Happy Sunday. Remember last week I asked you to think of something that made you smile during the course of your week. I am sharing mine for the week. I hope you enjoy the fall colors and photos. Taking long walks with the babies and seeing the many different colors in the woods always makes me smile. Check out some other weekly smiles here.
Now, what made you smile this week?
Always remember,
Love your day your way.
This morning I was staring out the window watching the sun’s reflection through the trees and I felt so peaceful. At the same time I think to myself what do I want to accomplish with my life that I have left. Heavy thoughts for someone feeling so peaceful. I don’t mean this in a morbid way or anything like that, totally the opposite, just reality and thinking of exciting possibilities. It seems like as I get older if I want something to happen I just sit back and wait for it. Like maybe it is going to come strolling through the door and say “Oh hello here I am, that great idea that you thought about but kept putting off, Now let’s get busy.” Let’s face it that is not going to happen. If it did I would probably be sitting in a chair drinking coffee and wouldn’t even realize it for what it is, was, could be.
I am the world’s worst at believing that things will just magically happen whether I take the time to make them happen or not. I have started to realize this is not so. ONLY YOU CAN MAKE THINGS HAPPEN!!!
It seems like when we are younger we have goals we get a plan, we start working towards it, we set higher goals, We fight to do whatever it takes to make it happen. ONLY YOU CAN MAKE THINGS HAPPEN!!!!!
And then it seems like as we get older we get busy. Life, work, family and lots of other things get in the way. Sometimes our day to day work, job, etc., can suck the ambition right out of us. Those hopes and plans and dreams that we think about fleetingly, in the early morning hours or as we drive to work or do laundry or grocery shop just get pushed to the back of our brain. But you know what?? they shouldn’t. We have to keep them alive and we have to make them happen. ONLY YOU CAN DO THIS!!!! Only You can make things happen. Things are not going to magically fall into your lap and be wonderful. Life is tough but so are you. Do it!!! Do it now!!! Even if it is a small step to something you have been wanting to do in your life, do it now!!! Write a book, open a shop or an online shop, start a blog or a vlog, develop your passionate hobby, take online classes, go back to school, volunteer, travel, mentor, learn to play an instrument learn a new language. So many wonderful challenging things await you. ONLY YOU CAN MAKE THINGS HAPPEN!!!!
I would like to __________________. Fill in the blank and then make time for it in your life. ONLY YOU CAN MAKE THINGS HAPPEN!!!
Are you ready??? I can’t wait to hear what you are up to and I can’t wait to share some things with you that I have in the works. Isn’t it exciting!!!!
Always remember,
Love your day your way!!!!
I was ever so glad to see the weekend come along this past week. After a very tiring week I was happy to have two days off with not much to do. On Saturday I did my usual grocery shopping and buying supplies for my mother in law. I did get to visit with her through her door, which is glass, for a few minutes on Saturday. I also made a cake for my nephew’s seventeenth birthday and delivered it to him. I made a quick trip to the Mennonite Farm Market close to my house. I bought a few gourds for my front porch and some cucumbers and some cinnamon rolls. These rolls are truly unbelievable. One of my favorite things about visiting the farm market, other than the cinnamon rolls, is the beautiful scenery around the farm. I was hoping more leaves had turned but the color is still a little bland. The weather has turned really dry and the leaves are brittle and falling to the ground in big crunchy piles.
On Sunday I watched a couple of movies and knitted and snuggled the babies and basically caught up on laundry and things like that. I had the house to myself this weekend because the hubs had to work. I put chili in the crock pot and knitted on a new scarf. I decided that I would like to go out in the back yard and lay on a blanket in the sunshine. I just knew that Scruffy would want to do this with me. I felt like I needed Vitamin C. Maybe even get some color on these pasty white things sticking out of my shorts, better known as my legs. I opened the back door to go out onto the deck and Molly tore into the house and wanted in her room. Yes she has her own room. It’s the laundry room but it is all hers and we refer to it as Molly’s room. HA!! This got Scruffy all freaked out and he refused to go out the back door onto the deck and out to the back yard. Don’t ask, I have no idea why he just refused to go out the back door. I put Molly in her room and got Scruffy outside. Kitty Kitty was looking at us like we had all lost our minds.
