TAKE MY ADVICE, PLEASE, BECAUSE I NEVER DO.

  Sitting here early on the last morning of 2011, drinking my coffee and just thinking about what pops in my head , I started thinking about how we tend to compare everything , we compare this day with yesterday or the same day a year ago or 23 years ago on this date. I tend to compare my pain level today with yesterday, or last week or last year and I do the day and myself an injustice.  The weatherman compares today's weather with yesterdays, with a year ago, with the record weather on today's date. We compare our lives with others and we compare our lives today with what it was in the past. I believe we do ourselves a disservice when we do this. Today is what it is, it is not the past or the future, it is today. It is brand new, literally. It should not be compared with yesterday. What happens today is what the day is , it is unique and frankly it is what it is. Each day is truly a gift of now, it is unique and one of a kind, what we do today, what happens good or bad, successes or our failures today will belong to that day only. We can keep that day as a memory to think about but we must not compare it with any other day because in truth there is nothing to compare the day to , it is what it is. We compare everything to gauge whether or not it is 'normal', and I am thinking , normal to what? Just like the weatherman averages the temperatures to tell us whether or not today's temperature is normal, again normal to what?
Today is a gift, if I am trying to lose weight, or if I am trying to quit drinking or smoking or what ever it is, I should not compare how I did or am doing with my past actions, today is what it is, a new beginning and so we can ,today decide whether or not we will eat that piece of cake or smoke that cigarette or drink that drink, a choice we should make moment by moment when the temptation rares it's head. I view a temptation as a gift too, because we get the gift of a little time to choose whether or not we want to take the temptation or not, we don't always get a chance to choose like that and temptations give of that gift of a little time to decide whether or not we want to do what we are being tempted to do, time to weigh the options and consequences of our actions if we do what we are being tempted to do. Many people do not take that gift of time the temptation gives us ,to look at our actions and at the consequences  that arise because  of them.

So on this last unique day of 2011 , I will look over the past year, at the gifts and challenges it gave me and give thanks that I was given yet another year to live my life and savor all that it was and I will try not to think about 2012 because it has not happened yet, I will savor this day on it's own merit. My only New Year's resolution is to take each day as it is,  a new beginning and a chance to be who I choose to be each moment of that day and I hope that this will allow me to see the gift I am being given every new day.
May your day and year be blessed
PATC

I don't know about you all, but I will be glad when the 'Holiday season' is over. I have a dinner to prepare today and then we get to eat left overs all week and then it is over!! I don't think I can stomach another Christmas show on the Halmark channel anymore. My Hubby has watched them all month and well last month too. He is a sucker for a happy ending. But all the Santa shows, enough already, there is just so many ways to re invent santa, how many ways can we make up how santa gets his groove on is beyond me but Halmark wins hands down on this!!


No I am not a Scrooge but that movie has been re invented about as many times as Santa has and I am frankly DONE with it. I CAN'T DO IT ANYMORE! Hey don't get me wrong I love Scrooge, it is my favorite Christmas story, but just how many of these shows are there? When I say there have been 20 Scrooge Stories on film, though, I’m talking about animated films for Children, silent movie shorts, modern adaptations and films loosely based on A Christmas Carol. If you want faithful, feature length live-action films that played on the big screen, there have been 7 such movies based on A Christmas Carol.Since the publication of A Christmas Carol, the story has never been out of print and has been adapted both for 22 stage productions, 2 operas, 4 recordings, at least 10 radio broadcasts, 49 loosely based tv show adaptations and 20 film versions. I am guessing here but I bet most of them have been on this past month!!!!!

I must have been a good girl this year because I got a new Lap top! my other one was about 7+ years old, I dropped it I don't know how many times and it banged around in the Truck when we were trucking and had many of the keys missing and the metal was wearing off on many of the vital areas. So that part of Christmas/Yule I liked, but now I have to figure out how to pay for the damn thing. LOL.

After New Years we go into the deep winter time and the big let down from coming out of Dec and the 2 months of Christmas cheer we were dragged into with all the TV shows out there showing how it all turns out good, at least if you are in the TV story, we all know that it seems not to work out all that good for the rest of us, but hey its nice to dream that it could. This is not meant to be a downer, hey I am Up, just tired of repeats. Hankering for something new .
I hope y'all are having a most spendid time this Holiday season and May your New Years be blessed.
Holiday blessings

A few days ago my 81 year old mother who still lives way out in the boonies fell and could not get up and laid on the side walk in front of her home, only in a house coat and temps were in the low 40's . she laid there for over 2 hours until my brother came home from shopping in town.She was really scared. He was able to get her up and into the house and warmed her up. she had a few bruises on her legs and arms. I am so thankful that the temps were not colder, we could have easily lost her that evening. I am thankful for miracles like this, I have been blessed with 2 of them this season.
May the Miracle of the Season be yours.
blessed be
PATC

Greetings and Hello
I hope y'all are having a wonderful and blessed Winter Solstice day!!!! Not much going on in my world, had my 3 older grandchildren over last night to open their gifts and had a wonderful time with them.
My newest granddaugther ,MaKenna Grace was able to come home yesterday! She is doing well and still healthy. I found out that if my daughter would have not listened to her inner voice which was telling her that something was wrong with her wee little one, and had waited another day she would have lost her baby. Apparently she had no amniotic fluid left and so the baby would have died. The amniotic fluid is part of the baby’s life support system it protects the baby and aids in the development of muscles, limbs, lungs and digestive system.. I am so grateful and thankful to my Mother/ Father Creator that they were insistent with their voice within my daughter to warn her of the dangers that were lurking. This episode makes me insistent to all to listen to that insistent voice within and maybe alot of stuff we suffer through would not have happened in our lives. Even if you think that you are crazy to listen to it, what would it hurt to follow through with it, it is better to be safe than sorry. And believe me we would have been heart sick if my daughter did not listen to her inner voice, we was spared a terrible terrible situation during this time of Yule and Christmas, it would have forever ruined this time for us.
So at this most blessed time I am a happy happy granny and there is much to celebrate this Yule!

I have not been on here for a while, not much going on in my life but now I have something to blog about,my newest granddaughter decided it was time to be born exactly one month early. She weighed 4 lbs. and 11 oz and all of 19 inches tall. I am so glad she is quite healthy. I have not met her yet will see her this morning around 9 am . Can't wait. Here are some pictures of my newest little angel

Welcome to my world ,my newest grandchild, she was one month early weighing in at 4 lbs. and 11 oz and 19 inches tall. Her name is MaKenna Grace











This last picture you can see her hand and its gesture, she is saying, I am the boss and I decide when I come into this world and no one else!!! We have been trying to delay her early arrival all week with shots and pills but she says f&^k you, I will be born when I say so!!!! LOL