Jun
10
2025

Hair Ties

I was never adept at styling the hair of my three daughters when they were little.
Oh, I could put their hair in pigtails or a ponytail.
I could place a barrette or clip in just the right place.
I knew how to put a hair tie in their hair that matched the color of their outfit.

I remember when I took my children to get haircuts.
My oldest daughter loved getting one particular stylist.
In fact, she would let her sister go ahead of her and waited for that stylist in particular.
That stylist would French braid my daughter’s long hair after she cut it.

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Jun
3
2025

Lipstick Shades

I do not wear any makeup on my skin.
The only thing I use is moisturizer morning and night.
I have taught my daughters the same principles.
Less is more.

I don’t like to be in the sun.
My Irish ski and sun do not mix.
I have had my share of sunburns when I was younger.
Those were the days of baby oil on the skin and Sun In on my hair.

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May
27
2025

Accessibility

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My son-in-love and oldest granddaughter came over on the weekend.
He wanted to borrow one of our kayaks so he could take his daughter on a nearby lake.
This granddaughter just had her seventh birthday.
I truly do not know where the tine is going.

I was on my computer, at my farm table in the kitchen, when I heard the door open.
It is the door from the garage into my laundry room.
Soon I heard her footsteps.
Like my own children, I actually know my grandchildren’s footsteps as well.

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May
20
2025

Puddle Jumping

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We have had weeks of rain.
I haven’t minded too much, since many of our mulched beds have new plants in them.
The deer had decimated so many shrubs and plants that were planted last year.
Other plants, failed to thrive because of the summer drought.

Our landscaper, who comes in the spring and fall, said that the rain would benefit the plants.
Little did we know how much rain would fall.
Little did we know how wonderful the downpours would be for the new growth.
We didn’t have to water anything ourselves; God took care of that for us.

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May
13
2025

Grandparents Day

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It was the annual Grandparent’s Day at our granddaughters’ school.
We have had the pleasure of going in previous years with our oldest granddaughter.
This year, we had two classrooms to visit.
Our granddaughters are blessed to have both sets of grandparents nearby.

Consequently, neither granddaughter was without a set of grandparents in her classroom.
We split the time in half and visited one classroom and then switched to the other.
My husband and I were to drive both girls home.
The other grandparents stopped to get pizza for all of us to have at lunch.

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May
6
2025

As God allows, Whispers of His Movement will return next Tuesday, May 13. With grandchildren’s birthdays and reading my book, Reading with Remmy, at various schools, a week off was needed. Continue to listen for His Whispers.

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Apr
29
2025

The One Inch Step

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We walk up and down stairs every day.
It is an activity we are able to do on autopilot.
We rarely think about the time when we were unable to climb the stairs.
Anyone around small children knows that there is such a time.

I remember when my own children were small.
The stairs seem to call to them.
We put a gate at the bottom so the temptation to climb the stairs was thwarted.
It wasn’t going up the stairs that was a problem; it was the coming down.

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Apr
22
2025

The Day After

This poem was originally published on April 1, 2013. I have been thinking about these questions that I asked twelve years ago. The questions are still important to ask and more important to answer.

What do you do the day after?
The day after the day that He rose?
What do you do to remember?
What do you do so others may know?

Is there still awe in your countenance?
As you answer, He is risen indeed.
Is there amazement and joy in your heart,
As the Easter story you read?

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Apr
15
2025

Blast Off Hug

It was another grandchild weekend.
My son and two of my granddaughters came for a long weekend.
My daughter-in-love was away with her cousins for the weekend.
My house looked as it did when my children were young.

“Grandma’s toys” were all over the floor.
It doesn’t matter that their own Daddy played with these same toys.
To them, they are Grandma’s toys and that’s all that matters.
I like seeing the toys get new life.

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Apr
8
2025

Watching And Waiting

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It was one of those gray days.
Misty rain changed to actual raindrops without warning.
No need for sunglasses.
No need for the visor to be pulled down as I drove around doing errands.

I pulled into the parking lot of my natural pharmacy.
The building used to be an old bank; even the vault is still there.
I tend to park in the same general area.
I noticed it as I pulled towards the parking space.

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