New Year 2014

     I got on here today after not having written anything for a while with full intentions of just saying Happy New Year! Intentions of just spending some time for a few days or nights getting caught up on this blog of my life. It seriously took me quite a while to even figure out how to get on here, much less post anything, and the next time is probably going to take me just as long. What do I discover when I finally do figure it out and  navigate my way here? I discover that I haven't been on here or posted anything for longer than I thought. I discover that it is going to take a lot longer than just a few days or nights of updating past happenings and writing new posts to get caught up, and stay caught up, and re-figure out how to do things on here. After all, I'm not a technology whiz by any means. I need to load pictures on here, from the last 2 1/2 years apparently, update the background, get caught up on family happenings and lives...and things have changed on here drastically from what I can see.
      It is the way it goes I guess. Time passes and we don't even realize how much has passed or how fast it's passing. We have all the plans and intentions to do so many things and accomplish great goals and make great strides in our lives. Do they happen? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. And why is that? Do we get busy? Not pay attention to what is really going on in our own life? Waste time with what is considered by some to be silly or frivolous things or only with the 'mundane tasks' of the reality of life? Sometimes both? Is it bad, never good, to just take a self-imposed time out in our life just playing, watching tv/movies, FB or just the internet in general? Is it always good, never bad, to only focus on the 'mundane tasks' of life in general...kids, chores, errands, work, etc etc etc. And is it good to just run on the proverbial gerbil wheel day after day after day? I don't feel either is necessarily right or wrong, just different, and both are needed to have some sort of balance in our life.
     So maybe that is what I should hope/plan for myself this year, balance in my life. A balance between what I feel to be the mundane and the fun, Spiritual and worldly, peace and chaos (because chaos can be fun after all).  Maybe I can get caught up on here while I'm on one of my self-imposed time outs.
     This is the first day of a New Year. People feel it is a time to start with a clean slate, of new beginnings, to start over, or again, or just start. What is it that the turning of the calendar to a new year makes us feel this hope and resolve that we didn't have a week ago? Today is just yesterdays tomorrow after all. Maybe all of our tomorrows should hold the same bright outlook.    

Happy New Year 2009!

After ringing in the New Year last night, in the midst of taking care of Wynn & Gary, we spent a quiet day at home. I took them to the doctor this morning for post-op, & they are doing well.

This year has many things in store for us, I'm sure. We just attended our nieces wedding, Jenny Higgs to Todd Squires on Tuesday, Dec 30, 2008. It was so great to see everyone again. We had just spent Andy & Leza's wedding & Thanksgiving with them, & we even got to see Duane & Jen & their 2 adorable boys we hadn't got to see for a few years. Now in 2009 we know that we have a nephew getting married in March, a niece getting married in April & another nephew possibly getting married in May. My brother & his wife, Dustin & Cindy, are coming in the summer from Brisbane, Australia. We are way excited to see them as it has been a few years, actually since before they were married, that we have seen them. Wynn will continue his schooling in 3-D modeling & should be getting done. Gary will be leaving on a mission this summer, & he will be missed terribly even though we will be so happy for him to have this opportunity.

I am hoping to stay updated on this blog. I used to be very good at keeping a journal, then with kids & health issues, I let it slip. I know I am supposed to keep one, so that is actually why I started a blog in the first place. I am hoping that as I get better at keeping this updated, it will just become even easier for me to keep a more private hand written one as well. It is sitting on the nightstand just waiting for me.

So here is the first post for 2009. May it find the year starting off well for each of you.

Happy New Year from the Jenkins'!

Happy? New Year's Eve

Since I have spent 6 hours at the hospital today, and have only been home for 1/2 an hour, this will be quick. Wynn & Gary both got their nose straightened today. Yes, they chose this date simply for insurance reasons & because they didn't want it done on Christmas Eve. All went well, and now, they will be able to breathe, something Wynn has never been able to do, & Gary not since he broke his nose so many times in wrestling. So my celebrating will be spent taking care of them. Thank goodness neither of them are the whiney, sick male type. They just deal with it quietly & recover quickly. That's how I can handle both of them doing this at the same time. And they took care of me last year, so.....

2008 was a good year for us, not so much for the country or world. May 2009 be everything you need it to be. Love ya, from our house to yours.

Now I better go check on the men folk.