Here’s to the New Year, 2010. My how fast the time flies as you get older.

This has been quite a year for us. Moving back to California, and having a new great grand daughter. And in May we will have a new great grand son.

There will be no New Year’s Resolutions, because I never keep them

. So this year, it will be projects. I’ve already finished a huge one this week, and now am working on getting my writing organized. Believe me, that is a huge job. I’ve just always stuck the papers into a folder and never sorted them into the correct categories. I have poetry, ramblings, memoirs, and short stories all mixed in together. I never edited anything I wrote. Time to do it.

I will try to begin writing every night on the blog, like I did before. Thank you all for listening and reading and for your comments.

Take good care, stay healthy and see you next year.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

Wishing everyone a happy holiday, a healthy one, and a safe one. It’s been a long time since I have written. Usually this time of year I send out a year end letter. But, not this year.

Because, this year the only real news is that we have moved back to California and we have a new great granddaughter. Life is good.

I have been lazy about my writing. But I have been knitting up a storm, both for myself and the baby.

Last night I found out my grandson and his wife are going to have a little boy next May. Two great grand babies, how lucky and blessed we are.

My gratitude list keeps growing.

Please be kind to everyone, we all need a little kindness in our lives.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

We are old

We are cold

We squeak

We leak

We’re old you see

As you will one day be

Still young at heart

Sill making art

And so it seems

We still have dreams

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

Wow! Have been so busy watching this new baby, holding her, admiring her, not taking time for much of anything else.

Watching her face, stretching her arms and legs out, amazing sight.

Also, how much she has changed in the week she has been with us. A change, small, but interesting. Nothing like a new born baby to rev up your heart, your energy, and you gratitude

It was a rough birth, but that’s over and all that counts is that she is a healthy, and a happy and contented baby.

Beautiful, of course, no; rather she is gorgeous. I could hold her forever. Four generations of women. Now that’s gratitude.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

My brand new great grand daughter was born this morning at !2:15 a.m. by C Section. Labor was prolonged and not progressing, baby was sunny side up, so at last minute they did the C Section.

Thank goodness it’s over. The baby is a precious miracle.

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy Thanksgiving.

Love and kisses Helene

Send someone in your community, a caregiver, an email. Let them know that you are there and thinking of them. Put yourself in their shoes for just a moment.

People like to know that you are thinking of them. It sparks their energy, it makes them smile and boosts their self esteem.

It only takes a moment to send an email. I know there is someone in your community that is a caregiver. Let them know you are thinking of them. Holiday time can be very difficult.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

Adopt A Caregiver.

I’m looking forward to the weekend. I will unpack my winter clothes and put them away. I’ve already packed my summer clothes up, just have to find a place for them.

A little cooler today, nice weather though. Sunshine most of the time, my favorite thing.

Knitting a more difficult pattern blanket for the new baby. I  hope she comes before Thanksgiving. If not, well, it will be after.

Looking forward to knitting and reading and resting over this weekend, and I hope you all have a chance to do that also.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

Adopt A Caregiver. Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing.

Thanksgiving is next week. I hope by that time I will have my new grand daughter, but if not it will only be a few days later. All I really want is a healthy little girl.

I’m grateful that the whole family will get together, or most of us. I’m grateful that my grandson is flying in from Minnesota on Monday night, and I am pleased that I can let him use my car.

I’m grateful that all my grandchildren are good kids, working hard, going to school ( two of them) and one is going to be a teacher, and the other, well, it’s too soon to tell. But, I know he will do well, and do something that he will love doing.

I’ve answered some tough questions in the last few days, some verbally and some in my head.

My husband asked how long my knitting phase will last, and I said, “Until my hands hold out.”

We also talked about age, and end of life issues, and most of this is in my head. One day soon, I will write it out, so there is no question that when the time comes, my wishes will be known.

Yesterday I bought more wool to make another blanket for the baby, today I bought three books. That is the extent of my spending. Everything else right now is not important.

Trying to think of something to buy my great grand daughter, that I can buy every year, so she will have a collection of  ???

Stay healthy, keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing.

Adopt A Caregiver.

I wish for all of you Happy Holidays. I hope no one is lonely, scared, and I hope all of you have friends and family close by.

There is nothing like friends and family at holiday times, especially if you are alone, or you are a caregiver.

Please think of those in your neighborhood, in your own community who could use a friend, an email, a phone call, a plant or a card. It takes no time, and yet means so much.

Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing.

Adopt A Caregiver, and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene