It was another quiet and peaceful day. My husband studied for his exam that his company mandates their employees. I read some books. My daughter chatted with her new friends; my husband’s cousin’s daughters.

In the evening at 5 p.m., I attended a zoom meeting for member recruit. I invited to our meeting because she said she was willing to help me. But I was surprised when she showed up in the screen. She looked angry. Mainly my business mentor explained about the company. Toward the end, my business mentor asked the guest if she is still interested in signing up, she said yes. I thought she would reject it right away. This was a great learning opportunity for me. Recruiting is a real tough task. I don’t want to force anybody to do something for my benefit. I just hope I will encounter the right person who is willing to learn and join the company.

My daughter and I went to the grocery store. At the cashier, I found many items that my daughter put in the shopping cart. I thought of my mom. She was very generous. She would tell me to put anything I want whenever we went to the grocery store together. I felt happy for her kindness. Now it is my turn. I am coping what my mom treated me to my daughter. I want her to feel happy. I want her to feel my love being treated special. It is a small thing, but I appreciate my late mom to pass down her good habit.   

My husband’s niece had a baby girl. Her original due date was May 16^th but her baby took her time. My mom-in-law shared lots of the baby pictures. So cute. We are looking forward to meeting our new family member soon.

We got back to our routine. My husband went for work and I was busy cleaning the house and washing clothes of the trip. It was a quiet and peaceful day. Among the most, I really enjoyed taking a long relaxing bath and a sound sleep. The trailer house on Navajoland does not have a bath tub. One of my to-do projects is to install a bath tub so that I will be able to soak myself during the visit.

It was our departure day. This is our routine. We stay at Navajoland for 3 nights/4 days. Personally I like this schedule. If we stay longer than this, I might start feeling irritated for not having my private time and space.

In the morning we visited my husband’s cousin and her family. I am glad my daughter and her children became friends. On the way to her house, as usual Bucker the Chihuahua came along with us. We walked on the narrow path where only one person can get by. My husband walked the first, followed by Bucker, my daughter and me. When we encounter a huge size of branches on the middle of the path, Bucker grabbed the piece of the branches and moved it aside for us. I was amazed what he did to us. He acted like a gentleman to protect us. I thanked him. He seemed to be gently smiling as if he was saying “my pleasure.” It was tough to leave him behind when we left for our house. All of us wished that we could have brought him back with us.

Our return trip went by smoothly. I appreciate my family spirits for protecting us as always.

After we safely returned to our house, we texted my mom-in-law of our safe arrival. She replied back to us about Bucker. After we left, he stayed in front of the trailer house and was whimpering. He knew we left for home and is missing us. My husband said she almost shed tears. We all miss him and want to see him again soon.  

I slept very well. It is always the same pattern. My sleep is interrupted on the first night but I sleep without any disturbance on the second night. Same as yesterday morning my mom-in-law brought her homemade breakfast sandwich to the trailer house. After the light breakfast, we went for a walk.

My mom-in-law has 5 dogs. One of them is a Chihuahua. This dog was given to my late dad-in-law by his friend one month from his departure. So, this dog became his last gift to his wife. He named him Bucker. Bucker likes to go walk with us. This morning we walked for a long distance and Bucker came with us all excited. We really wished that we could have taken him to our house. On my second thought though, he would not like the new environment. Our back yard is much smaller than what he has right now. We would have to leash him whenever we go walk. And the biggest loss he would have suffered is missing his family; the other 4 dogs whom always run around together. So I guess we would have to wait to have him as our dog until we move back to Navajoland.

In the morning my husband’s cousin and her husband came to our trailer, and we all jumped in her ride to our family graveyard. Her husband was the main person who did all the work to place a brand new gravestone. He dug a hole, mixed a bag of cement with water to make a solid foundation, and placed the gravestone. After the ceremony the cousin invited us to her mom’s house. She served us her homemade Alfred pasta with grilled chicken and garlic bread. It was so yummy because she cooked it from a scratch. We were introduced to her 5 children. After the lunch she and her family went to town. My mom-in-law and her two sisters and my family stayed at the kitchen table. The main speaker was the three sisters. They updated us about their family and neighbors about what is going on. The information was helpful. We all enjoyed our conversation. We all laughed a lot. I am always impressed at their super high level of sense of humor. They are professionals to talk something with their own unique way to make us laugh.

My mom-in-law and I went back to my mom-in-law’s house and continued chatting. All of a sudden the dogs started barking. My mom-in-law said they are barking because somebody was coming to her house. She said she hated somebody visited her without a prior appointment. I told her I would scout for her and check who the visitor was. Depending on the situation, I could have chased the unwanted visitor away. But I didn’t need to chase the visitor away. It was my husband’s cousin and her husband. They purchased lots of daily necessary items such as water bottles, toilet tissues, dog foods, laundry detergents, and hygiene items at the store and brought them for my mom-in-law. It was very nice and supportive of them to support my mom-in-law.

