~we hold hands and stick together~


New Year's Day~2020

 I think I remember once as a kid growing up back in my hometown of Haven, Kansas that someone mentioned the year "2020".  At the tender age of 14, the notion of a year that far into the future seemed something akin to a distant galaxy in deep space.  You got the feeling that you'd never be able to see it and if you did, well then you'd be pretty much old.  I was wrong because I have now seen it and by the way, I'm not near as old as I predicted I would be.  

 Funny how the passage of time changes your perspective on things like that.

 365 days lie ahead for all of us and how those days are spent will be up to each of us to decide.  One thing I have learned the hard way, as we all must do, is just how fast those days will fly by.  Young people, and I was once one, do not understand that concept yet for it takes the wisdom of age to realize the idea of the brevity of life.  I think of all the time I wasted and frittered away in years gone by and it is a sobering thought to be sure.  I try my best these days to do things that have meaning and purpose.  When I lay my head on the pillow at night, I feel at peace with where life is taking me.

 I truly do not know what the future will bring for us here, but it's not like I knew it anywhere else we have lived either.  We are so grateful to be at home in Newkirk and so much closer to our Kansas family and friends.  Nothing pleases me more than being able to head north just a few miles and buy groceries at the local Dillons store in Ark City.  It's such a nice remembrance of all the times I shopped at my neighborhood Dillons store back in Hutch.  It takes so little to make me feel grateful these days.

 Mike and I have made a pact to stay together and face whatever challenges meet us head on in the days, weeks, and months that lie ahead.  Life changes, sometimes on a day to day basis, and the only thing you can do is embrace the change for what it is.  I'd have to admit that sometimes this not knowing thing can be a little unnerving but we do just as we have since we got married that late May afternoon in 2013.

 We hold hands and stick together.
We walk forward in faith.
It has worked out pretty well so far.
Why change now?


One of my goals for this year is to make a scrapbook of our lives here in Kay County, Oklahoma for the year 2020.  I'm going to take a couple of pictures a day as well as keep a journal of the things that happened to us.  Our life here is pretty simple and it is that simplicity that I want to capture and remember.  Today we were able to take a nice walk in the January sunshine after Mike and Gus had their chance to watch a football game on TV.  Mundane activities to some, our life to Mike and I.








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