My Hearts' Haven Daybook

Originally written on Monday evening, April 26th, while sitting in The Sharing Place in Sacramento where Sarah is recovering from a heart catheterization this morning....a follow-up from the congenital heart defect she was born with.....someday, I will write that whole story......

Outside My Window.......it is so obvious a storm is blowing in this evening.....you can feel it....and smell it.......the sky is dark, the clouds menancing......

I am thinking........that I am so very tired. Being at the hospital at 5:30am was not conducive to much sleep last night......and neither was sitting around the hospital all day.

I am thankful for.......Sarah having responded well to her recovery today and this nice place to stay right next to the hospital. I am most especially grateful to my friend Shawna...who has my boys......and to Louise who has Maddelyn....while we are gone....freeing Marty to be available to his boss this week. Thanks, ladies...and Jacob, too! I am grateful for good medical care.

From the kitchen.........Sarah and I each just had a cup of hot tea...she enjoyed chai spice and I sipped Stash's Christmas Morning Tea........mmmmmm! Otherwise, it was hospital food all day.....not much to get excited about......

I am wearing......a pretty cotton skirt, red with white flowers and a long-sleeved red shirt...barefoot and sans leggings....which means...I must not be at home! :)

I am creating........at this moment: this daybook....it has been a very long time...November 20th to be precise!

I am going.....to get a good night's sleep tonight! How is that for positive thinkin'? Got to drive home from Sac tomorrow, in a rain storm....I need the rest!

I am reading.........Tom Playfair aloud to the boys.....and to the girls when they get a chance to listen. I just started a book called Sandy, I think...written by a man who raised a sandhill crane from an egg. I am loving it! I so enjoy books written by naturalists! I have also just read three Nicholas Sparks' books...for some easy, mindless reading: The Wedding, which I enjoyed a bit...not great writing, but distracting enough. I think iy has a great reminder about what is important in a long marriage. Worth a read for the marrieds, if just to remind a couple to keep those things in mind. It would be good if MEN would read it. :) Another: True Believer.......distracting.....but not worth recommending. The last: A Walk to Remember. This was a re-read.....I was pre-reading it for Sarah, so she could see the movie. I loved the story the first time through...and this time as well......even if the writing is not great. The movie bums me out. I am over half way through The Confessions of Saint Augustine...I LOVE IT!!!! He is my new best friend. ;) I am also about to wrap up De Wohl's The Endless Flame, about St. Augustine. It was an excellent idea to read the two together. Sometimes, DeWohl would write something about St. Augustine that I would find totally unbelievable...only to find it was true in the Confessions. How is that for verification of a story?

Since my last daybook, I have also read Dicken's Bleak House, Gaskell's North and South.

I bet I read other books......but I cannot remember right now..... :)

I am hoping.......to call Willa soon....we have some visiting plans to discuss.

I am hearing......music: Swing.....Tangoes......Waltzes......Salsa......and more! Sarah is watching SWING TIME........depressing movie about some German kids during Hitler's rise to power. So sad.

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And, that's all I had got...before I went to bed!

I just wanted to make sure that I kept these memories some place retrievable and I did not want to waster the work I did........

Blessings!!

Love,

Chari......visiting the Sierra Nevadas