Honey

In addition to some fun birthday shenanigans, I also got to visit Annette.

This was nice, since I have not been able to see her as much as I would have liked this past month. We try to get together every couple weeks. We sit around drink coffee and do puzzles. She is slowly processing the recent passing of her sister, so I feel our visits are more and more meaningful. I can't even imagine how it would be to pick up the phone to make that call and then be hit with the realization that they are not there anymore.

I keep praying she will find some form of peace and be able to look forward to seeing her sister again in heaven...for now I try to see her more than usual and call her more than usual. It's not much, but it fills a small piece of that void left behind.

 She showed me pictures she has been stock piling. Of how hard it has rained, her granddaughter who is now engaged, her son playing with his band at a local venue...

We worked on trying to put the ground together on a puzzle of deers in a meadow.

Each one of these visits make me realize how precious time is and how we take trivial things for granted. I am hoping to remember the joy in the mundane.

*sigh*

Simple joys