Sundays......

Sundays are our lazy day.  The Punkies play all day in their jammies and I blog, putter around the house and usually bake or cook up yummy stuff to try for the week and of course there is football(its just around the corner)!

Sundays are also the days that I leave Pandora on the Gospel channel and think about all the things I am grateful for.

I have noticed in the last couple of years that I am easily pulled in when people around me are miserable and being in their bummed out states.  That's a new thing for me. I am usually pretty upbeat and "Pollyannaish".  I have always kinda liked that about myself. No matter how crazy and crappy things get I can usually see a bright shiny rainbow above the crap!  I think being kinda isolated from the people I love and not being surrounded by a strong group of "family" I lost that a little.

So I have been thinking about how to recover that and bring more sparkles and rainbows back into my life and I have decided on Sunday mornings before the Crew awakes and the chaos begins I will sit down and talk about what I am grateful for this week.......

So here's my first "grateful" post!

The weather has been in the 90's all week, we had to turn the air on at night for everyone to sleep well!!!! Woo Hoo!! That means lots of running outside and sleeping good at night because all of the sunshine!

I am also very grateful for Facebook and Apple because I had lots of giggles from friends posts,messages and texts.  Gotta love those texts at Midnight telling me they have to go pee and are trapped in line and have spanx on!  Or that they are only an hour from me and I'm going to get to see a friend I haven't seen in like 20 years and meet their family!!!! Or the fact that I might be moving cross country(yes again) and I have excited friends and family waiting to welcome me with open arms!

And mostly I am grateful for my little family.  The Punkies challenge me, often have me sitting in awe, test my patience, make my heart fill up so much it may explode, make me laugh every day...several times a day, and allow me to be what I have always wanted to be!  I am a blessed girl!

We like to walk

We like to go out walking, it's good for Mommy and The Punkies need to run off some of that energy!
Being here in the Great North West we get to walk in some pretty awesome nature!
Here's today's awesomeness!

Every one needs a super hero

We dress up in our house....a lot! Tater wears some sort of costume daily.

You know that you are going to have a great day when you have a super hero by your side and I luckily usually have at least one to protect me!

A shout out.........

I know everyone thinks they have the greatest friends in the world but you are in fact wrong, wrong, and I'll say it again wrong.........

I have the GREATEST friends in the world.  Even if I only see them once in a great while they are there daily when I open, FB or my texts or email!!! They make me laugh, cry with me, let me bitch all the while not judging me.

So for all of you and you know who you are that have spent the last few years with me, holding me up, shaking your heads at me, loving me, reminding who I am...Thank you!!!

Each one of you know that I hold you close to my heart and am grateful for you for being you!!!!

I love you!!!!!

Second Chances......

Second chances for people that who hurt the ones I love most have always been hard for me. I'm a cancer so it means I am horribly protective and I will a cut a bitch! =)


Recently I have been given a chance to learn a valuable life lesson. I have had to "give it up to God" and trust someone to change.


 Change the things about themselves that they dislike, that hurt people I love, that hurt me.  I have to allow this person the room they need to figure out the hurt within themselves all the while protecting the people I hold most dear. 


 Don't get me wrong, I love this person and I hope they can find the strength within them to be what they want to be, what their children need.


It's hard! I am such a control freak, and I haven't handled the situation in the way I should have.  I was scared and frozen, not being true to me or the Punkies.  


So now I'm in a place of forgiveness. Forgiveness of myself for not being the best me that I could be and forgiveness of someone who is a huge part of my life. That I hope can continue to be part of me. Help raise these 4 amazing beings that I lovingly call the Punkies.  It's scary and it's work everyday. But right now we're both in it fully.  I am so grateful to her for doing the work.  For showing me that she cares enough to do the really hard stuff.


So for all of you out there that have been needing to forgive someone I say Just Do It! Jump with both feet! And if it's forgiving yourself for something, be gentle with yourself.  We all mess up, and we are usually so forgiving with the people around us, you have to give yourself a break once in awhile.......

At the end of the day this is what I live for.................