I love new beginnings. Like the first day of school with brand new No.2 pencils and a clean, fresh notebook with empty blue lines on bright white paper. Lines waiting to be filled with everything I’d learn that year. At this point in my life, it’s a stack of fine heirloom fabrics, coordinated in the wonderful homestead colors I love…just waiting to become quilts. Quilts for my loved ones.
At this point in my life, it’s also continuing to work on a family history that has come so far but still is not complete. I’m the youngest of four daughters and, unfortunately, not the one with the most memories of the early days. That would be my oldest sister Dorothy but she’s in Heaven now. We worked together on it for many years. There are also boxes of photographs that chronicle 60+ years of my life and the lives of my children. I need to focus on scanning and having photos printed to compile albums for each of my three children. They’re busy raising families now and may not think photo albums of their childhood are that important. In time, I think they will cherish the albums and memories.
2020 will also be a time to focus on traveling as much as we can! We belong to a couple of travel companies that make planning trips a little easier. There are so many places to go and new things to see before we get any older!
Since I celebrated my seventy-fourth birthday on the first day of December, I’m wise enough to know there may not be too many more decades left to complete everything, so I’ll take advantage of the beginning of a new year and a new decade to, once again, tackle these important projects. Beginnings, in contrast to endings, are about hope and second chances. I’d say hope and second chances are good for each of us.
