Simple Steps to Being Positive

 As our world has come together as we never have before in these days of uncertainty, it is important to stay focused and positive.  As we are all staying at home and practicing social distancing, we have the world of technology and social media to keep us connected when we are feeling the need to connect.

Get outside! Vitamin D is a natural mood lifter.  With spring's arrival, we are able to get out in the yard to plant the seedlings you have been growing inside, or take a book outside to read and enjoy. 

Connect with loved ones via email, text, or pick up the phone and make the call.  We all need to hear the voices of our family and friends.  

Choose carefully how much time you spend watching or listening to news coverage of the virus.  If you must, update once a day briefly.  Then remember you are doing everything from social distancing to washing your hands to create a safe environment for you and your family.

Things will get better and life will slowly return to perhaps a different normal than we had before.  Personally I am rediscovering what we have in our home and revisiting simple yet comfort food meals.   

Pray each day and thank our medical staffs, delivery drivers, warehouse workers, food delivery services, grocery and stores remaining open working day and night to make sure we have our needs met during this time.  They are all true heroes to all of us and I thank them in prayers and from the bottom of my heart. 

May you all stay healthy and safe dear friends♡

 

All You Need to Make a Memory is Comfort

These are pictures of my grandparents house.  To others viewing these pictures, it's simply a house.  To me, it's comfort and a smile.  My memories aren't heart warming because my grandparents were wealthy and had extravagant furnishings.  It was the small things that gave comfort.  Walking up the walkway with the tiny stones that gave way under your shoes.  The smell of homemade chocolate chip cookies when we walked in the door.  Knowing there was a small basket of our toys in the dining room closet waiting for us.  The way the stairs creaked when we went upstairs.  The hot dogs and shoestring potatoes Grandma made us for lunch when my sister and I took our children when they were growing up and we went to visit Grandma in the summer when school was out.  The hot chocolate topped with mini marshmallows Grandma made for all of us when we would sled on her hill each winter and we came in to warm up.  Grandma taking all of the grandchildren to the woods near their home around the corner, "Skunk Valley" to show us the lilies of the valley when they were in bloom. All of the family picnics in Grandma and Grandpa's back yard.  And Grandma waving good bye to each of us as we would pull our cars out of the driveway after our visits from the bedroom window.  A tradition my Mom did each time all of us would leave the driveway, I have done with our family, and now our children wave to us when we leave.  

In today's world of social media and the pressures that come with it to show the world we are happy and have lovely homes, cars, vacations, etc., I can assure you simplicity and love is all that's needed and will give more memories than anything else money can buy.  Relax and enjoy the moments.

~Happy Summer~