Dear Diary, Already my prayers for the New Year to have more time with my Family is coming true. In just a little while we are going over to my youngest daughter's home to help tidy up inside and outside and to play with our grandkids. Later our other children and grandchildren will be coming over to enjoy a shrimp boil and each other. Even though the temps will drop some tonight there are 4 fire pits outside and plenty of firewood to keep them all going while we all enjoy some boiled shrimp and boiled sides like potatoes, etc. My heart is singing with joy right now at the thought of all of us being together this early in the New Year. I'm bringing my camera to record the first answer to my prayers for 2018. I think I'm going to make an appointment to cut my hair next week too. I'm ready to make a few changes but will not make any die hard resolutions that end up only dying a few weeks into the New Year. I'm just going to take one day at a time and see what little changes I can make to bring more joy to 2018 no matter what life may throw my way. It was a rough 2017 with a few hard knock downs included but this year I've got my boxing gloves ready along with the First Aide Kit and my Gratitude Journal. I'm starting 2018 with an attitude of gratitude and thanking my heavenly Father for each day of blessings but ready to stand firm with my boxing gloves on when those times come too.
Dear Diary, I send a private message to my oldest daughter this morning before she left to teach school and asked her if I could treat her to lunch on Saturday or Sunday so we could have some one on one time. I was sure she would tell me her girls had this or that which she had to bring them to or attend. But much to my surprise she said Saturday would work fine for her or Sunday after 1pm. So we set up a luncheon date for Saturday and she will come and pick me up and I will treat her to lunch. I am excited. My oldest daughter is the one I see and talk to the least...even though she actually lives the closest to me. I miss her and the close relationship we used to have and although it isn't a resolution that I made...I did hope to come up with ways I could spend more time with my daughters. Their lives are so busy with husband, children, home, and full time careers to balance. But I'm not getting any younger and it's important to me to have some one on one time with those I love. So today I reached out for that one on one time with my oldest...and she reached back. Thank you God. Bless the time we have with each other with love and joy and give our hearts the desire to find time for this one to one time a little more often this New Year.
Dear Diary, A little change in the Luncheon plans with my oldest daughter since Saturday has a 90% chance of rain and thunderstorms. We will do lunch on Sunday instead and sunshine will be out on that day. Time with my oldest daughter....priceless. )
oooh that's lovely..( sorry Babs I know this Diary is just for you to write and us to read)...but I couldn't help commenting on how wonderful it is that you'll get to meet up with your eldest for lunch and some mum and daughter bonding time...and BTW she is so beautiful, as are all your family.. it must be all that good southern home cooked food.. ETA...sorry while I'm posting, Can I ask how your Sister is now Babs...is she back on the Chemo, is she responding to it? is she a younger or older sister ?...Pray God she gets well...
Y'all are welcome to post in my Diary section @Holly Saunders. Thank you for asking about my sister. She is on the full dose of her chemo pill which upsets her digestive system and bowels. She is older than me by just a couple of years. In about 5 months she will have another full body scan and see if the full dose of her chemo pills have shrunk the tumors again. So many of my siblings are beginning to have serious health problems. One of my younger sisters back is so bad and bringing so much pain that they are talking surgery for her. Another younger sister who has Primary Progressive Aphasia is losing more and more of her speech, writing, and comprehension skills. She is the one I go to the beach with and has the same Birthday as me. Not only is she dealing with this but now her husband has something wrong in his hips and had to be taken to the ER last week with pain so bad they had to give him two doses of morphine to even numb it. They ran tests but do not know what is wrong so they sent him home with pain meds and he is on crutches now. I don't know if he will be seeing a Specialist or not...but I think he should. I don't know where all this weird stuff is coming from either as no one else in our family line that we know of has had any of these things. I know we are all getting older and health problems will come to all of us in one way or another...but some of these things that are happening to my siblings are really hard to understand. One of my brother's has prostrate cancer but he is doing well since his surgery.