My New Year's Day

Looking out the back patio doors I see a light, gentle snowfall and the vast Fraser Valley in the background. My dining room is clean from the night before and the living room is cozy with the heat from the fire. I hear a crying baby and the cheerful sound of a mother trying to calm her son.

There is vistas from every room, and I can see my son’s missing car from the driveway. Like any parent a scense of dread comes over me, then remembrance of “I’m staying at so and so’s tonight”, passes through my brain.

My husband and I were enjoying our morning lattes and now he is on the phone wishing his mom a happy new year, as I wander around my home with my dog under foot, I’m thinking of my mom and the last time I spoke to her.

What should I do today? Take it easy? I deserve that after the hectic holiday season has come to an end. After all I’ve been moving, cleaning, decorating, cleaning, shopping, cleaning, feasting, cleaning, just like everyone else. Well maybe not the moving part.

I’ve painted myself a pretty picture, but what I truly see, is chaos! Who moves just days before Christmas?

The landscaping can’t be completed until spring. The basement is unfinished. Nothing seems to be in its rightful place. My kitchen has no flow, so I have to move the cutlery drawer to where the saran wrap is and who knows where that should go. My alcohol is on one of my kitchen counters because the bar hasn’t been finished. Why does anyone need 28 bottles of tequila? A lot of things are still at my other house so when I reach for something and it isn’t there, I have to drive 10 minutes there and 10 minutes back. Oh crap, I just stepped on one of my grandson’s toys.

How can something so beautiful, turn so ugly? How could I let my mind slip so fast?

I’ll just chalk this up to moving pains and keep my fingers crossed that this is not what’s instore for my 2019!

To all my family, friends and followers, I wish you all a Happy New Year filled with joyous occasions and pleasant memories, and maybe just a little chaos😊