November | 2014 | Our LIFE - in the moment

NaBloPoMo Day 22 eBook writing 101

22 Nov 2014 7 Comments

by Life in the moment in NaBloPoMo, Writing 101 Tags: Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, NaBloPoMo, Thanksgiving, writing 101

Today I downloaded the “writing 101” eBook. The first assignment is to write for 20 min. It doesn’t matter what it is or if it rambles or whatever… just write for 20 min. and then go ahead and publish it. Hum.. Should be interesting what comes to mind if nothing is on your mind? Let’s see brain what do you want to type? Something funny, something serious, something true or something made up? What mood are you in today? Kind of a neutral mood… The weather outside is gray but inside okay :-). Talked to my daughter this morning and that is always great. She is a busy baby delivery RN at the local hospital and is Mom to my 2 grandchildren and wife to my son-in-law. I work a Monday through Friday 8 hour job so communication between us is not always easy! When we do catch up it is always a welcome and enjoying part of my day. I guess therefor I am in a pretty good mood. It’s the weekend and I have it off so getting a few chores done too. Thanksgiving is coming up and it will be at my daughters. She has Thanksgiving every year and all of their friends come. It is one awesome time. Everyone brings something. It is like an open house with kids, dogs, friends and food galore!! They live on top of the mountain and it is absolutely beautiful. Looking out from their deck you can see into the valley below and the mountains in the background. One year it snowed for Thanksgiving (2010) but I’ll save that for my Thanksgiving day story :-). This year we will bring some wine (my job) and one of the turkey’s, gravy and a sausage stuffing along with a chocolate dessert ( my partners job, as I have to work all week and he is actually a chef by trade!!) Yum… I can smell it, I can taste it and just can’t wait for Thursday!! This chocolate dessert he got from a magazine and looks amazing! It’s a cake cut into rounds with whipped cream on top and something in the middle too (I think)? Guess I’ll have to wait to find out. I’ll let you know, if I remember that is, in another post after Thursday :-). Getting close to my 20 min. here so hope everyone is having fun and enjoying getting ready for some family and friend fun for this wonderful Thanksgiving Day coming up this next week!

Cheers to a wonderful weekend!!

NaBloPoMo Day 21 Happy Friday!!

21 Nov 2014 8 Comments

by Life in the moment in daily thoughts, NaBloPoMo, Reflections Tags: Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, NaBloPoMo, poem, reflections

It’s Friday!! It has been a long and busy week, so I wrote a little poem to end the night and look forward to the weekend!!

Happy, Happy, Friday

My week is done

the weekend here

A glass of wine and

a great dinner

Another glass of wine

a card game is in line

Hee, hee Ho-ho

I win, the weekend just begun!!

NaBloPoMo Day 20 Maggie’s Day dream!

20 Nov 2014 4 Comments

by Life in the moment in Bulldogs, NaBloPoMo, Pets, Reflections Tags: bulldogs, Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, my sweet bullie, NaBloPoMo, pets, Photography, reflections, Snowing!

Mommy, yoo-hoo, down here!! Mommy Iz been day dreaming. Just a little while ago I was sittin here by you and this vision came to me. There I was sittin in our Florida garden feeling the nice warm sunshine, chasin butterflies and strollin down the garden path!!

Then I woke up and it was snowing… ugh!

Can we plz go back to warmth… This cold freezing air is making my paws cold and the snow is so wet..

Well Maggie lets sit down and have a little chat. “Maggie” I said, remember how you chased the kids in their sleds and had all that fun, remember how we took the walk by the frozen pond with the snow coming down and you tried to catch the ducks or how about playing in the backyard catching snowballs… Yes Florida is warm and sunny but there is no snow to play in, the grandkids are not in Florida and there would be no sleds or snowballs… Remember we will always have our Florida memories and someday soon maybe even go back for a visit but the kids will grow fast and this is where we should be, don’t you think??

