Tag: life
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Dad circa 2012
I don’t know how many of you will be able to relate to this next Journey of mine, but I have waited to put this one down. Mainly because I didn’t want my siblings getting upset with me. But I had to realize this isn’t about them it’s about me. Selfish right? My parents were…
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Epic Fail
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have had a week. I ran out of food and it takes a week for it to get here. So I’m in deep trouble. I have not fixed all my own issues yet, so when the potato salad, the pasta and the alcohol called I answered with the Hallelujah chorus. Oh my! Well…
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Exercise part 2
It’s happened. The transformation has happened. I never thought it would, nor did I think it would happen this quickly if it happened at all. Exercise, my nemesis, my evil tormentor, basically Satan himself. It has it’s hold on me. Why? Because I can move easier now. I can move with less pain and believe…
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There Will Be Days
There will be days that you feel like total and complete crap. Days when the food just doesn’t want to go down. Days when you just want to sleep. Days when you can’t get out of your own head and feel FAT! Days that if you get 5 feet away from the bathroom it’s a bad…
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Changes and Rewards
You hear it all the time. Change is inevitable and it’s good. It promotes growth. But most people are hesitant to change, some even hate it. I am not one of these people on most fronts. I love to re-arrange my furniture, I thrive at work when things are changing (which is constant) and I…
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An Ongoing Struggle
Why do potato chips still call my name? Why is the ice cream in the freezer still trying to tempt me? Sigh….. It’s a daily struggle to not eat those things that used to be my friends. They would calm me and soothe the stress. But they would also permanently attach themselves to me, like…
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Life
Have you ever used the phrase “Hind sight’s 20/20”? Every time I hear Brad Paisley’s song “If I could write a letter to me” I always think about what I would say to my 17 year old self. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ3bn7V0zdU Would I tell myself all the great things that will happen or would I voice warnings? Warn her…
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Munchkin
Fifteen. Wow. Fifteen years ago (in about 12 hours) my daughter was born. And I became someones mother. I remember thinking, “I hope God knows what he’s doing because I don’t!” She came in at 7 lb 4.5 oz, 21.5 inches long and with a head of black hair and she was perfect. After 17…
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Boys
Oh my are they an education or what? My oldest young man was born in 2007, my youngest in 2010. And they are the most amazing gifts and yet the largest education this momma could ever have gotten. Raising girls is so simple in the early years. They like pink, they play and pretend and…
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Memories (2012)
Memories are funny things. It amazes me every time I try to remember something from my childhood and I get it completely wrong. As little kids everything is huge and a big deal. Something that seems insignificant to an adult can have a huge impact on a child. This last weekend I went back to…
My Journey’s My Own 