It is about a year since Cindy and I took Tom to the Abbotsford Hospital because he could not keep any food down. It proved to be a bowel blockage but the cancer was also on a rampage and he only lived two more weeks. It is difficult for me to think about all that happened during that time but it is also a very sacred and precious time to me too and I treasure all the love we felt for each other, from our children and others and from the Lord. The miracles came in abundance, not the one we had wished and prayed for, but the ones the Lord had ready to pour down upon us.
Tom blessed me more than any other person in my life and I have had wonderful people in my life. I have the deacons coming tonight to help with yard work and staining my deck. I went to see if I had the appropriate strain and brushes and I have both because of Tom. I regularly turn around in need of something and find that Tom has already taken care of it. As I talk to and work with people, I realize that I have been blessed with a remarkable and loving husband who truly did and still does make me feel secure and loved. I am not sure why I have been so blessed but I am ever grateful for him and oh, how I miss him.
I had a lovely Mother’s Day. Cindy left a cute breakfast in the fridge for me while I was serving in the Temple on Saturday and then made a picnic for us on Mother’s Day. The children went together and got me a lovely set of pots and pans. I admired Lara Lyn’s new pans when I was in Whitefish and they got me some like hers. They are so good to me and I love them and our grandchildren. They are all remarkable.
The Temple is closing the end of the month for 2 1/2 months and so it has been very busy and very hot as we are having a heat wave and the air conditioning, which will be repaired during closure, is not working. We have been doing a lot of live ordinances and as Ted Streibel has been on a cruise, I have been handling the new male bookings too.
I taught Amy and Hyrum the follow up Temple lesson and gave them my BBQ. They are a great couple and I really appreciate them. The awnings they put on my bedroom windows still seem to be helping in preventing further turf burn and that is a big deal for me.
Kona is feeling better and has completed her treatments for her bowel infection. I have washed her and all of her things and hopefully that is the end of it but we still have to do a follow up poop test next week.
My days and weeks are full and all of that is good.
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