Life is Sweet and I Know it's Just the Beginning!

Can someone please pinch me? I am happier now than I have been in years and I can hardly believe it! I'm sure it must be a dream...
So just give me a little pinch so I will know this life is real!!!

Years ago in the midst of all our turmoil, both of my sisters would often say, "Cissy, some day you're life is going to be sweet, I just know it!" And at the time I just couldn't imagine a day when things would be better. Times for us had been tough for so very long; it had simply become a way of living...a way of feeling. Stress prevailed like a daily prescription! But, here I am today and with the exception of still missing Kenny...my life is FINALLY sweet. Thank God, my sisters were right!

I'm just about settled into my new home and after several long years moving from place to place it sure feels g-r-e-a-t to have a home of my own again!

Ok, I'm still sleeping on an air mattress and I occasionally step on a tack strip and run it through my toe. I live daily with drywall dust and paint rollers and there's a gaping hole in my kitchen floor so I have to be careful not to trip in it.

Some would probably find it all a bit disconcerting, but compared to what I've been through...this is nothing! I am happy and content!

Yes, it's still a work in progress; we are in the midst of a little remodeling and repairs. We've ripped out my kitchen island and we've torn apart the walk in closet. The dishwasher doesn't work and the oven needs to be calibrated.

My carpet has been on back order for weeks and the walls are only half painted. But at least I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. And Heaven knows, I've been in that dark tunnel for a long, long time! 

In the mean time, I've planted flowers in my front garden, I've scrubbed nearly every nook and cranny of the place, and I've polished my Jacuzzi till it shines. I've ordered a few new rugs for here and there and new window shades for the kitchen. Slowly but surely, the place is beginning to look and feel like my own.

This weekend the weather was blissful! I threw open all the windows and allowed the sunlight to spill into every room on every floor. The cool breeze took me back to another place and time...in my childhood. I recall that same lovely wind blowing through the yard as Chip and I played there on a cool spring day. We didn't have a care in the world and that's how it felt this weekend!!

I got up early Saturday morning and I enjoyed my  coffee on my upper bedroom deck while I watched the birds build a nest in the eaves of the house across the way. 

Later, I fixed myself a nice omelet and proceeded to dance my way through the rest of the weekend. I did what I wanted when I wanted, wherever I wanted! Life is sweet and I know it's just the beginning...