Anyone Still Here?

It has been a long time since I visited this space, much less write in this space. My last entry was my 49th birthday, in 2019.

A lot has happened in our lives and family since that time.

We survived a “pandemic” and three graduations (two high school and one college).

My husband left a ten year position at Terumo while dealing with the physical side effects of Lymes disease. Being free of a factory job has opened a door back into ministry, in a rather glorious way, and is leading a congregation of Filipino Christians here in Maryland. He is currently working four jobs; as a substitute for the local public school system and a few other side jobs.

I started a new “career” at Lowes. I have moved up from lowly part-time cashier to become the full-time PRO-cashier for our PRO department at Lowes, mainly working with contractors which are in on an almost daily basis and often several times a day. The social side of me loves the job. The physical side of me needed the regular hours, having crossed the half century mark.

Our oldest daughter has flown the coup and is out on her own, the boys are flying through college and our youngest daughter is thriving in high school.

I’ve become an orphan of sorts, my mom having lost a battle with cancer in November 2022. (My father passed in 2017.)

I kept promising myself I would come back here again and strive to write more consistently. Maybe 2023 will be the year… I have one “goal” for my year: Be not idle. I have been far too addicted to my phone: the draw of social media and mindless games have been a distraction from living life. As I wage war against the addictive phone I have turned back to reading, and painting again (actually finishing a commission, displayed in this post, I began in 2017!) and trying to do better at keeping up with household chores. Who knows, I might actually pick my cross-stitch back up again, that is something I haven’t done in 25 years… or quilt… learn to knit…

…is that my ADHD kicking in?

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