Friday, January 1, 2021

My Words for 2020

Wow!!! I totally forgot that I was going to post about this! I haven't been into blogging much lately! I thought I would get #alltheblogging done over Spring Break, but it never happened! Anyway, every year, for the past few years people all over Social Media have done "Words of/for the Year", and last year was the first year that I had decided to do one. Last years was "Brave", and for this year, I have chosen two! I think it is funny that I chose these before all Covid-19 happened all over the globe! Oh how we need Patience and Gentleness with each other!! I can be very quick, abrupt, short and curt sometimes, when I am engaging with people. I 99% of the time don't mean to, but I know that I have noticed it the last while, in my exchanges with people. I really wanted to have more patience and gentleness with the kids I work with, with my nephews, with my family, my husband, etc. And while I don't always come off as gentle and patient as I should, I think for the most part, I am doing better (except for the one time I got impatient with my 8.5 yr old nephew this winter..oops!). And yes, I do realize that there have been more than one time, but I think I can honestly say that I have been better. I have consciously made the decision to react/talk to people in kind, even more than I usually do. How true this is for our current time! We NEED to be PATIENT and GENTLE with everyone, whether it is our own family, or others we meet shopping. We need to be patient and gentle with our neighbours; maybe there is a way that you could help them. Are they older? Do they not have the means to get around? We also need to be patient and gentle with our frontline workers. Yes, that includes, nurses, doctors, 911 operators, but let's not forget the grocery and retail store workers, our pastors, our leaders, our scientists, our news people, our city workers, and also, ourselves!

Ha! I started in Jan of 2020, wrote a bit in April, and it is now Jan 1, 2021, and I never did post this...well, I am going to do this right now. How funny that these were my words of the year last year....and how much we all needed to be patient and gentle with each other, and with ourselves!

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