October 22, 2016

Greetings My Friend, Today has been a "just roll with it kind of day". I did my quiet time with God and found myself getting up entering into this Saturday with the cooking done for this week or so I thought. I pulled out some meat to make chicken soup to put into my homemade broth and some ground meat for hamburgers, meatloaf muffins to find that the ground meat had not thawed and I was hungry, so I put in place plan B, egg muffins with home made bread. At that point we finished off the egg muffins so I needed to make more, I keep them on hand for quick meals or something to grab if we are running so we won't get fast food. Next I decide to make more egg muffins before I realized there was no sausage cooked up to put in them. We have adopted Boogie and Debbie's method of boiling the ground meat and then draining the water off of it. It works out real nice. Once the sausage was done I was tired so off I went to take a nap. Today's nap was a short one 20 minutes to a half hour which makes me real happy. While getting lunch together Junior informs me that after his nap we will head to Lowe's and grocery shopping, I was planning on making a skirt so plan C is in the making as I write. At one time in my life these interruptions would have thrown me into a thither, not so today. I keep seeing that the work gets done or it is not that important. I was a little irritated I grew so tired although I know this is what I deal with. Some days I don't need much of a nap and other days I conk out for a few hours. The closer to the weekend I get the more I need a longer nap so today's short nap surprised me. Last week I could not get to sleep until late into the morning and this week has been about 1:00 am when I am nodding off which is later than I'd like to fall asleep but life keeps teaching me to roll with it. I have learned to start my day when I wake up no matter what time I wake up and it helps me tons. I do have a hard time making myself get things done late into the night. A friend mentioned that she did a lot of sewing when she had a family and she found that if she had things cut out she sat down to sew when time opened up for her. Yesterday I cut out 3 skirts to sew and now the game plan is to work on them as time allows. This would help me at night when I am awake late into the night. Settling into my older years has been a lot of change, learning to live with change, learning new ways to do old things and in the process I find I have not gotten stuck in the mind set of it has always been that way and desire to stay stagnant. All of this upheaval has opened the door for learning new things and a wonderful joy with growing and learning. I believe God has allowed some of these things to happen in my life so that I stay active, growing and not stagnant. I am grateful to learn lots of new things and from the growth we are eating home made bread instead of store bought, less processed food, sleeping under quilts I have made and so much more. Junior has been learning how to renovate which is keeping him active both physically and mentally. We know it is not us but God who is working in us. Junior will be 70 in a few weeks and I marvel that we can still do most things although in different ways these days. We see around here in Clintwood where people are into their 80's and beyond keeping up their house, farm and so much more. That is awesome and Junior and I are working toward this goal with God's guidance. May God bless you and keep you make His face shine on you. Love Janet