On Friday this week.
Our item on sale today is
Be Joyful
You can go to our store to get your kit
by clicking here.
And truthfully I'm having a lot of trouble
being joyful as this is my first
Christmas without Pep after 55 Christmas's
with him. I keep telling myself to be thankful
that we had so many happy years together and
that does help a little but I still miss him every
minute of every day.
One thing that helped was getting out our
stockings.
His stocking is a snowman and the snowman has
police buttons. He worked in security for 35 years, first
as a supervisor at Baptist Hospital and then when it closed,
he was transferred to Research Hospital. They wanted him
to be a supervisor there too but he said he wanted to go
back to being a "worker bee". Both hospitals are somewhat
close to the "hood" so he kept busy
Then my stocking which hangs next to his has a
house, trees and a kitty. It should have had a dog
too - I gave him a black Great Dane for a
wedding present and after that we either had
Great Danes or Mastiffs.
At first we rented a house in Kansas City but looked
for land up north because Pep's parents lived in
Chillicothe and that way we would be halfway in
between the families. Pep's father had bought him
Savings Bonds for every birthday and Christmas.
When we found our 80 acres we cashed them in to
buy the land and build our house out of the bricks
from Midland Brick and Tile, Pep's dad's company.
And 55 years later, here I still am. The boys want me
to move closer to them but leaving this house that we
built together would be like losing another part of him.
Even as we had a traditional marriage - Pep was very
supportive of me working and took time off to drive me
all over the
country to Quilt Markets.
I usually don't comment on current events but while I
loved a strong man, I could not fathom being attracted
to someone who would shoot a man in the back. I
find the thought repulsive
