Monday, April 22, 2013

New kittens...

I can't believe how the days fly by.  Last weekend 4/14 was All-Day-meeting and Mom was so so so so worn out. We both stayed for the afternoon address, but I stayed home from Gospel with her. She gets tired so easily, and then she sleeps for hours.
For the last two weeks I was stressed about my taxes and was not thinking about blogging.  As it happens every time (at this time of year) I want to quit owning a business and work for someone else.  My tax preparer is very good at her job.  She worked and worked with my return...and because first she told me that I might owe $1500.00 plus penalties ( I hadn't been able to make the estimated payments) after I was done fainting she sat down with me and we worked on it some more.  She reminded me that essentially I was only owing my Self-Employment Social Security contribution (as if that felt any better) I was able to write the check for the whole amount...except I had forgotten about my car payment and my (self compulsory) IRA contribution so I was on edge all week, going to the bank every day with every single dollar that came in hoping that the check wouldn't clear until I had enough.  I was encouraged with the verse that Our God shall supply all our need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  So I rendered to Caesar.  As of today, it hasn't cleared. 

Today we went to the eye doctor and Mom got good news!  Her prescription is pretty much the same and the cataract in her good (left) eye hasn't progressed enough to warrant surgery.  In fact, he said that she would only get slightly better clarity but the operation would come with risks.  Her right eye is pretty well a blank.  She was assigned a new case worker this morning by hospice (RN) named Kathy.  We like her.  It's time consuming to get her up to speed, but she has the pertinent information on her computer record. The visit was non-eventful, meaning that none of her vitals were worse that expected. 

We caught four kittens, one right after the other.  I guess that has been taking up my thoughts too.  One morning we discovered that we had caught the Momma and a kitten too!  Yay!  Tom and Sue took her to the shelter but brought the kitten home.  We had four very frightened kittens on our hands that were about five weeks old.  After the trauma of trapping them I decided to keep them together for a few weeks.  Sue lent me a kennel.  They stayed in there all piled up together.  We try to handle them every day to get them used to us. Janet came last Thursday night after Reading meeting and took two home with her.  I thought about letting Juana take the one she wanted but I think they are too young to be alone.  Besides they are so cute playing together.  I think we will keep them.  I do go back and forth about it.  Lily sometimes decides she is the reincarnation of the Hound of Baskerville and we have had to physically remove her. We keep the separate when we are gone.  Mom enjoys it and so we press on!  Last night one actually came and sat on my lap while I was at the desk.  They let us pet them when they are napping, but they are impossible to catch.

I have been enjoying an old book...The  Valley of Vision: a collection of puritan prayers and devotions.
" I know that Thou art the author and finisher of faith,
that the whole work of redemption is Thine alone,
that every good work or thought found in me,
is the effect of Thy power and grace,
that Thy sole motive in working in me to will
and to do is for Thy good pleasure."
So beautiful.  I read this morning this line:"...to be a dispenser as well as a partaker of grace."

Even if I can never ever pray with such poetic eloquence, I can thoroughly enjoy the reading of it. 

BTW I noticed that I have a 'follower' in Germany...? and that there were 26 pageviews. oh no.

2 comments:

  1. Not me. I'm still in Canada. Taxes stress me out too. But thankfully we have a tax man for the business and he does the Canadian personal too. (He charges too much to do the US when I can do it myself with just copying a few numbers and using last year's as a guide.) He even managed to get me a refund this year! Alas, a lot of it went for eye glasses.

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  2. I think half of those page views are me checking for updates. Yeah, taxes are stressful. Just don't do David's trick and faint in your recliner while answering tax questions! He's found that having a steady 60 beats per minute is great for timing things. My two kittens are venturing forth from the sewing room and running into the older cats, quite entertaining, they scare the middle age cats. You should have seen Mom hike up her skirt to tan her legs today!

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