Twinkle Toes

Pedicure toes on the ceiling of trailer.  I love our weekends away! :)

The Honeymoon Stage

The honeymoon stage is a timeframe where your life is carefree example: you have a job but you have not started actually working at said job.

And this is where Ii find myself for the next 10days. It has been requested that I return to a more in depth mamogram. So they can "look" at something.

Since I am not the type of person to worry about something before it happens I am not stressing out or going crazy over this but................it has got me thinking..things are ok until they are not.

My Aunt was just told she has a brain tumor. She was fine one day and the next day she's not.

It makes you take stock of your life. What have you done, accomplished, what is important. 

Favorite smells

There I was cooking Sunday night dinner and as I bent down to get a whif of the onions and garlic I was sauteing in oil olive, my favorite smell by the way,  it got me to thinking of the other wonder smells there are. So here is my list: 
sheet that have been hung out on the clothes line
a new born baby
grass that has just been mowed
chocolate chip coookies baking
those pine cones with cinnamon
lemons
coffee
toast
popcorn
a rose
sweet peas
just to name of few

654 days of pure joy

I have sanded, painted, grouted, scraped, hammered, planted, harvested, dug, sprayed, feed and weeded.  All while listening to the birds.

I have cleaned closets, drawers, windows and screens.  Create a sewing room and extra bedroom.

I have taught and mentor. Counseled and listened. Taken classes, gave classes.

I have sewn, clip, stitch and quilted.

I have camped, hiked, climbed, walked, talked, seen the sunset and  sunrise.  Felt the rejuvenating waters of an oasis, had my head in the clouds, hands in the sands and soaked in the sun. Seen nature at its bests.

Spend hours visiting my friends and family, especially my mother. Became a stay at home mom . Gone back to sleep in the mornings, read magazines, played words with friends, watched the Price is Right and Fashion Police. Read books, started a Blog.

Cooked, baked, pickled and canned. Cooked dinner every night and packed lunches.

Became my husband's best friend and lover.

I have become strong.

I have had heaven on Earth.

Snap out of it!

Maybe I'm venting, but what is going on.  Just got off the phone with the 3rd girlfriend who says they are not putting up a tree this year.  Their kids are gone, or its just a hassle.  Hello, life is a hassle and we all need to embrace it.  I understand that when you have a full time job you are short on "free" time, you are tired and everything else you can tell yourself why you shouldn't.  Here is the reason why you should. Christmas is a special time of year and the tree/decorating is the symbol of the spirit of Christmas.  Its a time when we should reflect and think of others, open your soul to giving and love.We live in a crazy fast pace life, don't let your "job" steal your soul.  There will come a time when you will not have the option of putting up a tree or doing much else. You will have all the time in the world but not the abilities to use that time.  Life is an attitude.  

One size fits all......apparently not!

Ok ladies, i need to get this off my chest, so to speak. 

I'm the type who likes to keep "like" items together.  Tops in one drawer, pj's in another, you get the idea. Well,  I have this nice dresser that has a lingerie drawer.  You know its the top drawer,  very convenient to keep those "items" we wear everyday.  I wear fiber lined bras so my nips don't show, you get me.  The cup is very perky even when empty, due to this I can't closed the drawer.  Apparently, my dresser is made for C cup or smaller. 

Just a tip if your in the market for a new dresser.  One size does not fit all.  In the meantime I have to mix my undies with outside clothes. :(

"shell of a woman"

So my husbans says to me the other day, "you're a shell of the woman you used to be".  I was shocked! Not at his comment, but how spot on he was.  I've been leaking, not in the Depends kinda way,  but in a way that  I can feel the hormones leaving my body, the essence that use to drive me.

Gone is the metabolism
Eyesight...Hearing
Passion -  I can't get too worked up about anything.  Life is short
ambition - I look back at the positions I've had and I think who was that person

The metamorphiose has turned me into a  person that is very grounded.  Gravity.  I go to bed with the chickens (as my mother says) and get up before dawn. I wouldn't know what to do with an evening out and this is from a person who quite often went to bed very late.

Don't get me wrong, I love this new chapter and look forward to how it will deveolp. I use my energy now for myself, family and friends. I enjoy every single day.

Its just different and it seems  not much is said about entering into a senior.  Which I guess is the term, I'm certainly not middle age.

Moral of this story, I don't have one, expect to say.  Life is alway changing enjoy it all.  

I almost forgot, went to the doctors the other day for my yearly woman's exam, and was told I really don't need these yearly anymore.  Every 3 or 4 years will do.  Medical prove that I am turning into a  Garden Nome, friendly soul with no real purpose. Ha