Tag: fall

Life

Happy New Year

Sondra

It’s been a cool, crisp, peaceful morning here. The temps remind me of a crisp fall day. The kind that I like. The kind that envokes happiness in my soul. The kind that make me think of going back to school. More specifically, the kind of morning that takes me back to the days when I had graduated from high school and was preparing to leave for college at Mizzou. New Year’s Day might be January 1st, but going back to school has always felt like the new year to me. 

I love this time of year and I think that maybe it is why I became an educator. There’s always been a level of excitement and anticipation that I have felt at this time of the year. It’s more than just cool air and college football. I love those things, but it goes deeper than that.

There’s new students, new parents, often new coworkers. New clothes, new backpacks, new pens and notebooks. Everything is new and with that comes the potential to do something new with the year. To make, or re-make, yourself. 

It’s a time of setting goals for the school year. What do I want to accomplish? How do I want the year to look? How do I want to look? What’s my schedule look like? What can I incorporate into my daily routine that will help me to achieve those goals?

Am I ready to give up my summer freedoms like slow mornings and drinking my coffee while it’s still hot? Living in my pjs and having a clean house? Not quite. But I am ready to go school shopping. 🙂

~Sondra~

Faith, Gratefulness, gratitude, Health, Life

Good Things

Sondra

My last slow morning of the summer. Today is Labor Day and I’ve enjoyed my morning immensely. I haven’t done anything spectacular. I’ve had my coffee and Jesus time. I’ve started washing bedding. I’ve washed dishes. I’ve put the meatloaf in the crockpot for dinner. Just little things that I was able to accomplish without rushing around to try and get to work on time.

Mike woke up and did the morning chores before he went into town to get a part he needed to fix the brush hog. He brought home breakfast burritos and Keith as well. After fixing the brush hog, he took Keith home and then came back to start brush hogging. He has a lot to get done before colder weather hits. There’s always something to do around here. Our to-d0 lists never end. I’m thankful for the day off to gain a little ground on the list. It’s good for the soul.

I looked up and out the window a few minutes ago and saw leaves falling from the tree and blowing in the wind. I love this time of year when the mornings are cooler, and sometimes the days stay cooler as well. I could live with this climate all year round. I don’t need the spring rain, the summer sun, or the winter snow. I just want this. 

I want a lot of things that I cannot have. It’s not that they are bad things. I don’t want bad things. I want only what I consider to be good things. But are they only good? What would happen to the ecosystem if all we had was 60 degree lows and 80 degree highs? What would happen to the earth if we didn’t have the spring rain, the summer sun, or the winter snow? Things to think about and remember that, even though I might not like something, it is necessary for the way God created the world to work. He knew what He was doing. He designed everything to work together (Romans 8:38).

~Sondra~