Those of you who are my age..or there abouts.......isn't it nice..when we let our minds wonder back to our years as teenager...so young and carefree and for most of us...so SO in love? It's been 50 years for me...since my teen years of being head over heels in love....Oh I'm still 'in love'...but it does change and anyone who tells you it doesn't...is lying to you. The love and the bond grow deeper with time, if you're lucky and we've been extremely lucky..but even that doesn't happen without you really wanting it to happen and working at it along the way to MAKE it happen...but after 50 years or even slightly before :-) I can now concentrate of something other than what Billy's doing or when he's going to call...beCAUSE...he's right here WITH me...Right smack dab in the middle of my storybook life in La La Land....In FACT...it's because of HIM...that I HAVE a storybook life in La La Land....I am so SO blessed!!!
After 50 years though..of being just so so as a wife and homemaker...I've decided I'm going to surprise him and become a perfectionist in this new year...and I can tell already...it isn't going to be easy...There's a lot to DO in a days time for us women/homemakers....you know it? BESIDES trying to be PERFECT...hahaha We'll see how this goes for me....I've decided I'm going to be the wife that he THOUGHT I was going to be in the first place..But now...I wonder what that WAS? We grew up with Make Room For Daddy and Ward and June Clever and all those perfect families with wives and moms in a dress and high heels and pearl earrings and a house that never got messy and meals that just seemed to appear out of nowhere...like magic...I wonder if he was thinking I was going to be like that?
Well geeeeeeeeeeezzz I HOPE not...because that wasn't me and it isn't me....but still...I can do TONS better and I've decided before I have to check into the old folks home...I'm going to DO it!!!
SOOOOOOOO here's my plan....and you'll have plenty of time to work on your own plan if you decide you want to join me.....Now I don't have the chart on here exactly as I had hoped...because Kim was out of town for 2 days and then got a new client as soon as she got back and she's been so swamped yesterday and the day before...but there will be a chart at the bottom to give you an idea and we'll have a better chart in a few days....
To start off..I'm going to have 9 slices in my pie.....I want to be a better wife, mom, homemaker, christian, family member, helper to needy, writer/blogger, pianist, traveler. Now there is not a doubt in my mind...that I will be adding more slices to my pie...because I am one of the most UNdecisive people you will ever meet in your life....But this is where I'm starting.....
On my chart....this is how I think I rate now..and you rate on a scale of 1 to 10...1 being not so good and 10 being SUPER :-)
Wife 7...I'm one of the most devoted wives in the world and Billy would tell you the same thing..There is not a doubt in my mind that MY old geezer helped to hang this moon that shines above all of us...but still..even having such a special geezer.... I have LOTS of room for improvement...Really, the way "I" look at it...a wife should go out of her way to make a very neat and tidy..warm and fuzzy home for her husband....And I DO that...but Billy likes perfection...and I don't even THINK about striving for perfection...and I need to at least give it my best shot....
Mom 6...I'm HUGE on giving and helping...but the kids think I give and want to help..TOO much...I give too much unsolicited advice according to them...and they keep reminding me of their ages...but what are we supposed to do when we have grown kids that think they know it all...but we are SURE they are wrong...hahaha ...Now too much money or foo foo is fine...they LOVE me then hahahahaha
Homemaker 6...OH geeeeezzz......I keep things pretty surface neat...but OH goodness..behind my closed doors....Now I'm just being honest here....do you want the truth and know that I'm just as imperfect as anyone else...or do you just want a fairytale so you can feel good and look up to me....NOPE!!! I'M going for the truth....We're in this together and we're going to be honest and get'er done....Can't put a bandaid on an amputated leg in the desert and expect good results...Gotta face facts and then GO....And I KNOW I need to make big improvements here...It's just like our refrigerator inside....I'll get that thing so organized and it looks so nice...almost worthy of being featured in a magazine....and then we'll open the door and it looks like a big old elephant was stuck in there trying to get out.....WHAT GOES ON in there when that light is off and that door is closed? GOODNESS GRACIOUS....So I'll tidy it again and feel oh so proud...and BAMM...another elephant gets stuck in there and it's major chaos....
Christian 7...I try to always ALWAYS do what's right...I normally miss church 2 Sundays a year for weekends we are always out of town for...and many years go by and I don't miss even one Wednesday night at church...I've played piano in church for 57 years continually and LOVE gospel piano....and don't hold your breath waiting to catch ME in anything shady...but I still have tons of room for improvement...and since I've never read the bible thru I've decided to do that for one of my improvements there...
Family member 4...Now this one is going to be hard...beCAUSE there are some people in our family that are just impossible to get along with...but I'm going to give it my best shot...shall we pray...
Helper to the needy 4...I know many of you think I do a lot...from the way you talk in your emails...but I dont' do nearly as much as I could and should....I DO have a very sincere desire to help people that are so SO less fortunate than I am...and I LOVE helping needy people..but I need to do better...
Writer/blogger 6...I LOVE writing and blogging....but I don't take it serious enough. So many days I just set here and chit chat with you folks about what I'm cooking and how many deer I'm feeding and then I'll get emails and some of you are separated or going to divorce court that day...or you've just found out your husband is having an affair and you want to know what "I" would do and I'll think..."OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH my GOODNESS and ALL I talked about this week was COOKING and getting organized and how much fun I'm having on pinterest and other goofy gander...when some of you have your world crumbling around you. And I sure don't have all the answers...but I know right and wrong...and if I can help you...I sure want to....So I want to write more about "Living Our Best Life"..So we'll be having lots more profound and life changing subjects in 2013 at Bird's Eye View...
Pianist 6...I LOVE to play piano....but I'm going to get a good grip on the evangelistic style if it kills me AND I want to learn to play by ear...and I'm working on it...
Traveler 2...We just haven't done much traveling like we had hoped after Billy retired....but I hope we're going to take so many little trips this year...we'll need to rest...from our traveling...shall we pray...
Those of us who want to improve in 2013 need to be making specific goals with deadlines....We need to dream about the life we want to be living and then make our plan of action and then DO IT!!!
"I" believe we should be our best for everybody around us....We should do as Mother Theresa said and "Leave every thing and every body just a little better and a little happier than we found them"
Let's say you're on an errand and you run into a grumpy friend and everything in the world is wrong with that friend and they tell you about every single issue....Then you go a little further and you run into another friend who is uplifting and funny and full of good stories...kind of like our chiropractor Dr White...you can't BE in that mans presence without leaving feeling better....he is SO SO jolly and funny and SO SO SOOOOOOOOOO full of good stories....SO...which one 'made your day'? THINK about that....
Our best years don't have to be behind us....They CAN BE...in front of us...and I don't know about you guys...but I've got TONS TONS TONS...of work to do on ME....and I'm ON it...
I'm going to paste the pie chart below...but we need a bigger one so we can print it off and make our markings on it...so I'll have a better one is a few days....
Peace and love from the canyon...I love you all gobs...Thanks so much for stopping by and this has been a bird's eye view of the katydid...until next time...you are loved.......
Kim will be posting a big pie chart in the next few days and I'll be putting my numbers on it and charting my progress each month....at least I HOPE so...hahaha shall we pray....
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