Maggie looks up at me with those eyes of her and says you knowz Mommy you iz right. I love the family more than anything and this is where Iz wants to be :-). But could you just plz remind me again, when it drops below 0 degrees, how much I enjoy it here!!! 🙂 You the bestz Mommy in the whole wide world!!!

NaBloPoMo Day 19 Four Generations

19 Nov 2014 7 Comments

by Life in the moment in daily thoughts, NaBloPoMo, Reflections Tags: Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, NaBloPoMo, Photography, reflections

Yesterday’s post got me thinking about the 70’s again. I was married in 1975 and my son was born at the end of that year. Three years later my daughter came into the world and that’s when we decided to snag this 4 generation picture. This picture is an absolute treasure!! I love it!! Well, I had thought I lost this picture and needless to say I was devastated. As it turned out my daughter had found the picture and gave it to me for my birthday. Wow, a total rush of joy…. You just can’t replace such a precious piece of history. It was taken in 1979, Look at my curly Shirley Temple hair Lol.

Pretty cool to take a look back! I enjoyed this bit of nostalgia. Miss you Grandma, you were awesome and so was your cooking :-). Miss you Mom, so many memories… and Sandy; you have grown into a beautiful young woman that I am extremely proud of!!! Well picture thanks for taking me back to a beautiful memory… I have definitely enjoyed it :-).

NaBloPoMo day 18 The good old days???

18 Nov 2014 8 Comments

by Life in the moment in daily thoughts, NaBloPoMo, Reflections Tags: Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, NaBloPoMo

Wow, the good old days?? Seems like mixed memories of good and not so good, of strength and struggle, of learning and rebellion, of laughter and sadness… The days of yin and yang!! The 70’s, not even sure I can remember it all, if you know what I mean :-)!! Let’s just say interesting era! I am here and I have survived… Life is made of memories all wrapped together creating a collage of learning moments. Even sounds like somebody from the 70’s!! (chuckle)

We had an era of some really rad and awesome songs too!! Great bands, great tunes and great lyrics!! I’m fighting the urge to go look for my old albums :-)! Wow, and just thought of this: remember those bell bottoms and tie dye shirts, lol. Ya, some of that wild stuff is coming forward to memory :-). The memory she is a flowing, too funny!! On that note… Peace man 🙂 and a safe tomorrow 🙂

NaBloPoMo day 17

17 Nov 2014 2 Comments

by Life in the moment in daily thoughts, NaBloPoMo, Reflections Tags: Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, NaBloPoMo, quotes, reflections

I am very tired tonight so unfortunately going to have to make it short. Think I need to hit the bed early!! So I guess a quick daily thought to meditate on might be a good thing for tonight:

“All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear. —- Elizabeth Goudge

Live your life in the moment with passion, love and kindness…. enjoy your evening my cyber friends and be safe!

Newbie Blog Award 3rd week feature

16 Nov 2014 9 Comments

by Life in the moment in Awards, daily thoughts, Reflections Tags: Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, Newbie Blog Award, reflections

Well let’s see. Last week’s feature was Maggie and bulldogs. She is all set now with her own blog already sharing stories and sharing links 🐶 Good girl Maggie Mae, Mama loves you :-)!!

Now for the 3rd week feature: this one is a bit more complex! The feature is my Mom… Let me back up just a bit. My Mom loved to write. Her biggest dream was to write and publish a novel. She would of loved WordPress. I know her life would have been typing away and glued to the computer. She never did get to publish but after her passing I found containers and files of different writings and pieces of this, pieces of that.. Well, it is now a dream of mine that someday I can make sense of her writings, put them together and write for her… I am thinking of creating a blog just for this purpose, one that will allow her the honor of having a blog of her own. One, that if she was still here on earth, she would surly have!! Now she can write though me! I need to think a little bit more on this but that is the plan right now. So this 3rd week of the Newbie blog feature will encompass those ideas :-). I love you Mom and think of you everyday!! I miss you so much!! This I do for you :-).

