It’s a puzzle...

 

Keeping myself busy here in Ohio has often times been a challenge. For the past two weeks I’ve done two puzzles.  They are made by Dowdle.  I love these puzzles. 

Making puzzles last is sometimes difficult.. And I have to pace myself

Other times the puzzle takes me weeks.

I always take pictures of my puzzles to show my family their progress.

From pieces sitting all over the table and filling up pans

To the frame being done

And then as the picture starts to develop

And finally

To the finished picture.

It got me thinking about how sometimes life feels like a puzzle.

We have all these pieces or moving parts

We wonder how and where each piece will fit together 

and then trying to see ahead to what the future holds, or how it will all fit together.

My life the last two years has been a bit like a puzzle.

Pieces here and pieces in Utah

Questions on when Transplant will happen 

How it will turn out

How will Ben do

When will we have Lincoln come

Timing Timing Timing 

And on and on these and many more questions filled my head.

I’m a planner.

I like to have a plan in place and decide the steps needed to accomplish the plan

Then make it happen.

That’s how I conquer a puzzle,

I set up all the pieces, sometimes divide them by shape

Start the frame

And piece by piece watch it come tougher in an organized fashion. 

This puzzle of my life the last 2 years has not allowed me to make a plan

Everything revolved around the waiting

But now I can look back and see 

How each piece of the puzzle fit together in just the right place

At just the right time

And finally I can almost see the finished picture

Of this particular puzzle. 

As our time in Ohio draws closer to a close

We will put the last pieces of the puzzle in place.

I can see a time soon where we’re all back in Utah

Reunited as a family! 

Ben will begin the next phase 

living with transplant.

I see a new puzzle ahead of us

And honestly I can’t wait to see it take shape. 

Hopefully that makes sense or I’ve just make a puzzle of my thoughts as well. :-)

Here few of the 15+ puzzles I’ve completed in my time here.