I've missed writing here. As I always say time just rudely does not wait for me. She flits and flies by with no concern for my needs. As much as I'd like to pull her stem out and just stop her hands for a while, she doesn't allow anyone to do that. Each second just keeps ticking away as I listen to the beat of the pendulum rocking back and forth under the clock on the wall.
We've had snow here in Maine and there is snow on the ground. Today is bright and beautiful, but the wind is howling and kicking up the snow like a professional skater twirling with great speed on the ice. And yes we had a white Christmas. We've had some warmish days and some of the snow melted off the driveway and the amount on the ground lessened, but today even though there is hardly a cloud in the beautiful blue sky, there is no sign that any snow is going to melt today. But we're in Maine and so it goes. A friend of mine who used to live in Alaska and who now lives in Arizona wrote a short note recently comparing the fact that now they are where it's nice and warm and I, who used to live in Dallas & San Antonio, am now in Maine with the cold and snow. He asked in the fashion of "Dr. Phil"...."How's that working for you?" Well it's working just peachy!! Life is so good! When you are totally content and happy with someone and they are totally content and happy with you.....I think it doesn't much matter where you live or what the weather is like. Someday we might decide to move to a warmer climate, but we look at this this way......we're sitting here on January 1st, heading for a visit to Texas later in the month....then it will be February....then March and when March gets here be it Maine or Texas....spring is not far behind. It's all relative. Here in Maine we have 4 months of pretty cold weather and snow. In San Antonio there are 4 months of pretty blistering hot weather. If you are where you really believe you are meant to be, you adjust and take it in stride. So it's working just fine for me.... (except when my dear sweet 85 year old Daddy calls from San Antonio and jokingly says it's 70 degrees here and gasoline is $1.32)....now that's just mean! Ha Ha! But I adore him anyway.
We had a lovely Christmas sharing an evening exchanging gifts with our girls and grandchildren here in Maine and sharing gifts with my family in San Antonio and Denham Springs, Louisiana. John and I had a nice quiet Christmas day by ourselves celebrating the way we love to celebrate....lots of silly gifts (so we have lots to open) with riddles on each box to try and guess what's in the package. It doesn't matter if it cost $1.00 or $100.00. We take the time to think about something that made us laugh or something we mentioned to each other we'd like to have....the real gift to each other .........is each other. We are thankful for the simplicity of the day and our love for each other.
New Year's is usually pretty quiet for us, but this year we decided to invite a few neighbors over and we had a truly fun evening....a potluck of snacks and a mingling of laughter, talk, and thoughts. Good friends, good neighbors, good night. John and I even managed to stay up til the ball in New York dropped (on TV) and we gave a New Year's kiss and hit the hay....like the two old "party animals" we are.
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and I wish for you a safe, healthy, happy and prosperous 2009. Stay warm, tell those you care about how you feel and please keep in touch.
I'll be back here soon....til then smile and be happy.....2008 is over and done....you have a brand new sparkly slate to begin again.
I saw a sign in the mall the other day that I loved.....It said..... "It's never to late to live happily ever after".
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