I'm Just as Happy as I Can Be!!!

I have had SUCH a good day!!! One special blessing is that I FEEL good!!

Amazing how that affects your mood! I don't believe I had diverticulitis at all. I pulled some things when I was doing Yoga last Sunday afternoon. It was a position I have done for years. You lie flat, raise your feet up and OVER your head with your toes touching the floor behind your head. Normally I do this position just fine. I did that day, as well. It was just later that evening I began to have some serious PAIN! While I am not saying I will never do that particular move again - I won't be doing it for awhile! That's for sure! Today I walked for exercise!!

Tonight I'm writing my journal entry from end of day to the beginning.

I have had such a good time this whole late afternoon and evening!

The washer and dryer were going as well as the vacuum cleaner. I had bleach water in the kitchen sink soaking my mop. The front porch was scrubbed clean of the bird messes left behind when they roosted up there in the grapevines when it was so bitterly cold. Windex, furniture polish, Fabuloso, candles, a fire burning in the fireplace........ahhhhhhhh! Sheer bliss to me!!!

I think I am a natural born homemaker!

The den is especially cozy tonight as the air turned chilly.

I bought this deck of quiz cards by The Weather Channel at an antique mall we went to this afternoon. Louis Dean and I usually play Q & A when we sit in the gazebo. We have already gone through Texas Trivia and a whole set of Q & A on everything from the arts to history to geography.

I tell him this little game keeps our minds sharp! It also gives us the odd bit of information from time to time to contribute to a conversation. 'Useless bits of information' is what Louis Dean calls it!

We went from ice and snow to a mild day worthy of celebrating with a sit on the driveway.

Here he is playing all innocent! He purposely irritates Lucy at times - thus totally defeating his purpose in trying to keep her from barking at him!!

We drove to Fort Worth this morning in the big white TRUCK!

Louis Dean thought this would be safer and we did, indeed, hit a couple of patches of ice on some underpasses.

We picked Mother up and had lunch at MiMi's Cafe!

Last night when I was making our plan for today, I told Louis Dean I wanted a Mimosa!

For some reason that just sounded so good to me!

It WAS good!!! Why do I not keep a couple of these small bottles on hand at home?

Louis Dean had slipped my camera out of my bag and was quietly taking pictures of us all the time we were waiting for our food! Mother and I were talking and talking!!!

Now, when I ASK him to take a picture - he gets all surly and says his hands are too big and he can't find the right buttons to push and other such stuff and nonsense!

Looks to me like he's figured it out!

Mother looked pretty in her green sweater.

AND she LOVED her coffee!!!

LD snubbed the breakfast menu and asked for a lunch one.

Somehow I think he should look happier than he does in this picture!

That was a GREAT hamburger! I tasted the onion rings on it! Plus I ate a few of his fries.

Mother loved her waffles! Mainly because she was given warm syrup in a little pitcher. She used TWO little pitchers of it!

Louis Dean is always the gentleman.

I kind of enjoyed being chauffeured around and having a Mimosa with my breakfast!

Perhaps we can do this again!

I was in the back seat giving the driving directions!

Louis Dean feels STRONGLY about his food!!!

Guess his mama never taught him to SHARE!

Our afternoon entertainment was the Benbrook Antique Mall.

THIS was the most interesting thing they saw there!

They had a long talk about it!

Not certain Mother wanted to walk around an antique mall - but what can I say?

I thought it would be good for her! We ALL needed to walk around after all we had eaten!

There was not ONE SINGLE CRUMB of food left on our plates!!!

The best part of the day was when we took her home to Deanie's and we all sat around and talked and laughed and then talked and laughed some more!! Charlie, Deanie, Mother, Louis Dean and I always have FUN whenever we get together!

After awhile Deanie and I left the guys and Mother to their news watching and we went in Deanie's bedroom to work on our project. We are making a time line of our childhood - with a little help from ALL of our siblings and perhaps a few cousins! This is bringing all of us closer together and strengthening the bonds between us.

I'm really enjoying doing this!

I told Mother today that the turning point in the relationship between my sisters, brother and me was when she had that stroke. Had she died then, as the doctors thought she would, we would probably not see each other or even think about each other. However, God had a plan for all of us - a plan for healing and restoration. You never know the GOOD things God has in store for us even when painfully BAD things happen to us.

I still need to finish typing up my notes so that's what I'm doing next before we go to bed.

Simple things. Simple pleasures. Simply wonderful!