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January
5, 2018
The
new year has arrived, full of glistening prospects, empty day planner pages and
a white snow-covered yard. Life is full of hope in January.
After
the Christmas rush is over I’m excited to scoop the Christmas cards off the
window sills and stuff them in the deer-head gift bag with my beloved stack of
letters. I clean up the hot chocolate/coffee/tea and candy bar, wash the red
and black quilted runner and put the candies safely in the pantry. I scrub and
clean, organize and sort, declutter and trash. I choose to only leave the
mantel full of greenery and deer sheds, red buffalo plaid and stars and my huge
chalkboard with the words Wise Men Still
Seek Him.
I
water plants and plan menus and next weeks sewing dinner. I putter and tidy but
the lovely holidays of puzzles and games and food and friends are over and it
feels rather nifty.
I’m
not one to make resolutions or pick one word for the year or plan fifty things
to accomplish in the new year. But in my own way I choose the hope, the joy, of
a clean page, a new day. Yes, I choose joy.
A
list of JOY
Snow
glistening, sparkling
Hot
coffee with a swirl of cream
Clean,
newly lined cup drawers
Clean
& organized cutlery drawer
Homemade
yogurt
Wyatt’s
love of Little House On The Prairie
A
lovely, working colour printer
Lamps
glowing
Wyatt
telling me he’s making it beautiful in here
A
tumble of colourful washi tape on the marble counter top
Straight
neat stitches
Messy
coloured pictures on the fridge
Opening
an empty dishwasher
I hear you there is something about January that is nifty 😄 the cleaning up and getting yourself geared for another spring and all the work it brings!! I'm so glad for January and February at least in this part of the world where our other seasons are so intense we need those months for recouping!! My opinion anyway 😀
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ReplyDeleteI agree. I'm cherishing the clean page of January, these months that aren't quite as intense as the rest of the year. A beautiful list of Joy. :)
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