Beneath the Wraps

                 Our middle son had sent out a text before Christmas to inform us that one of our granddaughters was scheduled to be baptized on the 28 th and to please come.  I don’t know how may pleas he sent to indicate that our presence would be really awesome – but we didn’t have the funds.  I had asked my sister and brother-in-law if they would represent us.           Meanwhile two days before Christmas I received notice about a bank deposit that would be made into our account – but not until this month.   Jaime kept on telling us if we could find a way we ought to go.   And so we left the house the day after Christmas to make the drive to Utah and surprise the family.           We had stopped at a rest stop and I opened the back door to retrieve something – though not the 8 CDs that fell to the wet ground.   A man at ...

             I have not set any new years resolutions – nor do I feel the need to wait until New Year’s Day to do so.   I have been sick (off and on –though mostly on) for going on six weeks now.   I suppose I could have COVID – I never think about possibly having it until weeks after the fact.   Richard and I took a quick trip out of town.   I noticed miracles along the way and have written them down. I haven’t had much of a voice for the last eight days or so – possibly more (I’ve also been disoriented through this whole ordeal; grateful I don’t have a sinus infection) but am getting closer to being heard – though I sound like a cross between a chipmunk and one who may have swallowed razor blades. So I do have thoughts in the fire.   Hopefully they don’t all get consumed and go up in smoke.   I need more motivation.

  Richard has been wanting to see each of the boys and families for some time.  I had told him to take a few weeks in April but he would have to go by himself as Jaime is still in school.  Hopefully the mornings would be light enough for me to drive her.  If not, I think we ’ d be able to arrange something.  When he learned that Jaime would have a week off for spring break in addition to the weekends that surround it, he decided that we could both accompany him We were unable to find a dog sitter for Bonnie; those who were willing to take her already had dogs and after having my thumb and fingers mutilated due to her pulling away from her leash, I wasn ’ t willing to drop her off to anyone who seemed even remotely fragile – for I didn ’ t wish for her aggressiveness to become their problem.   We ended up taking her to a kennel in Winston.   We had to go north to the kennel but had to return south to go to the high school for Jai ’ s parent teach...