Heart&Soul
Saturday, August 10, 2024
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Hikes & Hearts ❤️
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
You❤️
Saturday, November 12, 2022
The Day of Days~”D” Day
Friday, May 20, 2022
40 years=480 months~2080 weeks~14,600 days~350,400~21,024,000 minutes of Love ❤️
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Project Life
I feel like our project started the day we found out we were having a baby. That absolutely was not in the immediate plan, we were planning to get married after Eric finished pilot training. So, instead of moving forward and being separated for a year, we took a turn, got married, had Dani and off to Mississippi we went.
But let me add this, we were 23 year old recent college graduates, and had a year to wait to go to pilot training. My dad suggested we get into rental real estate while we waited. “Buy a house Dad? Really…?” We again didn’t say no, so we bought a rental property, followed by more. This part of our life added an entire new level to our project. Since then rental real estate has become just part of life.
Next comes the family level. How many kids do you want? Just when you think you’ve made your decision…another turn, another baby. Change in project life is the best. Now add a pet, {dogs in our case}.
This just keeps getting better…
Until it doesn't, unfortunately in every life you are going to have to experience fight and/or loss. This project life might take a wrong turn (but in time will go back in the right direction). If someone you love gets sick all you can do is watch and support. You know you will do whatever it takes to get them through to wherever their project goes or ends. Unfortunately every project comes to an end. When someone you love is taken from you, you need to learn to live without them. It feels so helpless, but you can do it. It’s just another level.
Another tier to this project life is growing kids. You take them to a certain point in life until they are ready to fly. You never truly stop taking care of them but at a certain point you take a step back and are just there. {Always}. They know that you are not going anywhere. (Physically you may have gone a little further than normal, like Vegas maybe…π but emotionally you are always there and only a flight away) This is when they get to start their project…it’s cyclical. They might graduate, get jobs, marry, have kids, and their choices in life start to build.
This is where we are. Watching our kids build their project as we add onto our own. We are now in the mode of adding travel, rekindling old friendships and making new friendships, retirement planning and enjoying every minute with all of our kids. Project life is a constant. It doesn’t matter where you are in life, just keep building on it.
Promise yourself this…
Always Live life to the fullest.
Always Love Hard
Always possess positivity
Yes, I am an optimist…and I get it from my husband ❤️ Welcome to Project Life
Monday, October 18, 2021
Time Is A Thief
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Sunny Days~Sweeping The Clouds Away
On my way to where the air is sweet...A week ago I saw a commercial for 50 years of Sunny Days. A special on ABC celebrating Sesame Street. I couldn't believe how excited I got, so excited that I put it on my reminders, followed by recording it just in case I wasn't home. I am pretty sure that not many my age would get so excited about something as such. If you ask my family what they remember most about things I loved as a little girl it would be Sesame Street. I would watch it with my own kids when they were little, and now with my granddaughters. I sing along, laugh, and know every name of every muppet.
Sunday, April 4, 2021
A House Is A Building...A Home Is A Feeling
Well, it’s happening...The utmost favorite house of my last 30 years is going into the hands of our realtor. We asked her to walk through and let us know what we needed to do to sell it quickly. I can’t let this drag out, if I do I have a feeling I won’t do it. She walked through and and made some suggestions. It didn’t bother me that the carpets need to be replaced, the floors need to be pulled up, the fixtures need updating, scratches in the doors need to be stained, the basement needs painting, the window coverings need to be removed, or even that the swing set could stay or go...and I had to ask myself the question “Why am I ok?” I thought that changing everything about my favorite house would tear me apart. Here’s the thing, the reason that this all needs to be done is because we lived hard...with all our heart and soul in that house. The day we moved in my kids were 1, 8, and 11. They are now 20, 28, and 30. In the past 20 years we went from a family of 5 at our dinner table to a family of 9.
Friday, March 5, 2021
Change Is Good...Or Is It?
Then I started to think about the technology of travel. The days when you would have to actually make use of a travel agent to book your travel and then go pick up your booklet of tickets. And god forbid you lost your paper tickets you were pretty much screwed! I can’t remember exactly when the paper tickets went away... (you’d think I would remember that because I was always the “keeper of the tickets”).
Eventually they were replaced with boarding passes that you could get online, then print out...Now...just grab your phone. BUT...always be sure that you have service going into the airport. That’s where the internet has changed our lives. We depend on this wireless capability to run our lives. The last time I was with Lucy and Ellie, I couldn’t get their show going. I so badly wanted to just throw a VHS into a VCR. But Lucy told me... “Nana, just wait a few minutes and it will play”. I guess this is where they learn patience.
I am sure that in some point in their lives they will see big changes, but right now, going to the airport, being dropped off, going through security, shoes off, jackets off, IPads in the bin, etc...is all just a way of life. Unless you have TSA pre Check! That's always just a bonus.
COVID also has brought another new way of thinking since 9/11, that again, at their age, is just the norm. Not being able to go to school, play with friends, see grandparents, travel, play sports…all things that we always took for granted. It was about one year ago right now that the world began to change, “Because coronavirus”. (From the mouth of babes) Here are a few things that if you told me 365 days ago would be “a thing” I would have strongly disagreed. Things that come out of our mouths amaze me…
Do you have a mask?
Oh, that’s a cute mask
Zoom Happy Hour?
Zoom Meeting?
Social distance
Stay Safe vs Have a great day
Fist pump vs handshake or hug
Waiting in line to go into stores
Not being able to go into stores!
Open middle seat
Elevator Etiquette
Parks full of yoga and cardio (which I take as a positive)
Toilet Paper and Paper Towel shortages & limits
Text from cars to check into appointments
Partial capacity seating in restaurants
Have you been tested?
There’s a vaccine π
Tier 1,2,and 3…all I know is that I am last!
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