In the evening after dinner, my husband and I visited the cousin at her mom’s house again. One of their children asked about my daughter. I told them my daughter is shy and that was why she stayed home with her grandma. They said they wanted to play with my daughter, we went back home and brought her back to their house with us. They instantly became friends and started playing together. We adults also enjoyed our conversation. We enjoyed having our company so much that we completely forgot about the time. We finally came back home around midnight.  

Last night at 2 a.m., I woke up and could not get back to sleep for a couple of hours until 5 a.m. It is my pattern. I cannot sleep on the first night on Navajoland. Lots of thoughts came in to my mind. I felt my late dad-in-law was excited and talking to me. He suggested to talk about my new business to my mom-in-law. He also suggested to emphasize that the biggest purpose of my new business is to move back to Navajoland as soon as possible. Once I agreed, I guess our conversation was over. I could fall in asleep.

Around 6 a.m. of their time, which is 5 a.m. of our time, I naturally woke up with the dogs’ barking and birds’ chirping. As soon as I opened the entrance door, my mom-in-law walked in to the trailer house with the food tray. She said she woke up feeling hungry this morning so she cooked 4 breakfast sandwiches. She said last night that she hadn’t had appetite recently, so I was happy that her appetite was back. Having us there made her happy and resumed her appetite feeling, I guess.

After we ate, my husband and my mom-in-law went to two offices; the local hospital and the utility office. At these offices my mom-in-law added my husband as her backup in their official page. Since it was tough for her to switch the owner’s name from my dad-in-law from her after his death, even though they are a married couple, she wanted making these procedures easy for the future. They also went to the MVD office. In last October they finished the paper work to rename the trailer house ownership from my late-dad-in-law. They even paid for the fee, but they haven’t heard anything from them even though they were told somebody should contact them within some month. Unfortunately though when they arrived at the office, they saw a long waiting line even in the outside of the office because they had only one worker in the office. They could not do anything about it today.

In the evening we went to visit my husband’s cousin’s house. My husband and his female cousin talked a lot over the phone, but they hadn’t seen each other for more than 16 years. When they hugged, the cousin got emotional and cried. Late they told me that they (my husband and the female cousin and the male cousin) were always together when they were small. And now the male cousin passed away in last December. My husband and the female cousin kept on talking by themselves. I know how they felt. I had a very good time when I saw one of my cousins when I was visiting my parents in 2020. I am happy for them that they could finally see each other again after many years.

Today was a big day for my family. We visited my mom-in-law in Navajoland. As usual routine, I woke up much earlier than usual, prepared Obento for us so that we can have lunch in the car. We encountered many vehicles traveling the same direction with us. Since it was a graduation season, people traveled to congratulate their family members. We encountered many police cars that caught people for speeding. I drove the majority of the route. I took extra caution on not to speed up. We stopped by a rock store in Holbrook. We all thought of my late dad-in-law. He used to love this store and purchase lots of stones and rocks. We hope he was there with us in spirit and enjoyed looking around his favorite store.

We arrived at my mom-in-law’s house around 5 p.m., in her time 6 p.m. As soon as we parked our car, she came out from the house and came to us. When we hugged her, she was quietly shedding tears.

After we finished unpacking our stuff in the trailer house, we again visited my mom-in-law. We were hungry and I was about to cook dinner. We wanted to know if she already cooked some food for us, which she used to do while my dad-in-law was still alive. When we casually asked her if she cooked some foods for us and if she already ate dinner, she said she didn’t cook anything nor didn’t eat any meals except for a light snack. She said it was because she was all by herself. She doesn’t have anybody to cook meals for or to share foods with. Before she finished saying that, she started crying aloud. She said she has been doing this, all of a sudden crying aloud by herself, very often. She said all of her cats and dogs probably worry about her. I felt sorry for her. And I was thinking of my dad and wondering how he was handling the loneness living all by himself. Our first night we all got emotional.  

Everything is calmed down for now. I finished reading the book Rich Dad Poor Dad written by Robert Kiyosaki, and today I started reading the book The Creature from Jekyll Island written by Edward Griffin. I am still reading the beginning part of his book, but I appreciate him to share the valuable information. I support his advice. He says we cannot change everybody. We can change only 3% of the total population. We have to be careful and find out who is ready to know the truth and take appropriate actions. Once we find the right people of the 3%, we join the force with them and share the right information and educate each other. Then, once the right people has enough power and leadership, the other mass people will follow them. The important thing is to know the truth. The truth cannot find in the mass media such as major TV channels, the major newspapers, or the major internet news feeds, because they are all controlled by them.  I want to keep studying and learning about the truth.