My hobbies, my passions,

I have hobbies, I like to crochet, and right now I am working on a floor runner for the side of my bed, it is 3 strands of multicolor yarn worked togeather.  Colors are tans and browns, and rust and beige. It is oval at the ends I did one a few weeks ago and it turned out nice.  That one was multi greens and white and red.  Really pretty. I also like to do plastic canvas I work with yarn there too. 
  Many years ago when my dd was about 13 and my son was 11 I noticed that they were beginning to get new interests and the time was coming that we would begin to not be so close.   I started looking at the things they both were interested in and they both loved the nintendo and all their friends did too.  I did not want to be their "friend" --- I wanted to share interests with them and keep them talking to me.  so one day while they were in school I turned the system on and taught myself how to play a few of their favorite games.   When they came home they found me sitting there totally engrossed in Dragon Warrior 1,  We sat there for a few hours talking about the game and a few others.  They told their friends and the kids from the neighborhood began coming to my house in the afternoons.  My children seemed to be proud that they had a mama that played, and I overheard one kid tell my son he had the coolest mom.  I knew what my kids were doing and where they were and we had something that we enjoyed togeather.  And as they grew older we still had that in common.

My  son is 31 and has 2 children and my dd is 33 and she has 1 child and all of us still play and we pass games back and forth.  I have a ds that I totally enjoy. That is one of my hobbies.  Sometimes I get really odd looks when people find out that I play,  but when I took gerontology in college years ago, I found out that gaming increases brain activity and seems to reduce dementia. 

I love to read, and garden, I have flowers and a vegetable garden.  I love to exercise wellll I love the way exercise makes me feel.  Sometimes when I exercise  I almost feel euphoric. I have read about the pleasure center in my brain and I think that exercise is turning on the pleasure center.

I love my Heavenly Father, I love being a Christian. 

 I love my husband, my children and Grandchildren.  I don't get to see the older two grandchildren very often and I miss them very much.

So those are my hobbies and my passion.  I had someone tell me one time they did not have a reason to get out of bed in the morning.  I felt such compassion for her.  I have so much in my life and how do you get to the point in your life that you find that kind of emptyness in your days.   She was only a few years older than me, she had a husband and children,  How does one person look at their life and see nothing and another person looks at their life and see a life overflowing with happiness.   I did  a lot of praying for her. 

Enough rambling
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