By Mary Hill
This week has flown by and in some ways it has been challenging, with bad news for our soon to be son-in-law. He made a dumb mistake, and it cost him his job. To be young again and be dumb and make mistakes. Oh well, maybe not. I can still remember the knots they caused in my stomach. I feel like I am spouting platitudes when I tell him this too shall pass. Stay positive, God will see you through.
Before this I had a small tiff with my sweet husband over housework. He seems to think that I should be able to do better despite my pain and arthritis. I got mad and disappointed, but he is right to a degree. I have to learn to push through too and not let this disease stop me so much. I didn’t write much this week because of some stiff and painful mornings. I gave in really and gave up. He got on me and I got mad. We exchanged words, but had fun making up.
So, I have to be a little creative. Does anyone know how to clean baseboards when you can’t get on your knees or get up from the floor without help? I guess I could use my walker to help me up if I lock the wheels? I know, KR. She has a friend coming over tomorrow and I have a future son-in-law. I am going to have fun tomorrow.
Am I on three or can I count the above as six things? Let’s see. I guess so. (1). I am thankful for future son-in-law, (2.) KR, and (3.) her friend. (4.)I am thankful I have help if I ask. (5.) I am thankful for my walker. (6.)I am thankful for a husband who doesn’t let me give in to pain and pushes me to overcome.
(7.) I am thankful that I have started out a new year by starting my own blog hop at : http://maryanderingamongthepages.blogspot.com/2014/01/whats-in-my-stack-monday-hop-2.html
I even made my own button for it: 
. I hope you will stop by and check it out. Best yet, I hope you will join in. I am also open to co-hosts for the hop. You can be permanent, guest, whatever. I am kind of like Lizzi in this. I kind of just jumped in and decided to give one a try and see what happens. I felt like a new type of hop about inspirational literature was needed. I want the best of the best books or writings featured that inspire and motivate us to grow.
. I hope you will stop by and check it out. Best yet, I hope you will join in. I am also open to co-hosts for the hop. You can be permanent, guest, whatever. I am kind of like Lizzi in this. I kind of just jumped in and decided to give one a try and see what happens. I felt like a new type of hop about inspirational literature was needed. I want the best of the best books or writings featured that inspire and motivate us to grow. 8. I have more writing gigs. I have been invited to write for a magazine. My deadline is January 31 and the magazine will come out this Spring. I will post more when the time is right. I have a couple of others in the works too. I will have more information soon.
9.)I am thankful that I have three hours still to post this. I was late this week, and I know that I am making it by the hair of my chinny chin or some nonsense cliche. I just had so much going on with pain and issues. I couldn’t miss this week’s hop though.
10.) I am also thankful for my new header. What do you think? Katherine from Katherine’s Corner designed it for me. She improved upon my earlier design by Iris at Charming Blog Design who designed my entire blog. I was blessed with both designs because I won them in giveaways. 🙂
10.) I am also thankful for my new header. What do you think? Katherine from Katherine’s Corner designed it for me. She improved upon my earlier design by Iris at Charming Blog Design who designed my entire blog. I was blessed with both designs because I won them in giveaways. 🙂
11.) I am thankful I have another week to overcome and grow closer to God, friends, and my husband.
God bless everyone. 😉
Your header is so pretty, and matches that little mouse not-an-arrow thing so nicely. 🙂
As for the baseboards…I assign those to the children. 🙂
I sometimes wonder if my husband will ever call me out for not pushing myself enough because of my pain. There are days where I just don’t feel like it. I just want to sit and not make it worse. And I do absolutely nothing productive. Seems to happen more lately. I’m glad you have someone to push you to be your best.
I hope you son-in-law-to-be learned from his mistake and finds a new position soon.
Christine thanks so much for stopping by. I enjoyed reading everything. I hope he learns too. 🙂
Congrats on founding a hop 😀 I hope you have lots of fun with it.
Sorry to hear about your nearly-son-in-law. That sucks. I hope he gets another job soon, and then you can be extra thankful for that. Glad that you were able to resolve things with your husband.
And can you do the low-down cleaning from some kind of wheelie office chair on its lowest setting?
It would be a lot easier to curl up and just try to be comfortable, but your husband is right in pushing you to move. I know my pain is better when I exercise regularly and worse when I don’t (so why don’t I keep up my exercise regime better?). You did a great job finding things to be thankful for when you didn’t feel well. And I vote that you don’t worry yourself over baseboards. If someone else has a problem with dusty baseboards, THEY can clean them.
Congrats on the magazine and your hop. I will return to find out more, the cat is cute. Happy New Year Mary.
Your header looks great! Congrats on your new writing gigs. Sounds wonderful! 🙂
how cool is this?
“Am I on three or can I count the above as six things?”
Tp paraphrase a line from ‘Airplane!’, you’ve picked a great day to need a Secret Rule (as in the TTT Book of Secret Rules)… I may have (written today), just what you need to help:
Rule 7.7 (subchapter 5) that states, in part” ’if a participant commits to a tricky list and totally finds (themselves) without the… whatever to finish, provided they3 are at the halfway point (see Rule 3 for def of halfway) then you are permitted to claim an item credit that is the equivalent to 50% of double the number of items written so far’
…lol a bit more text than I thought I would be pasting.. but, what the heck hope you feel better
Yes the skin of your teeth! I was almost ready to be done and there you were! What does that mean anyway? I don’t review books but I think I’d like to see what people share on your new hop. Maybe I will be inspired to read or to write about it!
You are a trooper doing the baseboards…. you really are.
Your header looks great, and I like the idea for your blog hop, too!