A new year....

I have slacked quite a bit in my blogging. I had slowed down quite a bit before my mother passed away and then....it seems I just kind of quit. I have been lax about many things.

To my wonderful husband I apologize for being a slacker of a wife. You are so very good to me and you deserve nothing but the best.

I have mentioned before that I am a lucky woman, and I am reminded daily how true that is.

I sit here typing this and he is scurry around cleaning after he went to the store and shopped for our New Year's Eve dinner and for New Year's Day, too!

On top of that, I was um, slightly stranded at work in my new car, which of course had me wound up. Once I reached him he was on his way to get me so I would not be alone waiting for AAA.

After I got off the phone with him I called the service manager back at the Saturn dealer and asked him a question....."if it was the battery, why will the key not turn in the ignition"...well, my car made the third one he has had this happen to this week, and not the same kind of car. Apparently the steering wheel was locked in just the right spot and once I jiggled the steering wheel the key finally turned and started. Of course this happened after I went "Judy" on the dealership and they were nice to me in spite of it.

Then, I called my husband who was almost to where I was and just came home. Where I am finally and looking forward to a lovely New Year's Eve with the answer to my prayers.

I used to ad a little something to prayers at night. I would pray that God would bring me someone special, to love me for me, and who would help me to become a better person.

Well, God could not have answered all those prayers in a better way.

Tomorrow is new year, it is time for the resolutions we all make. I have many in mind this year. Mostly I resolve to be a better wife, to the man that I love, with all of my heart- my husband, Sam Williams.

Thank you, God!

Day, by day...

It sure has been a difficult few months, losing a parent is such a hard thing to get through.

When you lose the first parent you still have one to turn too when you need, your parent. When you loose the one you still could turn too, boy is that tough.

There really is not a way to discribe it.

I know many of you know what it feels like. I know too, that time is the only thing that helps...

The firsts that you go through after losing a loved ones are tough too, yet, in ways even tougher when you don't have a parent to share the holidays with.

And me, I totally blew the last holiday I had with my mother, now she is gone and I can not make it up to her.

I hope and pray, so much that my mother knew how much I loved her, and how very, very much I miss her....more and more...day by day.....

I love you and I miss you so much mom!

"modern day packaging"...

"Modern day packaging"....

Something I remember my dad saying a lot as he had a hard time opening something. I find myself saying it more and more.

Think about it....you have cold pills, sinus pills in packaging that is more often than not difficult to open. Medicines that people are taking because they are sick. You have to wonder if the manufacturer even thinks about it when they design the packaging or do they just think "oh wouldn't it be funny to have people who are sick struggling to open these pills they just bought with the hopes of feeling better".

My husband mentioned to how they put arthritis pills in child proof containers...whats up with that....people who have sore fingers and you put the pills in containers that make it more difficult to open....

Boy, dad, did you know what you were saying when you would sputter about the "modern day packaging"....(it's only gotten worse dad)