Has there ever been a book that has made a huge impact in your life? First, let me say that there have been a few books that have impacted me and my relationships (How to Win Friends and Influence People, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Secret, Personality Plus to name a few), but…
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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…
My Journey to Now
I have been on a journey since I was first diagnosed with MS, but particularly for the last 2 years. Here’s a little bit of what has led me to this post! Stage 1: Denial When I was first diagnosed, I had never even heard of Multiple Sclerosis so of course the first thing I…
Are you gonna let it go or make these Salted Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups?
“Later is the best friend of clutter” – Peter Walsh What makes us hold on to some things and easily toss others? For example, we were renovating, had a large dumpster, we were tossing things left, right and center and I found my mom’s wedding dress. Now, my mom was a teeny tiny beautiful woman, and…
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…
Something is happening in my Universe
As I said in an earlier post, I have recently started meditating or at least I am trying to meditate (remember, the focus of this session was “Hope in Uncertain Times”, I know I know, but it was a 21 day challenge and I’m always up for a good challenge) and while this may be…
Today I feel secure knowing that tomorrow is another day!
Today I started a 21 Day meditation challenge with Oprah and Deepak and I will begin this by saying that I already started off on the wrong foot because today was actually Day 2, but I blew off Day 1. Now, in my defense, I had a rough night before the real Day 1 (I…
Sometimes you accidentally find things, just when you needed them most
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about my family heritage and particularly about close family members who have passed away, so while I was looking for some papers related to our property, I ran across some information about my grandfather and my mom that was shared at their funerals. Obviously I had filed these things…
Change is good and so are these Lemony Banana Blueberry muffins!
Before deciding to start a blog, my initial intention was to start journaling. I bought a lovely journal, pretty stickers, pencil crayons, fancy pens, stencils, etc. Then when I went to start, I couldn’t find the words, couldn’t figure out what I wanted to write about, and most importantly I realized that my once beautiful…