THE WEEK-END DISAPPEARED and we were glad to make progress. The weather is certainly WINTER. Bitter cold out, but warm in our tiny COTTAGE. More snow this week? Not sure, but the skies are gray.
As I look out the side window of the COTTAGE, I muttered, I'm glad to be here. Even with all the mess scattered about the house, I am glad to be here. We are not wintering with taking care of a large house across the river that we had on the market. We sold it during the month of December before it turned off bitter cold. It is a relief to have been set free from the obligation attached to it. Though I miss the 1883 house, I needed to turn loose of it.
With no MORTGAGE hanging over our heads, we can save money. Thank you, GOD. The utilities in Smallville are less. Praise the LORD. Taxes are less. Praise the Lord. Auto and house insurance are less. Praise the Lord. Groceries are not, but then I love going to TOPEKA and MANHATTAN to shop for necessary purchases and for entertainment. We will subsidize the groceries in the Spring by having some patio containers bearing fruit for us.
I'd like to grow miniature cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, peppers, onions, multi-colored carrots, possibly some potatoes and herbs.
We will eventually have the COTTAGE in order and beautified. I have to wear my big girl panties and when I cannot stand the messes anymore, take a walk around the block or a drive about town or go to TOPEKA and MANHATTAN. Just getting away for a bit helps me out.
Those chairs I've been talking about made their way to the front bedroom for safe keeping. It took a bit, but we managed. Hubby worked so hard to make this solution happen.
I can run the vacuum now in the living room. The things that I need to do, swirl about in my head as I think about all of it. I need to unpacked the china, arrange pieces in the china cabinet and hutch, empty lots of moving boxes, do some laundry, tidy the rooms still unsettled from this move, switch the pantry contents with the other items in the large cabinet by the pantry, etc. Being indoors during this bitter cold winter makes a good excuse to stay busy making way for the HAPPY HOMEMAKER!
I need to stay nicely dressed with hair done and make-up on. Sweet perfume in the air. Having a sweeter disposition should be noticeable as a helpmeet to my husband, I mustn't be bossy or out of sorts. I don't always succeed, but I am trying.
With my day planned out, I can take a tea break sipping on my hot tea with cayenne pepper. Afterwards, I will sip on some lemon water. Breakfast is a fast. Not sure what we will have for lunch, but supper needs to be a large oversized vegetable salad with boiled eggs, chick peas and small black beans for protein.
