a shelter from the storm

Retirement is a funny phenomenon.  I reached 62 at the end of last year and we decided I should go ahead and start receiving Social Security.  So, I signed up for it and began getting my checks...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2016/08/dont-simply-retire-from-something-have.html

We are preparing to bid our daughter goodbye.  She's an adult, granted...but no matter how old they become, they're still our children.  And since we've had her with us or near us for almost 40...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2016/07/only-in-agony-of-parting-do-we-look.html

Yup, what my post title says is the truth.  No arguing there.  I am finding that getting back into the groove of regular writing is like coming back from a Rip Van Winkle nap.  Brain cells tha...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2016/06/to-think-too-long-about-doing-thing.html

I have a little boy at my house this week who is letting me know he's not very happy with me.  Not in words, but actions...and I can't be mad at him because, even at my age, I can remember how f...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2016/06/only-in-agony-of-parting-do-we-look.html

Where oh where oh where did my muse disappear to?  Is that the right word...the ability to think, comment, and meditate?  I dunno.  Something profound happened when we moved 5 years ago to Mic...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2016/06/it-takes-courage-to-grow-up-and-become.html

There are times in people's lives where facing big decisions could lead to some major relocations in their lives.  Oh, can I empathize!  I know exactly the exhilaration, the terror, the excit...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2014/10/you-have-to-leave-city-of-your-comfort.html

A puffy little fur-ball came into my life back in 2004.  He was a new Lhasa Apso puppy and his name was, quite fittingly, Max.  He was my grandpuppy before my grandsons came along and I used ...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-puffy-little-fur-ball-came-into-my.html

Dear Hubby meeting his New Best Friend   Dear Hubby and I took a vacation in early August to southern Missouri to attend a church camp of our faith for 5 days.  This is an annual Camp Mee...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2013/10/every-action-of-our-lives-touches-on.html

  Ok.  This is my third attempt at trying to write something here this evening.  I love to write with music playing and on my first attempt I tried my Pandora station of Bluegrass Gospel...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-leaves-of-memory-seemed-to-make.html

Oh, why not shock everyone and post another entry to my blog?  I'm sure my blog doesn't know what to make of it!  Isn't this photo beautiful?  It's a picture of a lake that's in my hometo...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2013/07/its-but-little-good-youll-do-watering.html

  I have to tell you a funny story about something that happened to me today. As I was scrolling down my page on Facebook this morning there was a video one of my friends in Ontario, Cana...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2013/03/you-can-always-tell-real-friend-when.html

This is a self-portrait I took of myself recently for a Photo-A-Day challenge I've been doing with a niece of mine.  My hair is not short...I have it skinned back in a pony tail.  I also don'...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-years-teach-much-which-days-never.html

I had posted a couple of very precious moments I've had as a grandmother in the past month on Facebook and a friend told me that I need to write them down.  So I thought what better place th...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2013/02/children-are-living-messages-we-send-to.html

  Don't you wish Life came with written directions?  When something comes your way where you need to make a decision or a change, you can look it up on page 37 and it says right there, in bl...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2013/01/all-changes-even-most-longed-for-have.html

  I am here to tell you that miracles still happen.   20 years ago the brother closest to me in age cut me completely out of his and his family's life. Many attempts were made by me a...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2012/12/i-am-here-to-tell-you-that-miracles.html

My four-year-old grandson spent the day with me earlier this week and as I sat with him at the kitchen table during lunch he told me about something that he considered ugly.  We got into a con...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2012/12/beauty-is-in-eye-of-beholder.html

This is a photo of Dear Hubby and me taken not too long after we'd been married. Weren't we a couple of young kids?! Oh my word, when I look back and think of how we thought we were so grown up...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2012/11/this-is-photo-of-dear-hubby-and-me.html

    My Dear Hubby and I recently returned from a glorious 5-day trip to Michigan's Upper Peninsula for a much-needed vacation. Since moving here 19 months ago our lives have been running ...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-dear-hubby-and-i-recently-returned.html

One way in which my Dear Hubby and I differ is when it comes to planning.  He loves to have every second of every endeavor of his scheduled out to the micro-second.  He would disagree but, bel...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2012/09/heres-to-matrimony-high-sea-for-which.html

This is my 4 year old grandson Cooper.  What a hoot.  Mr. Personality Plus...can you tell?  He was at loose ends today without his big brother around.  Even tho Dylan went for only a fe...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2012/09/you-can-get-all-as-and-still-flunk-life.html

I am so small I can barely peer over the keyboard of the battered upright piano sitting in the Kilitz's living room.  I am dressed in a skinny-strapped bouffant underslip and so is my friend An...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2012/08/random-childhood-snapshots-in-no.html

The tornado warning sirens went off at 5 am this morning and no, this is not what it looked like as I peeked out of the curtains on my way down into the basement.  Whewwwwww!  Thank the good ...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2012/07/tornado-warning-sirens-went-off-at-5-am.html

38 years ago I married this man.  We were just a couple of kids.  He'd just turned 21 and I was 20.  We had no idea then just how young we were.  Yesterday I was at the library and I overh...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2012/06/in-time-when-nothing-is-more-certain.html

I love my grandson Dylan.  I love both of my grandsons, but this post is about Dylan and what an amazing little boy he is.  I am going to share with you here the post my daughter-in-law put o...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2012/06/at-times-challenges-hit-with-force-of.html

Did you think this is a photo of our basement? Nope. This is.  We have been blessed with a very roomy 1100 square foot basement in our Michigan home.  Pictured here is th...

http://missykrissy2005.blogspot.com/2012/04/when-nobody-around-you-seems-to-measure.html