Just to let you know, this is one, fine young man…if I do say so myself. He has spent all afternoon helping me make a picture, fix it all up with his magic, put it all on my site, and fix the title, and colors. Isn’t it beautiful? The thing about Adam is, he’s a perfectionist…so it has to be just right or he is not satisfied. I wonder who he got that from? Thanks, my sweet son…I love you for many things…but today, for giving me your time and talents…just to make me happy. I am blessed that you are mine! And, thanks, Suze, for sharing him with me this afternoon.

(By the way, he said if you are not seeing my new picture, you need to ‘refresh your cache’…don’t know what that means…but am passing it along.)

Well, this coming Friday and Saturday will be the first garage sale since beginning to rid my life of clutter. I am so blessed to have 2 friends who love me in spite of the fact that I have kept so much “stuff” that I really do not need. Now, I’m not like those people on Oprah who can’t walk through their rooms, but it’s true I have a hard time getting rid of things I might just need later. And I am very sentimental about things, too. Especially if it was one of my boys. Well, the Lord has been dealing with me about all this stuff. I have too much. And what I have could be used by lots of other folks. So, my friends Tina and Patty have helped me start going through and getting rid of things that are cluttering up my life. Patty came over one morning and took everything out of my kitchen cabinets and we decided to keep just what I needed, and sell the rest. Folks, we have 2 huge boxes to sell. I don’t know if you know this or not, but Gladware and Ziplock plastic stuff actually multiplies in the dark! I can not believe how much of that stuff I had accumulated and had pushed to the back of the cabinets. Well, Patty was a tough task master, and we got through it. That was over a month ago and I have not missed one thing we took away!
Tina and Patty have helped me several times start going through storage rooms and closets…and throwing away what needs to go.
FUNNY STORY: Don got a huge trash bin delivered to our house so he could clean out the garage…so we would have somewhere to put the stuff we were going to take with us when we move. Patty decided to work with him, because she saw him throw away things she knew I would want to keep. She found an old suitcase, that I got when I graduated from high school…good old white hard side Samsonite…remember that? And a matching train case? Anyway, Don said to throw it away…but Patty said she better look inside first. Don said to just throw it away…it was junk. Patty looked inside anyway, and tucked inside that little pocket in the back was quite a lot of junk all right…and a $100 bill! Of course, that gave Don plenty of ammunition to talk about how I don’t know the value of money! 🙂 It had probably been in there at least 20 years!
SO…..Patty is coming tomorrow and going to take charge of the garage sale..oh, she told me to call it a MOVING SALE instead, so that is how I listed it in the paper.
And, the money we make is going to all go to the World Changers Youth trip our kids at church are going on this summer. Patty is in charge of that…and will drive the bus. This is just the first in a series of MOVING SALES, I’m sure. We have been working in my sun room and studio…craft supplies and scrap booking stuff and paints…something else that multiplies in the dark! Wish us luck!

And I just don’t know if I am ever gonna get it back!!! 🙂

I am here to tell you, friends, that I am tired of winter. I want it to be on its merry way. I am sure somewhere in the world there are people anxiously awaiting its arrival. Sure, I have enjoyed looking at the beautiful snow in your pictures, I’ve enjoyed having a chance to wear my sweaters, and boots, I have even enjoyed warming up by the fire, sipping hot chocolate or spiced tea. But, enough is enough. This weather is so hard on my joints, I ache all the time, and since my immunity is compromised, I catch everything that comes around. Now, I realize that God has this season thing all worked out for the good of the whole universe, and I have no illusions that He will make concessions just for this weary, freezing, cold lady in South AL. But, I just need the sunshine to function at my optimum level. Come soon, spring, come soon!

I did find one thing that is good about winter………

And that silver lining….it’s best when wrapped around a delicious chocolate bar!

“Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, High God?