Happy New Year 2024

Happy New Year! For the past two months I haven’t written any thing here. Life has been busier than I thought. I do get down time. Only it’s devoted to other things and projects I am working on. 

Sewing takes up a lot of time. Cooking takes up a lot of time. I love to read. So that takes up time. I read cookbooks. Check out cookbooks at the library. Creating the recipes. Spending time with my dogs and family members takes up time, we have brunches. Play board games afterwards. Exercising takes up time. My job takes up a huge portion of time. Doing research takes up time. Writing on the research I do take up time. Spending time outside doing gardening takes up time. Visiting places in the state I live in takes up time. Writing book reports takes up time. Painting or drawing a picture takes up time. Volunteer work takes up time. Learning a musical instrument takes up time. 

I keep saying the word time and writing the word time. Time is precious. You always think you have time. I’ll do this next time. Or when I get the time, then I will get this done. A lot of things that take up my time are things I need to do now. Like when I go on break on my job. I do research on the new quilt I will make. I read recipes on my phone. Meals I will make next week. Read a book. Thinking about how the characters in the book. Writing a book takes time. 

I budget time, try to get many things done as much as possible. 

When I walk the dogs I watch what they are doing. My one dog wants to chase the squirrels. My other dog could be bothered. He could have a job as an archeologist. He is always digging. When we leave the park. I take them to get ice cream or pup cups. Or we go to the pet store to buy a bag of treats. Time with them makes me smile. 

Life isn’t easy. You have to have time for yourself. Just sit and breathe and listen to the world around you. My favorite place to do this is in a park. 

So precious is time. If I had a Time Machine I would go and visit the people I loved and lost. Time doesn’t allow for returns like this. So we can only go forward. Use the time we have. Take the time for love. It’s the greatest thing we can do.