It's May.  Heeellllllloooo!  Where did time go?  I know. I know.  Time flies.  That's one of my least favorite expressions and yet that is what I am thinking right now.  I have not posted anything to my blog since January.  Yikes - January!  That was four months ago.  I promise you it doesn't seem like four months have passed.

 

It is easy to get caught up in how much happens in life.  I can get overwhelmed and even sad when I think about all the things I do not make happen.  Recently, I've been going through some of my mother's things.  She has been gone for almost four years (talk about time flying).  Mom always wanted to paint.  I found lots of supplies, many clippings of images she wanted to paint, a few sketches, but not one finished piece. 

 

I also found a note my mother wrote to her mother.  She was suggesting that my Granny paint the picture on the front of the note card (it was from 1964).  Then I realized that some of the paints in the box were actually my grandmother's.  To my knowledge, Granny never finished any artwork either.  I never knew she even wanted to paint.  She was great with a crochet hook, but evidently she had a love for art as well.  She just didn't see it through to fruition.

 

The whole experience made me sad.  I procrastinate when it comes to doing what I love.  I take care of business and chores rather than taking care of making my heart sing.  Seems I got that trait from my mother and she inherited it from her mother.  I don't want my grandchildren to find relics of my creative self stuffed in boxes or lost in files on my laptop.

 

Many of you have heard me say "follow through in what you do."  Since I get the same 24 hours in a day that everyone else gets, I'm challenging myself to follow through with some of the things that bring me joy (can you hear my heart singing right now?).  Check back for more of my blogs.  You'll be able to tell how I'm doing with my self imposed challenge by the date on the next blog!