One of the lessons I learned at the end of the year as I helped out a friend of mine in his flower shop is that I really can not work a regular scheduled job. I can not work for someone else. I need to be my own boss, set my own hours that work for me. On days when I am not feeling well to have the flexibility to work when I feel up to it. What does this mean for me? Will I ever go back to the workforce who knows? If left up to me the answer to this will always be no.
I learned I enjoy helping others more than I ever thought. I have had the opportunity to help in organizations and committees I never thought I would get the opportunity to and really enjoyed it. I think this year I am going to do more volunteering outside my church world. I am praying and seeing where this will lead me.
We must never take for granted what we have because there is always no matter what someone else far worse off than our selves. Look around us each day and we will notice someone. What can we do to help them today?
Lately I see a man around town pushing a shopping cart around saying I need $2.00, handyman, need work. Should we give him that $2.00 or can we offer to see if there are other ways we can help him.This Christmas my mother was ill with flu like bug. She has had it for just over a month now. She is finally starting to feel better. But you know when there are
family traditions and certain ways to do things and the matriarch of the family is not up to pare and not feeling much like directing or doing it means the rest of the family has to realize it is our turn to step up to the plate and make Christmas happen. It also makes you start to realize that our parents are not getting any younger and maybe it is time for Christmas to move to someone else’s home.
As a child growing up Christmas was always at my grandparents and then all of a sudden one day it was being shared from our house to my uncle and aunt’s house, and eventually just our family at our house and theirs at their house.
So maybe it is just time for it to be shared amongst our selves. After all we already share the vegetables’ and the Christmas pudding mom and me stuff the turkey
and pop it in the oven. It is mostly the setting of the table and the decorating that mom worries far too much over. She usually likes to set the table by the first of December, Family joke. And this year the table was missing 6 people as they were at the inlaws. So this year we had 15 at 1 table next year we have 21.Ok what did I learn over Christmas, the turkey definitely taste far better when you
cook it upside down. All the juices drain through the turkey keeping it far moisture than if cooked the right side up. Yes I did put the turkey in the pan upside down, accidentally on my mother’s directions. I asked her if I had it in the right way and she said yes. Now why did I ask because we have done this before, now we are going to make it a tradition as long as I am cooking the turkey?
New Years Resolutions... a topic for another blog
So until then Happy New Years everyone! May this year Bless you all, keep you all in good health or better health than last year
