November 10 2015

Grateful for my bedroom and a door that I can go behind and close, and sometimes shut out a little bit of the world for even just a few minutes!

November 9 2015

This day I was grateful to be told that I was kind and understanding while teaching a guiding an employee. It came from no where and I didn't think I had done anything any other person/manager wouldn't have done. Still it caught me off guard and made me feel like I was a little more than just average.
Grateful to feel appreciated at work!

November 8 2015

Today I am so very grateful for Chet's ability and willingness to talk to me, calm me down and help me make sense of life, kids and all the other craziness that goes with it!
I know without him I would be a very different person and I am grateful for the person he is helping me to be!

November 7 2015

Grateful to be able to spend the day with Chet! Even if some days most of what we do is work, I still get to be where he is and spend time with him. I feel bad for couples who don't enjoy spending time with each other!
I cherish my time with Chet and look forward to when we get it!

November 6th 2015

This day I can tell you, I am honestly grateful for FRIDAY! Especially after weeks like this one. Where you just want to crawl in a hole and stay there for the next year or so.
Still, I know next week is another week, but it will be a better one.

November 5th 2015

This day I was VERY grateful for being able to go workout! I had a not so great day at work and it had been a very long week it seemed. I didn't see how it was going to get any better. Still I did have a workout already set up and promised. I really didn't want to go, but, I do know that I always feel better after a workout, so away I went. And I can honestly say, working out is great medicine for my stressed out mind! It gives me something else to focus on and a release for the stress.
I LOVE EXERCISE!

November 4 2015

Today I am once again, or still or what ever grateful for being able to exercise! I love it!
It makes me feel better and it calms me! I am sure I would have been admitted long before now without it!
Got to walk 5 miles today with a friend of mine. I got her hooked as well! :)
Sorry, not sorry :D

November 3 2015

Today, I am grateful for better days. The work day went slightly better, although I don't think I will get use to getting up at 5:30! It is simply TOO early!
Then I got home and went to get propane refilled and to the bank. Got back home and took down the rest of Halloween (that I could) got laundry washed and dried and another batch washed and drying, Dance fitness workout with Megan and Jessica. Then home to have a weight workout with Ford! Off to the store for allergy meds, back home to throw stuff together for dinner. All I have left to do is shower and go to bed! AND I have a minute to unwind! 
So! A much better day than yesterday! :) One day at a time!

November 2 2015

Yesterday was a super crazy day! Monday at a new school, having to be up by 5:30 a.m. (which I have NEVER been good at). Squeezing in a walk/workout after work, taking most of the Halloween decorations down, then went to work with Chet doing tractor work for past dark.
Hurried home, showered and went to grab a bite to eat, got home and jumped into bed.
So yesterday I think I can honestly say I was glad for the day to come to an end! :)

November 1 2015

Thankful day 1

Today I am incredibly thankful that I got to go spend the weekend with my parents! Even if I don't get to spend every second with them I am so glad I get to be where they are and share in some of their experiences. I am so grateful for the example they have and still continue to be for me.
Love you Mom and Dad! Thanks for letting us stay with you!
Thanks Mindy for sharing some space with us also! 

Those words...

You know those moments in life that come, only every once in a while. Those moments when you say the perfect words. The words the one you are speaking with needed to hear. The words that are "just for them" and you know they are just for them, because you didn't think them, but they came, and once they came, you can't really remember what it is you said....but the words that were said had an incredible impact on the one they were meant for...
Ya...I just had one of those moments. Such an amazing feeling and so personal! God is aware of what we need be it that we are living the way we should be or not! And he uses imperfect beings to be about his work!
I am so blessed to have just been a part of that witness!

Times flies

Just looking back at the last time I made a post. It has been a while! much longer than I intended for it to be, but that just goes to show, that time just keeps flying by, even if you aren't ready for it!

  Anyway, today the simple thought crossed my mind, why can we look at ourselves one day and see one thing and the very next day, or even just a few hours later we see something or someone totally different!
How come I can look in the mirror in the morning and think, hey...I don't look too bad. Then only a few hours later, catch a glimpse of myself and think..."holy crap! What happened to you between the time you left the house and now?!"
How can we be so familiar with ourselves, and yet not know who we are at all?
If asked, could we sit down and write a description of ourselves in detail? Or would we simplify it wherever we could because maybe, just maybe we don't honestly KNOW ourselves? Or, are we trying to hide from ourselves? Trying to make believe that we might not be what we really are?
Which is it? It could at any given time possibly be just a little bit of both? Maybe, just possibly.
The goal then I think, might just be to get to know our own selves. To the point that we can not hide from ourselves, or lie to ourselves. That way, we must either accept that we have flaws, and work towards repairing what can be repaired or fix and completely overhaul the things that are totally unacceptable. Perhaps that thought is why we are not sure who we are. And that is why we just try, try and try again!

January 25 2015

Well this past week I have taken a few minutes to re-evaluate, I suppose you could say. The weekend before was suppose to be my birthday weekend. You know, the kind you plan a little in advance for, the one where you get to run off for the weekend and play in a place different than where you live and do the day to day. Ya, well, that didn't end up being the case for us. Unfortunately for Chet, (and me) he ended up sick as a dog for the ENTIRE weekend! So sick, that on Sunday he didn't even leave the house. He had taken Monday off because I had it off already for the federal holiday, and it was a good thing because although he felt better than he had, he was still too whipped out to do anything. He was well enough to go back to work on Tuesday, leaving me alone for the day of my birthday.
  I was really having a feel bad time for myself. I stayed in bed till way later than I should have then got up and shuffled around the house feeling sorry for myself. Ford sent me a message telling me thanks for being a source of inspiration for him. That kind of got my attention and got me going. I cleaned up the house and changed the sheets on the bad, did laundry and a few other things. Then I got ready fro my exercise class with Megan. If there was ever any doubt that exercise can make me feel better, it was completely obliterated by the end of my workout. The only thing was, it left me berating myself for not getting up first thing in the morning and getting a workout in. I would likely have had a completely different out look for the whole day!
I did sit back and really think about things though. They could have been so much worse! I could have been spending the weekend in the hospital, like so many other people I know, or Chet could have been out of town for the whole time or so many other things that to me could have been worse.
I'll take a sick weekend with the promise of a re-do later on when we can work it out, over SO many of the other things that could have gone wrong!
Life is GOOD! I just need to remember, that the bad must come from time to time, to remind me that I do have it REALLY good! For that I am SO grateful!

Jan 6 2015

Well...Christmas and New Years are behind us. This next year should prove to be in the least interesting.
With watching and worrying about our parents and wondering what direction the lives of our kids might be going to take.
Like I said it should prove to be interesting at least!
My personal goal for this month is to stay positive and to continue to exercise and eat healthy. I had started to get lazy there for a bit, but when the pants get snug it is a quick reminder and a wake up call as to why I began my fitness journey in the first place.
Thinking back it has been 5 years, since I started. Over 5 years actually. In November it was 5 years.
This journey for fitness has been an enlightening one and one I am very glad I started!
Just today I got to spend 45 minutes with my son, while we worked out and talked! What a better way to get to spend time with my kids, watching them find the drive and desire to get healthy! Best life goal ever! :) (one of them anyway)
Anyway, on to the rest of 2015! :) Life is SO good!