End of the Year

 

I’ve dressed Bam up in sparkles to help me spread Christmas cheer and get ready for the new year.

I have not been good about tending to my blog in 2022.  I fear I spend too much time scrolling through FB which, I am discovering, is not good for my mental health.  They say that social media is not good for our youth and I ascribe to that but I don’t think it is good for adults either.  So, while I do use FB to keep up with certain friends and family members I will be getting out of all the groups I am a part of and I will be narrowing down (again) my friend list.  I have told myself the addiction has to stop and an addiction it is.  When you open it in the morning with a cup of coffee and at 4 pm you are still sitting there waiting to read something profound you know there is a problem.  And I have been experiencing a deep sadness and depression over the last few weeks and I attribute it to social media so I must move on. And I am missing my bloggy friends! So, I am hoping to be more consistent in my posting in the coming year.

This years Goodreads challenge went well — my goal was 25 books and I managed to complete 35 so for 2023 my goal is going to be 35 and we will see how it goes.  My most recent finish was “The Irish Nanny” and it was very good and I recommend.  I have been lucky this year in choosing titles — I only gave up on one — so that was what I call a success.  I started a new book yesterday, another of the Garden Girls cozy mystery series, but since I won’t be finished reading before the new year it will go on next years list.  I highly recommend that series, along with other of Hope Callaghan’s books — good, clean, fun reads.

My journey back into cross stitch has been relatively successful.  My current project is a piece representing the five kids in the series “Stranger Things”.  Bean watched the series and then introduced me to it.  I did it because she was so excited about it but in the end I really enjoyed it.  However, I haven’t gotten the piece completed— only a couple of hundred stitches away but I won’t be done to give it for Christmas so it might have to be a New Years gift — spread out the joy a bit.  My kids brought me a kit from their Thanksgiving trip to NYC — it is The House of the Seven Gables and that will probably be my next go along with completing my pieces from Williamsburg.  Those three should take me the whole year!

The weather here has taken an unfortunate turn.  It has been very cold and we even had some snow.  I am a South Texas gal and this isn’t my cuppa tea but hopefully it will be over early in the week.  

So, I will be closing the year out here now.  I wish each and every one of you and your loved ones a wonderful holiday season and a prosperous and healthy new year.  See you on the flip side.