NaBloPoMo day 16

16 Nov 2014 4 Comments

by Life in the moment in daily thoughts, NaBloPoMo, Reflections Tags: Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, NaBloPoMo, poem

A great day today… so much done. I’m feeling good :-). But… today 2 of our coffee pots met up with machine haven 😦 . We had to say good bye to our beloved Keurig’s!!

(A silly little poem to honor our 2 great Keurig machines):

2 machines we held so dear

years and years of pleasure they did bring

memories and memories we hear

memories – memories pressed against our lips

the sound of coffee brewing in the air

Fill my cup with pleasure, no more to hear..

But, the memory we hold dear!

Warming our hands and warming our bodies

Your memory we always hold dear :-)!!

A silly but good day today! Hope you have all enjoyed your Sunday and I leave you with this thought by Mary Lou Van Atta:

The “I” that is me – you cannot see

You see only the form that you think is me.

This form that you see, will not always be;

but the “I” that is me – lives eternally.

NaBloPoMo Day 15 Daily prompt

15 Nov 2014 4 Comments

by Life in the moment in NaBloPoMo, Reflections Tags: life in the moment, NaBloPoMo, reflections

Wow, what a day, busy.. Lots of littleness and a hair cut too. Now it’s time for the daily blog. I’m drawing a blank here so guess I’ll use the daily prompt: Present-day you meets 10-years-ago you for coffee. Share with your younger self the most challenging thing, the most rewarding thing, and the most fun thing they have to look forward to.

Just arriving in Florida, thinking of how warm and sunny it is compared to the bone chilling air I just left! But my daughter and grandchildren are still back there… no can’t think of that now I must meet for coffee!! There she is, no there I am!! Where do I start?? So over coffee I begin…So much has happened in these years… I would have never believed this journey if I hadn’t already been down the road. I must prepare her, I must calm her and let her know it will turn out okay even when the darkest day has arrived. Be strong, have faith… believe in yourself. “Hello” I say with a warm and loving smile, please listen carefully and know these next 10 years will be the biggest roller coaster ride of your life, as I know it so far! I know you have just met this wonderful man and will spend the next 5 years with him. It will be full of fun, lazy days, exotic and memorable trips like you have never known. It will have unbelievable learning experiences about people, places and things. You will not realize the shortness of the experience as you get wrapped up in all the glorious days and boating and dinners and cocktails thinking it will never end. It will be the most enjoying and fun time of your life as I know it so far! Please listen, it ends, it ends much to quickly and your life takes a downward turn that puts you in the darkest days of your life. Please know it will get better, you will survive. He has asked you to marry him, you jump for joy, you tell the world and life is good. The clouds roll in, darkness begins to appear… It is starting.. things are turning in the real estate market and everything is beginning to fall apart, Mom has been on dialysis for awhile now, there are now many trips to the hospital with her. Mom is getting weaker, your real estate business will take a big hit, your fiance’s real estate holdings, the ones you sold to him, will fall, Mom will pass, he will loose all confidence in himself and just disappear… You will hit the lowest point in your life and feel no one is there. Be strong, know that it is not what it seems and even though the next years will turn to famine and you will struggle beyond belief it will begin to get better. The storm is not over but there is clearing and light ahead. I look back from the now and see how strong you will be. It amazes me to this day that we have survived! Do not forget, no matter how much you see no ending to the hurt, that here, where I am now, there is so much hope and love. I believe, I love and I have survived, you will too!!

Maggie’s Voice

14 Nov 2014 2 Comments

by Life in the moment in Uncategorized

Maggie Mae asked me to reblog this post for her 🙂

MySweetBullie

Hi It’s Maggie Mae 🙂 You remember me right !!

i’ve been sitting right by Mommy as she worked on my blog today. Thank you Mommy, i love the way it is coming out. We need to especially say “thank you” 4Hands for the idea of the tag line “Maggie’s Voice” Me and Mommy really like it :-).

Wow!! look at the site Mommy and me just found : English Bulldog News

Here’s their October winner He sure is cute 💖💖💖