Better To See You With My Dear!

  These beautiful eyes belong to my daughter April.She has such beautiful eyes that I spent quite some time on her last visit trying to get a good picture of them for me to scrapbook. I was going through pictures this morning and when I saw this one it made me think about my upcoming cataract surgeries. My eyes used to look like hers and I used to see very well out of them with the help of glasses.
  Slowly over the last few years things began to soften around the edges ,cloud over and blur up a bit.I changed lens prescriptions several times over the past two years in an effort to stave off the inevitable surgery.Eventually I had to stop reading and scrap booking , even watching TV was difficult.So I consulted with a surgeon and set up my first surgery which will take place in four days. I have to admit...I'm a little nervous about the surgery. Despite the fact that I see poorly...I can see. My fears were that something would go wrong and that I would end up with no sight at all.
    This fear made me look at the world these past few days in a different way.I started looking at everything with a different perspective.As if I were seeing it for the last time. What a beautiful world we live in! Creator must really love us to give us this planet to call our home.!! I cant wait to see it after both of my surgeries are over! I promise you I will never take what I see for granted again!
    

Moving

 I have spent the past week going through everything I own and packing in preparation for moving. This has given me a good reason to look honestly at everything I own and decide whether it should go to the new place, find a new home or be tossed. This has proven to be a very freeing activity for me. I have been working on weeding out my "things" for some time which basically means ill do it some day. This move, I have decided that it was time to actually do it. What I take with me will only be exactly what I want to take with me. Clutter be gone!!
  It is difficult to let some things go but I am finding that it is necessary for me to do that.I will take with me only the most meaningful and most used! I am not crazy about moving but I do like setting up a new space. It gives me a chance to really work on my organization and decorating skills.What I have is not fancy or expensive but I take pride in presenting to the world a warm and comfortable home that people enjoy coming to.
  This move takes me to the same apt. home that my daughter and her family live in. I will be able to once again hear my grandchildren playing above me. And grammy is available to them whenever they want me as well as they will be available to me anytime I want to be with them! This makes me the happiest grammy in the world!!
 Moving is always a hassle,packing and unpacking,putting things away, sore muscles and long days. But it is exciting because it is a chance at a new beginning. I love new beginnings!!

Goodbye

My first entry is dedicated to my dear friend Gena who passed away recently. We had been best buddies for nearly twenty years and there will never be anyone who will be able to take her place. My heart has hurt in a way that I have never felt before with her passing and I miss her everyday. Gena was the kind of friend that everyone wishes they had. She always put everyone's comfort and happiness before her own. She was giving...more giving than anyone I have ever known.
  Many people called her friend as witnessed by the enormous turnout at her funeral. Here I thought she existed only in my little world.I was struck with the realization that her world spread far and wide. She was so generous with her love!
  I was devistated with losing my best friend. Until one day when I opened a drawer and saw a gift that she had given me. I then walked from room to room and realized she was not gone..she lived in every room of my house.In the plants her family gave to me that had once sat in her living room,in every Christmas,birthday and just because gift she ever gave me,in the pictures that hung on my wall and the memories that live in my heart
  .I may not be able to pick up the phone and call her everyday like we used to do but I can still talk to her. She is still here with me. I can only hope that I was as good a friend to her as she was to me.She will forever be my bestest buddy!