AS THE CALENDAR YEAR COMES TO A CLOSE, I am thinking about the past year and what I would like to work on this coming year. If allowed. What a year it has been.
PAUSE. SIGH. TAKE A VERY DEEP BREATH and breathe.
These two ladies seem to have overcome the obvious and make the best of things when it comes to knowing what is important in life with a friend or sister. I smile looking at this illustration. Peace on earth. Goodwill toward men. Giggle some where ever you are. Make LIFE happen with some humor. You might as well enjoy this life!
As the coming week approaches, I will begin to put HOLIDAY DECORATIONS away. The front doors' will stay put until sometime in January. The fireplace mantle will be taken down NEW YEAR's DAY after reading the CHRISTMAS CARDS and praying for the ones who mailed us one.
The Dining room tree is down. The Nativity Scene's piece by piece will be wrapped and placed in storage box this week. The entry way will disappear this week.
The large tree will stay up until January 6th Epiphany along with the stair rail. The front doors will be the last to go as it was the first to go up.
Santas will go into hiding probably today. Snowmen will stay out until Valentine's Day decorations go out if any.
With that said...it will happen as it happens. I still have not started making CHRISTMAS SWEETS. ha. I have the ingredients sitting on the kitchen countertop just waiting. Today will be a good day to get this started. Fudge first. Chocolate covered pretzels and peppermint patties. I may skip the chocolate covered raisins. I was going to try dipping large marshmallows in chocolate. Made a special effort to find sucker sticks. Shall see.
Hubby has a Eyes, Ears and Nose Specialist Doctor's appointment this week to check out an enlarged lymph node. I will hit two birds with one stone as we will be near a Joann Store and can purchase cardboard storage boxes for little Pipka figurines that I have. We knew about two enlarged lymph nodes, but a third one was talked about last September. We didn't know about it. The endocrinologist aide did not seem concerned about it, but we are. The wait and see what it does has already taken place and I sometimes think our present day endo doesn't want us as patients anymore because if we get sicker than his shinning record gets a smudge mark on it.
HUBBY's cancer surgery was back in 2013. That's 7 years of wait and see. Now a third lymph enlarges. Sometimes you've just got to do what you know is right even if the medical personnel aren't taking a serious enough approach to it. Amen.
I have been reading up on weight loss from the past reading that in 1910 the average age of death was 49 years of age for a woman. When I stop to think I am 65, I'm old. I am blessed even though it is more difficult for walking. I question what have I done in my life during those years? It's sobering. I have too many messes hanging over my head. I pray that I am allowed in 2021 to get so much cleaned up and in order that I have some peace of mind that this is in order.
If this were my last year to live, there would messes that need cleaned up. What really do I need to leave behind? This gives me courage to clean out my closet. To part with much. To downsize and be in order. Amen. I can do this thing. It will become my 2021 HOBBY.
AND HOW ABOUT YOU? WHAT WILL YOU DO DIFFERENTLY OR WORK ON? Slow down and smell the roses or speed up to rearrange the world? Maybe a little of both.
X♡X BLESSINGS,
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Love you! Hubby
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