New Year, fresh start

I like the New Year.  It's a great time to look back over the past year and take stock.  I had a good year, all things considered.  Personally I was able to lose 15 pounds and keep them off.  And I kept the house tidied up a lot more.  It was hard with all the medical stuff going on -- MIL's stroke, my mom's heart attack, step-dad's hospitalization and even my Gr'ma being in a nursing home for over 3 months after breaking he hip.  I didn't realize that all of this was building stress up and so I had some blah of my own, memory issues, feeling overwhelmed, and procrastinating more than usual.

In the looking ahead department, I'm keeping busy.  MIL will be having surgery to replace her shoulder in a couple of weeks.  I'll be taking her in for the surgery and watching over her the night before to make sure she doesn't eat anything or drink anything until 3pm the day of the surgery.  That could get fun when she wants lunch, LOL! 

At the house I have 11 quilts lined up for customers and three more coming, so that's great.  I took some time over Christmas to clean up the quilting room and rearrange a bit.  Over the weekend I was at San Souci looking for a lid to replace my crockpot lid (handle broke off.) and found a fabulous sewing machine in a darling cabinet!  So of course, I had to buy it ;0)  My birthday is in 10 days, it seems like a great gift.  I oiled it up and have already sewed on it.  It is in near perfect condition and even had its manual still wrapped in cellophane.  All the attachments and feet are there, and they look like new.  I can't imagine that this machine was used too much, but I plan to change that!  My camera is missing at the moment, but when I find it, I'll post some photos.

Spending time reflecting on what I want for goals for the coming year, more to come on that ;0)