Day Ten
With a sore foot I am able to sit, do paperwork, take time to think and pray. Thumbing through a couple of NEW magazines makes this easier to do. Staying busy even if it's sitting. I am sitting. Putting weight on my foot is painful. I can walk, but it must be slow. Again... I bumped my foot and went ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
WITH EXCITEMENT I furniture shopped this morning with the help of a magazine and the internet. I take it slow. grins. Noticed that velvet is coming back into vogue. hum. Soft grey velvet. Might take my fancy. Our old kitchen table needs refinished and thought perhaps this SPRING I would be up to refinishing it when the weather is pleasant. We have two antique chairs that we purchased about a year ago that we use. When I shop Tuesday Morning, I have noticed their upholstered chairs that might look eclectic with the two wood chairs I already have. Have to give this some thought. This could make a nice seating arrangement for us. Finding two more old wood chairs with leather seats might take some doing. We bought the chairs at RESTORE and felt very blessed that we got them for the price we did. Mixing them with two different chairs would be fun. I need fun.
Fitting into our cottage is VERY challenging. I had a beautiful thought today as to how to de-clutter our RETIREMENT COTTAGE. If I can pull this off I will share pics and LIVE with it for awhile. As I know I live for a while with furniture arrangements and then tweak it some.
That seems to be the name of the game I play every where I live. Tweak and shuffle. Shuffle and tweak. Working at getting the right feel takes some time for me. I am very talented at getting side tracked. It's my SUPER POWER.
What little Christmas decorations I had out have migrated toward storage boxes and will be dealt with as we go. With my Dad's passing in December, I had to be alright with no Christmas tree in our tiny cottage. No lights outside and sadly no Christmas wreath on the front door. Barely got cards sent out. I'll work on a Christmas letter later to add to the ones I have kept over the years.
I focused on the lights of others. This made clean-up really easy for me. hah. We spent Christmas Holiday with our oldest Son, Daughter.in.law and four active Grandchildren in good 'ole Oklahoma. I lacked energy. Sorry. Still they took us to see the lights at Rhema. We walked about and it was wonderful. Loved it. So many different colors of lights and so many LIGHTS.
Twas a treat.
OUR COTTAGE is small and I am working at fitting into it. In a lot of ways I feel a lot like a newly wed. Sweet. I wish I had more energy to get things done quicker around here, but then I'm not sure I would sit and pray as much as I do now. Looking back, I wish I had spent more time sitting and praying when I was younger. I cannot redo the past. It is what it was. I must forge ahead and live now.
All the best to you this fine day in January,
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