Today I think I will begin with a small post on Mom”s blog, So if you don’t mind clicking here: PurpleEleganceandLace and continuing reading there that would be wonderful… