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We Do Love and a Whole Bunch of Other Stuff — 20 Comments

  1. So nice to hear from you, Joe. I miss our connection at MH. I hope all is well with you, your writing, your teaching, and of course your family. 🙂

  2. Today’s blog post is a great reminder about the important things in life, and how easy it is to overlook them. Love it. The plaque would be great wedding gift to newlyweds.

  3. Dear Karen, this precious little wooden plaque is like a string of shining pearls, pearls of wisdom in living. What an accomplishment of life! Thank you for sharing your beautiful story. I enjoyed reading it as always. Jing

  4. Love it, Karen! So glad you and Charles bought that little plaque so that you could share it—and the story behind it—with us. It’s amazing what God can use to bring us closer to each other.

  5. Beautiful story and plaque. Wonderful reminders that life with our loved ones is a bit messy and in need of grace, quick forgiveness . . . and more hugs.

  6. Karen, I love that plaque! Isn’t it funny how we can be so upset and then we cannot remember “why” ? I do remember during my first marriage I would get upset with my husband and go sleep the rest of the night on the couch!! makes me laugh now and of course I have no idea what would get me upset??? With my wonderful ‘Herb’ I never slept on the couch!! I did get upset with him one time that I remember. We had some water damage that required new carpet in a couple of rooms,painting the woodwork, etc. and the floor in the guest bedroom was so wet we could not put anything on the floor in the closet. I was painting woodwork in the living room when I saw him coming in the room going toward the bedroom and he had a very dirty plank and was going to put it in the closet floor so we could set a few things on it. The board actually had mud on it!! I asked him to please don’t put that dirty board in the closet, take it outside!! He just kept on walking toward the bedroom, I asked him three more times and he would not listen so ti YELLED : Take that thing out of here!! He just turned around, got to the kitchen door ( by that time I was already crying because I yelled at him) he stopped and simply said: “Well, I can say one thing, there is nothing wrong with your vocal chords!” Of course we made up immediately after my heartfelt apology!! I just HAD to share this story with you!
    I am not a ” yeller” and it really did upset me~guess th at is why I still remember it. In a way it really is funny!
    (sorry I am late with my comment but I spent about two hours in the dentist chair yesterday-nothing serious just time and ‘money’!!
    Love and thanks for another great one!!
    Margaret

    • Thanks, Margaret. I enjoyed your little story of getting upset. We all have our soft spots! I’m glad to hear your dental appointment was routine–nothing serious.

  7. Karen I love to hear the stories you share about you and Charles. When Bob was able, we would go looking in quaint places. He always went for the books first. He liked to read and study. So he brought about 200 or more of Harry’s books home to study and now that he is in the N.H. I have to go thru all them. Most were donated to a charity. I kelp a few that I knew were Harry’s favorite. Karen I enjoy your blogs.

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