life is good ****

why can't we know that for ourselves sometimes?
**** this post is brought to you by nothing in particular except it's stuck in my head****

one of my friends who recently buried her mom, called me not too long ago crying.
she misses her mom. this doesn't seem to unusual but this person was so busy being strong for her mom, for her family...... and doing all the legal stuff and guardian stuff that she didn't have time to realize....
she was going to miss her mom when her mom was gone.

she realized now

what does that have to do with life is good?

well i wish she'd had some inkling of that revelation while her mom was still alive...but that's ok better late then never.
however she missed the opportinity to tell her mom while her mom was in the flesh
she did however get a 'vist' from her mom, the other day and so told her then.

how often do we get mad at our family?
i know i get mad at bernie a lot...... part of it is worry on my part, when he works late 6 nights a week, comes in and falls asleep in his chair before he eats.......
or when he does something in the house in such a rush that i know it's going to take a ton more work to undo it and then redo it right

but the reality is, i do love him with my whole heart and soul and toenail.... i just get disappointed sometimes.

isn't that the way?

also i keep wishing for an addition....funny a few years ago all i wished for was enough money to survive....just pay the bills, buy heat and food......

AND A KITCHEN WITH COUNTERTOPS--

however i think we are in a better part of our lives.....so while i look forward to an addition to the house..... sometimes i am just happy to BE

and if BEING means pain free so much the better

i also realized, a lot of things i do take away from other things just as important to me
and i would like to find a way to streamline some things ( like chores) so i have a bit more time drawing and painting, making dolls, cooking/canning, and knitting
i want to spend more quality time with bernie, and i am hoping that he can get work (once past the new office opening) a bit more streamlined so he can get home at a decent hour.

i realized what a waste of time some things are.....and how some people can waste your time and spin your wheels. (yes that person who didn't show really got me annoyed)

anyway...
what is good in your life? what are you going to keep? what are you going to dump?