I love New Year's Day! It is the very first day to a new beginning. There seems to be endless possibilities on many new adventures. I plan to take advantage of as many of these as I can.
Also today is a big day for college football and I am going to watch as many of them as can possibly be crammed into a twenty four hour stretch.
I am wishing everyone the greatest of new year's and may all of your resolutions work out for each of you. I am praying that 2011 is one of the best years.
Love and Peace to all!
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Thursday, December 30, 2010
New Year's Resolutions
Every year I make New Year's Resolutions and I am happy to report that the last several years I have kept the majority of them. This year I have even gone so far as to name my resolutions. This is going to be my "More or Less" year. I will be writing on my blog everyday to keep the record of my resolutions and to try to make sure that I do what I claim to be doing.
My "More or Less" goes something like this:
More exercise, less junk food.
More cleaning, less stuff.
More saving, less spending.
I will add more when I think about it, but for every "more" I come up with there will be a "less" to go along with it.
Please feel free to add your resolutions to this blog and let me know how you are doing with your own struggles. It is a new year, we all can use a new beginning and I hope this will help keep all of us united.
Have a Happy New Year!
My "More or Less" goes something like this:
More exercise, less junk food.
More cleaning, less stuff.
More saving, less spending.
I will add more when I think about it, but for every "more" I come up with there will be a "less" to go along with it.
Please feel free to add your resolutions to this blog and let me know how you are doing with your own struggles. It is a new year, we all can use a new beginning and I hope this will help keep all of us united.
Have a Happy New Year!
Friday, December 17, 2010
One week and counting!
Only one week until Christmas Eve! You can feel the build up coming with each passing moment. I am one of the biggest fans that there could ever be for this time of year. I decorate my house so much that my children say that it looks like Santa threw up in it.
I have a Santa room, a snowman room, and a red, white, and blue room. There is some kind of Christmas tree in every room.
But even with all of the decorations, the Christmas music, and the extra baking, I think my favorite part of the holiday season is the greetings that you collect. They can come in the form of Christmas cards, telephone calls, or just seeing someone on the street and giving them a smile. Everyone seems happier and friendlier at this time of the year.
I try to carry this feeling through the New Year! I am hoping that my smiles and well wishes will rub off onto others and we can just pass it around through 2011!
I have a Santa room, a snowman room, and a red, white, and blue room. There is some kind of Christmas tree in every room.
But even with all of the decorations, the Christmas music, and the extra baking, I think my favorite part of the holiday season is the greetings that you collect. They can come in the form of Christmas cards, telephone calls, or just seeing someone on the street and giving them a smile. Everyone seems happier and friendlier at this time of the year.
I try to carry this feeling through the New Year! I am hoping that my smiles and well wishes will rub off onto others and we can just pass it around through 2011!
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Snow
It is snowing today! It looks like a giant snowglobe outside. The snow is swirling around and never seems to touch the ground. It always amazes me how nature can take you from orange and red leaves on the trees to the dark bark and bright white of the snow mixing together to make the perfect winter scene.
I love winter and enjoy it most inside with a nice hot cup of tea watching the glow of a fireplace or the lights on a Christmas Tree and being with someone I love.
So on this first snowy day for the winter of 2010, have a cup of hot chocolate or hot tea on me and snuggle up with someone or something that you love. It is a good day for living!
I love winter and enjoy it most inside with a nice hot cup of tea watching the glow of a fireplace or the lights on a Christmas Tree and being with someone I love.
So on this first snowy day for the winter of 2010, have a cup of hot chocolate or hot tea on me and snuggle up with someone or something that you love. It is a good day for living!
Sunday, November 14, 2010
My Son
Last night had the distinct opportunity to attend church with my son while he was in uniform. He is in training to be deployed soon and I came to his camp to visit with him before he leaves.
I was so proud to walk into this foreign church with him. If felt great to sit beside him in the pew and feel so much at home. I cried at the sign of peace when strangers around him shook his hand and thanked him for his service and he replied to them, "It is my honor."
My heart is sadden with the thought of not being able to see him for a year but I know it will rejoice when I get to give him that giant hug when he comes home again.
I am proud of all of my children and the endeavers that they go through in their daily tasks. I can't take any credit for how well each and everyone of them have turned out because they have earned each and every accomplishment. THEY make me look good. THEY make me a great mom. Thank you!
I was so proud to walk into this foreign church with him. If felt great to sit beside him in the pew and feel so much at home. I cried at the sign of peace when strangers around him shook his hand and thanked him for his service and he replied to them, "It is my honor."
My heart is sadden with the thought of not being able to see him for a year but I know it will rejoice when I get to give him that giant hug when he comes home again.
I am proud of all of my children and the endeavers that they go through in their daily tasks. I can't take any credit for how well each and everyone of them have turned out because they have earned each and every accomplishment. THEY make me look good. THEY make me a great mom. Thank you!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Veteran's Day
It is the time of year that we pay tribute to our Vererans. Parades, speeches, and flags are in order for November the 11th. My father, who was in the Navy in World War II, never failed to honor this day.
So, on Thursday if you can please wear something red, white, or blue. Wave or wear a flag. And tell a Veteran, retired or still serving, thank you for what they have done.
So, on Thursday if you can please wear something red, white, or blue. Wave or wear a flag. And tell a Veteran, retired or still serving, thank you for what they have done.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Time Change
I am of the old school and I can remember a time when we didn't have to worry about changing our clocks back and forth. Then when they first started to do this it was about half of the year you were on fast time and the other half on slow, except for Indiana which stayed the same. Since my husband worked in Indiana and we banked in Indiana, we stayed on their time. My children and their friends got very well at telling the correct time in our crazy house.
After awhile, we got to move the days to change to the first of April and the end of October and at this time Indiana had to change and so did our house. Now we are the second week in March and the first of November for the fall back and the spring forward.
My question in all this is why do we even bother? The only thing that I can see that it does is to mess up our sleep patterns. Last year when we "fell" back, we had just gotten a new clock and I was afraid that it wouldn't automatically change like it said it would. So I laid there in bed and made sure. So much for that extra hour! I just don't understand why they don't leave it on the fast time all the time. Wouldn't that make sense?
After awhile, we got to move the days to change to the first of April and the end of October and at this time Indiana had to change and so did our house. Now we are the second week in March and the first of November for the fall back and the spring forward.
My question in all this is why do we even bother? The only thing that I can see that it does is to mess up our sleep patterns. Last year when we "fell" back, we had just gotten a new clock and I was afraid that it wouldn't automatically change like it said it would. So I laid there in bed and made sure. So much for that extra hour! I just don't understand why they don't leave it on the fast time all the time. Wouldn't that make sense?
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