I found a good sunny spot for the blanket and got settled on it with my knitting and book. But once I got out on the blanket I noticed that Scruffy refused to get on the blanket. He just stood next to it looking at me like “Mom what are you doing? why are we not walking?” Scruffy likes being outside if he is taking a walk but otherwise he prefers the comforts of the house. I finally gave up and went inside. No ants crawling up my legs and the couch was a lot comfier.
All in all a very nice weekend just what I needed to gear up for the week. I will be linking with another blogger next week for a post called The Weekly Smile. It will be about things that make you smile during your week. So think about it this week when you catch yourself smiling at something cute or nice or just because you are happy. Hopefully this will become a weekly post where we will share what makes us smile. I think we all need more smiles during these crazy times.
Have a wonderful week
Always remember
Love your day your way!!!!
Thursday morning, My alarm went off at 3:30 A.M. I changed my alarm from The Rolling Stones, It’s Only Rock and Roll, to Brandy by Looking Glass. It is a much gentler wake up. It doesn’t almost give me a heart attack when the alarm goes off. Especially at 3:30 in the morning.
I always check the weather on my phone to see what the day will be like. The weather looked promising with lots of sunshine. We were headed to Nashville for a follow up appointment for Mark to check on the shingles. They are doing much better but we also needed to see what the new medicine was doing to his kidney function. Hopefully it was not disturbing it at all.
I ran downstairs for coffee and let Scruffy go out for a pee. I got the babies some food and me a large cup of coffee and a bite of breakfast. I had to boot Molly out too so that she could get a bathroom break in before we left. It was still be dark when we left so we had to put her back inside. I’m not taking any chance on coyotes.
We had to be on the road by 5:30. Our appointment was not until 8:30 and we gain an hour because of the change from the eastern time zone to the central time zone. It is about a three and a half hour drive for us and you never know what Nashville traffic may be like. The reason we like really early morning appointments is because we get in and out before the appointments start backing up. This gets us back home by around 2:00 PM.
I packed a cold pack with waters and a few snacks. Mark can’t have anything to eat or drink until after he has blood work. He sleeps on the way over. I sip on a yeti full of coffee and listen to my music and drive.
The drive over was uneventful, traffic was not too bad. It seems like we have made this drive a hundred times, probably have I have never stopped to add it up.
We arrived about twenty minutes before the appointment time and checked in. They told me that I would not be allowed to go back for the visit this time because they are only allowing the patient. I smiled and said nothing thinking oh yes I’m going, that happens to be my kidney as well. HA!!! And I did.
Mark and I were both concerned that the shingles were not healing as fast as they should be but the doctor reassured us that with him it was just going to take some time. More time than it usually does for the average person. She said the tenderness and some of the irritation could last for months. She also was not happy to hear that Mark was back to work full time she said his body was still healing and needed extra rest. All I could think was “preach sister” he won’t listen to me. When we asked how she felt this new anti-viral medicine that Mark was taking for the shingles was affecting his kidney, she said it should not affect it at all, for the length of time he would be on it. He will have to be on it for another week or so. She said his one kidney was functioning at the same level as anyone else with two kidneys. This is what you hope for of course but it doesn’t always turn out that way. Whew!!! we were relieved!!!!
Mark had to go to the lab and get his blood work and I made a trip to the Starbucks, located inside the hospital, to get him a coffee, his first of the day. Within an hour of arriving at the hospital we are out the door and headed home. After another hour the results from his labs started coming in on his Vanderbilt patient portal that he gets online. Everything looked great!!! The kidney, Baby Kay, was still going as strong as ever. What a relief.
I would like to say we zipped right back home but we ran into one delay after another, car wrecks, road work, road closures etc. We finally made it home by 3:30 exhausted but so relieved that everything was going well that it was all totally worth it.
I hope you week is going well.
Always remember,
Love your day your way!!!!
Southern Patches 