Wander With Wayne

When moving to Idaho, we planned to build a new home in a gorgeous location just below Pebble Creek ski area. We decided to temporarily live in my parent's home during construction. We had been there three weeks when I felt a very strong impression that we were to stay with my parents for an undetermined amount of time (my father has dementia). This hadn’t been our plan and I didn’t know how to break the news to Noell. The pressure kept building throughout that week until we were finally able to go out for our date night. As the night progressed, I kept struggling with how to tell her. Noell then said something that pulled me out of my stupor—she stated, “Honey, I keep feeling like we’re not to live in Inkom. We’re to stay with your parents for an undetermined time.” The decision was settled for both of us. A few months later, I began to feel promptings that I needed to do something with the cash we had from the sale of our Payson, Utah home. The parable of the talents kept co...

Sometime after graduating from college, we had a home built. When we went into debt, to purchase the home, I was talking to an accountant friend of mine. The accountant excitedly exclaimed, “You’re a homeowner!” I felt we didn’t own the home, we only owned the debt. This accountant was a professor at a business college and had taught for decades. She emphasized that I was a homeowner. Throughout our married lives, we have gone into debt for three different homes that we’ve lived in. I was never able to pay off any of them before we moved from them. Even with my college professor’s comment, I still feel that I have never owned a home. Perhaps this is because we’ve always had a mortgage on the homes. I learned later in life, that the word mortgage actually means “death grip.” I have always felt this death grip around my neck.  As we’re currently living in Mom & Dad’s home and don’t have a mortgage payment where we’re living, I’ve felt a series of promptings that we shoul...

This week, Tate and Dawson have had goopy eyes and congested noses. I’ve learned to clear the goopy eyes with a clean, warm, wet washcloth. After holding it on the eye for a few seconds, the group softens and, I wipe it clean. The nose congestion has been a completely new experience. Kaneesha showed us a powerful nose sucking tool that helps clear the congestion. While it helped, it only got a little that was close to the surface. I believe she also suggested a saline nose rinse. Wow, if you haven’t experienced that, you may choose to YouTube videos of “saline nose rinse,” truly enlightening!  Here’s a snapshot from one of the videos. It is truly amazingly disgusting and amazingly incredible and amazingly helpful. Tate had the worst congestion of the two. After the saline rinse, he slept good. This morning, when I left, he was breathing better than Dawson.