Lilly Sway

Well a new year is cresting our lives, and we have it all to do again, and again with a little more knowledge under our belts. I am wishing you all have the same optimistic view for the future that is anew in a day plus a few hours. I will stay the course for the future of my family and myself.

I do not want to taint the time ahead with what was wrong with the past. I had a beautiful Christmas with family, and friends. That just made for a great week. My outlook is always boundless with leaps toward the greatness of the events to come. I look at each day as a new chance in my life, one that can give me a better understanding towards what must be endeared, and endured. I recall small rituals around our home that have become tradition in my home.

I wash all of the laundry (I am so very grateful to have our plumbing  back) as my mother did, clean the house spotless, try to fill the fridge, try to pay all the bills off early (well we do try), so ( according to my mothers way) was so that we would not be playing catch-up all year. I think it was more of a superstition than a tradition, but we were always right on track during the holidays cleaning, washing, ironing, and the like to make it a good start for when the new year rang in. We would stay up and give each other a hug, and kiss, and wish everyone peace in their lives for the coming year.

I do the same now as l did then. These years my children have the task well managed as these times are tradition and they are excited to carry the torch so to speak. My oldest carried in groceries to fill the fridge the boys changed out linen and my daughter and I laundered the last of what we deemed all of what we “needed” to wash. I have been in a good mood today and I can see that my children love to be in charge of what they now think are important traditions.

Although when they were small it was not so much a tradition it was just a chore. I love this time of year and aside the odd warm weather, it is like most years except I feel a great importance to the fact of our still all being together, I know things will change as they must, for our lives to be what they must be. I am though feeling a selfish overwhelming gladness that for now they are as they are. Guilty? No, not at all. Time goes very fast and so come on new year I am ready for you.

I wish you all a blessed New Year, and wish for you all peace in your lives.

Food For The Mind,

Lilly’s Way

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