I truly am grateful

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When I was in the middle of my life I helped pay the family's bills by caring for home bound folks- often elderly but once in a while, a younger person. I also have cared for fur kids when the kids were in hospital or clinic. Anyway, I guess that caregiving gene never totally goes away. Eons ago hubby and I met at university, talked through many nights, laughed, talked, fell in love. One of the attractions he had for me was that his being blind never came up. He was just an intelligent engineering student who also minored in journalism. He had a very active, very engaging mind. Blindness never had had much to do with us as an US. Here we are at the start of old age. He got very ill a couple of years ago and never totally climbed from the pit. I miss his daring do. His ability to go pound a fence post if the need is there. Today we had a mess to try to clear out from behind a shed. Hubby isn't going outside much these days. I set up the work station for him- in the old days I would not have done that. I brought over our plastic stool for him to sit on as he grabbed stuff and shoved them into a plastic bag so that I could take the bag to the garbage toter. He also sat on the outside swing for a while, under our blooming apple trees. I am just grateful that he had the oomph to get outside and enjoy the summer like afternoon. I am grateful that he ate some food today and had the energy to cuss out some of the political drama that is not going away.