WHAT I’VE LEARNED THIS WEEK

Daddy-O (aka; Mr. Glammy Grammy or Grumpy Grampy) wrote a letter to our four children this week.  In this letter he told them what intelligent and genuinely good people they are and how proud we are of each of them (his own words of course, I’m paraphrasing).  He then told them that he had lived a lot longer than they had and knew a lot more than they did about many things.  The letter then went on to express his very intense feelings and opinions on a few specific subjects not really appropriate for this blog.  I was very touched by this letter as were they and quite proud of him for actually doing something like this.  The first I knew of “the letter” as it’s come to be known is when I was “Cc-d” as it went out to the kids.  Really nice job, Daddy-O!

Regardless of age or how very much we DO know, I find one thing to be a constant and that is that there is always something to be learned if we’re just “open” to possibilities.  I want to share with you just a few of the things I’ve learned (or maybe re-learned) this week.

Daddy-O is a wise man as well as a loving and concerned father/ grandfather.

Sometimes the perfect thing to say is nothing at all.

Our pets are our family, plain and simple.  We care for them as such and, when we lose them the heartache is very real.

The letter “Q” is always followed by a “U” unless it is used in a name.

HAPPY CRAP is stuff we all buy or have that makes us happy at the time and we later wonder, “What was I thinking?”

Girlfriends, both old and new are a key component of our lives and nurturing those relationships is very important.  I’ve made some new GF’s in the past 6 months that will be with me all my life and I love them.  I’ve also had the pleasure this week of being “found” by an old and dear friend I haven’t seen for years.  I realized how much I’d missed her and the fun we used to have.  Can’t wait to get together and “catch up”!

Anger, though understandable and even justified some times, is counterproductive and even destructive.  NO, I’m not “over it” but I’m aware and I’m working on it.

Finally, Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a beautiful gift and then keeping it to yourself.
 

For all the wonder and blessings in my life, THANK YOU.  To all the people who love me, THANK YOU, I love you too and am so very grateful to be a part of your lives. 
Love to all, GG