I have been a football fan since I was about 7 or 8.  Not really sure how this happened as my parents did not watch football.  In my younger days I rooted for the Steelers and then in high school it was the Bears.  When I met my husband he has always been a Falcons fan and I adopted his team as my new favorite.  More than the team, I enjoy the game regardless of who is playing.  For years football was a family event, spending time watching the games each week.  I live in Eagles territory and while the Falcons play in Philly it is not the safest thing…

When I posted my last blog post in May I thought it would be the start to getting myself back on track.  That did not happen.  Even trying to write this blog post, I started it in November and I am just coming back to it now.  The new year has just started and I am using the momentum to get moving again.  Last year brought changes with the middle child moving away to college. I am sure some of you can relate to the emptiness that has crept in.  My pre-emptive plan to start getting hobbies a few years ago has been helpful with the transition. As I learned…

This year I tried another new activity, I became a foster mom to baby chicks!  I have always wanted to raise baby birds, specifically chicks or ducks.  I just love those little balls of fluff.  Two things have stopped me in the past, first I am slightly afraid of birds and second I cannot have farm animals where I live.  After years of asking around, I finally found someone that would take chickens if I raised them!  Step one complete.  Next I needed to figure out how to raise chicks and what I would need.  If left to my own devices I would have drug this process out to the…

For about the last year I was good about making sure a new blog post came out every two weeks, at least I was until a month ago when I failed to publish a new post.  That one missing post became two and now I am just a few days from a publish date.  As I struggle to write something, I thought an apology would be a good place to start. I am sorry I missed posting, I am appreciative of my readers and I am sorry I let you down.  Sometimes when I get overwhelmed with tasks it is easiest for me to freeze and do nothing, this begins…

I used to be an avid reader,  then life and the pull of televisions and cell phones diminished the amount I read.  I do love a good self-help book and would read 3-5 per year but to read a book for pleasure with no learning required was something I had not done since Dan Brown’s book The Davinci Code was the hot new read.  I borrowed the book from a friend and then read everything the library had in stock that he wrote.  While working on my degree I did not have time for pleasure reading and when I finished school the pull of the self-help books called.  Last year…