This was THE BEST homemade lemonade ever! I went to the Florida Keys with my "mystery man" for a few days. It was from the Grand Cafe and I would go to Key West just to eat there. I love it when we discover something so wonderful, so out of the ordinary! On this Michigan gloomy, rainy, icy, snowy, too much to do day......I am going to remember this wonderful lemonade...ahhhhh sweet!

Another "chilling" moment

I had yet another of those moments with my new special ed program. We are planning a soup/chili supper fund raiser. I was talking to Mary who volunteers with my students doing some cooking, she also runs the school's resale shop across the street. I told her I would like to have a basket to raffle off for the event. She told me she would work on that. About 10 minutes after she left to go back across the street, here she comes with a beautifully filled basket of gardening goodies. Now, Mary is good but even Mary couldn't pull that together in 10 minutes. The "chilling" story unfolded. Mary went back across the street, a woman came into the resale shop with this basket she had won and wondered if she could donate it! The woman was a stranger and wished to remain annoymous. Hmmmmm......it gave us goosebumps!

Getting Back on Track

I just uploaded my before and after pictures from "starting where I am at" which happened to be my living room. I wrote that Dec. 29 and now it is Jan 23 and I am finally completing it (not the cleaning but the posting). I decided that it is not so much about the time frame but that I get back on track. No guilt just getting back on the road to where I want to be. So where do I want to be? I want to be more focused and get some of my house finished so it is a beautiful, delightful place to be. I want to write more. I have so many stories in my head. I write in my head constantly and I would like some of that material to make it to this blog. I have been thinking about writing a blog about my wonderful class of special needs young adults. I worry about privacy issues and think maybe it would make a better book some day? Maybe a blog but with no names and pictures that don't reveal faces? Dream....think....wonder! I will try to write one this week with that technique and then run it by a few people. I like that, I will be making progress and at least trying something.

Today I have been stopped short in my tracks. I think I pinched a nerve in my shoulder driving home from Grand Rapids in and out of several blizzards. I was up during the night, trying the old heating pad and unsuccessfully trying to find a comfortable position in which to sleep. I had to cancel my Sunday activies and I am sitting on the couch with motrin and the good old heating pad.

I have several things I can do with this change of events. I can write bills and balance out the month of January. I can internet shop for a clawfoot tub shower curtian. I can order my up and down blinds for my living room. I can work on my book club lesson plans for school.

Heres to "Getting back on Track" even if it is from the couch!

before and after

before and after