So Much Better With Help

Some of our grandchildren who live nearby were kind enough to serve their grandparents by coming to help decorate the home. See what beautiful work they did.

And with Amyanne's help, our home was miraculously transformed in about five hours. A million thank you's to you all.

I could have done it myself in five days. But this is what I've been doing. See the neatly packed boxes?

And this is what Lee has been doing. See the open scrapbook? He's on Memory Lane. I think that lane it isn't paved because he keeps getting stuck. It's amazing to me how much he gets done, and still spends time on Memory Lane. He has a gentle heart, which means I'm a blessed lady.

You wouldn't believe how much we've thrown away, and we are still surviving. Didn't we really need all that stuff we've been storing?

Hartder Than I Thought

Did I say, eons ago, (like maybe Nov. 11) that the Japanese language was easy to learn?

Well, nix that. I was just a babe. I repent.

Now I am much wiser. I must have at least the understanding of a four-month old now. And I can probably speak Japanese at least as well as a nine-month old.

For instance, read this from my Japanese Grammar book: "The particle "ni" marks the agent of the action expressed by passive, causative, or causative passive verbs."

Did you get that?

Me neither.

















Oh, to be a baby again and think that Japanese is easy.

Most Precious

Amyanne and her little family will be moving into our home when we leave. So she came last week and we talked about things she wanted me to leave here and things she wanted me to pack. She suggested I pack up all the decor items around the house that mean a lot to me. So today I filled two average-sized boxes with those items and lots of bubble wrap. As I went to label them, I thought about putting "Precious Items" on the box, but then thought that if someone broke into the storage area, those boxes would attract them. So I put "decor items--fragile". But as I was doing that, I thought, "These aren't my precious items anyway. I wish I could box up my precious items and take them to Japan with me." How do you think our two bedroom apartment would handle the 35 of us? I cried just a little. I'm going to really miss my precious items.