WOW! Kids and friends, these past few months have been a little trying to say the least. Just when I thought I was back in action I got what I thought was a head cold. We all know the kind. Starts out with watery eyes and stuffy nose. After the first day the nose looks as if it is ready to audition for the lead in the reindeer parade…. red and puffy.
Well, I lost another couple of weeks, including Thanksgiving to the worst chest cold (some say pneumonia) I have had in years and years and years. I’m not even going to pretend to be 100% yet, but I am so close that it scares me.
So, here’s the thing I’ve been thinking about while I have had endless hours to think. I am just plain old thankful for just about everything, even the cold. You see, sometimes we all get so caught up in going and doing and rushing from one thing to another that we really forget to embrace the silence. I guess maybe I needed a reminder that sometimes it is okay not to do anything.
You see, as soon as I thought I was mended from a little incident I had I got to moving about too fast and doing too much. Okay, folks… I am admitting it. But, I’m not exactly one to sit around and wait for things to happen. And, I’m not really good at being gracious when others try to help me out. Maybe it’s the nature of women. We are accustomed to doing, not having things done for us. And, no… I am not a control freak. I gave that up years ago. But, sometimes we get into a groove where it seems easier to do for others than to let anyone do something for us.
I have always been on the active end of the spectrum. But, you see I was just about back into the full groove when this cold hit like a ton of bricks. I guess for those who believe in a higher power it was a last kick in the pants to remind me that I was starting off too fast. So, I am back and slower than ever.
Enough of all the remorse. There is no need to look back. Some say hindsight is 20/20. For those of us old enough and Southern enough to remember Billy Carter (former President Jimmy Carter’s brother) he put it a little more bluntly. “Hindsight ain’t worth a s#*%.” (Sorry for the quote, but….)
So today, I am just thankful. Nothing special and everything special. I am thankful.
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I am thankful that you write here.
Blessings,
Stacy
Stacy,
Good to hear from you. Thank you. I can assure you that you have no idea how thankful I am to be able to write here.
Please keep up the interesting work on Mama-Om. I must admit that I smile when I read it… remembering when. I have suggested to my daughter-in-law, also a Stacy, that she read your blog and learn. (Granddaughter is now almost 1 year old.)
Love your work and insights.
Maya
Hi Maya, good to hear from you again and I hope you well feel better and sort of come to a good feeling of not being so young any more ! my wife just turned 60 and is happy about it despite hearing difficulties etc. etc. and , the overalls movement, allow me to call it a movement!, really moves forward and it is amazing to read how many, not least many of your “sisters” who felt they were alone with their “obsession” with overalls, so it is really a matter of how you approach life in general ! btw how turned it out with your mother in law, did she get her overalls ? lol Niels