TMI on a TUESDAY???

WOKE TO OUR FIRST SNOW ON THE KANSAS PRAIRIE with gray skies and chilly temps.  I had planned on walking a mile each day during the month of December, but I believe my plans just got changed.  

Morning came early, but I woke without an alarm clock going off which is a nice thing to have happen.  The room we're using as our bedroom now has large windows where there is natural light streaming in. I haven't been an early riser so to have this take place I am thankful that it is happening to me as an 70 year old woman.  Finally, I feel like I am waking when I am suppose to without an alarm set and not late.  Waking before 7 in the morning is encouraging to me.

After a bathroom break, I usually place a load of laundry in to wash, put the dishes away from the drain rack, take my morning meds, stretch, and sip on HOT LEMON WATER.  I know that we probably shouldn't expose ourselves first thing in the mornings with a computer screen or cell phone screen, but I generally start typing, checking electronic mail and Facebook.  Supposedly this is hard on the eyes even with a computer screen that blocks blue light.  I plan my day and wait an hour before eating breakfast.  Clean up the mess and start a new day with doing what needs done.

PRAYERS.

I sense that the beginnings of a fresh start will take place since the calendar says it is a new month, December.  My priority this month is CHRISTMAS, organizing the house and health.  As I walked around the house this morning I thought of my Grandma H.  She's been long gone, but I recall her essence.  Since I am 70, I was comparing how well she got around to my wobbly stride. I remember her when she was 70.  She passed when she was 93 or so.  She baked a great deal, had her own Summer garden, picked green apples from her trees, sewed doll clothing and did not drive a car.  I'm not sure how she went to the grocery store unless one of her children took her.

I was remembering her small two story house on the edge of town.  She had acreage for gardens. She had a rich life even if her finances were drastically low.  One of her sons drove a tractor on her property that was farm ground close by the house.  I didn't know her financial situation exactly or how much ground she owned.  So much about her was not revealed to me as a child or young adult, but when I drive past her old place I miss her.  

Her life was not an easy one.  Born in Nebraska, Third Grade education, worked in the fields, married at 16 years of age to her step father's brother that was full blooded German from Russia that had a drinking problem, farmer's wife, birthed 11 babies with a set of twins, didn't drive, baked often and was my sweet little Grandma that lived to be about 93 years old.

I cried so hard at her funeral that I pulled a stomach muscle.  Anna Elizabeth.

Spent the day going through boxes in the TV room and Living room.  Have mercy.  Each box is different.  I might open a box that has 5 items in it or open a box with 50 items in it.  A mystery for sure.    Made quite a bit of progress.  STILL MUCH TO DO.   I mustn't get discouraged as it is taking so much longer to conquer this dilemma.  I have to sit and rest as the emotional side of this is powerful.  Takes me over at times.  Have to rest and remind myself of why I am doing this.

At times, I cannot but think my LIFE is passing me by as I am working on this.  It has to be done and not ignored.  I know that when I finish all of this I will be overjoyed.  

Toughen up BUTTERCUP. 

 

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I need to go shopping to purchase some more plastic storage units.  Finding that I will have more order with more storage boxes to place some goodies in for safe keeping.  Sometime this week, I will go to town after the roads are cleared of snow and ice by the county employee and shop. 

I hunger for organization.  Hello.  It'll get better.  

TIPS about a variety of things:

That's enough info for a TUESDAY.  Keeping it real.  
May you have a blessed day.

~d