The Best is Yet to Come (Mike & the Mechanics) helps to put me in the groove for this week’s writing prompts offered up by our lovely hostess Kat from Mama’s Losin’ it. I’m electing to use #2 A list of 11 ideas to make this your best year yet.

1. A deeper commitment to weight loss & keep said lost weight off for good.
2. Daily exercise & better eating habits.
3. Finding & buying a new home.
4. Getting a work-at-home job to contribute to our family income.
5. Celebrating the holidays in our new home with our family.
6. Doing away with unwanted and unused items while becoming more organized.
7. Sketch often purrfecting my art ability.
8. Generally get more creative cooking, baking, and crafting.
9. Participating in more writing challenges!
10. To complete one of my children’s stories and to create my own illustrations.
11. Getting said “children’s book” published.

I almost considered going with Kat’s last prompt, Describe a time or moment when a stranger helped you but I wrote about it several years ago here. There was another time a stranger helped that I shared but can’t seem to find it in my post archives. When I find it, I’ll be sure to include it here.  Darn if I don’t need to go through every post to modify the tags.  In the early years, let’s face it I didn’t do a good job because I really didn’t know what I was doing. I’m a slower learner and am fixing the problem as I go along now. 

I’m thankful for the first 2019 snowfall.  It was beautiful and despite the cold, gray morning the sun came out in the afternoon.  Just look at that blue sky in the above photo. The greatest thing is travel was not a problem for local motorists allowing DH to get home with no worries.  This is always a concern because Knoxville is horribly equipped to deal with bad roads but these days they salt the daylight out of the major arteries around town.  That’s a huge help but often leaves secondary roads unattended to and at the mercy of Mother Nature to clear. However, this wasn’t much of an issue. I think the previous warm days kept the earth heated enough to cause this snowfall to melt away quickly.  I’m also very thankful that last night’s low is the last one in our immediate forecast to dip into the teens.  When the temperatures drop below freezing then oh, sista can I ever tell the difference! BRRR!

I’m joining Thankful Thursday and Ten Things of Thankful. What are you thankful for this Thursday?

I’m going to close with another song bearing the same name as the first, except it’s by Contemporary Christian artist, Matty Mullins.

Tomorrow is DH’s off-Friday but I hope you’ll come by to vote in my newest round of Battle of the Bands!

XX, Cathy