I am a women who loves to write and I write because for so long I lived in darkness and never spoke about my life and now I want to share my life and my story with others to help and encourage them on this road we call life.
What are the most important things needed to live a good life?
Life is precious so precious and I’ve learned never to take it for granted. For me the most important things needed to live a good life are knowing Jesus , reading the word and praying. Living in peace and being in relationships that are healthy. Having amazing friends to just be me with.
Working in a job that is both challenging and rewarding but something that you love. Having different communities to share my love and passions with. To stop and smell the flowers and listen to the birds sing and just slow down and enjoy what is around me.
So as I’m writing all of this. This is my life now and I love my life. It’s not complicated it’s just simple and I need to remember that. ❤️
I’ve never believed in coincidences. I believe that God puts people into your lives and they are there for a reason and sometimes a season. It’s like when I get put into different classes at school it’s always where I’m supposed to be. Every year I’ve worked at school there has been a child who really needs me.
Often I meet people that I get in with so well and then come to find out they have experienced something similar to me or they can relate in some way. I’ve met people all over the world and I’m still friends with some of them. I’m still friends with my childhood friend in Ireland. I love that woman so much and we still get on like we saw each other last week. We laugh so much and she just gets who I am. I love that.
Two years ago I lost one of my best friends to cancer. These roses are off one of the rose bushes she had ordered before she died. This year the roses are so vibrant and smell amazing and havehuge flowers on them. Everytime I see them they remind me of her. I miss her very much. I know she will have the biggest rose garden in heaven.
People come and go in our lives all the time. That’s why they are there for a season. I’m blessed to have many friends that I’ve had for a long time in my life. Friendship is very important to me. Even though I lost a friend recently I’ve come to a peace about it. I’m grateful for all who are in my life. Life is short, live it to the fullest.
When I’m at school during the week I spend my time with the children in my class and my teacher. I also spend time with other children as well. I’m around a lot of different children and adults.
On weekends I spend time with friends we usually go out for coffee to our favorite place. It’s right on the ocean . It’s peaceful there. I also have been spending time with my mom since she’s been recovering from knee surgery. I’ve been going over for coffee and we do lunches and then I shop for her. Today she came with me. It’s been nice hanging out with her.
When I’m at home I spend time with my Labradoodle and I also have a mini plush lop.
On holidays and during the summer I get to hang out with my favorite kid. I can’t believe he turns 11 in a couple of weeks. I love that kid so much. We always laugh and hang out together.
During the summer I get to see my friends who live up island and we go on our annual roadtrip.
I have a whole entire community to hang out with. I’m blessed to have many people in my life. ❤️
Where do I start this this topic. I have overcome so many fears it’s crazy. I used to terrified of the dark because of crazy things I experienced as a child to the point where I wouldn’t go out even to the garbage can at night. A lot of my fears were based around something bad would happen to me. Now I know that’s not going to happen. I’m still careful about where I do though.
Fear of being alone. After being married and it being crazy at times. I now love peace and quiet in fact I crave it. I’m so happy with my life and definitely not lonely at home with my dog.
I’ve overcome so many things in my life which I’m grateful for. Most of the time now I live in peace. A huge part of that is because I have the Lord in my life. I pray and read the word. I love to listen to all types of music and that grounds me so much. ❤️
This morning I heard a sermon on forgiveness. That is a hard thing to do. It used to trip me up often because how do you forgive people that hurt you so much. It took me a while to realize that when you forgive people, your not forgiving them for all the hurt you’ve been through. You are releasing yourself so that they can’t hurt you anymore.
I used to hate the people who hurt me and when I saw my heart it was black that’s what I would tell people. I wanted them to suffer like I had suffered. That hate gave power to addiction. It also gave power to me to hate myself. Both very destructive.
A dear friend of mine reminded me that God was with me when I had called out to him as a child. I always thought God didn’t care about me as things never changed in my life. Sometimes they seemed worse. We went for a walk one day in the wilderness and prayed. As we prayed I saw Jesus in the room where I was He was right beside me as a child. I had believed that Jesus had abandoned me. I also prayed that God would forgive me for holding that hate in my heart. All of it came weeping out.
It was December in the high desert in Oregon and the sun beamed on our faces as we knelt on the dusty trail. Usually it would have been snowing at that time is the year. I love the scenery in the high desert we were surrounded by Sage bushes and trees that twisted around each other. The altitude is higher then I’m used to. So before we stopped and prayed I had this headache. I live down at sea level so my body was not used to it. My friend’s two dogs were with us. One an older dog the other a young puppy.
