Yes....I think there comes a time when
CHANGE is good and much needed.
CHANGE can come when you plan it and then again
CHANGE can be forced upon you when you least expect it. This has been a hard year for Mr. Brown Dirt and myself dealing with his sick father. I
soooo want to thank each and everyone of you who left heart warming comments on my previous post concerning the passing of our loved one. Our lives
CHANGED this past year and continues to
CHANGE each day after his passing. We have so many good memories though!!
I was in the middle of another
CHANGE when father in laws sudden death occurred. I finally found some much needed new living room furnishings. Of course,
NOTHING matches!!
Soooo the paint color must be
CHANGED. The curtain/drapes must be
CHANGED. Here is how my living room has looked for 3 weeks now. My room is in a total mess, well...actually my whole house is sort of in a mess. The
green is what is being
CHANGED and that is
primer you see there.
The mustard colored walls in Mr. Brown Dirt's office
must be CHANGED too!!! This is the color he wanted, but I think 15 yrs. of me looking at it is long enough!!! I have already started priming it too.
The most CHANGE I need in my life is a little extra time. I need to make some CHANGES on how I spend my time. My house is in total disarray and the holidays are bearing down on me fast! I want to spend a little time being who I was before I started blogging and spending so much time on the computer. Soooo, it's time for a CHANGE here at Brown Dirt Cottage. I will be taking some much needed time out from blogging. This CHANGE will be good for me and maybe I can come back soon refreshed and with a clean and orderly house!!!! I may check in with some of you from time to time but I will not be posting for a while!! See ya!
Take the time you need and settle in; you've had so much *change* that it's probably time to get some realiable routines (and all-ome-color walls) in your life!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your break! And have fun painting! :0)
ReplyDeleteIt's almost always a "Change for the better." Enjoy your new direction.
ReplyDeleteI hear ya! Trying to follow suit here a bit with prioritizing my time. Enjoy the new colors. Hope they cheer your soul as well as your house.
ReplyDeleteMy best wishes and prayers go out to you. It sounds like you know in your heart what you need to focus on. Enjoy the creative process of the changes in your home...and I'll look forward to reading your posts when you are back. I can never sew when I'm painting...painting is a pretty overwhelming activity for me!
ReplyDeleteGood bye dear friend - do come back from time to time - we miss you so much. Maybe give yourself a time limit - post some on the blog and then hurry back to the house preparations. I give myself a reward for work well done and set the timer to make me get up and shut it off and leave the computer - it works - since the timer I have will beep for 100 years if I don't walk out to the kitchen and shut it up - I mean off. LOL
ReplyDeleteYou go girl! Sounds like a good idea and I hope you have a great time re-organising the home environment... enjoy every minute of your blog holiday! And if I don't see you, have a very happy Christmas celebration with family and friends!
ReplyDeleteTake your time, Belinda! And take care...
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I think everyone understands needing a break and needing a change.
ReplyDeleteI love the green you are painting over!
This year I traveled from Oregon to Alaska 4 times,I took care (at home)of a mom with advanced Alzheimer's, a father with dementia, and did it for 3 months with one of my arms broken and having gone through major surgery. I thought I could do anything, because if I didn't, who else would? Everyone else told me they couldn't.
ReplyDeleteFinally, I went home and collapsed. Then, my dad died in August...back I went. All that time, all year, I blogged typing with one finger on dial up phone line. I was a crazy woman.
My Alaskan family learned to expect me to be a super woman so they did not help until I finally collapsed and left...then they all pulled together. In one month they couldn't take what I had been doing for 5 years. It taught me so much.
Protect you and your time in some space in your life. You get lots stronger from the pushing and the doing, but it is not worth the stress. Enjoy the holidays and keep them holy within you.
I'll misss you but understand completely. Take care of yourself and prioritize what's important.
ReplyDeleteWriting my blog is just a 15 minute slot in my schedule every day. Taking the pictures and "improving" them in the photo program probably takes another 15 minutes. It actually helps me to get more done. Why not post a picture and a couple sentences twice a week to let us see your progress?
ReplyDeleteTake your time. enjoy. looks like you'll have a "new house" pretty soon! ;)
ReplyDeleteI will miss you, but do understand. I take care of my Father, and it does take up time. I am glad I can do it, but do miss my me time. Enjoy and take time for you. You are important!!!
ReplyDeleteI'll miss you, but I also completely understand.
ReplyDeleteI love your mustard walls and your tin collection. I have the same red Sir Walter Raley in the can
xoxo
I hear you hon. You need the space and time to reorganise your life and it ain't going to happen if you keep on stopping to chat with us lot.
ReplyDeleteKeep in touch one way or the other and if there is anything I can do to help from afar, then please shout, ok!
PS - Michele is That Mad Woman and I'm That Crazy English Lady Living in France. We're both as mad as each other, and, as the saying goes, You Don't have to be Mad to Work Here, but it Helps!
Oh, pooh. I'll miss you! But understand that chores are just more important right now. *Sniff*
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your time off, it's a busy time betweeen Thanksgiving and Christmas so I completely understand. We just finished painting a rental and it's a lot of work. Good luck with the painting and I hope it goes smoothly. It's so rewarding to have new paint.
ReplyDelete"Thinks change and then we change things."
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the change! Blogland will always be here whenever you have the time
ReplyDeleteA great post. A lot of good sharing and wisdom and GOOD FOR YOU!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your break I will miss your post.
ReplyDeleteHugs, Carolyn
Take care, Belinda! *Hugs*
ReplyDeleteChange can be a very good thing sometimes. Take all the time to reaccess things and to get things in order.
ReplyDeleteI do like the mustard wall even though you have seen it for a long time. lol
Good for you. It is a time I think everyone makes a pause in blog life. We have to. Your painting is coming along. But I see you've got more ahead of you. It will be so wonderful when it is all done. That is the only thought that carries me through projects like this. I will be here. Good to know what is going on at your house.
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking of doing this. It's so hard to keep a blog alive when life is whirling around, especially during the holidays. Thanks so much for stopping by to visit mine!
ReplyDeleteI will miss you but am happy you are taking the time you need! I've been a long time lurker - and I've loved sneaking peeks into your creative life. So sorry about your father-in-law - so glad you have wonderful memories to help you carry on. xo, Nan
ReplyDeletemy condolences. have a wonderful holiday season and restful blog break!
ReplyDeleteDear Belinda,
ReplyDeleteI can understand you well ... I wish you a good time!
Greetings from Klaudia from Germany
Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteSorry to read the news, but there's nothing like a blogging break to renew the blogging spirit, have fun with the house, tarcey
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about your Father-in-law. I can so relate to your
ReplyDeletepost Belinda! My husband passed away in July.
I'm also changing things in my house..painting and also cleaning out stuff. I have this new attitude
"If you don't use it - lose it"
It's very liberating!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
ReplyDeleteNudge, nudge, nudge.
Poke.
Poke.
Hey, wake up!
Your blog is now awake and ready to serve you.
You're welcome.
Belinda Hope all is well with you ,I thank you for stopping by to visit my blog a little while back,I hope all is going well with the painting and redecorating I am sure it will be lovely,I am sorry to read of your father in laws passing I have a place in my heart for farmers ,my father was a farmer I was raised on a farm and my step father is a farmer, I have such fond memories of those days on the farm we had some sheep also I use to feed the lambs with a 7-up bottle when one was rejected ,used to keep one in my room in a big box and feed it before taking the bus to school this took place in Oregon I wish sometimes I was a farmer or lived out in the country I wish you the best,xoxo theodora
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