September is here ~ how can that be?

I was chatting with a friend early last week (well via email) and she asked “have you written any blog posts lately? I told her not lately but that I planned to soon.

Well soon took me another week!!! And here we are in the second week of September and in just 15 Friday’s it will be Christmas!!!!

July and August were filled with lots of doctor appointments for Ron. In early July he was referred to a dermatologist for some strange looking spots on his head…well that led to some spots being frozen off and two different surgeries.

Sorry the pictures are backwards (I can’t figure out how to move them around 😂) The second picture shows where they took skin from behind his ear to put/cover where they cut a piece of Ron’s ear off (1st pic) The doctor said it is looking great and they got all the cancer out of his ear!!! Thank you Jesus!!

The picture below is the first surgery he had. They cut out the spot with the cancer and a little more to make sure they got it all!! And they did! Thank you Jesus!! He had a total of 15 staples!!!!

BUT Poppa God is good!!! They got all the cancer and it healed up quite nicely!!

We are very thankful for Poppa God’s hands in this surgery and that it was caught fairly early. He goes back on 12/23 for a full body scan. Needless to say the anxiety in our home was pretty high for a couple of months. Ron asked me to not share publicly what was going on ~ I think inside we were both wondering if this was going to be the start of a whole new journey. I know, I told myself if I didn’t think about it or talk about it maybe it wasn’t happening. We shared with our kids/grands what was going on and a few close friends and of course our bosses as we had to take some days off for the different procedures and recovery.

I thought I had been handling this quite well UNTIL the surgeries were all over and I realized in the last two months I hadn’t crocheted hardly anything. I did finish this blanket and got it sent to its new owner.

I loved the colors in this one and in fact making a lap blanket for a sweet lady as a surprise.

Reflecting back I also realized I spent a lot of time playing games on my phone while the crochet hook just stayed in the bag. I played word games, hidden objects and colored and colored some more!!! Its just been in the last two weeks I realized I was just bobbing along and functioning in the slow/barely mood.

I was chatting with my Bestie, who’s dealing with her own stuff and she put it into words “existing not living” and she was so right! Oh I went to work, I spent some time with the grands but mostly just hibernated in our little home on wheels, more specifically in the recliner in our little home on wheels.

A couple of weeks ago I had a little Come to Jesus meeting in the pickup as I was driving to work and sitting in the parking lot ~ and realized that no one was going to get me out of my funk but me and so I thought back to the past of what did I like, what did I like to do, what did I want to do and reached the decision – no one but me could do what I like or the things I wanted to do but me. I started with choosing a Word for the year (yes I know the year is 3/4’s over but as they say better late than never!) My word INTENTIONAL or better yet BE INTENTIONAL!

Okay, two words…so since September 1 I have intentionally walked 3 of 7 days ~ I know it doesn’t sound like much but it’s more than I did in August!!! And plan on getting out for a walk after work unless of course we are having one of our famous thunderstorms.

I purposely found four projects to crochet – 3 stuffies (Mickey Mouse, Jazzy the Unicorn ~ this time blue with purple & pink hair (requested) and Chase from Paw Patrol and then a sweater for a gal at work. She knows I’m making it just doesn’t know what colors I am using.

And most importantly got back in The Word!!! Sometimes it’s just a few minutes in the morning but it is a few minutes in the morning!!!