Merry Christmas & why I say that

I think it is fine to wish someone a Merry Christmas. Most of the people you talk to daily are people you know and you would know if they did not celebrate Christmas and you could improvise on a per person basis. It makes me feel good to wish someone a Merry Christmas, you are [...]

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A gift I didn’t take

When I was a senior my father wanted to take me on a cruise to Bermuda for my graduation present.  I was terrified of the triangle and I just didn’t want to go.  I also didn’t want to leave my boyfriend, which looking back I should have just went, he turned out to be a [...]

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Gone

I’ve been focusing on letting go this year and I just had to let go of the biggest thing in my life and it was not a choice, it happened.  There was no planning and no stopping.  I lost both of my grandparents in less than two weeks.  It has thrown my own system of [...]

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Date Night

Tonight my kids are at my aunt & grandparents house. So my husband and I went on a date! Yeah right.  We went to Wendy’s and ate in the car and then went to BJ’s.  Back in the day, this would never have come to mind as a date, but the fact that we were [...]

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Contentment finale

So it’s been a year.  I focused in 2010 different things and ways I have contentment in my life.  What works and what doesn’t.  Why I do somethings and why I don’t do others.  I’ve learned a lot.  I learned that things are never going to make me content long term, people and memories and [...]

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Peace

This past year as I’ve been on my way to re-think contentment a lot has changed.  I’ve discovered some great minimalist blogs, like minimalist mom and becoming minimalist and rowdy kittens and miss minimalist.  While I am nowhere near a minimalist, I have really pared back on stuff and on focusing on the life I [...]

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WELCA close

Tonight I went to my first WELCA meeting ever.  It was like going home.  I was with many women all older than me.  We sang some hymns, heard a speaker pastor who had been to Haiti and ate some desserts and chatted.  It was nice.  After all the drama at my church it was nice [...]

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Being Myself

I have a lot of noise in my life.  My kids are full of energy, my pets make a lot of noise, I like to talk and speak to other people.  As much as I don’t like it there is usually some noise maker on at home- tv, Wii, computer, phone ringing-something.  So it is [...]

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Faith is in the blessings

Blessings are everywhere.  They are big things and small things.  They are the beauty of my garden, they are food for my family to eat, pillows, God’s love, guidance, forgiveness.  I see them everytime I look at my kids.  I know I have them when I snuggle with my husband in the early hours of [...]

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Perfect Life…

My mother has gotten through surgery ok.  Which is a huge blessing.  Again nothing in life is perfect, nothing will ever be perfect, but blessings are good.  Most of what I read about letting go of perfection and being content is in the Bible.  Contentment is a big thing in the Bible and knowing we [...]

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