Saturday, October 5, 2024Tonight's picture was taken in October of 2002. Mattie was six months old. A friend of mine gave me this door threshold jumper. When she first gave it to me, my reaction.... was NO WAY am I going to use this. However, we clipped it to the threshold of Mattie's bedroom door and it was a God sent. Mattie LOVED it. Mattie was all about being in control and motion. I used this jumper to sway Mattie to sleep at night and he loved jumping up and down. If there were two things that were a must in our household, they were this jumper and his "tot wheels!"
Quote of the day: The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend. ~ Heather Brewer
This afternoon, after I took my parents out and they were settled, I went outside. Being in my backyard is my oasis from trauma and caregiving stresses. In the spring I bought these beautiful "Sunny" hibiscus plants at Lowe's. To be honest, I bought them because of their name. Since my Sunny died on January 10th of 2024, I felt these glorious plants would be a tribute to an amazing and loyal dog. As the weather is starting to turn cooler, I could do one of two things... let these plants die, or transplant them and bring them inside to winter. My hope is to be able to replant them back outside in the spring. I voted on trying to transplant them, which isn't a simple job as it involved a lot of carrying heavy pots around. A glorious bloom, no? It is so symbolic of my Sunny!I transplanted them from my big clay pots to these plastic pots and then carried them inside. We shall see how they do! I used to bring a lot of plants inside when I lived in the city. When we moved to the suburbs, a lot is planted in the ground, so there is not need to play the moving flower pot game. But there is something special about having greenery around you as it gets darker and colder. Indie was fascinated with my butterfly ginger lily plant that I brought inside tonight. Peter and I bought this plant in 2014, when we went to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was a small plant, purchased at the Elizabethan Gardens. It has the most beautiful blooms, white and butterfly shaped. They are fragrant, and a mix between a gardenia and jasmine. If you should snap off the green fronds, it has a distinctive ginger fragrance. It is a plant I absolutely love and have nurtured over all these years. It goes outside in the spring and back inside in the fall!
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