For the New Year I discovered this wonderful meme... and am excited about lifting my joy each Monday through the year with our joyful hostess!
The clock is ticking down and soon we will be saying goodbye to 2018... a year that certainly ranged from joyful to not so full of glee... I started out the year with a long term viral infection that precluded me partaking of many holiday enjoyments..and right on the heals of that I was off to Charlottesville for a follow up on my Skin cancer and reconstruction surgery...We actually travelled back and forth to Charlottesville several times last January.
Me following the reconstruction
February brought joyous reunions with old friends I hadn't seen in decades when I hosted a Jane Austen tea... what fun to prepare and execute that one!!!
Birthday parties throughout the year with my prayer sista's were always a treat.. we never knew where we be celebrating, but each time was a true joy!!!
March also was a time filled with expectation and adventure with my beloved cousin, Pam, who spent some quality time with us and we toured some magically historical locales across Virginia.
We anniversaried at our favorite restaurant and thus began our 46th year of marriage!
April arrived with another concern for the dreaded skin cancer on the nose and other trips to Charlottesville..then ended with a delightful ladies night out to celebrate our 50ith High School reunion!
and marvelous trip to Boston to spend a week with our kids and grands!!! Sublimely happy!!!
Our two year old practicing her dance step!!!
Precious sisters!!!
In an effort to get healthier and more in shape a routine visit to therapy and a new diet ensued in May .. a great month that ended with a three day love fest with our friends to Lancaster and the Sight and Sound Theater to see the Jesus Play... Again.. sublime!!!
In June we accomplished some thing we had dreamed of for several years... we got our downstairs tiny powder room renovated into a wonderful second bath... a costly, but glorious addition to our home that continues to give everyday ever since!!!
And we enjoyed an early summer tea party with special friends.. I had been feeling I had a lot to make up for!!!
July was marked with more wonderful gatherings with long time friends from high school... where regular future events were promised and have being established!
August I started back into regular Bible Study with Community Bible Study as we study the book of Isaiah throughout the rest of 2018 into 19! That has been a wonderful challenge...
and mainly and greatest joy is meeting in small group with fabulous new friends!!
August I started back into regular Bible Study with Community Bible Study as we study the book of Isaiah throughout the rest of 2018 into 19! That has been a wonderful challenge...
and mainly and greatest joy is meeting in small group with fabulous new friends!!
September...yes, the dreaded skin cancer did materialize and I was back to Charlottesville for MOHS and reconstructive surgery...
not nearly as bad as last years, but still another skin graft on my nose!!! This time around I was determined not to miss out on life during the several months of healing so I bared my nose to the world and helped plan the SS picnic,
HEHEHE just one of the many hats I wear now!!!
and attended the most awesome Women's Conference at our church!!!
not nearly as bad as last years, but still another skin graft on my nose!!! This time around I was determined not to miss out on life during the several months of healing so I bared my nose to the world and helped plan the SS picnic,
October... it seems that surgeries continued to be in my schedule as it was determined I needed to have cataract/ glaucoma/ and astigmatism surgeries on both eyes...
Unfortunately, I am still dealing with residual drops from my last eye surgery... It takes weeks to wean yourself off the prednisone drops. Tomorrow I am down to three!
Unfortunately, I am still dealing with residual drops from my last eye surgery... It takes weeks to wean yourself off the prednisone drops. Tomorrow I am down to three!
In November I was rewarded again with a wonderful trip to Charleston, SC to spend Christmas and Thanksgiving with our daughter and grands!!! They flew in from Boston and we drove taking so much stuff in our van we looked like a troupe of gypsy acrobats...But it was well worth it all...
December has been a contemplative month of continued healing, rest, time with the lover of my soul, and sitting by the tree or a cozy fire... quiet. yet fulfilling!!! And there were several joyous visits and dinners with dearest of friends and family!!!
And as I have contemplated this year, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that blessings and trials come on us regularly, but they are all good, everything that comes to us is by God's direct or permissive will, and when it is a trial, it is to teach us how to endure through it and be victorious.. Victory definitely brings an attitude of pure
And as I have contemplated this year, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that blessings and trials come on us regularly, but they are all good, everything that comes to us is by God's direct or permissive will, and when it is a trial, it is to teach us how to endure through it and be victorious.. Victory definitely brings an attitude of pure
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