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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 💖💖💖

Bullie kisses and hugs to all, Maggie

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NaBloPoMo day 14

14 Nov 2014 Leave a comment

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

Again I have the day off as this week was so slow! I have used this morning to read through a bunch of blogs. Omg, so many touching stories!! I needed a box of tissues!!! The journey that so many people endure make my problems seem so ridiculously small!! May God bless all of you, as even though you have such great suffering, you still somehow manage to keep going AND give back to so many others!! Enlightening, eye opening, heart touching and overwhelming!!! The inspiration you have given me fills my day with hope, motivation and thankfulness to God. Thank you all for sharing and reaching out to others even though you are in so much pain. May I be as strong and as courageous as you. God bless and I will continue to follow your posts…

NaBloPoMo and Blogging 101

13 Nov 2014 3 Comments

by Life in the moment in Blogging 101, Bulldogs, NaBloPoMo Tags: blogging 101, bulldogs, my sweet bullie, NaBloPoMo, pets

I have completed my last assignment with blogging 101. Wahoo!!! These last 30 days have been fun, interesting and quite the learning experience. Feels great!! I am also doing NaBloPoMo, which goes till end of November, so don’t think I’ll sign up for anything else just yet, beside with Thanksgiving don’t want to be on over load 🙂

My Maggie Mae thinks this is just the best cause now I can pay more attention to her and her blog. She told me; Mommy I had so much fun with yesterday’s post that I want to do more. Please find me some more pet friends to blog with, show me some more pictures, let me write…. That cold white stuff will be falling from the sky and I will be boarded. Please, please… Maggie says; well I’m pretty sure that when I give Mommy those sad irresistible eyes she will just melt, like she always does, and I will have my way!!! Good night everyone, have a safe tomorrow… slobbery hugs and kisses to all 🐶

To Buddy

12 Nov 2014 9 Comments

by Life in the moment in Awards, Blogging 101, Bulldogs, NaBloPoMo, Pets Tags: blogging 101, bulldogs, my sweet bullie, NaBloPoMo, Newbie Blog Award, pets

Hi Buddy, Maggie Mae here. I heard all about you from my Mommy who heard it from your Mommy, Swoosieque, :-). (please click on Swoosieque to read Buddy’s emotional story) I was a rescued Dog too!! Aren’t we just the luckiest doggies in the world. I came to Mommy from a Bulldog rescue organization on the east coast of Florida called Adopt-A-Bull Rescue. Mommy came and adopted me over 5 years ago. We sure have a lot stories too!! Maybe someday we can share more of our stories? The rain and thunder and lightning scare me so will you show me how to be braver? Mommy and I did some moving too. We pulled a u-haul behind our car. Mommy drove and I was the co-pilot :-). See, I’ll bet we do have a lot stories to share!! Well, maybe someday soon we can talk again. I heard you are not feeling that well… I’m sorry Buddy I know what it’s like to be getting older. I have a lot of gray hair, my joints are sore and it’s just harder to get around. I’m not doing bad though and the Vet says I’m not in bad shape for an old girl :-). Sorry to hear about your diabetes and that it is making you feel so bad :-(. I will pray for you and hope that you will be able to tell me more of your wonderful stories!! Bye, for now Buddy.. it was so much fun to talk to you, slobbery kisses, Maggie Mae 🙂

NaBloPoMo day 11 and Blogging 101

11 Nov 2014 5 Comments

by Life in the moment in Blogging 101, NaBloPoMo, Photography Tags: bears, blogging 101, Glacier National Park, life in the moment, NaBloPoMo, Photography, wildlife

Wow, been mighty chilly over here. Roads were fairly icy this morning with wind chills below zero… Burrrr!!! Well now that winter is well on its way the bears in this area are looking for food and getting ready to hibernate! Here are some pictures of our Glacier bear friends!!!

Well it seems as though the local bears got hungry enough to make their way down to the town of Whitefish MT. In the headlines was “Whitefish adopts emergency ordinance to keep bears away!! “Guess they were getting into trash cans and causing some scares!! I think the problem has been solved but sure did make for some interesting stories :-).

NaBloPoMo day 10 “The Invitation”

10 Nov 2014 4 Comments

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

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for your adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty, even when it’s not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “yes!”

It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you,from the inside, when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Bulldogs, my 2nd week feature for the newbie blog award!!!

10 Nov 2014 Leave a comment

by Life in the moment in Awards, Bulldogs, Photography Tags: bulldogs, my sweet bullie, Newbie Blog Award, pets, Photography

As I complete the first of 4 feature of the week, back to a healthy lifestyle, per the newbie blog award instructions, I must say it has not been an easy task this week. Many distractions and cravings for that yummy sugar!!! But the fight is going well and I will continue to consciously be aware of what goes into my body. Healthy lifestyle is part of my life now!!

Moving on to second of four, the feature for this week is Bulldogs. I know I have finally been able to get her blog back up and running and managed to pull off some posts as well. This week I will be paying more attention to her blog, to her and to rescue organizations and other bulldog information. Got to love those precious fur babies :-)!!