Now that the holidays are over, I am ready to hit the ground running. I never really stopped after my miraculous healing on Christmas day. I felt good enough to cook and do all the other things one must do for hosting eleven people spending a few days visiting in our home. We even took a hike the day after Christmas to the Natural Bridge and made it from the parking lot to the top in less than an hour because we got a late start and we were afraid darkness would come before we made it back down. It was beautiful. I had never hiked it at that time of year and as the sun was setting. I am glad I did not have to carry our two year old grandson. His father carried him most of the way and said his arms felt like jelly toward the end. I told him that meant his body will be adding some muscle tissue there.

So now there is much to do to get the health club for seniors open. The Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Office of Health Policy, mailed a certified letter to me, dated the 29th, telling us that we need to submit a revised project completion schedule because our original one has expired. I just picked up the letter at the post office this morning (I had to sign for it and show identification) after I dropped Nolan off at daycare, after getting Jack on the bus for school. They want it by the 12th. How coincidental, because last night I was shopping for some project management software. I have used Microsoft Project Manager in the past, but have heard there are some better options out there. So now I have the motivation to hurry and get it done….buy the software and make a schedule for getting the health club for seniors open. Of course I have had an outline all along but seeing it mapped out precisely and completely in a program that can easily be shared with others is necessary.

The Office of Health Policy letter also stated that in order to relocate as we indicated in our most recent progress report submitted, Certificate of Need approval must first be obtained. I am not sure exactly what will be involved in that process, but I was told some time ago by a person who works in the office that it will cost quite a bit of money. I will call the office later today to find out exactly what we must do to ask for approval.

Tomorrow morning at 9:00 is the Bluegrass Aging Consortium monthly meeting, and the Mayor’s Senior Services Commission meeting has been moved to Friday because of the holidays (it is usually the first Friday of the month). I am not on the commission, but I attend the meetings as the chair of the Bluegrass Aging Consortium’s Policy and Legislative committee. I am also looking forward to a meeting on Thursday with one of my former Sayre students who is now working in the financial services industry.

I picked up applications for my husband and I to join the Fayette County Senior Center on January 2. I wish they were open evenings and weekends though for us seniors who are still working week days. Perhaps when they open the new center next year they will expand their hours to get more use out of the space because it will be too wonderful to just sit vacant during evenings and weekends. Although I saw in the handbook that the current center is available for evening and weekend rentals, so I imagine the same policy will be in place for the new center. Time will tell.

And speaking of time…time for me to get busy with that revised completion schedule for the health club for seniors!

May you and yours have a blessed week!