COMING HOME

Reflecting: For the first time in my life I was living on my own.  I went from high school right into a marriage and had my first child four years later.  I made my home family friendly.  I didn't have a real sense of decorating style until I was on my own.  I loved decorating that home just for me.  I started to be called a girly-girl.  And surprise, surprise I really was.  I had always been a tomboy, now I was a girly-girl.  I really was becoming a new me.  Enjoy your home, wherever you make it.  Make it you, the new you.  You will enjoy it much more, especially if you love "little critters" who welcome you with open paws!


COMING HOME 

At the end of the day I leave my job,
To head into traffic and the rush hour mob.

Only a few minutes it does take,
From door-to-door a short trip it does make.

I come home to a welcome greeting,
My little charges waiting joyously for this meeting.

My home is my castle where I go for relaxing,
Away from the pressure of the day so taxing.

All neat and clean, a decorator's delight,
I wander from room to room surveying the sight.

This is who I am, where I retreat,
To make my home life so wonderfully complete.

How happy my new home makes me feel,
How lucky I am, sometimes it makes me reel.

I did this all my self, how proud I am of me,
To be able to retreat to just sit back and see.

So when at the end of the day I'm feeling mobbed,
Much peace travels through me heading home from the job.


Gloria Hildreth
"Reflections:  A Moment in Time"
copyright 2009

GRACIOUS SPLENDOR

Reflecting:  Enjoy whatever your "gracious splendor" is.  You will have more of those days, take advantage of them.  Relax, take pictures, write in a diary and enjoy your gracious splendor, so that you can look back one day to see how far you have come.

GRACIOUS SPLENDOR

I sit here in gracious splendor,
Total amazement causes me to wonder.

Why am I so lucky, I say?
As I look out my window at this lovely day.

It didn't come easy, this life of mine,
I paid a heavy price for this day so fine.

I wouldn't want to do it this way again,
I would choose a different way for my life to begin.

I learned who I was along this path,
I wish I could have avoided much of the wrath.

But to each lesson is hopefully learned,
As we trip and stumble and we get burned.

Because of the heavy price I had to pay,
I appreciate this beautiful sunny day.

While I've earned this gracious splendor along the way,
It still causes me amazement, I would surely say.


Gloria Hildreth
"Reflections:  A Moment in Time"
copyright 2009