What Am I Wishing For Today?

Today I am wishing for peace. I am wishing for a quiet place to vacation. I want to be able to disappear from the world for a little while and just recenter myself. I wish that I could just take off with my family and a tent for a week. There is nothing like the quiet of 6 A.M. in the wilderness. There is nothing like sitting around a campfire and just enjoying the company of each other without all the electronics and noise of the world. Today I wish for life. A life that is simpler than what I have now. Today I wish for peace. 

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Who Blessed My Life Today?

I woke up today with a heavy heart because of an eleven year old little boy who is missing from a town near by. I decided first thing that I was going to get dressed and go help in any way that I could. I spent my entire morning and part of my afternoon with an entire community of people. You may ask, "How did this bless your life?" I was able to see first hand how a community can come together and how businesses put aside their need for financial gain and donated hundreds of dollars in food and supplies. I knew that I had made the right decision. I knew that my life would forever be changed by what I saw today. I was blessed by an entire community. 

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What Can I do to Make Things Better Today?

Let me start off first by saying that I have decided that I needed to do something to hold me accountable to my blog. It is so hard trying to blog every day or even every other day. I have so far completely failed at it, but that is all about to change. I am going to be doing a journal every day. I stumbled across Brave Girls Club on Pinterest. Their prompts are SPECTACULAR. I have decided that I will use those for my daily journals. If you would like to participate, head on over to the Brave Girls Club website with the link above and jump right in!! After today, I will just be posting the title and writing. 



What can I do to make things better today? I can be more loving. I unfortunately let the world get the best of me sometimes which then causes me to kind of shut down. I can focus more on myself and following my dreams instead of just supporting everyone else's. I will start my day today knowing that the first thing I did this morning was write this blog. The first thing that I did was focus on my dream. That is a good feeling. 

Husbands before Children

I take no credit for the photos above. New York, Greece, Cozumel, Bali, and San Francisco. 

          I had a friend many years ago that told me that when it comes to her marriage and her relationship with her husband it always comes before her children. When I first heard this, I was appalled. My whole life I had heard my mom say to people, "My children come first." This is the way that I had always lived my life from the time I had a kid (at the ripe old age of 17). I could not believe that this friend was telling me this. How can you put anyone or anything in front of their children??

          Well I think that I have finally realized that this friend of mine was on to something. I have an abnormally strong marriage. Donny and I joke that there has to be something wrong with us because we have been together for way to long to still like each other so much. Donny is my world, and my life definitely revolves around him, BUT..... I have always clung to my children.