It has been a quiet, peaceful Christmas week. Of course I had my terrible grief moments and momentarily lost it, but I pulled myself together fast. Progress is getting over the moment quickly. I'm happy!
Yes, I'm craving a beautiful, delicious cake. You can tell by all the cake posts! And I have not posted all the recipes I have found.
Doing research for my blog posts has really been enjoyable. For most people, it would be considered work, but for me it is fun. I have always been a geek like that, loving work and being the classic workaholic. Not a bad way to be.
We are enjoying the beautiful weather that makes us Floridians happy to be living in Florida. Loving these open window days! Much of the south has been experiencing very nice warm weather, however, our friends in the north are having awful weather. The news was showing the travel difficulties at a time when everyone is going back home from the holidays. So sorry for you guys!
My lifestyle change of no sugar didn't work so well for Christmas. One of my Christmas gifts to myself was a pumpkin pie. Not just one piece, but a whole pie. Treating myself on special days helps me stay on track when I know the treat is coming soon. But I did go a little overboard on the treat.
Facebook gave me the gift of keeping me out of my account. Too many problems with Facebook. When it finally comes back, I think I'm done with it. I will learn how to use Instagram instead since I don't hear of too many problems even though they are owned by the same company. Maybe it is a better program.
Looking forward to a new year, even though I made much progress this year. It is nothing more than going from one day to the next, psychologically a new chapter in the book of life, a new beginning.
Hope you are all having a wonderful holiday week and being grateful for all your blessings. I know I am so grateful for all the good Lord has blessed me with . . . especially those awesome memories that still make me happy and sad and always will. Love and miss you Captain and Kiki.
Hope you all are having a wonderful joyous Christmas.
Here is an old Christmas video I made that never gets old:
Since I am a huge animal lover, I am always looking for others on You Tube and I found the cutest ever Merry Christmas video from a big time animal lover. They are special and precious! Hope you enjoy it as I have.
Happy Birthday Jesus!
Christmas is sad without The Captain and my sweet Kiki, but I'm OK, I have awesome memories to keep me smiling
He's making a list and checking it twice . . . have you been naughty or nice?
I've been nice . . .
This year has flown by and I can't believe Christmas is almost here. At least I am glad time has flown since I am closer to being "normal" and over all the sad stuff. But I'm getting there!
The world continues to go crazy, but what else is new?
I'm just happy for all the dog people breeding and selling dogs, letting us watch them grow up on You Tube and also the horse people showing off their horses or letting us in on their day to day stuff on a horse farm. For some strange reason, it has helped me deal with losing my Kiki girl. I love animal people and I have grieved alongside them when they lose one of their precious animals. I've watched some of them for years.
One of them just had a Christmas party for their horses and they dressed them up in festive attire. They were precious! Here is the link to the party if you enjoy festive animals having a Christmas party . . .
Hope you are all having and joyous and festive holiday season!
Happy Friday! Seems like we just started a new week and here we are at the weekend.
There is an article I posted to LaBelladiva that took me back to exceptionally good Christmas times with JR. It is about your first wedding Christmas ornaments and I thought about little things I haven't thought about in 20+ years. Stuff like shopping for Christmas ornaments and remembering conversations we had while selecting them. Priceless memories of times with JR after he's been gone over 20 years. Seems like yesterday. Check out the article and see what memories it brings up for you.
My posts the past couple of days have focused on recipes I would like to try since I am really bored with food. For one thing, cooking for one sucks and I really don't like leftovers. So I have decided to focus on meals that leftovers can go in the freezer for another time. I found lots of them!
Hope your pre-Christmas time is joyous and memorable. Cherish your loved ones and tell them you love them while you can.
This week has been a pretty decent week for me. Not for anything in particular, but I am feeling positive about everything. That has been one of my goals and it makes me happy.
I'm feeling pretty sad about all the killing that went on all over the world this weekend. So sad that killing people has become a sport and Rob Reiner and his wife . . . it is unbelievable that a child who I assume was very spoiled and ungrateful would kill his parents in such a vile way after all they did for him. The media has been in a frenzy and they make me sick. The whole experience has been horrible and it seems like it is going to be full blown madness.
My blog posts from the last day or so is listed below. I'm really bored with food and my new focus is going to be finding new recipes that I would like to make.
Hope everyone is having an awesome week! Better be good because . . .
Since it is now early Christmas with not much longer to go, I have been busy finding interesting stuff to write about Christmas. While I am still looking for more gift giving homemade food recipes, I am tired of looking at all those sweets. It is torturing me since I cut out sugar from my life. But my discipline has been excellent. I still have those canned refrigerated cinnamon rolls in the fridge and although I think about them, I have not made any. The recipes are tempting me to make them!
Funny thing about my neighborhood . . . we have traveling chickens and some very vocal roosters. The hens cluck along with their babies. Don't laugh, but I enjoy them very much. They have been around since before Kiki passed away. She would look at me like to say "what is that noise?" When they are traveling through my yard talking to other chickens, I think of Kiki. Missing her like crazy. I'd give anything to have her and The Captain back with me. This house is so empty without them. The cycle of life is maddening at times, yet so wonderful at the same time.
I've got gardening on my mind. That explains why I am starting to post more stuff on Subtropical Gardening. Looking forward to my container gardening. It is awesome to have desires again after none at all. The healing process is entering another grief phase which makes me very happy.
By the way, I am enjoying some new music for me . . . French love songs. Check them out, I love it!
Listed below are new blog posts . . . check them out!
Just a note to let everyone know that my husband, The Captain, passed away in 2023. It was a heartbreaking experience to put my sweet fur baby Kiki to sleep in 2024.
I am finally back to posting again. It had been a long time since I was able to update my blogs and have removed my website. I am still trying to get my life in order which has been one of the most difficult things I have ever dealt with in my life. I was already dealing with issues surrounding the death of my first husband. Here I go again . . . I am beyond heartbroken.
