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I'm so looking forward to 2020, and hoping it will be a better year for me in many ways.
I'm hoping my health will improve so that I can do more quilting, house cleaning, shopping, and visiting with friends. (Notice the order of things listed in that sentence.) Also I hope I will be able to get back in church soon. I really miss seeing my church friends each Sunday, and I especially miss hearing my pastor's sermons and his occasional solos. I can watch it on Facebook, but can't get the sound to work correctly somehow; it just isn't the same as being there.
I'm proud of my Crazy Embroidery quilt that took me nine months in 2019, as well as the two baby quilts made for my first great-grandson, but that literally is all I accomplished all year. Oh, I did make a couple of little quilted carriers for my walker, and they work really well for me, but that really is all the quilting I finished. I did begin the special project for donation to the firemen's annual awards banquet, but got only the top finished.
I'm trying to commit myself to read through my Bible this year, reading each morning after eating breakfast. I tried last year, but didn't make it; maybe I will this year. I'm also determined to get rid of a lot of "stuff" from lots of nooks and crannies all over my house and garage! Today I filled the big garbage can, and all that will be gone when the truck comes tomorrow. I have a few appointments the first two weeks this month, and then maybe I can get to quilting again.
Last night I scanned over all my year-end blogs since 2010 when I began blogging here. My year-end blogs back through those years were much happier than this year's post.
I didn't put out nearly as many Christmas things this year; I just couldn't get in the mood, and really I wasn't able. The family came here for Christmas dinner on Christmas Day, and I sent most of the leftovers home with them. I made one batch each of divinity, fudge, pecan pralines, peanut patties, and peanut butter balls dipped in white chocolate. Not one batch looked like mine of past years; I was very disappointed and almost ashamed to share them, but knew I didn't need all that sugar left here. They were all glad to get it, of course, but they agreed it didn't look like my candy usually does.
Anyway, the day after Christmas I began packing up all the decorations I could, and got the rest of it all moved into the sunroom, awaiting my son who would have to get the big tubs from the garage. He came Monday morning at 8:30, and by noon, we had it all packed and back in the garage or bedroom closet, even the front porch lights, except the hanging Christmas quilts. I didn't have their replacements out of the cedar chest yet, and he had to go to work that afternoon, so Santa and the poinsettia quilts will stay up until he comes back next week one day. I can't get on the ladder to take them down, and then the others up.
I've always left "Christmas" up until New Year's Day, but not this year. I admit it made me sad, but somehow I just wanted to get it all packed away; most unusual for me!
It has been fun reading about all the fun things you quilters enjoyed this past year, not just at Christmas. I'm hoping I'll have some better things to tell about this time next year. For now, I'll just try to keep plugging---I mean stitching---along.
Happy New Year to everyone! Hopefully this year will be happier and healthier for me too!
---"Love"
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My wish for you in the coming year is that you will regain strength and encouragement from your daily scripture reading (something I'm also trying hard to do better at this year), that doing what you love (quilting, getting to church, visiting with friends - notice I didn't say cleaning!) will give you strength. I think we all get a bit down after the holidays, even the best of years, must be something about the shortness of the days right now. Good health and joy to you my friend!
ReplyDeleteOh, Love, I sure hope you have a better year!! I think you got a lot accomplished anyway! A lot more than some people do, that's for sure. I will pray that you will be able to go to church and get out more. In the mean time, I know you have much to be thankful for - the main thing is the salvation that God had provided and the spiritual blessings that are already yours. Even a small bit of sewing if you can handle it every day would be good your your well being. We quilters just relish the time that we have to sew and for some strange reason it does us good even if it is just a few minutes. I'm so happy that I have been able to have a "sewing room" here at the AIRbnb in Florida. Abby even did some piecing for me and loved to iron the blocks. I might have to undo a few seams, but I can do that easily. I'll send you a couple pictures by email.
ReplyDeleteI hope, too, that 2020 is a better year for you. Not feeling like yourself, or doing the things you've enjoyed in the past is hard, I know (remember that last job I left? It sucked all the joy out of my life, so I understand), so I hope for the best for you. And no one really cares what your candies LOOK like, it's how they TASTE!!!
ReplyDeleteI hope you get to feeling better soon! I know I would be so sad if I couldn't be with my church family every week.
ReplyDeleteI also am reading my Bible regularly. I started last July and began a new reading program yesterday. May I encourage you to not fuss if you don't make it through in one year. It doesn't matter if it takes you two years to read it through. The goal is not to check off a box to say you got it done, but to love and know God better. =) When you are done, start over again!! I use an app called Reading Plan that is very helpful, but I also found a website where you can set up your own reading plan that is very cool! Sorry...The link is long. =) http://www.biblereadingplangenerator.com/?start=2020-02-01&total=366&format=calendar&order=traditional&daysofweek=1,2,3,4,5,6,7&books=OT,NT&lang=en&checkbox=1&colors=0&dailypsalm=0&dailyproverb=0&otntoverlap=0
Have a great day!!
You had a difficult year, and I'm sorry Christmas did not bring you as much joy as usual. I wish you better health and a positive outlook for 2020. *Hugs* PS I think I'd tuck house cleaning at the end of the list :)
ReplyDeleteHoping 2020 is a much healthier year for you, too. You like to be busy creating beautiful quilts and enjoying your family and friends. Hope that all gets better this year. But, enjoy each day as it comes, look for the good parts and take the time to let yourself heal. Looking forward to much more fun things for you this year!
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