Wednesday January 15, 2025
Dear Diary,
Good morning God,
- Thank you for this day.
- Thank you for RV’s.
- Thank you for help.
- Thank you for gratitude.
- Thank you for sunshine.
I love you!
I awoke at 3 am. I played wordle and connections and finished writing my blog and posted it. I put on a sleep meditation and drifted back to sleep at around 5 am. At 5:50 am, I awoke again. I woke Angel up and made her a quesadilla for breakfast. I made her 2 rice and bean burritos to take with us. For myself, I made tea and a smoothie and packed it all up. I went out to my motorhome and found a plug adaptor to take with us. I came back inside and went upstairs when I heard the dogs barking. I heard my sisters chocolate lab Huckleberry in the front yard aggressively barking. He won’t hurt anyone but he’s a big dog having him aggressively bark at you is scary. I fumbled with the front door locks and finally got the door open. Mr. L was there to take us to get the camper and he was on his way back out the gate to get away from Huck. I yelled at Huck to knock it off. He’s a big baby who doesn’t like to get in trouble and he slunk off to the backyard. I apologized to Mr. L and gathered up our stuff.
We headed to Nampa to get the camper. On the way my mom called and was upset about my adult daughter. My mom, my sister and I are buying my daughter a plane ticket to come visit from Texas. My mom wants my daughter to only spend time with the 3 of us while she is here since we are buying her ticket. My daughter wants to spend time with us during her visit but also wants to visit her dad, her adopted grandma and a friend.
While I was on the phone with my mom, my adult daughter called. I hung up with my mom and took the call. My daughter was upset about grandma saying mean things to her and didn’t know if she should come visit. I told her to not let her grandma get to her. I told her that grandma gets mad at me all the time for not doing what she wants me to do and then she wants to get together the next week. I told my daisies to do what she needs to do and just let grandma be mad. My daughter and I worked out a schedule for when she comes to visit where she can see everyone she wants to see but will spend most of the time with us and her grandma. I hung up and called my mom back. I told her about the schedule we worked out and she was happy with it. I was glad that everything was resolved and I got off the phone.
When we got to Ontario, we stopped at Home Depot so I could get supplies we needed to live in the camper the rest of the winter. I bought foam board insulation, plastic window covering, heat tape, duct tape, electric heaters and reflective window insulation. I like buying things in Ontario because it’s in Oregon and there’s no sales tax.
When we got to Caldwell, we stopped at my bank and I got cash to pay for the camper. I looked it over again before buying it and asked Mr. L’s opinion. He said he thought it was a good buy. He hooked it up to his truck while I paid for it. On our way back to the mountain, we stopped at Les Schwab to get air put in the tires. The guy helping us said that the tires were old and showed us where they were starting to crack a little. I asked if they had any used tires for sale in that size and they didn’t. I wasn’t willing to buy new ones and Mr. L said he thought we would make it up the mountain just fine.
We took the back roads up the mountain and it was a peaceful drive. We had pleasant conversations and it was a beautiful day. When we arrived at Mr. C’s property where the camper will be parked, Mr. C and Mr. L realized that they knew each other. I think they are both awesome people and thought it was great that they knew each other. Mr. C moved his camper and Mr. L backed my camper into the space with the RV hookups. I was so grateful for his help and I told him thank you several times. I offered him money several times as well but he refused to take it saying that I could take it out of when clean for him. I really really appreciate him helping me out in more ways than one. Not only with helping me get the camper but offering me to let me rent his apartment when he gets it ready. I really appreciate Mr. C and his wife letting me park my camper at their place too. I am so thankful to have such wonderful people come into my life. My heart is full of gratitude.
Mr. L headed home and I organized some things in the camper and turned on the heater. At 4 p.m. I had a coaching client phone call and while I did that, Angel played in her bunk bed. The coaching session went really good and when I got off the phone, I checked on Angel and she was asleep. I let her sleep while I organized more things in the camper and leveled it. I got out the heating tape to put along the outside hose but it wasn’t long enough. It was almost 6 pm and Angel was still asleep. I woke her up so that she would sleep tonight. She rarely takes naps but she had gotten up really early.
At home, Angel played Minecraft while I talked to my sister. She said that our mom had called her and was upset about my adult daughter seeing other people besides us when she comes to visit. I thought we had worked all that out. I called my mom and asked her what was going on and she said that my daughter should only visit with us. I told her that she was only spending one afternoon visiting other people and the rest of the time was with us. I reminded my mom that she had been ok with that earlier. My mom reluctantly said that would be ok. Then she told me that her cat had died earlier in the day and she had thrown it in the outside garbage can. What the heck?!?!?! Her cat was really old and she said that the cat had been meowing all day and kept lying down in her covered litter box. My mom kept getting her out of the litter box but the cat kept going back in. Then the cat died in the litter box and my mom threw it and the cat in the garbage can. Wow.
When I got off the phone, my sister and I talked about how our pets would disappear when we were kids and how one time our mom dumped our favorite old dog off in the middle of nowhere. I seriously think my mom has sociopath tendencies. I am pretty sure she burned my leg on purpose when I was a baby. Whenever I ask her about what happened and why her story about it doesn’t make sense, she becomes angry and refuses to talk about it.
I walked to the bank and cleaned it. I was disturbed about my mom throwing her cat in the garbage and I prayed for peace of mind. I called my adult daughter when I got home so that I could buy her plane ticket. She was still upset about her grandma being mean to her and wanted to buy her own plane ticket. I suggested that her, my sister and I split the ticket 3 ways between us and leave my mom out of it. She liked that idea so that’s what we did. I bought the ticket and they sent me their part of the money.
I got Angel off of Minecraft. We brushed our teeth and went to bed. Angel told me stories about Minecraft while I wrote my blog notes. I put on a sleep meditation and we went to sleep at around 9:30 pm.
Thank you for reading my blog and being a part of my life. I appreciate you.
Love, Victoria
P.S. this blog post is inspired by the Holy Spirit.