32°F cloudy ENE@10mph
Morning Offering given
Village peaceful
Coffee good
We’re not getting any younger. In fact, most days aging seems to be coming at a rapid pace regardless of what one does to slow it down. So, in all reality death although not on your doorstep may be waiting in the wings. Have you let anyone know how you want things done? Have you filled out the necessary forms to make life easier on your descendants? Have you planned your funeral? Purchased your cemetery plot? Ordered your headstone? Made out your will? Have you sorted your belongings? Gone thru the attic and returned items that belong to your children? Sorted the Christmas/Easter/Valentine/etc decorations? What about your book collection? Your mother’s dishes? Your father’s tools?
I’ve been told many of today’s young adults don’t want their parents belonging, much less have to sort thru them. Do the sorting yourself. Give it to them and let them decide for themselves. Let them throw it out, sell it, and give it away. After all, in the end, it will be theirs to fight over (and trust me they will) once you are gone.
Collect all your websites, passwords, etc. Close out the old ones and note the day you did it. There are some really ideal little booklets out there where you can record all those things. I’m about halfway thru and have come to realize how tedious it is to get this done. Those family history papers, get them in order, fill out, and collated. Nothing worse than having to figure out someone else’s idea of how to file things (all thrown into one box free for all).
For goodness sake empty your medicine cabinet, bedside drawers, and bathroom bins. All that half-used, outdated crap needs to go. No one will use already been used stuff. That’s like chewing all ready been chewed gum.
Your closet…if you haven’t worn it get rid of it. There are plenty of resale/thrift shops out there. Let’s get realistic.
Now that craft room, really all those bins? Even if you were 20 you’d never use it all. Gift it to someone who will.
Your journals, are you sure you want your children and grandchildren reading them? Do they hold information you want to be passed on? Or was it venting? Do you want them to read your vent? Do you want a stranger reading them?
Nuff on that subject.
How’s Lent going? We’re into the 2nd week.
Unfortunately, Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday. What a waste of energy. Most who know me know I feel this way. Utter failure at the original intent. Well, that is if you believe what they said. Personally, I believe it was an attempt to control. In that area, it was successful for the most part. In another area, it got people divided.
Know you are prayed for.
In the "Wilds of Wisconsin & Cornfields of Iowa" 