Brand New Start

Don't you just love a new year. This morning I woke up at home after traveling from Utah yesterday. I say yesterday because I started the day before but didn't arrive until 1:30 in the morning (yesterday). I felt like I slept most of yesterday because I fell asleep everytime I stopped moving.

I woke up this morning and cleaned a drawer and dusted off my journal. I got excited about organizing my house. All of my children are married now and even though they've all been out of the house on their own for several years, it feels final now. So, I'm going to clean out the closets and permanently reorganize everything. It just feels like a fun thing to do.
I've been finding funny stuff in the drawers like Cassie's New Years resolutions in a notebook she had when she was in High School. Two of her top ones were: Get organized and don't criticise.
That's a pretty simple start for a new year. So, since I've already started the organization part....I'm going to make a point to not criticise. Glenn will like that.

Oh, and I hope to laugh a lot. Hope you'll laugh along with me. It'll make us all feel younger.
Here's one to start us off.

My mom gave out homemade choke cherry jelly to her friends this year for Christmas. She handed them the jars of jelly telling them it is great on pancakes. When she arrived home, she looked for a jar of pickled beets that she received from a friend the day before. They were not there. She realized that she had given out the beets instead of the jelly. The mystery of who got the beets was solved when her friend called and told her the choke cherry jam mom gave them, looked rather like pickled beets. I wonder how they tasted on pancakes.