New Beginnings.

Each year offers a time to reflect and a time of new beginnings. It also offers a time for us to reconnect with old friends. Many times are busy lives do not allow us much time to take the time, to just be a friend. The older I get the more I realize how short life really is and it is in the small things that life really counts. A phone call, a smile, a hug, a kind word, a special note or reaching out to someone from a long time ago.Many of us have lived through many hard times and those times will either change you or make you very unapproachable. As life ticks by I really want to learn from what I have gone through in life. Ever heard the phrase "Stop and smell the roses" Well this year I want to make sure I certainly do that and learn to be a bit more "me" and see life without "The Purple Glasses" on so to speak. It is never to late until the doctors declare you are dead. So live life,dream a little, laugh a little and give out, in my world, a whole lot more Love. Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Words for the New Year 2013 from My Dad many years ago.

Many New years it would snow in Aylmerton where I lived when I was a child. Although I did not live there many years of my life. I am drawn to it and my heart just has so many good memories of the days I lived there. My Dad would say that when it snowed on New years Day it wiped the world clean. As we walked in the woods and as I sit here I am reminded how cold those days were, it appeared such a long walk back to the house and my legs ached and my hands were freezing, boots piled by the back door and gloves would be hung on the radiators with the snow dripping onto the floor. The walks in the woods I recall so well. Have you ever watched The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and seen those snow scenes? Well if I close my eyes the woods at Roman Camp and behind Renwick Park in West Runton were so much like those woods. Each year I reflect on what my Dad said all those years ago and as it rained where I live yesterday I thought how God was showing me all my tears and that it was time to move on. My Dad probably never thought much about those words nor do I think anyone in my family did, but to this day I think of how God can wipe us clean as white as snow and every New Year I reflect on my Dad's words. Perhaps my Dad did not even realize how much those words would mean to his youngest child.

I guess often we never realize what impact our words have. So if your reading this. I encourage you to Dream Big, Forgive a lot, laugh a lot and see how God can make your world as clean as snow this year and My wish for all of you is that this year is the best ever. Please have a cup of tea with me This year is going to be a good one so hold on tight. And thanks Dad for your words all those years ago.