A little late...
I hope y'all had an enjoyable 4th of July. I sure did! What better time to celebrate the birthday of this great country we live in with friends and family. I have some amazing plans for the holiday weekend! I will fill you all in when I return in a few days.
But, this also reminds me that our freedom isn't free. We as a country have men and women fighting for our freedom on a daily basis. There are men and women who are currently overseas that won't be able to celebrate this holiday with friends or family because they are serving our country. Two of my cousins and one of my nephews have been overseas in the last few years. Thankfully, they all made it home with out a scratch bravely serving our country.
Currently, my best friend, Jessica is serving in Afghanistan. You can read about her deployment here.
While we are out celebrating the 4th of July with our friends and families don't forget to think about the soldiers that will be spending their holiday holding a gun, battling weather conditions and wishing they could be home to spend time with their friends and family.
A huge thank you goes out to all the soldiers and veterans that are fighting and who have fought for our country.
E-5 Sgt. Michael Babker - Nephew
Robert Figueroa - Cousin
Dick Daum - Uncle
Larry Daum - Daddy
Mike Daum - Brother
Shelly Elam- Aunt
2nd Lt. Jessica Loggins - Best Friend
Jim Outler - Uncle
Pat Outler - Uncle
E4 Jeff Welchman - Cousin
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
"The Type" By Sarah Kay
It has taken me a very long time to find myself. I feel like I am still on the beginning of my journey of who I am.
It has always been easier to be the shy one, the quite one, the follower, the one who sat in the corner and watched life pass me by.
It has taken me almost 25 year to realize there are far greater things in life then watching everyone else live their lives.
I am ready to build my life.
This poem is written by Richard Siken and read by Sarah Kay at a poetry slam in New York City.
Please take a few moments to watch this.
I would like to know your thoughts. Please share in the comments.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Five Minute Friday: Rhythm
Every Friday Lisa-Jo Baker posts a word prompt. The idea is to set a timer and write for five minutes. You would be amazed at how fast 5 minutes really is. Once the five minutes is up you jump on over to her page here and post your link. Once you link up visit the person before you and offer some words of encouragement for their writing.
Life is like a song. Every song has a rhythm and rhythm is what drives life. Getting into a good rhythm makes life easy and sometimes unbearably boring. You know exactly were you need to be and when you need to be there. You know who you will get the pleasure of spending time with. The sun rises and the sun sets with no disturbance. Every moment of your day is mapped out without ever having to think about it.
Some times there needs to be a change in the rhythm of life to keep thing interesting. Wake up an hour earlier (HAHA! for anyone that knows me!) and enjoy some yoga or see what you can get picked up around the house. Eat lunch at a restaurant by yourself to see what stranger you can begin a conversation with instead of grabbing lunch to go and eating in your office. Take a different route home from work. It is amazing what a change of scenery can do!
What is something you can change in your daily routine to spice up the rhythm of your life?
Life is like a song. Every song has a rhythm and rhythm is what drives life. Getting into a good rhythm makes life easy and sometimes unbearably boring. You know exactly were you need to be and when you need to be there. You know who you will get the pleasure of spending time with. The sun rises and the sun sets with no disturbance. Every moment of your day is mapped out without ever having to think about it.
Some times there needs to be a change in the rhythm of life to keep thing interesting. Wake up an hour earlier (HAHA! for anyone that knows me!) and enjoy some yoga or see what you can get picked up around the house. Eat lunch at a restaurant by yourself to see what stranger you can begin a conversation with instead of grabbing lunch to go and eating in your office. Take a different route home from work. It is amazing what a change of scenery can do!
What is something you can change in your daily routine to spice up the rhythm of your life?
Friday, June 14, 2013
Five Minute Friday: Listen
Every Friday Lisa-Jo Baker posts a word prompt. The idea is to set a timer and write for five minutes. You would be amazed at how fast 5 minutes really is. Once the five minutes is up you jump on over to her page here and post your link. Once you link up visit the person before you and offer some words of encouragement for their writing.
Life is so busy and hectic these days. I miss the days of not having a care in the world. As I take a moment to sit back and listen to the world around me. I hear the baby birds chirping every morning as I walk to my car to head to work from their nest on my front porch. As soon as, I reach my car the music comes on, whether its Bruno Mars or Pink or Heather and DC talking during their show I crank it up. There is no better way to enjoy my commute into work than listening to the radio.
