Normal Lives

Its been a great week. A week with lots of change in my life and growth.

Walking the dogs tonight, I glanced over to my right and saw a family through their dining room window, eating their dinner. I was reminded at that moment, most of us live very normal lives, in normal homes. Not the homes you see on tv on HGTV, but normal living; with laundry to do, dishes to wash, floors to clean, and toilets to scrub. The lives we see on tv are just lives on a stage, not the reality. We need to be grateful for our simple lives.

This past Monday I got a call from DaVita in Grapevine. They wanted to come over and do an inspection on the house to see if it would be viable for home dialysis. She came over the next afternoon and when she was leaving asked if I was ready to start this coming Monday for training on NxStage. It floored me because I wasn't expecting it until the end of August. What a surprise, a good surprise. I said goodbye to all of my friends at the center in Plano this morning.

I'm not sure why this was advanced up a month, but it will be interesting to see why down the road. Its kind of in wonderment. I'm anxious to see the Lord's purpose in all of this.

On another bright note, Steve got paid today from the contractor he's been doing work for.

Saturday afternoon

This has been a different week for me. I went out Tuesday to the DaVita in Grapevine to meet with the nurses there who are going to train me to do dialysis at home. It looks like it'll start end of August and I'll probably start at home in October. I'm so thrilled. It will give more energy and the ability to have a bit more of a life.

I've spent this week down on my knees. When we had the tile in our kitchen and family room installed, (I'm too embarrassed to say how long ago), anyway, the installer didn't get the grout out of the pits in the tile (its supposed to look like travertine). In spite of mopping and scrubbing, nothing would bring it out. So this week, I've tried using a wire brush and a can opener (the kind you'd use to open pop bottles or canned milk). Anyway, I've made huge progress. I've got about half of it done and hope to have it done by the end of this week. It looks soooo much better.

Gotta go, off to the temple. Funny story. When I worked as the secretary, I'd asked for a color printer. Didn't happen. So when I went in Thursday morning to volunteer, it came out he'd bought one for his office. I gave him a call and teased him. He said everyone had been told not to tell me. So much for secrecy.

A House Full of Blessings

I'm sitting here watching my daughter and one of her friends sound asleep. The house is full of her friends. They got in this morning around 4 from San Antonio. My daughter got here a week ago, some of her friends got here and on Wednesday and the remainder on Thursday. They spent Thursday doing things in our area and left on Friday to San Antonio. They leave today. When I got up to eat breakfast this morning, I found a corner in the back of the house to eat.

Going to Sacrament this morning and then back home to see them off.