ElderChicks

It is so interesting to think about all of the things we can control, how we plan and expect to execute. Back in 1993 we had just completed remodeling our basement. We had put up new walls, carpet, a bathroom and bedroom for my teenage son. I had new furniture and a lovely home office. There had been a lot of rain that summer and several parts of our small town in Iowa had suffered from water damage. I woke up around 2am with a premenition that something was not right in our home. I walked down our basement stairs and saw water seeping up through the hairline cracks in our cement floor due to the high water table. I woke my husband and son, and we spent the rest of the night moving furniture upstairs, putting pieces we couldn’t move on crates and wrapping aluminum foil around chair and table legs. I was so frustrated to see what had happened. However, my husband, who had lost his first wife to cancer, put it all in perspective when he said, “it’s only money. We are not hurt or sick”. That one sentence put everything into place for me. He was right. We had our health, and we had each other. It also told me that no matter how we plan, there are some things we just have to get through.