Comfy

I was trying to descibe how I've been feeling lately. The best word is "comfy". I am so at ease moving into 2010. I love this feeling of peace and joy I've had recently. Spent 10days @ home around the holidays. Didn't get to see everyone, yet saw some people by suprise. The most important thing I got was rest and reflection. And just some good times...every morning I woke up to have coffee w/ Papaw. He had to have surgery while I was home and he made it through. All my mom's siblings were rushing to the hospital to sit in the waiting room and wait while he was put under. The Thursday before the surgery my bro and I took my Papaw and our Uncle Larry to the tavern. Now this is not out of the ordinary for my Papaw. My Papaw loves to shoot pool and drink a beer, and my Uncle Larry (who has downs) loves tavern food. But Thursdays is special because Papaw's living brothers meet him to shoot pool @ a local VFW. Whenever I'm home I drive them and have chickenstrips and "a beer w/ my uncles" as my Great-Uncle Jack insists. They reminice and sometimes I get a few shots of pool in myself. They lost Billy, my Papaw's oldest living brother in August, but they still meet. Well this Thursday Lee came, but the brothers didn't make it. Lee, Papaw & I played some cut throat while Larry enjoyed his "2 fish." This is rambling, but I was having a good time. Lee looked @ me and said, "This sure beats sitting in a hospital waiting for him to wake up, this is what its about." Boy is he right.
I had some great times while I was home: time w/ Papaw & family, suprising a cousin I didn't think I'd get to see, seeing Travis play his awesome music, and catching up w/ old college friends.

I guess the other recent new years I walked into w/ what I was missing, whether it was a lost relationship, or a lost way, or just as exhausted as I was ending it.

I'm truly thankful for my low key visit and being able to not walk into 2010 w/ emotional baggage. To be comfy where God has saved me from, where he's put me now and excited for the adventures I feel in my soul are coming.