Happy New Year Everyone!
It's been way too long since I have been here, but my plan is to get back into the practice of updating my blog on a regular basis.
Since I have started my Youtube channel (Erndales), I have neglected this platform in order to get that one up and running. While Vlogging is fun - I still prefer to write my thoughts and stories instead of speaking them.
So lets catch up - 2022...
Good place to start....
I started the year under another threat of cancer. I had been to see a new family doctor and she had sent me for some tests that suggested I might have cancer of the Uterus. That was finally confirmed in early May after some surgery, and I was booked for a Total Hysterectomy. In the meantime, my oldest brother who had been battling leukemia for over 4 years really started to decline. He lost his eye sight, then the use of one side of his body, and worse of all - he lost his spirit.
Spring came and went - I started my garden with enthusiasm, but after the surgeries started happening, my garden plans just seemed to vanish. Summer was eaten up with major surgery - fall disappeared while I recovered from surgery, and the world came to a screeching halt for me when my brother passed away in October.
To say I am glad to see the end of 2022 - is the understatement of all time!
This Christmas season has been a reset for me. I didn't put my tree up ( first time ever), I didn't cook a big turkey dinner ( first time ever), I just allowed myself feel the emotions that I have been storing up all year. It was overdue, and it was a peaceful resolve to re-invest myself back into the life I have with Gary and Jonathan, our son.
I challenged myself to do Vlogmas on my Youtube channel during the month of December. A different video every day for 24 days. I reached deep within myself and shared so many wonderful Christmas memories, which really helped me find the inner peace I so needed. Sharing my passions for music, writing, crafting, story-telling and most of all, family - reawakened my own spirit.
I'm ready to take on 2023!
Today I am spending the day, preparing a nice meal for Gary and I. I am delving into my seed catalogs and making my list of seeds to purchase for the gardens.
I will be making the first entry into my Gratitude Journal, and filling in the first square of my Stitching Journal... both activities I plan to continue all through 2023.
I have plans - lots of them - but I promised myself my first activity of 2023, would be to write this blog!
Mission accomplished - and it feels so good!
So, I hope you come back to me - my friends and followers out there in the vast cyber world we call the internet. Lets get this year going together!
I did a little Video yesterday, on making a Gratitude Journal and a Stitching Journal... Enjoy!
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