Getting Ready

This week started off with a bang in that, once again, I spent half a day trying to get a flu shot, but couldn't get it due to this lingering case of bronchitis. Now, I'm on a high -powered medicine that will hopefully solve my problem. Who wants to feel bad this week, expecially when one has a birthday coming on Friday!! I'm supposed to feel good for that! The important thing is that I am celebrating a 67 th year! Wow, do they pass fast! Let me suggest that you enjoy every day the Lord gives you, cherish each of them and build your memories (while you can still remember them).

Speaking of memories, I am writing many of them down in case my mind won't let me remember them. I want that legacy to pass on to my children and grandchildren. I know my mom eventually had dementia and I so wish that I had written down much of what she said to us. She was such a special, funny little lady who enjoyed life and treated everyone with much dignity and worth. One a wealth of advice and love she had to offer!

Saturday, we had an all-day scrapbooking party as I mentioned earlier. Well, I ended up doing 14 pages, all of which tells a story of my college life. I still have one year of college, several teaching years, and dating days before I get to the heavy stuff: marriage and a family!! I'll make it though. I have all photos organized chronologically in file folders just waiting to be written about. But now, I have to return to the present: getting ready for Christmas! My family loves the season but no more than I, and I have lots of shopping to do, beginning the day after Thanksgiving! Yes, I am one of those people who loves to get out in the real rush of things! My sister and I will spend all day, from 8:00 AM until 11:00 PM shopping, eating and loving every minute of it! I need to start resting up for that day but I need to start back exercising so I can lug all those packages!! Woe to sore Muscles!!