After Thanksgiving

There is a certain let down after Thanksgiving. So much cooking and cleaning and socializing and then it's over. It leaves a bit of a void which I have a tendency to fill with eating turkey leftovers!

I am left feeling a bit melancholy and like a rudderless ship. I wander around the house feeling like there is something I should be doing but not being able to figure out what that is.

The long weekend also gets me very confused as to what day it is. I have had 3 Saturdays so far. It's funny how a change in the rountine can throw us into a tail spin like that.

By Saturday, I am back to normal. Whatever that is! It's a nice feeling to have a day to do whatever. I will run errands, knit on a sweater I am making for my sister, maybe take a nap and generally have a low key day. I will try to cut back on my eating -good luck with that - and I will look for new recipes to do with turkey. In a week my husband will be so sick of turkey, he will refuse to eat any more.

Hope everyone had a wonderful, blessed Thanksgiving and are enjoying the lazy days after.

God Bless.

Play time reflections

My husband and I had a lovely weekend (anticipated in my last post). We wandered around an antique mall to see if there was anything we couldn't live without. It's amazing that the antique malls have so many things we remember from our childhood. They can't be antiques yet, can they? Does that mean that we are antiques or is it just that we owned really old stuff when we were kids?

We went out to eat at a local restaurant that was warm and noisy. We shared a HUGE steak and ate too much.

We went to a friends' retirement party for about 20 minutes (we were being selfish with our time together.)

We went back to the hotel and lay on the bed and watched some TV and relaxed and just enjoyed being together.

We slept well and had a great hot breakfast in the hotel's lobby area.

We went to visit Bob's daughter and 2 of our grandchildren in Iowa and spent the day with them. What fun it is to watch them grow.

We came home tired but happy.

The temptation of a weekend like that is to try to do too many things and come home more exhausted than when you left. We resisted.

Everyone needs to take some time off from daily responsibilities and play.

Try it, you'll like it!!

Play time

My husband and I are going to spend the night at a local hotel this weekend. Just an excuse to get away. We have talked recently about the fact that we don't play enough. We are caught up with the responsibilities of jobs and the house and his Mother that we have lost some of the fun of life. I have a yearning for that which, as Deidra talked about in her blog - www.jumpingtandem.blogspot.com, many of us leave with our childhood - joyful PLAY.

I asked my husband what he wanted to do while we were "away" and he said "Let's go to a movie." I told him that was not play since in a movie you don't get a chance to interact (well, if you do the people around you say Shhhh!) So we decided to go out to dinner and find a place to play pool. I am not very good and he is very good so it's not much of a match but it is playing.

I am going to try to get us to play each week. Maybe go bowling or just play cards at home or go for a bike ride.

We all need to play. It had a purpose in our childhood and it has a purpose now.

Find some time to play in the next week and see how good it makes you feel.