The Storm never lasts forever

It's been a rainy week here.  Heavy storms have hit all through the midwest.  As we try to sell our house were trying to keep things in a pretty spring like condition.  A little hard when the rains keep hitting you hard.  Thankfully (hope I'm not speaking to soon) were coping with it quite well, but others I know are going thru a rough patch.  When your going thru a hard time, just like driving thru a storm it's hard to see the road in front of you.  You get a little flustered and are sure your going to crash.  Why can't we keep it all together and realize that the storm will pass and things usually turn out all right.  When the people that are the  closes to us are falling, why is it so hard not to fall with them.  Especially if you have family that are clumsy prone to fall.  Do you ever look back at a storm in your life and wonder why you thought it was so big a deal?  Some situations are big deals, but many are not.  Sometimes we just take life to serious.  If we could only keep some of that child like attitude.

 

Our Granddaughter Autumn with her new found friend Todd the toad

Selling your house not your home

Selling your house can be a big deal.  How many times have you seen a sign that says HOME for sale?  It really bugs me I'm not selling my home just the house.  We've been trying to sell our little farm house for a year.  The market has been so bad that you do feel like your selling your home.  The buyers have the upper hand and are expecting the world.  I think they want my home.  We have started working with a Realtor and she says every time she shows the house they want my furniture.  I guess I should feel complimented.  

I want to change my train of thought.  After reading the above I realize I am just complaining about life.  I want to bloom and move on to the next chapter.  You do sell a house and not a home.  It doesn't matter what the new owners think or do about your house.  As the verse in the Bible or as everyone knows the song "There is a season" things change.  Our house is just a place we gather a home is in the heart( I probably read that on some craft stuff).  Where ever my boys go where ever I go we take along our home.  Maybe thats why there are so many seniors in RV's not so much baggage.  Although those RV's are sometimes a little much for me.  I just hope we sell soon, the farm and us are opening are arms to new memories.

 

  family members come along, Cougar and Babe          

After the rain

The garden is in and we just had a hard rain.  No damage to the plants even though there roots are still shallow in the ground.  They are hardy plants came from a good start.  My son and his wife started them from seeds.  They took such care with these seedlings, using specially made potting soil, proper watering, protecting them from the early spring cold.  Isn't this the way we like to think of our first years of growth, special care to help us become that special someone.  What happens along the way?  Heavy rains?  Are roots never took hold?  How did I become a wallflower?  Definition: girl onlooker at a party.  Don't take this wrong I am not depressed I just see my life right now as a onlooker.  The two boys we raised are off on their own.  I have been a stay at home Mom.  My husband and I are getting ready to start a new chapter in our lives selling our house of 16 years and moving to another part of the state.  I believe I came from a good start and the roots did take hold.  I just want to bloom again and stop being the wallflower.  The garden is in and the rain has stopped it's time to pull some weeds.  The sun hasn't come out, but it will.

This Christmas cactus is approximately 100 years old.  It was passed down to me from my Grandmother my Mom's Mother.  It endured hard times on a small Wisconsin farm it lived to see(figuratively) the family grow.  It blooms every year faithfully.  There is so much to learn by observing God's creations.  Plants and animals don't question they just keep on doing what they were meant to do.  Maybe we think to much.  I think I am done talking for today and will get out there and start doing.