Wow, has it been this long??

Oh it has been! It's already the holiday season of 2010...and I am officially in my last year of being in my 40's! A true middle aged woman. I am glad to report that my family is well and we're getting through this hard economic transition....at least so far. It's just really hard to go backward..you know...when you're used to more of an easy cash flow!! I am always looking for deals and checking coupon expiration dates, among other things like, oh, like just not buying things!!

Well, this week I took a the whole week off! Yes, the whole week. And what I mean by that is that I purposefully did not schedule anything. No appointments, meetings, get togethers, lunches, coffees, have to lists for anyone. I looked at my schedule this week and saw that I had nothing scheduled and just had this miraculous idea that I would do only the things I have been trying to do but couldn't. For instance..laundry (yawn), ironing, gardening, finishing a baby quilt for my unborn nephew, baking for the holidays...etc... Well, guess what? It's just what was needed. It was like a sabbatical. I actually had a thought in my head and I even had time to do an actual crossword puzzle!!