The kids all know when coming to visit Mom, PS……bring your work clothes. It has taken Russ eight years to put things together on what is going on and now he is turning on us. #2daughter2Too and I come home from long morning of shopping only to discover that Pops has removed an outside door and told her to paint it. Oh dear, and she did. What can I say? A running joke has become a reality. I’ve always told the girls “You have to be smarter then what you’re dealing with” and HE got smarter!
So you understand why I have to go on my, changed now to 2 year, Sabbatical from obligations and commitments thru Fall of 2021. I am spread too thin….(not talking about me). I don’t understand how I get so much done and don’t even have a job, and there’s never ending projects left to do. 30 hour days would suit me good. So I made a decision to wrap up all my extra obligations and focus on getting my home in order, room by room.
My presidency with the Carnegie Culture Club came to the end term, only with a booklet project left to finish. Vice presidency with RV Club wrapping up in September, all our club hostings are done with none in the future at this time, some other decisions to lay back on other obligations, closing my booth at Rusty Chandelier this coming Tuesday, quiet and more simpler Thanksgiving and Christmas plans this year…..and come 1 October, the road is wide open to full throttle on those lists of projects that have to get done!
The biggest loose end is my DAR application. One year under the belt and now new documents have to be uncovered. It’s time now to think about a drive to Topeka sometime to the Kansas Genealogical Museum to look at the “Shirley” book, find time in the future to go to the Fleming Cemetery in Valparaiso Indiana, meet relatives I’ve never known and get this stuff researched! I met a DAR sister the other day who took 15 years to find her final document!
It is a new kind of joy today to garage sale and go to antique malls for the sole purpose of buying ONLY for my home and unusual Christmas gifts, AND NOT buying for resale. 2 Too bought the console oak table for me for mother’s day. The beautiful pillow inspired me to look for REAL painted art to put atop of my credenza and get rid of store bought “pictures.” The yellow elephant, what can I say beyond…YELLOW! And the tabletop flat file cabinet is for my shop to fill with décor ideas. It all adds up that I need to find time to smell the morning glories and wisteria on the patio.
Waiting are the basement walls that need painting…I’m behind on wrapping the Christmas gifts, and my winter projects did not get completed YET, so new lists have to be made!
