Here I go again....that's the story of my life. I plod along and then realize that I am wasting so much time in my life and let's be honest...I don't have a ton left to waste. As a senior I am in the late...Fall of my life. Don't way Winter yet....😐 Anyway...I digress..as usual. I am again making an effort to be more intentional in what I do each day, enjoy life more fully and be where my feet are. I spend way too much time hanging out in my head and while that's fun - it just eats up time and accomplishes nothing. While I do believe that I come up with ideas and ruminate on things to understand them, I also know that I indulge in this activity way to much....to the point that it just becomes day dreaming. Ugh....I'm tooooooo old for that!!
I have to admit that I spend way too much time perusing Pinterest and Instagram and pictures like these just make my brain tingle. I'm a little obsessed with Lori Holt
and everything she does. Now...how to put those tingles into action
and productivity along with joy. Last year when I participated in Camp Reset
and I was able to put some good ideas into practice and I felt like I
was moving forward in my creative journey. Fast forward to this
year----I signed up for Camp again and didn't even crack open my
workbook. Fail!!! I guess life just got in the way but at least I can
still go through the materials and glean some tidbits and ideas on
putting them into action in daily life.
One of the biggest changes in our lives is that our youngest has moved out into his own apartment.Wow
- that is a game changer for us. This is the first time in our 34 year
marriage that we have lived alone. When we got married way back in
1985 I already had two precious sweet little boys so we have had
children from the beginning. Then we added two more boys to the team.
This is the first time I have lived without at least one of my boys
since 1978! I have to admit I was afraid of this and none too happy
about this change but at the same time I completely support my boys in
their independence and I realize that this is my problem not theirs. So
begrudgingly I have moved forward into this new stage in life and I
believe we are settling into it fairly well. Learning to cook for just
two, Sunday dinners only once a month rather than weekly, and spending
way more time alone with Lucy Loo as Greg is still working.
In order to not dwell on the empty rooms and feel sad we jumped right into repurposing
them. One of the rooms is now my sewing room/spare bedroom. Yay!! I'm
having lots of fun getting back into this and pulling out all of my
fabric and patterns. The picture above is a dream project I hope to
start soon. This is a great distraction from the quiet empty house.
This empty nest syndrome is no joke. But day by day it's getting
easier. 
