Busy Xs Three

It is crunch time...

3 houses being made ready all

at once, 2 move in dates for all 3

and me going back and forth between

them all, with new grand baby and paint

and cupboards the wrong color and 

redoing them and packing up treasures

and sore backs and refinishing furniture...

but as a friend pointed out to me today

God knows what we need and I am busy

right now in these good ways because

it holds back the sorrow and the pain.

Really, it eases, not holds back

for in the labor of helping my children in 

this way I bring back tender memories

of my own parents serving me, 

so they are closer and the loneliness

of single life fades away.

Table redo for my son

 Footstool redo