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Bet you thought I had given up blogging!

So what if it has been almost a year since I entered any posts? That is no reason to think I had given up on this endeavor. I just did not have a "roundto-it", you know as in "I will get around to it, just not today."

I often have thoughts in my head telling me, "you should blog that"...so here I am again.

Read this today on the WELS site for daily devotions:

I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

Philippians 4:12-13

And I remembered that I wanted to start blogging about things that are making me happy right now. (Although the above quote says to be content even you are not "happy"...)

So what is making me happy today? Here is the answer, in no particular order of degrees of happiness:

• friends who share their love of stamping and card making
• my granddaughter Luci who is graduating from 5th grade today
• my son #3 Daniel graduating from Portland State University with a math degree
• #1 son Sam and Liane who will be getting married in July
• Getting to see #4 son Ben, DIL Vanessa, and granddaughter Isabella for a week to celebrate the wedding, along with son's 1 & 3
• being able to talk on the phone with #2 son Jake
• Florida weather that makes it possible to exercise in the pool outside and have flowers in my yard year round

Daniel in his apartment

Sam, Liane, me and Lucy last January

Ben, Vanessa, Isabella in Maui last January

I hope you have something that makes you happy today.

The Important Book

When I taught my 5th graders to write poetry, I would use this little picture book as a model. Each page had a simple subject,like a spoon, and would describe the different attributes of it beginning and ending the page with "the important thing about ___ is____."
So in that same style I would like to present:

"The Important Thing about Living in Sun City Center"

The important thing
about living in Sun City Center is
that I feel like a young kid.

My friends talk about music from the 40's and then say to me,
"but you are too young to know that."

They talk about illnesses, hospitalizations, and medications
and when I cannot contribute, they say,
"Just wait until you are old."

My SCC friends are impressed
when they hear I attend Zumba class
because "It is so fast!"

Most of the ladies in the community pool
have bodies like mine.

I have a choice of two water aerobics classes,
6 days a week

or I can  just walk in circles
in the heated indoor pool.

I can drive around the community in an open air golf cart,
getting parking spots reserved for golf carts only.

I can shop the grocery stores in SCC after sundown
and there are no lines at the checkout.

I can play BINGO on Monday nights
for as little as $1
and win $200.

I can see ospreys in a nest,
or a red fox,
sand hill cranes,
cattle egrets,
and ibises in my yard.
I can ride  my bike for an hour
on neighborhood streets
and not worry about sharing the road.

But the important thing
about living in Sun City Center is
that I feel like a young kid.