Author: jeanniebruenning_s4d8jy


  • I Love Our Family | Prickly Pear

    The car pulled up and as the doors begin to open letting its passengers out, I heard her say, “I love our family.” I watched as this newly formed family exited the car. A new mom, a dad, and three blonde beauties ranging from ten month-old  to seventeen year-old with smiles that light up the…

  • Patiently Anxious

    Today we wait patiently and anxiously for a document to be completed. It’s a document that has been four months in the making and contains a life time of history. Decisions will be made on its content. Decisions that will alter the future and past of those it includes. At times, our particular situation is…

  • Choosing

    You know those times that it feels as if a dark heavy cloud has fallen around you and nothing makes sense? Goodseems to be losing ground and all the crazies are finding ways to infiltrate every open crevasse? It’s like a thick fog has fallen and clouded everyone’s vision.

  • Plus 2 | Prickly Pear

    “And now I know you’ve lost your mind!” my friend replied to my text. But I had been looking for my Sadie dog for some time. Even the grandkids knew that Sadie was coming to our house. “Neenee, go get Sadie!” Liam would say. “I’m looking for her,” I’d reply. “She’s coming, she’s just not…

  • Lucky or Unlucky? | Prickly Pear

    I spent time imagining what this new living arrangement would be like, being in the same house that our youngest grand daughter would learn to walk in, she’ll go to her first day of kindergarten from this house and some day move out. I’ve tried to picture how having a space like this is going…

  • Make it Amazing! | Prickly Pear

    Today I repurposed a Jade plant. It’s most likely the largest succulent plant I have every seen.