As I stroll into my office I am greeted by the lovely sound of our server closet and the hustle and bustle of my co-workers beginning their day. For many this means a pit stop in the kitchen to grab a cup of coffee. The essence of life around this office! Y'all should have seen this place the day the coffee pot broke! People were making plans to run to Starbucks for their big container of coffee to hold us over until our coffee pot could be fixed.
The best part of my day is when I get home and I get to wrap my arms around my awesome hubby to give him a big hug and he asks me how my day was. Whether I had an amazing day or a down right terrible day I know he will listen to my days tale. I have the best husband in the world!
Listen to the world around you and make the most of it!
Life is so busy and hectic these days. I miss the days of not having a care in the world. As I take a moment to sit back and listen to the world around me. I hear the baby birds chirping every morning as I walk to my car to head to work from their nest on my front porch. As soon as, I reach my car the music comes on, whether its Bruno Mars or Pink or Heather and DC talking during their show I crank it up. There is no better way to enjoy my commute into work than listening to the radio.
As I stroll into my office I am greeted by the lovely sound of our server closet and the hustle and bustle of my co-workers beginning their day. For many this means a pit stop in the kitchen to grab a cup of coffee. The essence of life around this office! Y'all should have seen this place the day the coffee pot broke! People were making plans to run to Starbucks for their big container of coffee to hold us over until our coffee pot could be fixed.
The best part of my day is when I get home and I get to wrap my arms around my awesome hubby to give him a big hug and he asks me how my day was. Whether I had an amazing day or a down right terrible day I know he will listen to my days tale. I have the best husband in the world!
Listen to the world around you and make the most of it!
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Five Minute Friday: Imagine
Every Friday Lisa-Jo Baker posts a word prompt. The idea is to set a timer and write for five minutes. You would be amazed at how fast 5 minutes really is. Once the five minutes is up you jump on over to her page here and post your link. Once you link up visit the person before you and offer some words of encouragement for their writing.
I can only imagine...
What would life be like if we had the time to sit back and smell the roses. Enjoy walks in the brisk evening air. Spend a few extra moments lying in the arms of a loved one. Celebrate all the little things in life. It is those little things that make life so grand.
The way we live our lives today is running from one appointment to the next. Writing a to do list where the first two lines are:
1. Write a to do list
2. Mark off number one for completing the list
By starting out every to do list this makes a person feel like they have accomplished something grand for the day because there is one more check mark on their to do list.
I never remember a time when I had time to sit back and enjoy the world around me for more than a few minutes at a time.
When I was in middle and high school. I was always working on homework or thinking about the next big project. Practicing my violin and cello for the school orchestra. Throw in a job and a boyfriend and there was no time left.
College wasn't any easier. By this time I was married, working part-time in the wee hours of the morning in order to carry a class load of 21-24 hours a semester. I worked my tail off in order to graduate with my bachelor's degree in three years.
As an adult three years removed from college my life is spinning. I have a to do list to complete other to do lists. I work for a non-profit and volunteer in my time away from work. My husband is working two jobs and we rarely have time to spend together.
I miss the embracing hold of my husband. I miss being about to crawl in bed at night and snuggle into his protective and loving arms.
I want to take the time to smell the roses. I want to make time in the day to do something I want. I want to make the time to enjoy more time with my husband.
Bucket list item: Pick a day and not worry about a single adult decision all day. Use this day to enjoy everything around me and be grateful for my amazing life! This day won't have a to do list, no itinerary, this day will consist of where life will take me.
My challenge to you: Choose a day to take a step back from your hectic schedule and enjoy life.
I can only imagine...
What would life be like if we had the time to sit back and smell the roses. Enjoy walks in the brisk evening air. Spend a few extra moments lying in the arms of a loved one. Celebrate all the little things in life. It is those little things that make life so grand.
The way we live our lives today is running from one appointment to the next. Writing a to do list where the first two lines are:
1. Write a to do list
2. Mark off number one for completing the list
By starting out every to do list this makes a person feel like they have accomplished something grand for the day because there is one more check mark on their to do list.
I never remember a time when I had time to sit back and enjoy the world around me for more than a few minutes at a time.
