When this mug was new, it stated Right this moment I Select Happiness. Happiness was on this fairly gold lettering. Properly, I’ve continued to place this within the dishwasher, and the Happiness has worn off. Now every time I’ve espresso from this mug, I take into consideration what it’s I Select for myself for the day.
Yesterday I selected to Breathe, take into consideration our new grand child and get by the day.
New grand child?? Sure!!
Rockwell (7 lbs 6 oz and 20″ lengthy) was born Tuesday morning round 5:00 am. Mother and child are wholesome they usually could get to come back residence tonight!
Daddy and Rocky…..
Grateful for Rockwell because it’s been a troublesome few days right here and all of us wanted some excellent news. That is child quantity two in our household born throughout Covid, so we missed out on that second within the hospital ready room pacing in nice anticipation for the infant to be born, then the chance to be with mother and pa within the room and maintain that candy little man.
I considered that second all day yesterday. I considered all that’s lacking proper now.
Tess and Manuel drove in from Dallas on Monday. Whereas they have been driving right here, there was an hour by hour replace on how everybody was feeling since Christmas Eve didn’t go as deliberate. Sooner or later it grew to become clear that getting collectively was not going to occur and we canceled one more household get collectively.
So not solely did now we have to downsize our Christmas Eve on the final minute from 19 to 7, we needed to cancel our large household get collectively scheduled for Tuesday evening. That’s the large occasion for us. That’s the one the place all of us collect in the lounge and I cross out 19 stockings that I spend nearly all of December purchasing to fill. Watching as every individual pulls one merchandise at a day trip of their stocking is my Christmas morning.
Christmas was cancelled.
It. Is. Carrying. On. Me.
I’m so comfortable we have been in a position to all collect on the cabin in October and have a houseful for Thanksgiving. These steps backwards with Covid the final a number of days have introduced a lot disappointment and put me in an emotional funk.
The final two weeks felt off and I ponder if someplace in my thoughts, I knew it wasn’t going to occur. The 19 plastic baggage with names written in sharpie on them, nonetheless stay within the basement in a field as we try to resolve a intelligent option to give everybody their stuffed stockings.
Right this moment as I sip my espresso from this brightly coloured purple mug, I’ve to ask myself….
How will I select to spend right this moment?
We have now a wholesome new member of the family, Tess and Manuel are right here, and sooner or later right this moment and tomorrow we are going to get in a go to with my mother and pa.
Yesterday Mike was gone a lot of the day working and the three of us knew we’d be spending the day on the home.
Tess and Manuel determined to work on a puzzle and that began recreation day.
When was the final time you performed Monopoly? The three of us agreed that we’d by no means performed as adults. After a 5 hour recreation, we realized loads, however could by no means play once more. lol
I used to be the primary one to bankrupt in Monopoly, so I opened my Trailer Home and started working.
I obtained outdoors the final two days for lengthy walks and labored on filling my head with optimistic ideas. Being outdoors and inhaling recent air did assist.
Surrounded by sweets now……I’ll freeze or trash something left right this moment.
Sorry for the downer put up.
Right this moment I Select Happiness. Somedays that takes a really conscious effort.
“love the life you reside, reside the life you like”
