Life Lessons and Choices

I missed posting yesterday cause our internet was down most of the day - and so was I *LOL* So I will post two things I am thankful for today.

I'm thankful for life lessons. It used to be I would berate myself because I'm not a morning person. I felt "less than" those who could bounce out of bed at 6am or even 7am. Not anymore.

I'm thankful that I've discovered that I am who I am. My body clock does what it does and that's okay. Trying to "bounce" when I'm not ready for it puts me out of commission for a couple of days. And that is "allowed".

Yesterday my husband had to go to hospital for a test - routine, his dad has cancer and the sons have to be tested occasionally to make sure they haven't picked it up genetically. Thankfully these tests always come back good. However sometimes his appointments are scheduled for 8am. He's a morning person. When he makes appointments he makes them so he can get them over with early in the day and have the rest of the day free. Getting to this hospital from here requires leaving home at 7am to get there by 8am. This makes getting up at 6am a necessity, especially for me cause even by 7 when we leave I'm still a zombie. I have to go with him to drive him home because they usually give him a sedative. He could have taken a taxi and I could have picked him up but for me to go in with him even paying for parking is cheaper than a taxi. So I go.

And the above leads to my thankfulness that I have choices. I didn't used to realize that it was okay if I didn't dust or vacuum on schedule. Even if I was exhausted I had to get it done. Not any more. Friday is my vacuuming day. Because I was so tired from getting up so early I had a 3 hour nap instead. The crumbs will still be there when I've recovered enough to vacuum.

Realizing that I have choices is so freeing.

Over the last couple of days I've made 4 placemats for the Fall Bazaar.  I'm doing one thing a week. The fabric they have is not always good, it's all donated. These turned out nicely I think except for the poly fabric they gave me to use as a backing and which I also used to make the bias binding. But they look okay and I've never been to anyone's house where I've turned over my placemat to see what the back looks like *LOL*

I didn't crosshatch both ways because it was too time consuming and I think this holds the layers together well enough.

Someone else, Patricia I think it was, said she watched our Canada Day celebrations on TV. So did we. I love the Queen. I always have loved the idea of the Royalty... however I didn't pay taxes in her time so don't know what it would be like to still have her as our Queen. The thing I really don't understand is if she is no longer our Queen, and the Governor General was the Queen's representative when she was our Queen, why do we still need a Governor General? But I don't understand politics.

We did turn off the entertainment portion part way into it because they were using French singers. Guess most of our English ones who are any good have gone to the States. And we don't understand French. The singers were very talented and the music was nice but I like to know what the words are saying.

So I can't be grateful I live in a unilingual country cause I don't and it is a bee in my bonnet.