Well, y'all know... MOST of my thoughts are weird... BUT... for the WONDERFUL part --
I have a
HUGE TA-DA!!!
I have finally taken some of your advice (
Harriet, specifically, I believe) suggesting I cull journals and compile the parts I thought would be worth saving for ds. I can't just tear out pages, b/c I write back and front and may have 3 days on one side of a page, depending on how "wordy" I was a the time. (Writing helps me think, as y'all may have noticed.)
SOOOO... I began that sort of half-heartedly a while back, but TODAY, I have typed up neatly the gratitude and meaningful Bible verses from TWO YEARS... and hand-shredded and tossed those two years into the garbage. I have already hole-punched and will put them into a binder or folder, also.
I think seeing the many, many, times that my "gratitude/blessing/thankful for" list includes him, ddil, and the dgrands will certainly "spark joy" for them... and I hope the Bible passages that were meaningful to me at various times will likewise be encouraging to them. I am also sharing
some of the "journal" type entries to give some context to what was going on at the time, but definitely not leaving them with notebook after notebook filled with my repeated attempts at weight loss, etc. Over and over and over and over... "Day One: Weight: ____ etc etc etc"
Ha! I can agree with
Harmony! My WOE is WOE is me...
I do not write EVERY day, so doing a year at time is manageable. Of course, this is two years out of 40??? But it's a start.
I haven't done much otherwise today (but the culling/typing didn't take much more than an hour.) Dh was so late getting home last night that he and I both slept a lot today... then ds and I took the dgrands to church and went to Bible study ourselves -- ddil wasn't feeling too great and needed to study, I think. Dgrands were the ONLY children there -- I guess everyone else is staying in and avoiding the flu.
I also talked to dh's doctor's office today in prep for tomorrow's appt, and talked to our tax man -- we're taking our stuff to him tomorrow also.
Tried to call dmom; apparently she has left her phone off the hook??? Grrrr....
Cooked supper but have NOT cleaned the kitchen yet. That is a Must Do before bed.
Played Headache and Battleship w/dgs...
Hope you feel better soon,
Twins!
Elizabeth, I need a new peephole in our front door. Ours is really too high for dh or myself, I think. I don't know what I was thinking when I told the man where to put it -- and I do remember telling him... and him QUESTIONING me re: whether or not that was too high. * sheesh *
So glad
Mr. Sunny wasn't hurt in the fall!
Sounds like a nice party,
Kathryn. I must admit, when I hear someone talk about bitcoin, I am as lost as if it were currency on another planet.
Glad to see you and the lady at your church were of the same mind,
Harriet. Sorry some had hurt feelings, but I know you will have everyone back in good thinking at the next meeting.
I must see what
Mr. Dee is up to...
Waving to
ALL!!!