When we both my girls joined our family I had short hair. Hope, my youngest had begged me to grow it out, so I thought, sure…It took me several years to grow it out, but it got really long after I left my marriage and I just kept letting it grow.
Getting it cut this time was more than just a change of style, in a way it felt like I was lopping off a lot of negative energy. Like when people who have dreadlocks cut their dreads off. It feels like a freshness that I have needed for quite a while.
Footfalls on the stairs
They are smaller than my own
My daughter is HOME.
Time to recreate
The joy I had in my youth
With today’s wisdom
Time slips by so fast
You’ve broken my heart once again
I wasn’t prepared
It came as a shock
But it really shouldn’t have
A new tale begins
My ex husband of 16 years called to tell me that he’s getting engaged this week to his girlfriend of the past 3 years. Although, I think it was very thoughtful of him to let me know as we still have many mutual friends and our family members still talk, I’m still processing this news.
I wish him happiness, but I want that kind of happiness for me too. It’s time to reassess where I’m at and where I want to be.
My orchid finally bloomed again. I was give. This orchid two years ago. Of course it was blooming when I got it, but then the blooms died away with the stem. I kept watering it thinking that it would bloom again, but it didn’t. The. I noticed that the roots were cramped so I changed the pot and put fresh orchid mix in there and now look! I have a pretty orchid just in time to brighten things up on this yucky winter day.
Otto is just about done. I just have to touch up the background and give I’m a couple coats of varnish and he’s good to go. Next up my little Zelda.
Monday was a kitty cuddle kind of day. I woke up and could barely walk leaving me on a heating pad on my back while the kitties and Zelda took turns making sure I was properly cared for. No worries though my back is better, at least for the most part anyway.
Harper took most of these home, but I will have you know that I accomplished the task of eating all the cookies she left behind. This is an accomplishment that I not so proud of, but they were yummy after all.
The last item I don’t have a picture of but I am happy to report that I am once again able to park my car in the garage. It is just in time for this ugly snowstorm too. Unburying my car is not something I am very fond of and I have been doing a lot of it recently.
I haven’t been that diligent this week with my posts, but I vow to pick it up next week!
Lap full of critters
My bathroom break put on hold
Can’t wake the babies.
The strong ones are left
The pretty ones all faded
These are my people
The wind bites my nose
Through my boots the ice bites toes
The sun kisses back
Gazing into the light
Blooms of promise appearing
From desolate soil
