Hi Friends,
I hope everyone had a nice Christmas celebration and a smooth transition into 2024? Happy2024 New Year
Are you happy, like me, that 2023 is dust in the wind?
Phew.
Too much sadness. Too much struggle, angst and other crap. (The rest of this paragraph should elaborate and break down what is meant by those adjectives but doing so would only rationalize the misery).
Onward and upward as mom liked to say.
Whaddaya gonna do? As I like to say.
Accentuate the positive, alleviate the negative…as the song goes…
On that cheery note! My first grandchild, Charlie, graced earth with his precious, perfect presence in 2023. How’s that for accentuating the positive? And, boy oh boy is he a positive joy to behold.
Charlie has the most scrumptious, little arms with irresistible rolls that are as temptingly squeezable as playdough. Creamy, white roll after roll that look like tiny rubber bands gently hold them together cause me to want to devour them in one gulp! His little smile brings a smile to the weariest soul. His cheeks are peachy plump with a right-side dimple to die for. He grins, tongue-roll gurgles and even gives a stink-eyes if he so desires!
Genius I say, genius! And of course I’m utterly unbiased.
--Have you noticed that Christmas cards are waning? Becoming a thing of the past? We received a few, most of them the final few days before Christmas but not nearly as many in years past.
Admittedly, I haven’t mailed cards out for a few years. It’s kinda sad because I really enjoy the cards we receive. Thank you to those who sent them! I’m sorry to not have completed the card-sending task in a while.
Today, I wrote a thank you to friends who invited us to a lovely evening at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra last night. My handwriting was very not-pretty. One stinking card and the lines looked scribbly, uneven, and I mis-spelled guest which meant I had to do the scratch-out-correction thing that makes the reader wonder why it happened? Maybe they wanted to say something else? Maybe they didn’t really have a good time?
I thought I should throw the card away and buy another one but remembered it cost $10 so ended up convincing myself that our friends could look past the ink scribble-out and, hopefully, realize my gratitude was sincere regardless of crappy penmanship and bad spelling.
Whatever.
Nevertheless, I do wish everyone a very Happy 2024 New Year!
My family has a lot to be thankful for and we do, indeed, thank God for all of our blessings. But my favorite blessing, the one I’m most thankful for is: friends, YOU! I love my old and new friends very much.
Thank YOU for reading!
Love, Shellety
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