New Year's Resolutions: Turning Pages

Here it is the last week of January and I have found myself very resolved to turn some pages that have been blowing to and fro in the winds of my life. This, after resolving, not to make resolutions that I would just blow and get mad at myself over.


FIRST PAGE --No matter how hard I try to clean, I find myself just shuffling STUFF from one room to another. This is so DUMB. It’s interesting how burdened we as humans can become with our stuff, just “in case”. Jon & I were raised by depression kids who had to live like that to get by. As much as we detested it growing up, we find ourselves doing the same thing, often to excess. I’m not saying being frugal is all bad, it just needs to be kept in perspective. The first few years of our marriage we were glad that we knew the lessons learned by our parents’ tutelage. It helped us get by, stay healthy, stay out of debt, and keep our priorities straight.
Skip forward a few years …. finances eased up. Though we always seemed to be “tight”, we have accumulated so much that paralysis has set in. When all your time is spent looking for something, it is time to PURGE! One page turned and held down by a big old rock.

SECOND PAGE --Change perspective. Different events in lives around me have made me want to “get real”. The lemon tree out back is loaded with fruit. With Garrett’s help, this ole gal is making lemonade! It will take several more days to finish squeezing all the lemons and freeze it up into cubes. Lots of time to think. The first day I did this it hit me, hard! I love lemonade, especially in the nasty, hot, miserable summer that is fast approaching, that will enable me to grow lots of wonderful vegetables for the good of my family, (see it’s already working!) I will have lots of lemon cubes to make lemonade, and remind myself to look at the blessings in my life.

THIRD PAGE –Finish projects or get rid of the stuff to do them with. Hopefully, this will help me to sleep better. One of the projects is just hanging some shelves in our bedroom and put all the knick knacks & pics up to complete our “woodsy” bedroom. That will be so restful and make it a retreat, especially when I get a good reading chair in there that we can enjoy.
I am excited to continue these projects. By rotating through them, I can make progress, rest my feet, back or whichever is tired and not get bored! Wish me luck. I need it ;-}