Rearranging to Realign

Good evening, everyone. A beautiful breezy day that got up to 82 today. I had the windows open early to exchange the air in the house. By 10, I closed them and drew the blinds to keep out the afternoon sun. One thing living in a trailer it can feel like a sauna pretty quickly if you let it heat up.

My plans on going visiting yesterday and today fell apart once I learned my friends were feeling ill and under the weather. Nope can`t risk that neither for myself nor Bill. I hope they are feeling better soon.

My youngest is coming to see me with my grandson next week and I am so looking forward to it. Bill is too and has been telling me what he wants in the house to spoil her with. 🫠 One would think it was his daughter instead of his niece, but like I said he has filled that father roll in their eyes throughout the years. It`s so special to see the bond they have with him.

He has had a rough day, I think it`s the heat also. I keep the humidity down in the house and cool to aide with his breathing. He has been in bed most of the day today. Though he tends to get up several times in the night to watch TV. I am not a night owl. I like to get up at the crack of dawn and begin my day.

Well like I said my daughter is due to visit so I want more than need to get a thorough cleaning done. I started in the living room. Okey, okey… I only have done the living room and put away my laundry from last week. Of course, breakfast and dinner (noon) meals and dishes are still waiting in the sink.

I got the Lysol mixed in the basin I use strictly for deep cleaning and began with dusting and wall areas I could easily reach. I do not climb anymore, a good way to break a hip as I become unsteady now-a-days. Just two years ago, I was able to use my three-step stool ladder but sadly I cannot any longer. Any who, enough of that. I do what I can and that`s enough.

Do you move your furniture about on a schedule with the season? Oh, I can remember the days when I would rearrange a room about every 3 months. Well now let me tell you this living room has not been moved in over two years. Two years!! Today that changed. 😉

I am so glad that I put felt on the legs of the furniture to make them easier to slide to clean under. Once I slid the loveseat out of the way to tidy under it, is when it hit me. I am going to switch this room around even if it kills me. And I did and it came mighty close. 😂 My lower back and joints do not like me at this moment, but I can say it felt good to shift the focus of the room.

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It is kind of like life. Sometimes we get set in our ways and lose focus on the important things. Or making a change is hard and requires us to put extra effort into a situation. The easy way is to except things as they are and continue on.

We let relationships and problems gather dust or wait until a problem becomes a catastrophe before we think to do a little maintenance. If I just ignore it maybe it will fix itself or go away. We become the obstacle out of fear, work involved or financial reasons. We find an excuse and we make it fit. I have been guilty of this myself of one area of life or another in different periods of my life. Have you?

Today I faced a challenge I didn`t even know was facing me. As I began and felt the aches of old age and my condition, I thought- why are you doing this? Just slid the couch back into place and get on with the day. Yet I persisted. I persisted because I wanted a knew view. I wanted to feel the room again. To feel the warmth of invitation of comfort that had been lost amongst the routine of the ordinary. I needed a shift visually to shift myself vibrationally.

My mind focused on the task at hand and did not wander to worries or the what ifs of fear that tries to invade one’s headspace. I found when I needed a rest bit I would sit and envision the rooms new layout. Creating while resting still in the moment of now. I enjoyed today and that was my day rearranging my living room while realigning my soul to focus on the moment I am in and be grateful I am in it.

The drapes I brought to my neighbor to shorten and hem. She is a great seamstress and charges so little that I give her a big tip. I have never acquired the skill of sewing and appreciate the artistry of such.

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Bill woke up and asked if I`d fix him a sandwich. So, while I was in there, I knocked out the dishes and got him something to eat. Now my day is complete! My article is finished, and it is time to find my jammies and drift off into the night.

✨Be the Light