The Week In Between

Enjoying the tree two more nights.

Disclaimer....this is a long post.

You might want to take a bathroom break, grab a snack

and come back. haha.  It's really a post for myself,

but you're welcome to read and comment..or not. :)

This might be my most favorite week of the year....

between Christmas and New Year's Day.  There are no plans,

no day program, no work, no leaving the house.

No alarms, packing lunches, no obligations.

The Mister (mr. workaholic) doesn't go into work...just

about the only week of the year he will do this!

We lounge, play with Christmas toys, watch movies,

and eat.....and eat...and eat.  

But my most favorite thing to do is to curl up alone with

a bunch of blank papers, a new empty calendar,

a glass of wine, and I think....reflect...contemplate...

plan, dream, critique, wish and consider goals, resolutions,

 and all of those crazy things people who love lists do!

It's a sickness, I tell you....haha....but I love it.

I've been quiet here on the blog more weeks than usual this year.

There were years on end that I didn't miss a single day!

And even though I've been quiet, it doesn't mean I don't have a

lot to say!  Gosh, there has been a lot of changes in my life in the

last few years...most things I don't ever write about.

And during 2016, I did quite a bit of taking care of myself

physically and emotionally...more than ever before.

So when I think of what to talk about here on my blog in the

coming year, there are so many topics I want to cover that it's

hard to know where to start!  I want to tell you about my New Year's 

 Resolution!  And how I lost 15 pounds without any exercise!  Yes, it's

 true..just a few tweaks to what I ate.  I couldn't believe it, myself!

And mostly about taking care of myself emotionally.

I've toyed with what to share here for several years.  I think

some people share way to much personal info.  I don't want to

air the family's dirty laundry. I'd never give TMI about my 

 immediate family members here under my roof.  But what about

other things?  I've deflected questions over the years about

the my parents, the fact that I'm a middle sister but my siblings are

obviously not a part of my life or what kind of effect that has

had on me.  I've mentioned a few times to closer blog friends the

possibility of writing about those things and have been met every

time with great doubt in the wisdom of doing so.  Yet the nagging

feeling continues that it would be good therapy for me.

Could it be that it would be healthy to get it out in the open?

I know I'm not alone in some of these struggles and hurts and I'm

seriously considering starting a Therapy Thursday series just to

say some things out loud.  Not weekly, but maybe monthly.

I think it might go a long way in doing myself some good and

might actually be a relief to not pretend that everything is

wonderful, like I do in my silence.   So, I'll think about this

a few more days and see.  Maybe I'll flip a coin to decide. haha.

2016 sure had it's big changes here!  I quit my auction job back 

in January!  Taylor and Lauren moved to Pennsylvania and just

today closed on their first house!  I turned a storage room into

a guest room.  I finally went to the doctor for my migraines and

got on a prescription that has changed 48 hour torture sessions

into painless days. (well, headache-wise, that is!).   We lost

two parakeets, just one week apart from each other.  And I

got to fly out to Utah to spend some time with my niece, which

was probably my favorite thing of the year!  Like every year,

it was full of happy and sad times, but with God's help we have

survived,........ maybe even thrived!

♥