When I was in middle and high school. I was always working on homework or thinking about the next big project. Practicing my violin and cello for the school orchestra. Throw in a job and a boyfriend and there was no time left.
College wasn't any easier. By this time I was married, working part-time in the wee hours of the morning in order to carry a class load of 21-24 hours a semester. I worked my tail off in order to graduate with my bachelor's degree in three years.
As an adult three years removed from college my life is spinning. I have a to do list to complete other to do lists. I work for a non-profit and volunteer in my time away from work. My husband is working two jobs and we rarely have time to spend together.
I miss the embracing hold of my husband. I miss being about to crawl in bed at night and snuggle into his protective and loving arms.
I want to take the time to smell the roses. I want to make time in the day to do something I want. I want to make the time to enjoy more time with my husband.
Bucket list item: Pick a day and not worry about a single adult decision all day. Use this day to enjoy everything around me and be grateful for my amazing life! This day won't have a to do list, no itinerary, this day will consist of where life will take me.
My challenge to you: Choose a day to take a step back from your hectic schedule and enjoy life.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Five Minute Friday: View
Every Friday Lisa-Jo Baker posts a word prompt. The idea is to set a timer and write for five minutes. You would be amazed at how fast 5 minutes really is. Once the five minutes is up you jump on over to her page here and post your link. Once you link up visit the person before you and offer some words of encouragement for their writing.
My view from the front porch looking in...
I am bursting from the seems. I was to shout of the mountain tops.
I want to be a voice heard.
I am ready to run my world. I am ready to make a difference.
The thoughts stew. The thoughts boil. The thoughts want to burst out. The thoughts want to become word.
The words want to spew. They want to turn into wisdom of my life. Guidance of my path.
Yet, the thoughts make it no further than my mouth. The words stay as quite as books resting on a table.
Right on the tip of my tongue waiting for their day to make an entrance.
...Your view looking in sees me as a shy, quite girl.
My view from the front porch looking in...
I am bursting from the seems. I was to shout of the mountain tops.
I want to be a voice heard.
I am ready to run my world. I am ready to make a difference.
The thoughts stew. The thoughts boil. The thoughts want to burst out. The thoughts want to become word.
The words want to spew. They want to turn into wisdom of my life. Guidance of my path.
Yet, the thoughts make it no further than my mouth. The words stay as quite as books resting on a table.
Right on the tip of my tongue waiting for their day to make an entrance.
...Your view looking in sees me as a shy, quite girl.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Five Minute Friday: Song
Every Friday Lisa-Jo Baker posts a word prompt. The idea is to set a timer and write for five minutes. You would be amazed at how fast 5 minutes really is. Once the five minutes is up you jump on over to her page here and post your link. Once you link up visit the person before you and offer some words of encouragement for their writing.
Life is a song.
It has it slow times and its fast times.
Here lately there have been more fast times that slow times. I always heard the older you get the fast time goes and boy is that the truth. My husband and I celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary yesterday. I don't know where the time has gone. It seems just like yesterday that I was walking down the aisle with my arms linked in with my dad and my brother. I miss the times when the family was all together. It is amazing the twists and turns life takes.
Life is a song.
I want more slow times in life to be able to enjoy the ones around me. Life seems to be going a million miles a minute. I want time to enjoy life. Enjoy time with those in my life right now. I want to be able to take a minute and smell the roses.
Life is a song.
Riding around the dirt country roads with music blaring with a drink in one hand and my love's hand in the other. Not realizing that countless hours has passed.
Where has the time gone?
Life is a song.
It has it slow times and its fast times.
Here lately there have been more fast times that slow times. I always heard the older you get the fast time goes and boy is that the truth. My husband and I celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary yesterday. I don't know where the time has gone. It seems just like yesterday that I was walking down the aisle with my arms linked in with my dad and my brother. I miss the times when the family was all together. It is amazing the twists and turns life takes.
Life is a song.
I want more slow times in life to be able to enjoy the ones around me. Life seems to be going a million miles a minute. I want time to enjoy life. Enjoy time with those in my life right now. I want to be able to take a minute and smell the roses.
Life is a song.
Riding around the dirt country roads with music blaring with a drink in one hand and my love's hand in the other. Not realizing that countless hours has passed.
Where has the time gone?
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