9th Week of Joys

As is my habit now, I keep up with things that happen each day to give me joy. I save them to read again on New Years Eve. It was very nice last year, at the end of a very stressful year to see happiness on even the saddest days.

February came and went and now it is March, I always wanted to have a parade on March 4th and could start the parade by just yelling the date. Who knows, it might happen someday!

Friday: TheHub came home mostly on time instead of working terribly late. With all the late nights he has been working, not terribly late was a true joy. He did a quick clothing change and we left to grab some takeout. 

While we were out we drove around a little just to see lights and some newly opened places.

It was a little disappointing to see restaurants filled to overflowing. I am right there with the next guy and covid fatigue, and I understand the numbers were on the decline, but I also read about  possible uptakes in numbers as the new strains move in. I guess my Covid cocoon will remain intact for a while longer.

Saturday: TheHub only worked through mid afternoon, so we were able to do a little running around. After we got home TheHub vacuumed out my car. Bless him! Then we settled in to watch the Alabama/ Miss. State basketball game. Bama won__barely. Roll Tide!

Sunday: It was a nice day, even though the powers that be had told us it would be rainy. TheHub and I drove around and looked at potential places we might like to move to when we downsize. Even though I have told him emphatically I will not be moving for at least 4 years, he is ready right now. The one of us who has emptied two houses in the last nine months is not only not on board, but is adamantly not going anywhere. We did find a couple of neighborhoods with beautiful scaled down homes, but there are a few reasons we will never buy there. Most of all we do not want to buy a house with a yard that requires more upkeep than our current one

After riding around (and it was nice to see places I never remember seeing before) we stopped by DIL2 and Son2's house to drop some crap off at their place visit with them for a few minutes. I have missed seeing them!

Monday: It was a rainy dreary day with about a 25 degree temperature drop. It was not cold but it was chilly and especially chilly when you understand we had to turn on the a/c a couple of times during the middle of the day Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Instead of plowing headfirst into sorting more lake move stuff, I read for a while and it was wonderful. Later while doing some deep drawer and closet cleanings (to  have a place to put this stuff from the lake that I neither need nor want) I found a face steamer that I have had for a couple of years but never used. I think I will start using it a couple of times a week for some good old fashioned pamper time.

Tuesday: It was still rainy and much cooler (southernism for freezing my butt off). I had several errands to run and ended by meeting my sister and may cousin at Mom’s house. She wanted Mom’s kitchen chairs and we were thrilled to give them to her. Mom would be so happy because they were so close  (and secretly she was Mom's favorite niece)

Later we settled in to watch Alabama/Auburn on TV. I only like basketball when the season draws to an end, and we are at the end now. I think it gets very exciting in March. 

Wednesday: Wow, I wore makeup two days in a row now. I think it was a post Covid record! 

After my grandmother died, my Mom and my aunt took her engagement ring to a local jewelers and had a duplicate ring made. Though I am not positive, I think my mom wound up with the duplicate, even though the rings were identical. Both rings had a ruby as the stone set in a rose gold band and mounting. 

When Son3 and DIL3 decided to get married, everything about it was non-traditional. Their life/their call!

They both had bands but she never got an engagement ring. Since neither my beloved sister nor I wanted the  Grandmother ring we asked DIL3 if she wanted it. 

When they were here at Christmas, she took it to the same jeweler who made it over 20 years ago and had it sized.  I got to pick it up for her. It is a beautiful and I am overjoyed that she wanted to claim the non-traditional ring for her own. 

Later TheHub and I went out to do one quick errand, and while we were out we phoned in a take out order to one of our good old standby joints. We had a few minutes to kill so we rode to our local rec center to see the newly renovated ball parks. We were able to pull into a parking space overlooking one of the fields and enjoyed watching kids play baseball for a bit. We spent hours and hours at the same park watching all three of our boys play, and it brought back wonderful memories of fun times.

Thursday: I had a nice conversation with Son3. His wife is nearly fully recovered from her bout with Covid and they heard they were approved for a new apartment. With the mass exodus from the city during the lockdown, apartments are a little less expensive than they had been. They will be moving to Brooklyn into a 3 bedroom apartment with green space, and saving about 400 bucks a month . Thrilled does not even begin to describe how they feel. I am very excited for them.

One the home front, there have been male cardinals vying for the affections of a single female cardinal. I love seeing the flashes of red fly by window as they dive bomb chase each other.

Have a great week finding joy! It is always out there as long as you look for it, but sometimes it hides and you have to look very hard! Now I am, off to reclaim my living room from the remaining boxes moved form the lake. That will be one huge joy in itself!