This Perfectly Imperfect Life

Taken after we arrived home earlier this evening from our '6pm is Midnight - Happy New Year!' celebration with a few friends. I want to share with you my deep appreciation for all of you who share my journey with me here and have been with me through this another challenging & often heartbreaking year with my mother's stroke & recovery, my beloved father.in.law's illnesses & passing, Hurricane Sandy, and, as always, my unpredictable health.  Thank you for letting this be a place I can turn to when I don't know where else to go.  I look forward to another year of sharing with you as this blog is one of my great joys in life! The wheel of the year is about to turn again.  As we begin life anew once more, I wish for you joy & contentment, prosperity of heart, mind, spirit & comforts, good health and peaceful blessings in 2013!  Be safe if you're out & about tonight.  Happy New Year! Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my Black...

New favorite slippers in a new color! (Have them in red). Winter sunsets. My kitties, especially when they're extra cute! Amaryllis! Seed & gardening catalogs! My final "Friday Favorites" of 2012!  Here's to many more in 2013! What were some of your favorite things in 2012??

A favorite local spot downtown for last minute Christmas shopping. Stopped for a moment on our way home. Our mantle. We also did a few errands, had a few drinks with friends, opened early presents, I baked a batch of my cranberry almond cookies & made pene ala vodka for dinner and we took a ride around the neighborhood to see Christmas lights.  We've also watched A Christmas Story and It's A Wonderful Life!  (I'm sure I'm forgetting something or other, but that's it in a nutshell!) How have you spent your Christmas Eve?

Happy Eve before Christmas Eve! I spent much of yesterday, the first full day of Winter, nursing an awful migraine and drinking copious cuppa's of tea while going between our bed & my favorite chair in the living room (where I can gaze upon all of the Christmas decorations).  But the day wasn't a loss: I posted my 24th Adventures In Gardening column on The#gardenchatBlog ! (Next Saturday is my first anniversary of writing my column for the blog!)  I also caught the first glorious moon-rise & sunset of Winter. This morning, after watching CBS News Sunday, a longtime Sunday morning tradition, we got out for a long walk at one of our favorite local parks.  I was resistant at first, wanting to stay snuggled in as the kitties were under the tree this morning. Feeling the cold air and hearing nothing but the wind, our feet on the ground and at times the river sloshing against the banks was exactly what I needed! Especially with this darn migrain...

Welcome Winter! Autumn didn't leave us without a fight. The weather turned ugly last night and isn't yet much improved. Over night we were drenched with rain and winds that reached 50mph for several hours, unfortunately leaving some in the dark again, before tapering off as the day has quickly gone by. I am usually sad to see Autumn go, but, this year I'm ready to leave this one behind and move on! On this, our shortest day of the year, I'm gladly snuggled up in my favorite chair enjoying the soft twinkle of the Christmas lights, watching Doctor Who on BBC America with Hubbs, enjoying the peacefulness of it all. How are you passing this day? Blessings to you this evening and all Winter! Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®