But you are a shield around me, O LORD; you bestow glory on me and lift up my head. Psalm 3:3
Always remember who you are, you are a child of God.
Well, today is Day 5 of my One Day at a Time year. I have to say I have “stuck” to it pretty well — my mind hasn’t wandered too much into the future, I am staying in the moment and just worrying about today. I am actually surprising myself.
My morning routine is going well. I am learning something though — pay attention to your internal clock. I was always an early riser and in recent times I have been striving to languish in bed longer. I don’t know why I think that is something desirable because I end up getting up feeling sluggish and “late”. So, this morning I woke up to the phone buzzing because of an Amber Alert and there was no going back to sleep. It was just after six o’clock. So, I allowed myself to lay there, play Wordle, check on the cameras in the yard and then I decided to start my day.
In short order, meaning before the dog was fully awake, I managed to shower, dress, makeup and make the bed and be fully ready for the day. This has become much easier as the days have passed. The first day I really had to think it through and, honestly, make myself go through the motions. Now, just after day 5, it is becoming second nature and I am actually looking forward to it.
I have been working on my planners today. Yes, multiple planners. Why you ask? Because I can’t make up my mind. I have a small one that I carry in my purse solely for appointments and school schedules. I have a large one that I use for the same appointments/school schedules but I also add food intake, steps walked and books read. Then I use Google calendar on my phone and iPad because sometimes the little pocket calendar doesn’t make it into my purse. Oh, and then there is the wall calendar. I use that so that everybody can see what is going on with us.
Clearly I have a problem and need to decide on one or the other or something.
I am making an effort to up my steps. I have a garmin tracker but honestly, it has never worked. It is my second one, the first one worked but this one won’t sync and the screen is so low light I can’t really read it. So, last night I purchased a new Fitbit. It will be here tomorrow. I am trying to up my steps to help my knee. We have a large yard with a sidewalk on one side. I will use the sidewalk daily but today I took Trixie on a hike. She was thrilled! She got tangled up around a tree and I was wishing I had taken my cane but we did ok. Maybe I should do it more often. Maybe I will. Hmmmm.
I am back into genealogy and I am giving a lot of thought as to how I want to proceed. I am feeling the need to write it all down, on paper, again and have that option as well as the digital tree on Ancestry. I really find comfort in paper — it seems like it is less likely to just disappear on me.
Anyway, I digress — I found this book and purchased it
My great-grandmother Dinah was born in Westbury-on-Severn in Gloucestershire. She lived there with her family until approximately age 9 when the Webb family relocated to Blaina in Monmouthshire. I am not sure how major a move it was because on the map the two places seem pretty close but in 1870 it was probably major. She was a very religious person and didn’t believe in taking photographs so there are only a couple of pictures of her and I am lucky to have copies of them.
When I received this photo from a cousin I was surprised to see how much she looked like my grandfather. I don’t know why that surprised me but I didn’t have a mental idea of what she might look like. She was very short — my grandfather was 5’4” and she could stand under his arm. She had twelve children. Was was not a pleasant person according to my grandmother who lived with her for awhile and she was known to chase people off the walk in front of her house with a broom if she didn’t approve of the person. She was a domestic all her life, working up until she died. She went to a Welsh baptist church both here and in Wales — both churches named Bethel Baptist — I wonder if they somehow sponsored them but I don’t know. Anyway, I am looking forward to getting the book to see a bit of the place she came from. I wish I could have met her — I doubt I would have liked her! Haha! But she passed 13 years before I was born. Bad timing.
So, I guess I should go empty the dishwasher, do the leaf control since we went on a hike and brought some in with us and put in my daily load of laundry. We are having a very mild winter, so far, and I need to take advantage of it and enjoy the outdoors a bit today.
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