It is interesting to me the power of "choice." We make choices every single day. I don't know about you all, but life is SO perfect I can hardly even stand it. Choices each day come REALLY easy for me, because I LOVE MY LIFE ALL THE TIME. Did you read that? ALL THE TIME!!! Oh and did you sense the sarcasm? Maybe you didn't... Maybe you did :).
Anyhow, we make choices every day. Easy or hard. Some decisions are easy and some decisions come very hard to make. The first decision we make is to get out of bed when we wake up, then we wake up and we have to decide to get out of bed, then we decide to go running (well some of us do...), shower, make breakfast, take care of the kids, and each choice thereafter. Some choices lead to happiness, some lead sorrow, some lead to pleasure, some lead to pain, but each choice leads to somewhere.
One single choice can change the course of our lives, good or bad, and each consecutive choice can alter our path. SO many people are affected by our choices, not just us, just from a single choice that we make each and every single day.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
One of life's great treasures
Is family. I love coming up to the cabin because I don't have anything else to do but spend time with my family.
I don't have the cares of the house: chores, errands, phone, etc. we are totally up in the mountains just me the hubs and the girls. We have watched movies, put together countless puzzles, eaten lots of good food (and now that we have to carry out our own trash we are being much less wasteful and eating what we make ;)) good for us and good for the environment...
We have been to the cabin store, circle K, and chevron. Oh and let's not forget the most memorable game of "peek" (peep) .... We also went to visit our famous Annie north of us an tasted of her delicious cookies that I gained 5 pounds just looking at (and then I ate them so add another 10)... Many days I planned on running but seriously it's 21 degrees outside and I'm a desert rat so that wasn't/hasn't happened yet, so I must make up for my slothful was when I arrive home tomorrow.
I digress. We have watches a great Christmas movie... Twice... The Christmas orange. We have shed many tears over this sweet little show. We have played with our loot from the cabin store, and are about to embark on a project that will likely fill our time until school starts. We will be busy and we will be tired but it will be worth it because my girls will have fun.
We will be sad to leave tomorrow but it is time to head back into reality ;). I have some really great pics to follow, alas I cannot (or rather have been forbidden) to post one of them but it is by far the best one ;).
I don't have the cares of the house: chores, errands, phone, etc. we are totally up in the mountains just me the hubs and the girls. We have watched movies, put together countless puzzles, eaten lots of good food (and now that we have to carry out our own trash we are being much less wasteful and eating what we make ;)) good for us and good for the environment...
We have been to the cabin store, circle K, and chevron. Oh and let's not forget the most memorable game of "peek" (peep) .... We also went to visit our famous Annie north of us an tasted of her delicious cookies that I gained 5 pounds just looking at (and then I ate them so add another 10)... Many days I planned on running but seriously it's 21 degrees outside and I'm a desert rat so that wasn't/hasn't happened yet, so I must make up for my slothful was when I arrive home tomorrow.
I digress. We have watches a great Christmas movie... Twice... The Christmas orange. We have shed many tears over this sweet little show. We have played with our loot from the cabin store, and are about to embark on a project that will likely fill our time until school starts. We will be busy and we will be tired but it will be worth it because my girls will have fun.
We will be sad to leave tomorrow but it is time to head back into reality ;). I have some really great pics to follow, alas I cannot (or rather have been forbidden) to post one of them but it is by far the best one ;).
Happy dang New Year!!!
I have a few New Years Resolutions (goals for the first week of January ;)) not too many because as aforementioned I will only be keeping them for the first week , but a few nonetheless.
So here goes:
1. Delete FB from my phone, not altogether just merely from the phone. Seems as though I may spend some unnecessary time on it. I know none of you have that problem because I read your blogs an Facebook posts and it seems as though many have perfect lives and I am sorry, my life is not perfect and I am not perfect and reading about everybody's perfect little lives frankly makes me feel depressed so I'm not going to waste any more time (at least for the first week of January) on my phone on FB and hopefully it will remind me or redirect me rather to blog/journal. So please leave comments so I can feel the immediate sense of feedback that I (used to) get from FB ;)
2. Last night for our New Years Eve party with the children we put together a Manila envelope containing 12 ziplock baggies (one for each month) and labeled them each month accordingly. In each Baggie we chose three activities to do that month, like a craft or outing or vacation or something to do as a family. The goal is then to complete at least one of the activities per month until the end of the year. I will try to record these events throughout the year but that's only my goal for the first week of January so hopefully I can keep it up ;)
3. Spend more quality time with my children (hopefully deleting FB from my phone and completing the above goal this will take care of itself), I see all those moms with one girl and lotsa boys and all they do is post about the manis and pedis and shopping they do with their "best friends" so I guess I better start doing more fun things so I can keep up with the joNes's (or just spend better time with my girls)
Those are just to name a few. I can't get too carried away, but I will tack on Run a Marathon (bc that's already on the agenda) ;)
So here goes:
1. Delete FB from my phone, not altogether just merely from the phone. Seems as though I may spend some unnecessary time on it. I know none of you have that problem because I read your blogs an Facebook posts and it seems as though many have perfect lives and I am sorry, my life is not perfect and I am not perfect and reading about everybody's perfect little lives frankly makes me feel depressed so I'm not going to waste any more time (at least for the first week of January) on my phone on FB and hopefully it will remind me or redirect me rather to blog/journal. So please leave comments so I can feel the immediate sense of feedback that I (used to) get from FB ;)
2. Last night for our New Years Eve party with the children we put together a Manila envelope containing 12 ziplock baggies (one for each month) and labeled them each month accordingly. In each Baggie we chose three activities to do that month, like a craft or outing or vacation or something to do as a family. The goal is then to complete at least one of the activities per month until the end of the year. I will try to record these events throughout the year but that's only my goal for the first week of January so hopefully I can keep it up ;)
3. Spend more quality time with my children (hopefully deleting FB from my phone and completing the above goal this will take care of itself), I see all those moms with one girl and lotsa boys and all they do is post about the manis and pedis and shopping they do with their "best friends" so I guess I better start doing more fun things so I can keep up with the joNes's (or just spend better time with my girls)
Those are just to name a few. I can't get too carried away, but I will tack on Run a Marathon (bc that's already on the agenda) ;)
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