Personal Diary

Have you ever kept a personal diary?  As I look back on my life, that was never really my thing.  I don't know why because I love to write.  I think about writing every single day of my life.  When I have a moment to myself I think to myself...you need to write.  Then I don't because I put pressure on myself and can't come up with a thing.  A week or so ago I was searching around looking for creative writing ideas and a personal diary came up.  DUH!!!  I have kept a prayer journal, I have kept a journal of favorite devotionals, I have been blogging for years but never did I think about actually documenting my thoughts and feelings on paper.  So I have begun.  I have a lovely hard bound black book somewhere leftover from school with blank pages.  Do you think I can find it?  No, so I found a plain old black notebook to start, nothing fancy.  I love it!  I look forward to it each day.  To sit with paper and a pen and just to write without worrying who will critique me...or better yet, I don't critique myself.  Whatever is on my mind that day is what I write about.  Sometimes I get interrupted and then my thoughts fly out of my head as quickly as they enter.  But what a lovely time it is to have those few moments alone, just me and my thoughts and my journal. 

If you haven't tried it...it makes an excellent writing exercise...It makes me totally free to be me.

Wishing you a lovely evening!

How time flies...

I am sort of sad that I have nearly missed blogging for almost a month.  I don't know what happened we had a nice relaxing Thanksgiving and then it was is someone held the gas pedal down on my life and the last two weeks have been filled with traveling, appointment after appointment, the death of my dear aunt, more appointments, a nasty bladder infection and flu like symptoms for about 2 days.  Do you think that is enough?  We were beginning to fear that we would be having Christmas without a Christmas Tree this year but we managed to head out for our family tradition early Sunday morning...because we skipped church we had a wonderful time of singing praises to The Lord on the hour trip.  It was bittersweet as we got home in time to switch gears to go to the funeral home.  But the tree is in the stand and in front of our picture window...as soon as I find my Christmas lights we'll be one step closer to putting on the decorations.

Dennis and I wanted to put some Christmas lights out...so we went to the store and bought some...them we debated if we wanted to put them out.  I asked him if we were acting old...lol.  I don't want to be like that it is just so hard when you hardly have a minute to spare.  On Monday, he surprised us, as we were at the studio he was wrapping my weeping tree in lights.  It looks cute and festive and we got the neighbors started...because they put lights around their door.  Then yesterday I put a big shiny bow on our front door it is covered with glitter and sparkles 24/7...now our neighbors have lights in their windows...Dennis and I see it as a competition...so our goal get the tree lights up tonight which you can see from their windows.  We'll see who wins:)

The sun is shining our air is crisp and cool but no snow yet which pleases me very much as I am a mild weather girl for sure.  I think that's it for today...I'm off to find my Christmas lights!