Flew through a sea of puffy white clouds all the way to Orlando on Monday. Sisser, Karen, picked me up after her work...timing was just right for my arrival. Making the transition from nights to days has been the hardest, but think I've made it. Had a nice, short visit and mom and I left the next morning just after 9 a.m.
Talk about a trip that did not go as planned. The windshield wipers did work...not the day we took off, however, and it was raining like crazy up as far as Macon. We wasted a lot of time trying to find someone to fix them as it is against the law to not run the wipers when raining. We stopped at a few places, even at a U-Haul place (mom's truck is an old U-Haul). They only service the vehicles-no mechanic-type stuff. Sooo, we ended up spending a bit of money for a motel and a good supper. I was just too tired to drive till late up in the night. Live and learn. Next time, if ever again, she will take the truck or whatever vehicle to be serviced and spend the money on the servicing. Isn't it a shame that money couldn't have gone toward fixing the wipers instead of a motel so we could have been home sooner. Mom says that hindsight is 20/20, eh?
My theory is trial and tribulation. Because of my belief, I feel that we are given much in trial and tribulation to see how we handle everything. What can I say...fell short for a bit, but came through in the end on learning the lesson and stopped grumbling to ourselves about doing things right the first time. If it weren't for these lessons, would we ever learn? NO! Our other trial in this tribulation is to try to find the good side to it and not let it get us down...handle the stress properly. Do believe most all our lives are like this...full of hurdles to overcome and learn from. Perhaps the grumbling will eventually go away when first we come to a tribulation?! That's a lesson that's a hard one to overcome, sometimes.
It's been an eventful day. Today is Stan's 57th birthday. After lunch, laundry, doing some organizing, supper, baking the "birthday cake" (it's a special cake...tell ya bout it later), watching a video, setting up a
blog for mom, everyone's deserted me and gone to bed. Thinking I'd better start making tracks that way if I want to keep with this daytime shift for the better part of my vacation. I need to start with some deep cleaning and jumping in that pool that Stan's worked so hard to keep sparklingly clean. Whooohooo! Night all...wow, it's actually night!
