Feeling Better

I spent a glorious Sunny Saturday in my yarden! Okay not the whole day but enough to make myself feel grounded and on the way to balanced again. I raked the front yarden. Watered the crocus and other plants in the front. Looked at the blooming ornamental pear tree. All of our plants are so confused right now with the few warm days we have received. Beautiful!

Then I rested a bit. I am still not 100% better and I need to take it easy. So then I went and raked the back yard, removed leaves from the aloe vera garden and took time to look at the 3 pronged bloom on the aloe vera. Cleaned up the ginko biloba and camelia plants. They are both getting ready to bloom.

Then I weeded a section of the hillside and planted the garlic. I watered the potted plants.

Now to the fun stuff! I got buzzed by a hummingbird, played with worms. I avoided the ear wig. I was able to get dirty and I loved every single minute of it!!!

I was able to finish a project in the family room and even though it is not complete, I started to take down the Christmas/Winter decorations and put up the love decorations.

I went to bed tired but happy! I am finding strength and inner peace. Today I am smiling.

To top it off, I touched up my toe nail polish and put clear nail polish on my finger nails with a sticker on each thumb nail. They are short and functional but cute at the same time.

Where was my sweetheart through all of this? He was watching his great team the Green Bay Packers go on to the superbowl while munching some homemade cookies that I made for him on Saturday.

It was a great weekend all the way around.....

Today I am Tired

Today I am tired. So much for not murmuring. I will try to get it all out of my system today....

I am tired of being tired, not feeling well, not sleeping well, coughing, sciatica pain, overly sensitive people that get so easily offended but do not mind offending others, pain in the neck people, whiny people, people that cannot do anything for themselves. People in general are on my bad side today.

I need a break.

I am looking forward to tomorrow after shopping is done and I can turn off the phone and not even talk to anyone but my sweet sweet husband. He keeps me on solid ground when it feels like the earth is about to swollow me whole. I need to work in my yarden and feel the warm earth and see the earthworms and inchworms. These things will be a salve to my soul. I have missed them. Between too cold, rainy, or being sick, and dark when I get home, it has been over a month since I have worked in my yarden. I need my yarden. It will make me whole again. Here is to tomorrow. I just have to get through today :-)

Murmuring

I have restarted the Book of Mormon CDs in my car to and fro work. I love that respite from the world as I drive. I am in the section of 1st Nephi where Nephi's brothers are murmuring. His mother murmurs when they are sent back for the plates. The family of Ishmael murmur when he dies. I stopped to think about all of the murmuring. What a lesson for us as Nephi admonishes them to stop murmuring and to think of the blessings from Heavenly Father. Now some of that murmuring is natural. Family member dies, they have to leave all of their worldly possessions to live, give birth, and eat uncooked meat in the wilderness, a mother concerned for the safety of her children. It just hit me really hard that the murmuring they did was "normal". Yet they are admonished to remember the Lord. Now how humbling is that as I murmur. Just replace the word murmur with complain and there you have it. I am going to work really hard on not murmuring going forward. I know my son is safe. My husband is alive. We are both relatively healthly. We have a home, things, food, clothing, shelter, safety, a yarden to keep us busy and give us some of our food, grocery stores to help with the rest, jobs to provide the money, and the gospel of Jesus Christ to give us faith and hope. There is really no room for murmuring or complaint. All is Well!

Book Review

So I just finished the first book of three in the "Hunger Games" series. Wow! Intense! That is all I am going to say. From first chapter to last you will not want to put it down.

California Cold

For anyone who doesn't believe it gets cold in CA hear this I pray. We had to cover our dwarf orange tree with blankets to protect the fruit from frost and freeze for a few nights in January. I know, I know for those of you that live in "100 degree below zero" temps this is nothing but when you are not used to it or prepared for it, it can be quite the shocker.

Happy New Year!

I cannot believe how fast the time flies. My last post, I was worried because Christmas was only 10 days away and now it is already half past January!

The Accounting world is rough this time of year and I am treading water and still able to breathe so it will all be okay as always. I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I just need to be patient with myself and all those around me.

Here is to a fabulous 2011!!