Five Simple Things (January 7)

Hello.

Here are five things this week.

1. This Sunset.

Sometimes the sunsets here are on fire. I like to refer to the pink/red sky at night as the Meirezsky.

2. These Beans.

Wouldn't be the New Year without a bowl of black-eyed-peas.

3. This Kitty.

Eleven helped me most of the time cleaning up from the holidays. She followed me from room to room watching and supervising. Even though she's not a kitten anymore, she still loves to play until she crashes out. 

4. This Wrap-up.

January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021 wrapped up with 1 Second Every Day. This app has helped me a great deal with remembering all the good throughout the month or year. It's such a good reminder to see at the end of each month all the good things that happened. You can get this app here and start this year with recording one second of your day all year.

5. These Gifts.

On December 25 Skylar opened his last advent calendar bag contents. We have been doing an advent calendar for the last three years, and it's become a big part of the Christmas countdown for him.

 

Along with the advent calendar for Skylar we also like to use the new year to purchase new shoes for us all. We also do a few scratch-its just for fun. The shoes here are Adidas Cloudfoam and you can snag them here.

Positive affirmations this week:

It's a new year and a new chance to set the year off right with positive intentions and things to create a better you. It is not selfish to think of yourself ahead of others when it comes to taking care of yourself mentally and physically. Here is a calendar from Action for Happiness for January 2022 to help get your started on a great month and a happier and kinder to yourself year. You can download the month-to-month calendars from their site here.

Have a nice weekend.

New Year's Day Walk

We decided to start the 2022 year off right with a brisk walk around Salem's Waterfront Park. There were a lot of other people that had the same idea and with the sun out, it was a great day, and a great way to bring in the New Year with a fresh start. It's such a wonderful thing to know that, even on your hardest days you're here, already. It's a new year and you did it, you made it through. Even the hardest days that you, well we, had in 2021, we made it through. And to me, that's worth every second of happiness on January 1 each year. Happy New Year and here's to another year of making it through the hardest days and celebrating every step of the way~