Happy New Year!

 

Here we are at the end of another year and the beginning of something new.  Thank the Lord for new beginnings. New chances to learn and grow and create. It's been a year of roller coaster rides at Kathy's cottage, but that is what makes life exciting no?

I have never been one for New Years resolutions. I have to agree with my niece Emily about them, "I'm not into lying to myself", she said at the family party yesterday.  I  was especially impressed with her viewpoint in dealing with them. Her resolution? "I will eat chocolate every day". 

 Amen my dear girl, and Amen.

So in the spirit of new beginnings and not lying to myself here are my non-resolutions (anti-resolutions?) for 2013

 

1. What you said Emily. About the chocolate:>)

 

2. I am going  to enjoy every bite I take. I'm tired of obsessing over what I eat. It hasn't helped, but I am going to try to slow down and let my body tell me when it is done enjoying the food.

 

3. I am going to indulge myself.  I'm not only joining the gym, I'm hiring a personal trainer for a while to help me get the most out of it. It is a splurge, but I'm worth it.

 

4. I'm going to stop feeling guilty about not having time to meet every need and finish every project. Guilt gets you nowhere, it doesn't finish the project, it doesn't write the post, and it doesn't inspire me to get more done. Enough.

 

I want to live intentionally this year. There are habits I have fallen into because they are easy. They are also destructive.  Time ticks away year by year and I feel the need to make some changes in the way I view things, in the way I do things and in my attitudes. Never stop growing.

Happy New year to each and every one of you! May it be a year of change, of growth, and of living life to the fullest!

 



Snow

 

“Wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful? Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand new!
A new year ... a fresh, clean start! It's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on! A day full of possibilities! It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy ... let's go exploring!”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: It's a Magical World

 

 Snow. This time of year we are obsessed with it. We want it, we don't want it. We love it, we hate it. Whatever you think about it, however you feel about it, here it is. We got 4-6 inches last night. The sun gleams off it today. It's kind of pretty, a little annoying.

I'm not a big fan, but when it's fresh and white I kind of like it and when it's grey and dirty and frozen I loathe it.

Did you get some snow this week? If you did, I hope it was in time for Christmas.  That is when snow really shines isn't it? We all want snow for Christmas:>)

We had snow for Christmas, or rather, we made snow for Christmas.

These sugar cookie snowflakes to be exact.  Fun and pretty and they never get grey and slushy.

My favorite kind of snow!

I Hope your Christmas was white and wonderful.

And now, the New Year awaits. I always breathe a little sigh of relief when it's time for a new beginning don't you?

What does your new year hold?

 

 



Merry Christmas...

From our cottage to yours.

Wishing you all the merriest Christmas ever!

Love   ♥Kathy ♥

Be the Light

What are we to do with this season of darkness?

The only thing we can do, be the light for a weary world.

Be the one who restores faith in humanity (and God) to someone who has lost that faith.

Help the hurting people that you know, and some that you don't.

Give more. Of yourself, your resources, your time.

Hold a hand, wipe a tear, listen.

Pray, pray, pray.

What if we each found 26 people over the next year to help or comfort?

One every two weeks, it seems doable.

Start with yourself. Turn off the news, not because you don't care, but because the media fills the air with meaningless and unproven conjecture as they rehash what little they know.

They aren't interested in truth or fact, they are interested only in selling air time.

There are no answers there, only despair.

Turn it off and pray for the families, and for the people you know who are fighting battles.

And then light the tree and think about how each of us can  make a difference.

Be the light.

 

A Day of Silence