Cowgirl V: Storms of Life
The holidays are fast approaching and I am not ready! Mentally I am ready, but physically-- no way! I don't even have a shopping list yet and there is so much cleaning to get done! The decorating will be simple as we have some repairs going on, but that's okay. "C" and I have taken a long break from posting. We both lost our moms early this summer after they both had suffered declining health the past few years. Still, as they say--it is true--you are never really ready to lose them. This past year I have been retired from my job and in many ways that has helped. "C" is busier than ever at her law practice and has just moved back into her home after a leak last January that flooded the entire downstairs of her house. She has been somewhat of a refugee living nomadically with friends, in a hotel for almost 8 months while her home was being restored--a difficult time. Oh, and I almost forgot--a terrible tornado that