Joys and Chaos

Each week I try and capture the joys for the week. Some weeks there are more joys than others, and some weeks the universe resets your opinions about what is truly joyful. The latter part of the 12th week of 2021 did just that.

Friday: I forgot to record this on Friday so I was having to rely on my memory for whatever joys there were during the day. Other than making substantial headway sorting through the accumulations from the lake and Mom's house the day was pretty lackluster. But then came the evening when we went to Costco. This is a sad joy but it really did bring me some serious happiness. The Keto "ice cream" bars were in stock. I like having them in the freezer for an occasional sweet treat without the carbs found in the really good stuff. Later we bought some take-out and settled in for the evening television watch party.

Saturday: TheHub went to work early and I messed around the house doing odd chores until about 3. DIL2 and Son2 came over to watch the basketball tournament here. Bama played Iona a very tight game and barely squeaked by to win. Roll Tide! Then we watched whoever played the next game. I don't even remember who it was but someone won! And though we did not get to watch it, Alabama's gymnastics team won the SEC championship!

Sunday: I was able to "see" our church service online. I have loved being able to continue to be a part of our church family even if it is not live and in person. I miss going, but there is something to be said for participating while wearing pajamas. 

This was a red letter day. It was the first Sunday in over a month that TheHub has not worked in the office. Yeah he still worked from home but that is different! 

Monday: Slowly but surely I got plants out on the front porch (which is really more of a stoop than a porch, but I like to have it "dressed"a little anyway) so it looks so much more welcoming. The laundry room started taking shape as I sorted through boxes and boxes of stuff that'd  been moved here recently. I will need to have a thrift store pickup soon because I have another load. I know this will end before long, but right now it seems like I will be sorting forever.

TheHub got home in time for us to have a quick dinner before the NCAA basketball tournament began.  We watched part of the LSU/Michigan game before watching Alabama/Maryland. Roll Tide

Tuesday: My sister and I had plans to meet at Mom's to start gathering all the small things we had left there that we wanted to keep. Mom and Dad had a few antique clocks and we were keeping them in the family. The one I got was seriously old and had never worked, even though Dad has tried to fix it and had it worked on a couple of times. It is a beautiful old clock which serve no purpose other than being ornamental from the time I was a kid (6 ish), when they brought it home from an antique store they stopped at during a trip we took to Pennsylvania.

Tuesday I loaded up a bag of things, stuck the clock under my arm and headed home. I walked in the house, put the clock on a table in the foyer and heard it ticking. I figured the movement of bringing it in the house just made the pendulum swing and it would stop shortly. I kept going back in the foyer and noticed it was still ticking, so I set the hands to the correct time just to see if they were moving. At 2 o'clock I heard a funny noise and realized the bong was coming from the clock. Freaky! I guess Dad finally fixed it!

Wednesday: Have you ever had one of those days that you plan according to the forecast? Tuesday night the oft wrong "They" told us we were going to have rain with possible storms, so I planned an inside day. Instead the day was drop dead gorgeous and I was stuck inside. My new mantra is to quit listening to "They" and to plan my day when I see for myself how it is going!

Even though I was not outside a lot there were gorgeous birds and things blooming all over the yard.

We did catch the first episode of "Aretha". I love the NATGEO Genius series.

Thursday: The joys for this day were different than most joys. We had severe weather with multi tornados all around us. Earlier in the week I had some tree work done, some big branches that were hanging over the house trimmed and all the low hanging ones removed, and I was so grateful for it. Even though the winds were high, we had no damage and no branches came crashing down. The same can't be said for subdivisions not far from us. A couple of them were nearly obliterated. I am feeling tremendous gratitude and at the same time sorrow for those who lost their homes and for those in the state who lost their lives.

And now I intend to move into the next full week of the year with gratitude for every good thing!

Go find your joys. They are there just waiting on us to recognize them!