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Good Morning ALL! Happy Easter! I would like to wish one of my dear friends Paulette a very Happy Birthday. Today she joins the “65” year club. Happy Birthday my Friend! Today is also Easter Sunday. My overnight company is still sleeping. Actually Amanda and the pups were up for a bit as pups had to go pee. Aspen remained up and is on her bed looking out of the window in the living room. Her most favourite spot. The sun is shining and it looks to be a beautiful day.

Yesterday I had the grand pups for a walk just after they were dropped off. The air felt so nice. Just a tad cool. Seemed strange not having Eddie and Jack for a walk. Not long after we got home, Aspen started to bark and noticed Jeanette, Alejandro and the boys were heading toward home from their walk.

I forgot that 14 years ago yesterday I registered for Word Press. This post has changed my life and I love being able to write on this platform. I very much appreciate all of you reading my blog. Thank you.

I have to go and finish thawing the turkey because live and learn – should/could have started the thawing process in the fridge a day earlier than I did. But oh well, not the end of the world. I am going to finish the process in a cold water bath. One advantage to only three of us for a meal, we are not caught up on an exact time. I am going to try for 4:00 p.m. but if it is a bit later, that will work as well.

I hope that the Easter Bunny brought you some treats.

My family gave me a beautiful bouquet of flowers.

Chocolate Chip Walnut

Easter Gifts

Miss Aspen

Milo

Easter Gift

Watching Mom and Dad go

Time to head downstairs and have a cup of coffee and place that turkey in a cold water bath to finish thawing it out. The morning will pass quickly and I want to have things done in a timely fashion.

Amanda and I watched the new Aquaman movie last night and it was quite good.

I am grateful that my family is here with me now.

I am grateful to have so many wonderful friends that have graced my life over the years.

I am grateful for my siblings for being who they are and for whom I love deeply.

Continuing to live this life with kindness, respect, compassion, patience, love, laughter, understanding, gratitude, focus, possibilities, coffee and forgiveness.

Always, Carol, My Forever Angel Alvin, Amanda, Steven, Aspen, Milo and all the Angels.

The Next Chapter

Good Morning and Happy Easter 2023. Day three of four day long weekend for me. How are you on this Sunday? Do you have plans to go somewhere or perhaps you are somewhere? Is someone cooking an Easter feast? Company or just for You? Or perhaps you are like me and just spending the weekend doing spring cleaning. The weekend did not start out the way that I had planned or has it continued the way the I was hoping that it would but it is unfurling as it should. All things happen for a reason. The upstairs washing of the walls, blinds, fans, light fixtures and all of that is taking a bit longer than planned. Yesterday I completed my bathroom and bedroom and I did empty the office closet. There was also a load of laundry down in between. Today the plan is to wash the office closet and reorganize, also wash as much of the office walls as I am able to – reason is I have the wall size bulletin boards hanging up and if I take them down, they will be ruined as they are not hanging on hooks. I also would like to take down all of the items on the boards and put up some new things. There are Christmas Cards and others to go through. Books to decide on what to keep. This is the room where it is more going through things than actually cleaning. Although one could say that going through things is cleaning of sorts. Just not with a bucket of water, lol. Anyway, I will finish off the upstairs today. I am making Chili in my handy dandy Tupperware pressure cooker. I realize that I have far too many “things” for one person and I am going to go through each room and be “frugal” on what I keep. I keep things based on emotions. Like keeping cards. I used to have every card that ever was given to me since an adult until in the 1990’s and then I downsized to a couple of storage containers. Christmases, Birthdays, Thank you and on and on. Life. Movie tickets. Concert tickets. You see what I mean. Time to get tough. Keeping a few things only will be hard but must be done. Another sunny day ahead.

Yesterday was a tough day emotionally for me thinking of my Alvin. He would have been trying to find a place to lay down to be near me as I cleaned. We would have gone for a walk as it was so beautiful out. I just miss him. So many memories…….

Happy Easter Everyone!

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I just spent a few minutes trying to upload some photos from my photo library to this post with no luck. Time to get going as I have a full day ahead of me and it is already after 8:30 a.m.

I hope that the Easter Bunny made it to your home with some chocolatey treats and maybe a new outfit or something that you need.

Have a wonderful Easter Sunday.

I look forward to taking a walk down memory lane in between washing and cleaning!

Continuing to live this life with kindness, respect, compassion, patience, love, laughter, understanding, gratitude, focus, possibilities, coffee and forgiveness.

Always, Carol & Alvin (My Forever Angel).