"These Is My Words"
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
I’ve been reading all day today. Shirking all kinds of
cleaning and chores and dozens of projects I should be doing. I’ve devoured
this book “These Is My Words” about a pioneer woman and her life and trials and
dreams and loves over the past day and a half. It is fascinating and
heartbreaking and inspiring all at once. I can’t imagine living in constant
fear and heartache and turmoil like they had to. It makes me so grateful that I
have healthy, good children and a healthy, loving husband and a warm, safe
place to sleep every night. It makes my worries seem so small and unimportant.
Mikey stayed home from school today. He threw up in the
middle of the night and although he woke up feeling absolutely fine, I still
didn’t feel right about sending him to school today, just in case. Since he was
feeling just fine, we had a great day reading books, practicing cursive and
sharing a salad at Kneaders for lunch. We stopped by Grandma D’s house to drop
off the walker she let us borrow for my Mom when she was here. Carmen is always
such a cheerful, delightful person to talk to. She just loved seeing little
Mikey and kept saying how he is looking bigger and more grown up. I think his
face is thinning out a little and losing that baby look, although when we
measured everybody on Sunday night, he has only grown a quarter of an inch
since February. He was a little disappointed with that. Carmen told me how
Clint has been talking funny lately, saying things like he’s got to get this house all set up for Carmen so when he
dies she will be taken care of. They are replacing the carpet on their stairs
and putting in an automatic chair so Carmen can go up and down the stairs. It
made my heart hurt to even think about Clint being gone. We all love him so
much. He is such a pillar of strength in the Davis family.
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