated for  summer rates.

This was the real deal

After a 3.6 mile walk to and from the DQ, this felt wonderful!
Hubby had forgotten how far away it was

I forgave him :)

This was the back door~right out to the jucuzzi~

Simple Gifts

I am  enraptured by the roses my Chief brings in for me. He chooses them from our ever~bearing rosebush 'tree' outside my kitchen window.  They speak volumes to my soul.  Many object lessons and parallels I find from this bush.  Leaf cutter ants  threatened to take it down, but it conquered, and is producing beautiful roses. 

Simple gifts~my love language.  

I am blessed.