Still weeping on my knees I forgave all the people who had hurt me and there was many. I felt like I would never stop crying. I thanked the Lord for keeping me safe in all the times I was put in danger but most all for never leaving me no matter what. Just because I couldn’t see Him didn’t mean he protected me. I had forgotten my friend was with me. Time stood still and when I opened my eyes wow I felt transformed. I stood up straight and felt so light on my feet. I felt love in my heart and it was no longer black, in fact the blood run freely in my heart. I had no headache and I started to feel that love in my heart for myself the love that JESUS felt for me.
Even though forgiveness was the hardest thing I had to do, it was the best thing I’ve ever done. This year I’m coming up to 9 years of sobriety. So when the pastor was talking about forgiveness today, I was beaming because things are very different today because I trusted the Lord. ✝️
Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life.
I love simple things. You heard the phrase stop and smell the flowers. One of the simple things I do that bring me great joy is being able to watch a sunrise or sunset. Last night driving home from dinner the sky was amazing it had the greatest colors the clouds were dark but underneath it there was pinks and oranges blended into some purple. It was magnificent and of course driving I couldn’t just stop and take a photo.
There is something so simple at getting up early in the morning. The birds are out singing and the baby rabbits are playing out in the sun. The world seems to stand still. The clouds are out and the colors seem to blend into them with such unique colors. It brings me so much joy to my life. ❤️
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine I would participate in a 30 day push up and plank challenge. If you had asked me at the beginning of the year, I would have looked at you like really!!!! The company I work for had a push up and plank challenge that I decided I wanted to be part of. A lot of my team mates were participating and you could do a modified version. It was at your own pace and you could video it as well and post it on the company website. Ok this is all out of my element. I was told that you can improve by 1% a day. Ok I can do that. I also had a pulled muscle from coughing a while back that seemed to never go away.
The first day you had to do your push ups and planks with no tech on so no patches. I managed to do 5 pushups on the wall and could do a 30 sec plank. The next way we could wear our Victory and Boost patch and then had to wear them for the remainder of the challenge. The Victory patch helps with enhanced athletic performance. It helps with more balance, more, stability, more mobility , enhanced stamina and more agility. So many athletes are using it to enhance their performance.
This is the other patch I used it’s called the boost patch. It gives you steady energy all day long. I’ve never used energy drinks at all but this amazing patch keeps you going all day long. All the patches in this company are 100% drug free and work through touch on your skin with the ridges in each patch. It’s 30 years ahead of it’s time. I wrote another blog about them that you can check out.
My second day I did 10 pushups and a one minute plank. I doubled what I did from the first day with no tech. 💪 Each day I did 1% more and by the end of the challenge I was able to do 33 push ups and a 2:50 minute plank. What I loved about it was I watched all the people who participated and put up videos. It was really inspiring. Families did it with their children, people for creative and did it in different ways but everyone who did it was able to participate.
I’m so proud of myself for not giving up even when it was hard and there were days I didn’t want to do it. I realized that there’s nothing I can’t do. I feel so much better about myself and it boosted my confidence. In fact my physio has me continue doing them. I smile everytime I think of what I did. So now I’m doing 1% better each day in my life. That way your going to be successful.
How do you know when it’s time to unplug? What do you do to make it happen?
Unplugging is hard for me. I use the Internet to promote my business and do vendor events. Those weeks it’s very busy as you have to participate as well as promote. Every Sunday for over a year now I unplug on Sundays. I will check my emails in the mornings. At first it was hard and now I love it.
I find other things to do that day. I need to completely unplug for more than one day. I think I will try to do more days maybe now the summer is coming. I will let you know.
Wow I’ve had many jobs , my first one was I worked at McDonald’s. I was so shy as a teenager and went there to learn how to be more outgoing. Well to work there you can’t be shy. It was so hard for me at the beginning but I learned to speak up and we used to run competitions during lunch and dinner rushes. I made many friends and it helped me make money for college.
I has a babysitting job and then went into Early Childhood Education. From there I worked in an infant/toddler daycare. It taught me a lot of skills and I had a chance to go to Ottawa and go back to school. I got my diploma there. That was amazing. I loved the daycares I did my practicums in. One of them was a head start program. Wow that was eye opening but my professor told me that the time the children come , make it the best time for them. I taught them how to play with toys and it became a place that helped shaped me into who I am today.
I came back from Ottawa and worked in a preschool in a rough area of town and I worked with teens mom’s. I worked at the University daycare and loved it there. Then I worked a one on one for a boy who had a brain injury. That was an amazing job I got to learn so many skills that has helped me in the job I have today.
Lastly I work in the school district as an Early Childhood Educator working in Kindergarten and Grade 1. It’s challenging but I love it and the skills I’ve learned from all those jobs and my life experience, they have helped me be the best educator that I am today. ❤️
I read my Bible and pray everyday. The Faith I have is not religious. In fact I don’t like religious people they think they know it all and they often are very narrow minded. The Lord I know loves everyone. I think of Jesus in the synagogue eating with everyone. That is the Lord that I follow.
Beauty from Ashes. 