Tolentreasures

  I think that this post was started several weeks ago. The holidays sort of whizzed by! Wish I could figure a way to stop that process!   Rushing around that morning, I lost my balance in the bathroom and grabbed for the counter and wrapped my hand around the hot curling iron. The morning was totally going away, I was running late, burnt hand, and I am sure about 10 other little mishaps as I dashed out the door to pick up Kendall and get Gracelyn on the bus.   Honestly, I have not been late once yet this year.   This day, I was pushing it.   This is what greeted me about three miles out the road and I had to pull off to take the picture.   Pulling off was key here considering how the morning was going, I was not about to try to take a picture while driving, (Not that I have EVER done that before...) At any rate, as rough as the morning was, this made things so much better.   ...

...from the last post, is the scarf finished! You see, yesterday, my dear husband thought, should be a day of rest AFTER the girls and I decided not to go to Ohio to see my parents because of road conditions. He gave me this whole speech about how he thought I was somewhat of a social outcast, blah, blah blah as I was trying to look through him to watch this tv program I had been waiting to see. In my defense, I don't mind going places and being social most of the time, however my internal clock does not allow me to be on top of things from 10 at night until 4 in the morning. Breakfast outing? I am so there! Lunch? Great! Early supper? Perfect! Late evening dinner? Yawner. New Year's Eve? Comatose. Normally that causes me to cringe when it is time to think about what to do on New Year's Eve. I am perfectly happy to sleep the New Year in. He, on the other hand thought that I should do my best to stay up until....ONE! His thoughts? Rest all day, nap and you can...

Yesterday morning on the way to church, I was telling my husband how I wanted things to be different this year. I had spent the morning making my lists for the year, organizing the projects that I would like to complete, refocusing on how I would like things to be in the coming year, reflecting on mistakes in the past year and trying to learn from them. I think that the past year had been particularly hectic. There was no time to do some of the things that I wanted or needed to do. Part of it, I am blaming on having the hysterectomy. Someone told me that I would "lose" the rest of my year after having it and while at the time, I did not believe her, I have since confessed those thoughts to her and told her that she was right. There was not time to work in my yard, it was a disaster! There was no time to ride my motorcycle! Not many miles on that odometer this year. Toward the end of the year, I was not even spending time with God in the mornings, just rushing head...