NEW YEAR'S EVE

Hello, friends!  I'm taking the small moments of time when I feel better to write some posts to catch you up on things.  Each day is a little better than the one before.  At least I'm not getting worse as I was last week.  Let me tell you about New Year's Eve.

I had come home from the hospital the day before.  I still was not feeling 100% with my pressure still elevated, so I decided to not do anything.  That's right.  I laid on the sofa or the bed all day.  I watched some TV, read some and slept.  What a way to end the year!  But I needed it.  I got up at one point and made myself a scrambled egg but almost wasn't able to do that.  I was wiped out when I sat down to eat it.  

I forgot to say that the night before Joe had made me a huge plate of scrambled eggs for dinner which we shared (including Jack the cat).  Joe makes the BEST scrambled eggs in the world.  He said he learned how to do it when he was a cook in the Marine Corps.  I do the same thing he does and mine does not turn out tasting as wonderful as his does.  So I was trying to recreate it, but just couldn't get there.

For dinner I had taken out some breaded flounder to cook.  We usually have fish on New Year's Eve.  Joe ended up cooking that too.  He did a great job of it.

After dinner we have our devotions.  We are still working on our 25 days of Christmas.  So many interruptions happened this year.  But Christmas is not relegated to one day, so we are just going to plow ahead and read it.  Then I read aloud another portion of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."  As I finished, Joe said, "The book is so much better than the movies."  It always is.

We watched a couple of TV shows I had recorded.  "Happy New Year, Charlie Brown" was cute.  I don't remember seeing it before.  And then an ABC special on 2019 in review.  By this time it was getting late, so I went into the kitchen, got a tray, and put together a snack for us from the things my sister had put in that huge basket.

Six different kinds of crackers, salami, three different kinds of cheese, mini chocolate Santas and peppermints in the gingerbread boy jar.  The white glass is a candle scented sparkling champagne which I thought was appropriate.  The little bowl is a few cat treats for Jack.  After all, he couldn't be left out.  At this point I was feeling pretty good and wanted to surprise Joe because he has been doing pretty much everything around here.

We snacked, talked, and watched the ball drop in New York City.  At midnight we kissed and said 2020 was going to be a great year.  Little did I know that in less than 24 hours I was going to be sicker than I've been in many years!  But that's a story for another day.

I took a selfie to show you fine people that I was doing good and still in the land of the living,

Yep, that's me.  Just 8 hours before disaster struck and I had an intestinal virus.

What have I learned in all of this?  That ultimately God is in control of things.  We can't see the future, but the future is in His hands.  I prayed in the hospital, believing He would answer me but I don't think I really trusted that He would.  I have learned a big lesson on believing God.  I wonder how many more times I will have to learn it because I'm pretty dense when it comes to that.

I went on Dayspring.com and took a quiz to find my word for the year.  It gave me "Abide" which is a great word, but I think the word I really need is "Trust".  It is something we as humans really need to learn.  God has already gone before us so we can trust Him because He knows what's ahead.

And with that I am going to get off of here and do something with my day.  It may be just clearing off a table or emptying the dishwasher, but it is going to be SOMETHING.

Hope you all have a wonderful day!  Enjoy!

Kathy