Well after all the hoopla last week, family and I decided we needed to downsize a few things to be able to stay in our home and HH does not want to even consider moving so we will be downsizing in other ways.
For Mosaic Monday
I am highlighting my one plant still thriving and easy to take care of
I am highlighting my one plant still thriving and easy to take care of
Desert Rose.
I know you have seen it before but I am just learning now to let go of things.
I love this plant.
I take it in in the winter, care for it and then take it outside in the summer.
Just onto my deck.
It brings me much joy and I will be safe just caring for this one plant.
I take it in in the winter, care for it and then take it outside in the summer.
Just onto my deck.
It brings me much joy and I will be safe just caring for this one plant.
No more container gardens to have to take care of or worry about watering.
No climbing over steps and stones and other immovable objects to get to things.
No climbing over steps and stones and other immovable objects to get to things.
We take care of ourselves very well just not able to do outside work like before.
The bigger photo is myself saying goodbye to our fish pond.
We have enjoyed it for 12 years.
Too much work to keep growth away from the rocks and too close to our house to get around.
Yardman will come Tuesday and take it up and fill in with dirt.
He will take every single piece of it, rock, pump, fish and plants to a new home.
He will take every single piece of it, rock, pump, fish and plants to a new home.
I am okay with that.
Everything has it's time.
I have always used
Erick Erickson's Psychosocial stages of life to
help teach my children, then as a nurse, and myself how to manage change in your life as one grows and enters different phases of your life.
I firmly believe life runs better if experiences happen at the proper stage of maturity and readiness for such experiences, such as dating, partying, parenthood and grandparenting and then The Golden Years.
Erick Erickson's Psychosocial stages of life to
help teach my children, then as a nurse, and myself how to manage change in your life as one grows and enters different phases of your life.
I firmly believe life runs better if experiences happen at the proper stage of maturity and readiness for such experiences, such as dating, partying, parenthood and grandparenting and then The Golden Years.
| Maturity(65 to death) | Ego Integrity vs. Despair | Reflection on Life | Older adults need to look back on life and feel a sense of fulfillment. Success at this stage leads to feelings of wisdom, while failure results in regret, bitterness, and despair. |
This is the stage HH and I are in.
I have been fighting this but upon pondering and prayer find peace in this as a goal and afterall, "nurse heal yourself."
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