It will be two years in April/March since I have been to the ranch to visit my parents! I have been dying to visit home for a good year now but was unable to make it. An Uncle and Aunt of mine in Washington state purchased tickets for the children and I! They have been such a blessing so many times, and now I am able to get away for a much needed break!
You can't even begin to imagine the simple little things I am looking forward to that I at one time took for granted. For instance this morning I flipped the switch to light the hot water heater so that I could take a hot shower and it lit!!! It lighting without the Emerald helping me rarely happens. The problem was that it didn't stay lit long enough for me to shower, so I got by with washing my hair in cool water. I can't wait to have hot water at my disposel for several weeks! Yesterday I spent over three hours at the laundry mat and at least fifteen dollars. I can't wait to be able to use my mom's washer and dryer for several weeks! I can't wait for good home cooked meals! It is so hard to cook real good meals in a little camper with no counter space and not a big stove. That is one thing I greatly miss is baking and cooking! Its funny some of the stuff I use to complain about like not feeling like cooking all the time and now I could about die for lack of missing it!
Yes there is a bunch of other stuff I could write about concerning my living conditions but I won't right now. I don't write this with the intention of just complaining, but it helps to write and to anyone who reads don't ever take anyone or anything for granted. God willing when I return from Montana I will have a place to rent for the kids and I!
