It’s definitely feeling a lot like Christmas! The work Christmas parties, the over-eating of the rich food, the end of year school Christmas concerts, the choir rehearsals for the coming weeks, the checking of the lists upon lists…… Then the exhaustion the next day and the aching feet and knees. As I sit and contemplate what to organize for dinner, after a long day of festivities. (Yes, we can still eat more!) My thoughts go to Our Lord and what is happening in the heavenly realm. The angels would be getting prepared for the Saviour’s birth, excitement plus for the Glory of Himself soon to come to the Earth. Would…

As I was getting ready to go to work today, I looked in the mirror at my face. I sighed. Yes, the bags underneath my eyes told everyone how tired I felt.  How tired I was. The bags could have fitted two sets of luggage in them! My mind went to how was I going to cover that up? What was the secret about getting rid of dark circles? Putting cold teabags on them? Covering them up with lighter foundation? The things we do to pretend to everyone that meets us that we are all ok. That there are no problems. No issues. No sleepless nights. Ok that is us…

As Father leaned over and blessed the baby with the sign of the cross, he verbally stated to the newly baptised one, “Now that did not hurt, did it?” Her 5-year-old sister piped up, speaking and looking directly to Father. “She does not understand you. She is only a baby.” Now the soothing tone of the Priest I’m sure helped but yes, the baby in question, being only 4 months old, probably did not understand.  How many times have we said things to babies, to children, to adults even, and they did not understand what we said?  My husband, Bruce, often states that’s what spurred him on in the first place…

Bruce and I have been gardening. We have bought some trees to plant in the backyard. We don’t know very much about plants, so we have gone to the experts. The people who work with plants and trees in nurseries. We found out that some people just work there and know no more than us. While others have a plethora of knowledge which we so eagerly delved into. If we were going to get our small trees to grow to their full potential, we needed to know the soil to put them into, how much water and fertilizer they needed and what type of sunlight was best for their growth.…

The runny nose started it off with a splitting headache. I was coming down with a cold. The aches and pains and feeling rubbish continued that night as I tossed in bed to get comfortable. It was not happening. The weather was warming up and so was I. If I sat up in bed the runny nose flowed but if I lay down, I felt like I was choking on the saliva and mucus. Getting a cold once a year was quite common for me years ago but in the last few years with covid and the increase of hand sanitizer etc., I have avoided them.  My regular routine went out the…