Out with the Old

It's Wednesday evening and my emotions and thoughts about my wife passing away last Friday are different from my thoughts that I had this morning.  My extended family from out of town are still here and they have been very helpful around the house today. My mother/father-in-law, along with my two brother in laws and sister in law have helped me clean the house. We clean out closets, bathrooms, pantries, and bedrooms.  I am getting rid of a lot of my wife's things because I want to make room for something new in my life.  My kids and I are starting a new life together and I think it's important that we start with getting rid of her things.  My wife kept everything.  Wigs, shoes,hangers, handbags, magazines, jewelry, bedding, pillows, mail, pictures, and tons of clothes. There was stuff everywhere. While they cleaned I helped to organize the downstairs closet and I took all of me and kids shoes upstairs.  Normally, we would just throw all  of the shoes in that closet.  It would be hassle trying to find two shoes to match.  I never really understood the reason for doing that.  So now I decided to do something about it.  I also got rid of old coats, sweaters, scarfs, and hats that were also in that closet.   I was able to focus on other important things in my life.

Today I went out and I bought 2 new tires for my car.  I would constantly have to put air in those tires and I just kept procrastinating on replacing them.  I also purchased a new bed for me to sleep on. For years I wanted to have a new mattress to sleep on.  My old bed is pretty worn out.  I would often wake up with lower back pains as a result of sleeping on that bed. I am excited to be getting rid of that old thing.  I also bought a new pillow.  I'm excited about these new changes.  I am looking forward to finally getting much better and relaxing sleep.

But the highlight of my day was spending time with my kids.  I decided to take Dallace and Dylan to the park. It was an opportunity for us to be together alone and spend quality time enjoying each other's company.  I sat on the bench and watch them swing and play on the monkey bars.  We walked around the lake and watch the ducks swim in the lake.  Afterwards, we went and got frozen yogurt.  We each had the 4-berry frozen yogurt and it was delicious.  Dylan used his spoon to mix all of the berries in the yogurt before eating, while me and Dallace simply enjoyed each berry, one at a time, with our yogurt.  We also went to a local furniture store and looked at some different sofas and loveseats.  Dylan found this leather rocking chair that was very comfortable.  Dallace enjoyed sitting on the leather black sectional.  She also liked this plush gray sofa.

Overall, today was simply amazing.  I now understand what our Lord Jesus Christ meant in Matthew 6 verse 34 when he said Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Thank you Lord for blessing me with a lovely day today and for the blessing me with 2 amazing kids.