Christmas is in the Air
It felt like Christmas this morning. I look out the window and it has the appearance of snow. Unfortunately, it is not going to be snowing here today. Really it is probably about 60 degrees outside, not on the verge of snow at all. This is our first Christmas season away from the snow. As with all the other changes in our lives, this is another that is going to be an adjustment.
It's been such a long time since I have done some good baking. This morning I woke up with the thought of needing some stress relief, so to the kitchen I went. I started out with a loaf of bread, then cinnamon rolls and I finished up with some cut out Christmas cookies. I love it how a little baking can slow me down enough to relax. This afternoon holds a lot of running, so it was splendid to slow down. I joined this book club a couple of months ago and ironically the book that was chosen for us to read is about a woman that left life behind here in the states and spent months in Europe. I thought it was very cool since we were about to endeavor on a trek across the ocean. We have our book club meeting this afternoon and I was instructed to bring our Europe photos to the group. Should be lots of fun.
You know, for me to travel over the ocean was such an issue of trust. Very hard to believe that we have been back for 2 full weeks already. If you think about it, every day there are people traveling somewhere. There is never a moment when someone is not traveling. Sometimes it hits me that there is life going on somewhere else for someone else. Let me explain. Every morning I get up around 5:15 am, drag myself to the fitness center to do my workout. I interact with the few people that we see at the fitness center at 5:30 in the morning, come home, get ready, eat breakfast w/Michael and head to work. I spend about 5 hours planning events, come home to have lunch w/Michael and then back to planning events for 3 more hours. If all goes as planned, I leave work at 3:30 pm, come home and hang out w/Michael for the evening, go to bed around 9:00 pm to repeat the same process the next day. Somewhere in there, I usually go outside to say "hi" to our dogs. It is so easy when life is rolling along and the weekends come around again and again that I fall back into thinking that the only place that life is happening is here in middle Georgia. I want to say, since I know that "life" does not revolve around me and my issues, then what does "life" revolve around?
To be continued. . .
It's been such a long time since I have done some good baking. This morning I woke up with the thought of needing some stress relief, so to the kitchen I went. I started out with a loaf of bread, then cinnamon rolls and I finished up with some cut out Christmas cookies. I love it how a little baking can slow me down enough to relax. This afternoon holds a lot of running, so it was splendid to slow down. I joined this book club a couple of months ago and ironically the book that was chosen for us to read is about a woman that left life behind here in the states and spent months in Europe. I thought it was very cool since we were about to endeavor on a trek across the ocean. We have our book club meeting this afternoon and I was instructed to bring our Europe photos to the group. Should be lots of fun.
You know, for me to travel over the ocean was such an issue of trust. Very hard to believe that we have been back for 2 full weeks already. If you think about it, every day there are people traveling somewhere. There is never a moment when someone is not traveling. Sometimes it hits me that there is life going on somewhere else for someone else. Let me explain. Every morning I get up around 5:15 am, drag myself to the fitness center to do my workout. I interact with the few people that we see at the fitness center at 5:30 in the morning, come home, get ready, eat breakfast w/Michael and head to work. I spend about 5 hours planning events, come home to have lunch w/Michael and then back to planning events for 3 more hours. If all goes as planned, I leave work at 3:30 pm, come home and hang out w/Michael for the evening, go to bed around 9:00 pm to repeat the same process the next day. Somewhere in there, I usually go outside to say "hi" to our dogs. It is so easy when life is rolling along and the weekends come around again and again that I fall back into thinking that the only place that life is happening is here in middle Georgia. I want to say, since I know that "life" does not revolve around me and my issues, then what does "life" revolve around?
To be continued. . .
posted by Michael at 11:20 AM
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