Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is my favorite. You open a present and it is like you are getting away with something. It is not the pressure of Christmas Day. 

Today was a gift. A walk in the morning. Sightings of deer and quail and one sunrise, only get one of those a day ya know. Then a tour out to the golf course. Nice lunch with my husband, he made fish bowls. Then shrimp boil with my son, husband's step mom and step sister. Very nice, I will take it!

Butterflies

Beautiful Butterfly Why is it that a butterfly's flight so captivating, turning me into a child? Such vivid colors!

Of course when my grand daughter and I visited the butterfly pavilion I was again impressed with all these beautiful winged creature's. Not Al, she was impressed with this turtle hiding here. We had to go back several times to check him out. Now given a chance I think he might have taken a bite out of us, a butterfly, not so much....🐢

Devices

Oh yeah a new device to blog with! I am thrilled! So many thoughts but just where to start. So much unrest in the world right now. I told my grand daughters we were meant to share. Can you imagine the entite world's population shared? If we all did that simple thing? Would the world be at peace?

Waking up early

Mornings are so quiet. The dog signals she is awake by walking just barely into our room to see if I am going to get up, she knows I am awake by my movements. The cat appears from the hallway where he has been sitting by the heater. There is a snow/rain mixture coming down which makes a run unlikely for the dog but a walk may happen. The cat not interested in even going outside finds a spot on my lap and we sit by the heater. Dog just waits on her bed where, she can spy us in comfort.

What turns will this day take? It is the weekend, the series of days to recover from a week of self imposed stress and stressors. Once again proving if you react with calm, life will go calmly, if you let something aggravate you it will and it is not worth what that does to your demeanor. 

Yesterday was librarian's day, who knew?

Testing in our building and movement restricted. You make the best of it. Removing myself for a bit helped. Guess every situation you learn new ways to respond to what glides into your path. 

Already feel ten times better for having slept, fixing my tired, my sad, my mad, reminding me of all I, and most of us have to be thankful for. Peace to those who are struggling today. You are always in my thoughts and prayers. From my son to the orphans and populations that suffer the effects of war, terrorism and the evil that plague their lives. May they be reminded of the good and find their good.

Happy Birthday Alexandra

We love you!

Love Nana and Papa

Hercules

Hercules you were loved. In looking at this picture now I see the photographer, my son Scottie in the reflection. I do not think I had seen this before. A boy and his dog. Animals teach us so much. I am so sad for my Scottie and Hercules will be missed every waking moment for quite some time. Before we have children, pets are our children. Such heartache occurs when either are lost,  illustrating our great capacity to love.

I shared with my co-workers what had happened, they know my son, in sharing I felt a greater love for those I shared a piece of my sorrow with.

Life is hard sometimes, we are here for each other. I tend to forget that. Lean in a bit, find that feeling. 

They and I send thoughts and prayers to the man and his dog.

Time to oneself

When you find yourself with time to yourself you make a list. Then you disregard everything on the list as you are just so happy to have time to yourself. You then fill your time with lunch dates, breakfast dates, walking dates. At some point you begin to realize that the time is running short to complete that list of 'to do's' that you have not even had a inkling of energy to spend time on. The energy to complete these tasks miraculously avails itself to you and everything on that dumb list you made gets in one day! I call that procrastinating. However I suppose if it were really procrastination it would not have been complete until Tuesday at noon. Whatever I will take it, floor is done, bathrooms are done, I even sewed the girls birthday towels while listening to a book on my phone. My lunches, breakfasts and walks were all nice however I think I may be close to being done with time to myself. It did make me wonder too how you ever are expected to continue when a spouse passes away. I do hope this will not be something that neither he nor I have to go through for quite some time. I imagine it would be pretty lonely and very hard.  

I guess he too is ready to come home. Almost 33 years and we have grown pretty similar in our likes and dislikes. Safe travels my handsome Joe, I will see you Tuesday, woo hoo!