Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!
I am so happy you decided to stop by!!
Blogging has always been a stress reliever for me along with an avenue to share my passions which are my home and my garden.....
Joe would want me to continue doing what I love to do so with that being said.....
I am going to start posting again on a regular schedule.....
I will be posting on MONDAYS and THURSDAYS....
And when I can, I will add a Saturday Snippets post on SATURDAYS...
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HAPPY HEALTHY NEW YEAR!!!
And WELCOME BACK to my regular Blog, Debbie-Dabble Blog!!
In my last post over on my Christmas Blog, I shared my New Year's Day Celebrations....
Click HERE if you missed that post!!
I want to Thank
Cecilia, over at My Thrift Store Addiction, for choosing my post,
Victorian Christmas Doll House, Nelson Crest, as one of her features
from the last Vintage Charm Link Party!!
Thanks so much, Cecilia!!
Also a big Thank You to
Andrea, over at The Cottage Market, for choosing my post, Christmas Haul and More, as one of her features from last week's Morning Cup of Joe Link Party!
I especially want to THANK her for these very kind
words....
"Well our Queen of the Season is wrapping up the Holiday Season
for us. She shares her Christmas and her adorable Grand Twins! I know
that it has been a hard year for this precious soul and I also know that
her special Angel Joe is watching over her as he did here on
earth! She is a strong, loving person, that treasures life and every
moment it has to offer. I want to thank her for sharing with us. Here’s
to an inspiring 2025."
Thanks so much, Andrea!!
Your words meant so much to me!!
Please stop by and link up to these charming parties...
And now for a few Personal Notes...
I received a call right after Christmas that my new glasses were in.....
So I went to pick them up and Lo and Behold, they could not find them!!
Honestly, when they told me, I laughed hysterically....
They must have thought I was crazy and then I explained the year I had and that the day before Christmas, a building burned to the ground right next to the restaurant that my sister's Son in Law had ordered their Christmas Day dinner from...
My sister's Christmas Day dinner went up in smoke and water damage....
Now what are the chances of that happening????
Her son in law hustled and bought and cooked their entire Christmas Day dinner by himself....
He is head of a Fire and EMS department so he is used to cooking...
And then they lose my new glasses...
BUT....
For my trouble and wasted trip to pick them up, they gave me an additional 25% off!!
YEAH!!
If you did not notice in my last post, I have the new ones on....
A bit different for me......
It is that time of year again when many of us choose One Little Word....
Word of the Year....
2024 was one of the hardest years of my life....
Right up there with the year my Dad died....
Not only for me but for so many friends and family members....
When I chose my WOTY for 2024, I never realized that it would take on a different meaning in April when Joe passed away...
There are 2 different meanings to the Word PAUSE....
First, as a NOUN....
temporary inaction especially as caused by uncertainty
And then as a VERB....
Well, to be honest, I felt that the whole world stopped in April......
Just like in definition Number 3
"Temporary inaction especially as caused by uncertainty"
Initially, since I had so many things that I needed to tend to, I looked to PAUSE for these reasons....
I did PAUSE and examined a lot of options in front of me.....
I also learned that I needed to Practice the PAUSE.....
And I think PAUSE served me well in 2024.....
I also chose a Theme of the Year.....
And it was BALANCE!!
Now what is the definition of
BALANCE??? a state of equilibrium
mental steadiness or emotional stability; habit of calm behavior, judgment, etc.
But there is the deep meaning of BALANCE!!
"Balance is having the right amount —
not too much or too little —
of any quality, which leads to harmony or evenness."
And WOW!!
Did I ever need to attain BALANCE in 2024!!
I definitely needed to keep my Life upright and steady.....
But I am not going to dwell on all the sorrow, heartache, trauma and drama of 2024 anymore.....
It is time to let it all go!!
It is time for me to leave it all behind and move on because after all.....
Life does go on......
Back in the Fall, my WOTY for 2025 came to me.......
I also thought about all the Words that I chose other years.....
Gratitude
Positivity
Focus
Peace
Wellness
Hope
Live
Joy
Happiness
Me
Thrive
Pause
And I came across this.....
Looking forward to each day was something that I need to concentrate on....
Especially as I age.......
That was when I definitely decided on what my WOTY for 2025 would be.....
And it is a WOTY that I have used before.....
HOPE!!
WHY????
I was pretty much shouting NO after I saw the election results of 2016 and
experienced a profound feeling of Doom and Gloom like I had never felt
before.......
I soon decided that this feeling was rather silly ...........
So I chose to HOPE for 2017......
"HOPE sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible"
I decided that HOPE........
Is Real.....
I
feel the same way about the election results of 2024 because look what a
mess those 4 years after 2016 were especially with the mishandling of the
Pandemic, whichwas a disaster and took us 4 years to recover from.....
BUT....
This time around, I chose HOPE more for personal reasons rather than more worldly reasons....
And I need to find my Wings......
It is time for me to move on.....
I need to try to find out what the rest of my life is going to look like.....
There are decisions that I need to make about that....
For the first time in my life, I , alone, am responsible for myself.....
Even though at time it is intimidating, it is also oddly freeing and even exciting....
2024 forced me to come out of my self imposed isolation that I felt I needed after retiring from a very stressful profession and a very toxic work environment....
It forced me to have more courage and confidence in myself than I have ever had before....
I needed to be strong for my sons and take care of them in the time during Joe's illness and after his passing....
I know what it is like to have a parent pass away especially when you think your parents will live forever so I did not want my sons to have to take care of me during that process....
I needed to try to take care of them and put my grief aside.....
Now is the time to look toward the future....
And I sincerely HOPE that it will be a good one....
My HOPE for this year is that I get to accomplish some of these gentle goals.....
They are all good ones, don't you think????
But the thing that I HOPE for the most in 2025 is that it is a much better year for ALL of us......
I again have chosen a Theme for this Year in 2025....
It is something I began to practice after Joe's passing.....
JOY!!!
JOY was also a former WOTY for me back in 2012.....
I sincerely believe this...
Finding JOY in each day has definitely helped me to get through 2024....
With this New Year comes infinite possibilities......
The one thing I have learned as I get older is....
This is what I
HOPE, not only for myself, but for all of you too!!!
And I do have HOPE for 2025 to be a better, kinder and gentler year.....
One last thing....
I also have a Motto that I want to live by in 2025.....
I have seen it used quite a bit since that Ball came down in NYC at the stroke of midnight....
THRIVE IN 2025!!
None of us know what God's Plan for us is....
But I HOPE that we all can find JOY and THRIVE in 2025!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
In my next post on MONDAY, I HOPE to share some of my Aspirations for 2025 with you....
So I HOPE you will stop by to visit again on MONDAY!!
Stay safe, healthy and most of all, HAPPY!!
Thanks to those who took the time out of their busy day to spend a little bit of time with me!!
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reach you, I will reply on the post where you commented so please check
back......
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