You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. – Epicurus Today is home day for my husband! If you know me at all, you know that he works away for 2 weeks at a time and I have to say that every…
Tag: Gratitude
Finding Santosha
Santosha – To be content with what is My sister in law and I have registered for a yoga class once a week for 10 weeks taught by one of my favorite people. I have known this instructor for at least 10 years – I first hired him as an instructor teaching yoga and fitness…
So thankful every day, not just on Thanksgiving!
Absolute cooking fail – right here, right now. I know that it’s shocking, but it’s not all smiles and roses in my kitchen. I always thought that making pull apart bread would be easy, I mean it looks easy – not so much! To be fair to me and to throw my son under the…
Kahlua Cinnamon Apple Bread and Some Basic Rules I Live By
As you know I have been on a journey since going on Long Term Disability – I don’t know if you have ever done it before but what I didn’t expect was all of the self-reflection that goes along with finding a new normal for yourself so regularly I find myself revisiting the rules or…
Ready, Set, Action!
You make hundreds of small decisions all day, every day. What to wear, what to eat, should I buy this, where will I go for lunch, who should I go for a walk with or should I just park it on the couch, who will I love, I’ll answer this call and not answer this…
Where did that come from and easy Avocado Mango Black Bean Salsa – Yummy!
Today’s post comes to you compliments of my kids and grandkids Have your kids ever said something and you wondered where in the hell did THAT came from? It happens all the time in my family and people always tell me that I should write this stuff down, so I am doing just that. In…
How Fortunate Am I?
Fortunate favored by or involving good luck or fortune; lucky. Synonyms: lucky, favored, blessed, charmed auspicious or favorable. Synonyms: favorable, advantageous, providential, auspicious, welcome, beneficial, fortuitous As I was sitting here today wondering what I should write about, all I could think about is How Fortunate Am I? Things aren’t always great and peachy, but…
Some days are diamonds and others….not so much! Lemon Blueberry Muffins
Some days are diamonds and some days you lose one……..like today. Somewhere in my travels, I lost the diamond out of my wedding ring. And of course, I wasn’t at home at all during the day, isn’t that the way it goes? I’m particularly sad because it was a diamond out of my late moms…
Taking the road less traveled
We just finished a 5,000 + mile road trip travelling to Colorado for my nieces wedding (which was beautiful by the way). We knew where we wanted to go (Yellowstone particularly), but I will admit that the plan could use some improvement as to the routes we were going to take but there to save…