On July 21, 2008, Nancy, @ http://knittingpathsoflife.blogspot.com/ gave me this award. This award had made it around the blogging community, so I gave it some time before I decided to pass it on again.
I am passing this award along to only one person, to Nancy. She is a wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She stitches, knits and blogs. Nancy has shared her family and travels with us. The most important thing is she has done all of this with a wonderful sense of humor. At times, she has laughed at herself and didn't mind if we laughed with her.
It is nice to know someone appreciates my blogging efforts. I started blogging, not to show my needlework, but to reconnect with people. I have not written about this, but I was diagnosed as an adult with anxiety and depression, it had been ongoing since the age of 5. Some people travel through life with carry on luggage, my baggage is a complete set with matching accessories! LOL I had written that I am beginning to feel like my old self, but deleted that statement. The truth is I can't be my old self because she doesn't exist any longer. My wants and needs in life have changed and my purpose for living has been redefined. I am doing my best to put the past in the past and take from it only what I feel has given me strength and wisdom. I know I will make mistakes, but maybe now I can keep them to a minimum. I think what is most important to remember is that I am a work in progress!
Thank you for taking the time to read this post.
Take care of yourself
Teresa
6 comments:
Teresa, we ALL are works in progress, and none of us better than anyone else.
Nancy is a much deserving person and I think you are a wonderful lady to realize and live with your depression and anxiety issues. We all have a "roe to hoe" some have easier rows, while others harder rows...but working on the row, is what its all about. Thank you for sharing such a personal part of your life. May God bless you and lighten your load.
Teresa, you are a wonderful work in progress. You do such wonderful entries, no one would know you suffer at all. I am glad to call you a blogging friend, and thank you for the nice comments about me. Thanks for giving the award back to me.
Nancy
Hi Teresa! So good to see a post from you. I so often think of you and always check if you have written a new post. Now let me tell you that we love the 'new' Teresa. Of course, we did not know the 'old' Teresa but that is okay since the 'new' one is a great lady. I am glad you started blogging so we could get to know you and we are always here to lend a cyber shoulder or have a laugh along with you. Congratulations on your award dear friend!
Hugs ~
Heidi
Awww Teresa, thanks for sharing your story and parts of your life. You are a truely beautiful person. xx
Oh Teresa you made me laugh with your wip. I think we are all works in progress and the one think i know with absolute certainty is that there is one hell of a lot of things I don't know and will probably never know.
When I was young I was told that whatever happened to me in life was an experience, good or bad it would be something I had learnt and my job in life was to decide what was good enough to put in my heart and carry with me and what was not to just leave behind. I am now probably at the age my grandpa was when he told me that and I have never forgot it or him - he was an experience i carry in my heart to this day.
Dear Teresa,
It's a fact: some people get their 'heavy luggage' right from the early years of their lives. You know of my 'backpack' as well ... Other people are confronted with the darker sides later. What I think right now is that you must be a strong woman, even if you don't feel it from time to time. The way you talk about it now, even with humour, tells me you really are strong and a very precious 'work in progress'! Thank you for sharing your soul in this way.
Take care & know we blogger friends love you!
Hugs from a Dutch work in progress, aka Carolien
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