April 2021
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If I Can Make It Til Four O’clock 🕰🕰🕰🕰🕰🕰🕰🕰🕰🕰🕰🕰 About four years ago, I went to Indiana for a week to spend some time with Mother and my oldest son, Kendall. I hadn’t been home in a while and I was excited. I’d not been feeling all that great, but when you have Multiple Sclerosis,…
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It’s Kade’s birthday week this week. It started yesterday, which was Easter Sunday, but I didn’t let myself dwell on that too much. We had eggs to fill and hide and anxious grandbabies coming to hunt them. My youngest daughter, Belle, and I got up early yesterday morning and cleaned and cooked and cut flowers…
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I have been reluctant to post lately. I write about what I think about and right now I just think about Kade. The reluctance is from worrying I might upset or offend someone. Or because I think people will just simply get tired of listening to my voice mourn. Tragedy scares people. Especially if it’s…
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My children went to a private Christian School for a large part of their lives. Belle didn’t get to experience that and Kyler got just a few years. Kendall and Kade got the most. Kendall was in the fifth grade when Kade started preschool. The school was in the same building as our church, which…
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Kade had colic beginning at about six weeks old until he was nearly four months old. You could set your watch by it. He started screaming at 6:00 pm and stopped at 9:00 pm. Every night. It scared Billy Don and I so badly when it started, we thought something must be terribly wrong with…
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