what to do with it?
Again, again, again I say I don’t know where the times go to and how I have fallen into this terrible habit of blogging so little and in random form. It would be cliché to say that life is moving by too fast, that there never seems to be time, etc. So I won’t bother with the platitudes.
Life on the prairie does continue with its daily gusts of winds and ever challenging situations and life turns. My mom continues to daily gain strength and rehabilitate her body back to normal after suffering a small stroke the Monday before Christmas. It was just such a wonderful gift to get to share a holiday with her and not have to think, will this be the last time? As much as I had tried not to do this in the past, it would creep into my heart and mind with each turn of the calendar page – will this be the last birthday, Easter, fall, etc. that we spend with her, her joy, warmth, love, smile and zeal? It feels good to not have to worry about that anymore and know that come May she will be there to hold her grand-baby Bailey and help me as a first time mom.
The husband is gearing up for his trip to Honduras in February and talked to Doug yesterday over the internet. They talked, in round about ways, of simplicity and lifestyle. I have never felt quite so overwhelmed by stuff as I do now, especially in planning for a baby. There are so many things you have to have for a baby and so many, many others that try to trick you into thinking that you must have them when in reality you don’t. Adding another person means adding so much more “stuff” to our life. We tend to accumulate so much stuff and I don’t know how when I know that the one thing we tend to spend money on is music – but where does the rest come from – we don’t go on shopping sprees and to get one of us to spend money is like pulling teeth. I have been challenged the last couple of days to think of what embracing simplicity means to our life, our home, our lifestyle. I am not quite sure what that looks like right now, but I am working on it.
A Happy New Year to all and their loved ones as we round the bend into another year.
“I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.” Ann Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea)
Life on the prairie does continue with its daily gusts of winds and ever challenging situations and life turns. My mom continues to daily gain strength and rehabilitate her body back to normal after suffering a small stroke the Monday before Christmas. It was just such a wonderful gift to get to share a holiday with her and not have to think, will this be the last time? As much as I had tried not to do this in the past, it would creep into my heart and mind with each turn of the calendar page – will this be the last birthday, Easter, fall, etc. that we spend with her, her joy, warmth, love, smile and zeal? It feels good to not have to worry about that anymore and know that come May she will be there to hold her grand-baby Bailey and help me as a first time mom.
The husband is gearing up for his trip to Honduras in February and talked to Doug yesterday over the internet. They talked, in round about ways, of simplicity and lifestyle. I have never felt quite so overwhelmed by stuff as I do now, especially in planning for a baby. There are so many things you have to have for a baby and so many, many others that try to trick you into thinking that you must have them when in reality you don’t. Adding another person means adding so much more “stuff” to our life. We tend to accumulate so much stuff and I don’t know how when I know that the one thing we tend to spend money on is music – but where does the rest come from – we don’t go on shopping sprees and to get one of us to spend money is like pulling teeth. I have been challenged the last couple of days to think of what embracing simplicity means to our life, our home, our lifestyle. I am not quite sure what that looks like right now, but I am working on it.
A Happy New Year to all and their loved ones as we round the bend into another year.
“I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.” Ann Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea)
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Thanks for the forwarding address. Also glad to hear you had some relief in celebrating with your mother. Have a happy and fulfilling new year!
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