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Holiday Traditions
As we approach Christmas, I have taken the time to reflect on holiday traditions. As so many things have changed in my life over the years the traditions I keep at the holidays have changed too. From my childhood, pre parents divorce, I remember a fake tree that we used some years but most years we had a live blue spruce that was then planted in the yard after the holidays. Except the one year we had a pine that my dad insisted would fit, needless to say it did not and we had two trees that year! Christmas meant taking out the electric race cars and setting up the…
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Charlie Daniels
At the end of last school year my middle daughter needed to interview someone for her music class. Being stuck at home with little options there I was. We talked about music I like and the few concerts I have attended and then the question that really started my thinking was who is one artist you want to see in concert that you haven’t. Charlie Daniels came to mind immediately. I wanted to see him in concert since I was about nine years old. Logistics, timing and money prevented me from attending concerts when I was younger. Over the years I attended a few concerts that were held at small…
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Friendship
I always felt that I do not easily make friends. Sure there were days on the playground when you were invited to play with a group and I remember having an epic day but lasting friendships did not result. Over the years I connected with a person or two and developed some close relationships that always ended due to typical childhood drama and my lack of healthy relationships to mirror. There were a couple of friendships that dissolved due to moving but looking back they probably would have self-destructed eventually. So now that I am growing up I realize that I was always too giving to friendships for fear that…
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Connecting with God Through Running
When I started a couch to 5K program in 2016 it was simply to get active and shed some unwanted pounds. Little did I realize I would start running again and all the benefits that running could provide in ways other than improving my health. My first few outings were alternating between walking and running, I could not sustain a run pace very long and often could not run for more than 30 seconds at a pace close to a 15 minute mile. I joined a virtual challenge to complete 100 intentional miles in 3 months, this group had its own Facebook page and was women only. I was in…
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Goodbye To-Do-List
With our recent change in our daily life activities I have been struggling with my lack of productivity. As a person who is usually on the go working on tasks and chores that need tending to, not being productive is difficult for me. I have been mentally beating myself up that I am not using my new found home time as productively as I could. In an effort to get back in the groove, last week I made a huge to-do-list of all of the projects around the house I need to do and want to do. I thought this would motivate me into action, on the contrary I feel…
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Emergency Stop Button!
I started this endeavor of creating a blog over the Christmas holiday thinking I would have some time to get it done. I bookmarked a Facebook ad about how to create a blog and my Christmas break seemed like a good time to read it; little did I know it was a five-day class to have a blog up and running! I jumped in with both feet and I did it, but I didn’t stop there. I also started my first Twitter page I added a second Instagram changed my Pinterest to a business page and made a new page on my Facebook linking everything. Next, I wrote a couple…
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Wandering Paths
Sometimes our path isn’t what we think it should be. It has taken me many years to come to terms with the fact of the things that I thought I wanted to do or be never came to fruition and how I wished that my past was different so many times. I often thought I could’ve done this or I wish I had different parents, or a different upbringing, many years of struggling with the should of, could of, I finally realize those experiences are what made me who I am today. I finally came to terms with this by thinking about where those could of and should ofs would…
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Organization Season
There are two times a year that get me excited, back to school and organization season. Every January I get excited when I see the aisle full of new storage containers. The possibilities are endless how I can more efficiently organize the stuff around my home and even my car. Seven years ago, I was provided with a blank slate after our house fire and I have made a point to use bins and label them to organize everything possible. While I feel I have a good system for all the stuff I feel there is a need for better organization for our chores. I have tried printed chore list…
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Operation Fireside
With the close of the holiday season, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on a program my family has been a part of for the last thirteen years, Operation Fireside. I am blessed to live near the only recruit training center for the United States Coast Guard and about 30 years ago they started Operation Fireside. Each Thanksgiving and Christmas local families can sign up to host recruits that are completing their basic training at the Cape May facility. Thanksgiving and Christmas at our house had become just another day with the exception of me cooking a big meal, it was just four or five of us and…
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