It's been a few days since I posted my last blog. Alot seems to have happened with my two Daughters, and a step Cousin, and two of my neighbors, and a couple of my friends who live in the same town and area in Northern California. So I have been on an emotional rollar coaster for the past few days, simply because I love and care about all of these people. But when I woke up, I was thinking about one of the Beatles songs. So I pulled the song up on You Tube, and I listened and enjoyed. I still believe in it's message: "Love Is All You Need". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maXGPQE3Aaw
It's a good song to listen to and get our minds into the proper frame of mind. However, what my family, friends, and neighbors are going thru are very serious things. Almost all the problems, except for two folks, is directly related to the recession and finances. Over the years, I have tried to help as I could financially. One friend I helped over the years here and there, called last night and told me she isn't going to have a Christmas. I'm not going to get into everyone's business here in my blog. Besides, one of my family members, I know something has happened, I just don't know what yet.
We think the Holiday Season is a time for family and friends to gather together, think of God, and reach out to one another. Some people reach out during the Holiday Season when distance is between you geographically. My Mother had a Aunt Mary who she rememered as a little girl, and the only time her Aunt Mary and her would write back and forth, is during the Holiday Season. My Mother did this, her last time, Christmas 1994. My Mother turned 68 December 29th of that year. My Mom passed on 3 months later. So I then took up where my Mom left off, and continued writing my Great Aunt Mary every Christmas, until my Great Aunt Mary passed on in 2008. Now family back east in Pennsylvania and I send Christmas Cards back and forth every Christmas. Christmas Cards may be the only thing I can send out this year for the Holidays. This year I am on a fixed income for the first time. Due to my health, I have been forced into an early retirenment.
But I still love the Holidays! My Son put up the little Christmas Tree on the Fireplace Mantel for me. It's a fiber Optic little green Tree and it's so beautiful when it's turned on. And I also have a little "Christmas Village" complete with houses and stores that light up. And street lights. And it has a mirror cut in the shape of a frozen pond in which two skaters are on it. And I have fake snow that everything sits on. Not cotton, but tiny bits of snow, and it my Christmas Village brings a smile to me every year. So I have decided, even though I can't do alot this year, I am still celebrating the Holidays in Spirit! I am going to remember God, Family, Friends, and Pets. I am going to remember those who are still in this world, and I am going to remember those who have passed on. I am going to remember all the good memories I have of the Holidays growing up and over the years with my kids. And I am going to thank God for all my Blessings!!
I think everyone needs to stop and be thankful for their blessings, no matter what is going on. Do you have a roof over your head? Be thankful. Do you have food in your mouth? Be thankful. Do you have a warm place to sleep? Be thankful. Do you have family, friends and/or pets around you that love you? Be thankful. Be thankful we are all still here! And with this thought, this is going to be my thoughts for today. When all of us wake up in the morning, we can choose to look for the good, the positive, the constructive each day we wake up. Or we can choose to get sucked into the negative. Negatives are always going to happen. But it is my thoughts and choice today, and I hope you will join me, to focus on the good, the positive and the constructive! Now, lets all go and have a Happy Day!!!! :-)
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