When Planning out my non-chemo weekends I try to cram a lot of things into a couple of days. Yesterday I went out to get my Dad a birthday gift and ended up getting flowers to plant over the weekend. It was fun picking out different flowers and colors to plant around my front porch.
I really liked the deep rich color in these petunias and ivy geraniums. I tend to buy flowers in all the same color groups. The result is that I have a lot of bright pink and purple in my garden. I kind of have to force myself to buy yellow, reds and oranges.
I stumbled upon this beautifully colored gerbera daisies and thought the color would go well with the others I had already put in my cart. I stepped out of my box a bit with these colors. They complement each other so well.
I generally am not the kind of person that likes to step out of my comfort zone. I like things constant and steady. Cancer shakes that up a bit. I find myself thinking "Hey why not, life is too short for everything to be the same all the time" "Mix things up a little bit Sarah"
So I did. And I am glad I did. This morning when the kids went off to school and I had made my trip to Starbucks, I went outside to my front porch to ponder what to blog about today. There where these flowers just sitting there on the porch all wet and specked with rain. They got my creative juices flowing. I am so jazzed up about the pictures I took.
I tend not to look at things closely, to soak in the little things. I am always looking at the big picture. Planning what I am going to do next. When you are faced with cancer it is hard and daunting to look at the big picture. With treatments and surgeries looming over you. So I have been breaking my weeks and days down into small little pieces. One little step at a time, one week at a time, one day at a time.
I am having a good day. Even though it is raining outside. I feel good. I am not fatigued or nauseous. I have six more days in my cycle of good days. I plan on trying to make the most of them. So as long as the rain holds off for part of the weekend I plan on doing a little gardening in the sun (with my hat and sunblock on)
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