Oh my
We live in an electronic age don't we!
I have already posted this week about how I love the instancy of the Kindle. You KNOW I love my i phone. Well we have so many gadgets that the drawer where we keep the power cables has gone a teeny bit crazy. There are so many. We have several digital cameras and each has its own charger plus there is the charger for the rechargable batteries.
There is the charger for the DS Lite, the charger for the i pod, the charger for the i phone (no they are not interchanegable as the one for the i touch won't charge the i phone) the charger for the Kindle and then don't even get me started ont he chargers for the gazzilion other phones we have or appear to ever have had. Plus they have car chargers too!
Oh my
It's a technological conundrum.
We have just spent a very fraught time trying to match leads to devices and then bring out the trusty dymo labeller to make sure we never get in this pickle again!
I have a new page to share today which is another made with the new templates that Dawn has on sale at her Scrapbookgraphics store.
The page is of me at Versailles but the story is how I waited for so many years to actually visit. I had read a great deal about Versailles and Marie Antoinette when I was a teenager. I was fascinated by it. I ALMOST visited in 1986 when we went to Paris on our Honeymoon and whilst we did go there were were too broke to buy a ticket and go in!
So it was just last year when we finally got to visit. And it was amazing. Sometimes, when you look forward to something so much and anticipate it, when it actually happens it is a disappointment.
This wasn't at all - it was everything I hoped and more.
Today I am thankful for
- a super organised hubby!
- electricity .... seriously
My one minte devotional page today is lovely and something that over the past few weeks we have really tried to live by.
Years ago, a good friend lost his wife in an automobile accident. Stunned, my wife, Beth, and I went to be with him in his time of grief. As we stood in his doorway and embraced one another, his first words to me were, “Jill and I had so many plans together. And now she’s gone. Scott, whatever you do, don’t put off your plans till tomorrow.”
Like most folks, I had heard those urgent words many times before. And, like most, I soon forgot them. Until last week, when I found myself in a doctor’s office, sitting anxiously by my wife. In a matter of only days, Beth had developed symptoms of cancer, and now we were waiting to hear the test results. But this time the words stuck. Beth means everything to me. Jack was right, I thought, stunned. I cannot take tomorrow for granted. And I must live each day of my life with joy, intensity, and appreciation.
Fortunately, Beth’s test results were negative. Over the last few days, though, I have resolved to be not as concerned with preparing for retirement as with making the present day all that it can be. Beth and I have dreamed for years of a restful cruise to Bermuda. My widowed mother is getting on in years, and I need to tell her again what a wonderful mom she has been—and I need to bring the kids around to visit her more regularly. I’m an avid genealogist, and if I do not write our family history, nobody else will. And the only time that I am promised is now.
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