Monday, August 1, 2016

Two Are Better Than One

Ecclesiastes 4:9 & 10
Two are better than one,
    because they have a good 
return for their labor:
If either of them falls down,
    one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
    and has no one to help them up.


Last week I enjoyed two days with Mike’s Mom and his sister, Lynn. We met at The Harbor on Wednesday and spent about 3 hours with Mike mainly playing games. Lynn is lots of fun, lively and animated and Mike smiled a lot as we played Sequence in his room. On Thursday, we took him out for a haircut and a picnic at the park where we played more board games and took a little walk. He did very well eating his sandwich slowly and not choking on his drink. By the time we returned to The Harbor, he was totally worn out and ready to lie down for a while.

With Mom Rice and Lynn to do things with, this felt like a vacation. We all enjoyed swimming in the hotel pool which overlooks beautiful farm land and the first night we even swam while watching the sunset and lots of birds flying overhead. It was gorgeous. Lynn and I spent a long time in the water swimming and talking the entire time. Thank you, Lynn, for coming all the way from Texas. It’s so much fun to spend time with you! 


Enjoying time with Mom R. & Lynn
at The Vintage Restuarant
Fancy & Delicious!
We ate at two memorable restaurants with very different, but beautiful décor and delicious food. One was an old mansion made into a restaurant and inn with a rustic, yet elegant atmosphere in Orange called The Vintage Restaurant at The Inn at Willow Grove. The other had a European flare with full-wall murals, overflowing service and probably the best food I’ve ever eaten at a restaurant. If you are ever in Culpeper, Virginia and want to feel like you’re in Europe while delighting your taste buds, I highly recommend It’s About Thyme. Thank you Mom R. for the fun dining experiences. I always enjoy having time with you!

It's About Thyme. We ate it all!
Their bread was superb. So flavorful.
Thank you for your prayers about my writing. I’ve actually started two new blogs. That was not my original intention, but is what’s happening now. I’m still tweaking a little bit and learning the new things that I can do with a blog, but they are both up and I’m pushing myself to post at least once a week to www.lookingforbrightspots.blogspot.com and at least twice a week to www.reflectionsbythepond.com. Each one has two posts up as of today. I hope you’ll take a look and give me your honest feedback on the sites and content. 

The Looking for Bright Spots blog is geared mainly to caregivers so far, but we’ll see how it evolves. I am still figuring out what my voice and niche are, but needed to get something out there to get over my fear, stop stalling, and quit trying to have everything perfect. I hope that eventually it will be helpful to anyone going through a rough period of their lives – always pointing people to Jesus and helping them find encouragement and hope.

I’m having the most fun with the Reflections by the Pond blog. I love to take pictures with my cell phone and learned how to make memes at the writers’ conference. If you’ve never heard of a meme, neither had I, but I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of them. Basically, it’s a picture with words over it. I’m still learning this also, but it is a creative outlet and a way to use some of these bazillion photos I’ve taken. Purchasing a real camera and taking a photography class are on my bucket list, but cell phones actually do a satisfactory job.

The gardens are producing and neighbors are sharing from their gardens also, so Mom and I have been busy in the kitchen today. She canned tomatoes, while I put cucumbers in lime for more cinnamon pickles. Mom had heard of a Squash Pudding so I looked up a recipe and made that tonight. It was yummy! Dad says more corn will be ready in about two days and the apples are rotting on the trees so we’re picking and working on those too. If you’re bored, come on over. We’ll put you to work!

The above verse is perfect for this blog. Having Mom R. and Lynn with Mike and me was much more fun and we could do more than when it's just us, having your prayers helped pick me up when I was struggling to start something new, and Mom, Dad and I working together to store food for the winter sure is better than just one of us trying to do it all. God knows we need each other, sometimes I think we forget that we do.

"Two are better than one."



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