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| MY BROTHER DAVID AND OUR MOM DURING C O V I D |
GOOD MORNING, FRIEND. HOW ARE YOU THIS WINTERY MORNING? Tis December 1st and CHRISTMAS IS APPROACHING. Hallelujah. A fresh start to the month and Season. 25 days until Christmas. The countdown has started. I'll continue to decorate for CHRISTMAS.
Christmas is the highlight of the year. The Christmas Carols will begin and the decorating brightens the landscape. Jesus will be celebrated with love and well wishes. Gifts will be exchanged and the madness of the world needs to hush. Christmas 2025 is here.
The year has passed quickly.
SNOW. Looking out the window, the ground is covered with white fluff. It snowed yesterday. I was very surprised. Wasn't expecting it.
I woke at a decent time today. Right at 7 A.M. on the dot. A start to a great day and week. Yesterday, I was up at 3:30. Worked until 2 or so in the afternoon then took a 3 hour nap. I truly didn't think I'd fall asleep at night, but I did and slept until 7 this morning. This was appreciated so much.
I phoned my Mom and Sis in the evening to catch up with them over the Thanksgiving week-end. Now I need to do the same with my children.
BUT THE REAL TREAT ON SATURDAY MORNING was around 8, Hubby announced that it was snowing. Snowing!!! Looking out the front door, I could see huge, fluffy snowflakes swirling around. So gentle and beautiful. It was snowing and this broke my silence about not wanting WINTER to arrive. In an instance it was WINTER. AUTUMN vanished just like that. I have to adjust to WINTER WONDERLAND COAT TIME. I had no choice, but to change gears with the changing of the Seasons. The pumpkins that come with AUTUMN have disappeared. The ones I had sitting about the house were put away for next year.
My WINTER COAT is hanging on a hook in the Bedroom waiting to be embraced until I need it. I stayed HOME and did chores for the day, took a nap and enjoyed my time indoors in the warmth of the rooms that are heated.
In the evening we watched our first Christmas movie of the Season, NOELLE by David Wall that came out in 2006 or so. I watched it then and also several more times through the years.
It's labeled as a DRAMA, but watching it last night I would say that it is more comedic than a drama. A com/dram. It has a serious undertone that is present, but quite a few parts are refreshing how the people in a small community thrive at small town living with their humanity. It has a good message and storyline and is FAMILY FRIENDLY. This film has gotten better as I have aged.
Noëlle is a 2007 drama film written, produced, and directed by David Wall who also stars as Father Jonathan Keene, a Catholic priest who comes to a small American fishing village in the Christmas season to shut down a dying parish, only to experience a personal transformation as he encounters the eccentric townspeople.
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As I was visiting my facebook account a blurb from the place my older brother lived showed up so I went to their page to see if I could find any pictures of my brother when he lived there. I found some as he passed away in 2021. He did not like it there. He had been stripped of his independence from living in his own apartment due to mental health issues to being relocated to a home. At the time I couldn't think too long about his being relocated from a apartment to living in a single room at a nursing home type environment. It bothered me to see the changes, but did my best to look at the positives. Now it all seems so useless to me. What he must have gone through breaks my heart now.
He wrote frequent letters to me which I saved and placed in a notebook. It is bitter sweet to see pictures of him. I miss him and it seems odd that he is not still with us here on planet earth. He lived to see 70.
All my loved ones that have died are missed. Still present in my thought life. I have to live in the present loving my family and friends as I go. Hubby turns 70 this month. It doesn't seem possible. Still hasn't soaked in. 70. This number is staring me in the face. I look at him as he sits in his chair. I've known him since he was 18. I think I need to just sit and pray. Give God praise as I have loved my Hubby over a half of century.
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This morning, I started a load of laundry and rethought my daily activities. This is the day the LORD hath made. I will rejoice and be glad in it.
Some garland will be hung inside the house. A slow paced day, but productive. Church services will be watched over the internet as I am more like a shut-in when it snows. I will be more particular when I get out with snowy weather the older I get. Some paperwork done.
My children have grown up and I have gotten old. It isn't unusual to recall memories of where I have lived and how I lived or the things I went through. A new day comes and life continues.
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