May the New Year bring you lots of love, new friends, laughter and great health. May you easily see all the lessons that friends and Life bring to you in 2011. May 2011 be as prosperous as you want it/allow it to be. (You do have a choice in the matter. None of us, as adults, are helpless victims of Life.) May the love of family and friends warm your heart and soul every day of 2011. May 2011 be the best year that you have ever had for growth and discovery of the real you. Know that this particular request can open you up to facing pain as well as joy in your life. Both are sometimes necessary for for real growth to happen. Remember the saying, "Be careful what you wish for. You may get it." Just not in the way that you envisioned. We forget that God sees the whole big picture. We don't. We also don't always know what is good for us. God does.
In 2011, become more aware of how you are influenced by those around you and how you in turn influence them and others that you come in contact with daily. As a valid example of this, I want to share a comment with you that I left at the following post on the blog Confessions of a Mystic. Here is the link to that blog post:
http://teresasilverthorn.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/one-of-you/ .
"As a child, I learned to be whatever those around me wanted me to be, to be accepted and loved. As an adult and survivor of childhood incest, I learned to be me. If you didn't like me as an authentic person, you didn't need to be in my life.
Today, over 20 years after starting my walk down this particular path of recovery, I am still discovering parts of me that I disconnected from and left behind in order to survive growing up in my family. I like the me I am today. I like the me that I am still becoming. More important, I have learned to love the real me more than I care for what you like about me."
Today, I am full of love and gratitude for all that 2010 has shown me and for all that has happened in my life because of beginning this blog in 2007. I couldn't have imagined the growth or the friends that that one action brought into my world. I am grateful for each one of you that reads and comments here on my blog. Each of you brings new Light into my world. For that I thank you all. Sending lots of love and (((Hugs))) your way for now and for the glorious beginning of the New Year 2011.
Patricia
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year To All
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of my wonderful subscribers. The pneumonia finally left and went on its way about a week and a half ago just in time for my husband Daniel to give me his cold with sniffles and cough. As if I wasn't already coughing enough for both of us. The cough has continued to linger even today. I don't cough as often as I was so it too is slowly going away. My energy levels are now close to normal which is good with the Christmas cooking that I am doing today. We celebrate Christmas Eve with my in-laws and Christmas Day with my brother, sister and her family so I cook food for both family celebrations.
Today I have already made a sage cornbread dressing the way that my mother showed me how to make when I was a teenager. This is one recipe that I have never measured. I always do it by taste which is how my mother did it. I don't like dressing in the turkey so I have always made mine separate. For Christmas, my sister-in-law is cooking the turkey and I have a ham waiting to go into the oven as soon as I am finished baking the 3 pumpkin pies that are in the oven right now. Later I will make a fruit salad with Cool Whip and Eagle Brand Milk and Cherry Pie Filling. I also made a cheese ball for my brother-in-law and Baked Beans for my neice and sister. This year that will be the extent of my cooking. I missed out on all of that Thanksgiving because I was sick with pneumonia.
On another note, you know that our son and daughter-in-law got married by a Justice of the Peace on May 12. Well, they still wanted to have a big wedding for family and friends to see them say their wedding vows. The wedding happened on Saturday, December 18 at 6:00 p.m. We had a turnout of about 45-50 people. Jeremy's best friends from Boulder, Colorado came in for the wedding. Melonie's dad, who at first didn't think he would be able to be here for the wedding, moved back to Hot Springs last week so he was here to give her away. Last month when she didn't think that her dad was going to make it to the wedding, she asked my husband Daniel to give her away. He said yes. He had no problem stepping down when her dad could do the honors. When the music started playing, I looked around and Daniel was nowhere to be found. I thought to myself that he was going to miss the bride walking down the isle. He didn't. Unknown to me, Melonie had asked "both of her dads" to walk her down the isle. Daniel said no at first because he didn't want to step on anybody's toes. Melonie told him that she had asked for permission to have both of them walk her down the isle. I know that touched Daniel deeply even though he hasn't said that it did. I thought it was very sweet of Melonie to include Daniel. It was a beautiful bride and wedding. I was blessed to be well enough to go to it.
I didn't intend to leave my blog unattended for so long but the pneumonia and then recovering from it took longer than I expected. Then I got busy with the wedding. I gave gift cards to some of the people on my Christmas shopping list this year because I simply ran out of time to shop or wasn't well enough to shop. I almost always have the majority of my Christmas shopping down before Thanksgiving. It just didn't happen this year. I am going to go check on my pumpkin pies now. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a glorious New Year of 2011.
Patricia
Today I have already made a sage cornbread dressing the way that my mother showed me how to make when I was a teenager. This is one recipe that I have never measured. I always do it by taste which is how my mother did it. I don't like dressing in the turkey so I have always made mine separate. For Christmas, my sister-in-law is cooking the turkey and I have a ham waiting to go into the oven as soon as I am finished baking the 3 pumpkin pies that are in the oven right now. Later I will make a fruit salad with Cool Whip and Eagle Brand Milk and Cherry Pie Filling. I also made a cheese ball for my brother-in-law and Baked Beans for my neice and sister. This year that will be the extent of my cooking. I missed out on all of that Thanksgiving because I was sick with pneumonia.
On another note, you know that our son and daughter-in-law got married by a Justice of the Peace on May 12. Well, they still wanted to have a big wedding for family and friends to see them say their wedding vows. The wedding happened on Saturday, December 18 at 6:00 p.m. We had a turnout of about 45-50 people. Jeremy's best friends from Boulder, Colorado came in for the wedding. Melonie's dad, who at first didn't think he would be able to be here for the wedding, moved back to Hot Springs last week so he was here to give her away. Last month when she didn't think that her dad was going to make it to the wedding, she asked my husband Daniel to give her away. He said yes. He had no problem stepping down when her dad could do the honors. When the music started playing, I looked around and Daniel was nowhere to be found. I thought to myself that he was going to miss the bride walking down the isle. He didn't. Unknown to me, Melonie had asked "both of her dads" to walk her down the isle. Daniel said no at first because he didn't want to step on anybody's toes. Melonie told him that she had asked for permission to have both of them walk her down the isle. I know that touched Daniel deeply even though he hasn't said that it did. I thought it was very sweet of Melonie to include Daniel. It was a beautiful bride and wedding. I was blessed to be well enough to go to it.
I didn't intend to leave my blog unattended for so long but the pneumonia and then recovering from it took longer than I expected. Then I got busy with the wedding. I gave gift cards to some of the people on my Christmas shopping list this year because I simply ran out of time to shop or wasn't well enough to shop. I almost always have the majority of my Christmas shopping down before Thanksgiving. It just didn't happen this year. I am going to go check on my pumpkin pies now. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a glorious New Year of 2011.
Patricia
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