Little gifts

The universe gives me little gifts all the time.

Yesterday I rearranged my living room so that my computer is in front of the hot air register for the winter.  Today while I was sitting in my big chair, talking to a friend on the phone I saw a tiny little hand print on my fireplace!  That has to be my grandson's from earlier this year, but what a gift it is today!

It's like having a little piece of him still here.

It's the bits and pieces that make life not just bearable, but wonderful.

I talk on the phone, skype, email, and life goes on in ways it never could have when I was younger and we didn't have so many amenities.  Today I can have Christmas with a loved one.  We can share a cup of hot cocoa, open presents and look at my tree and still be five hundred miles apart!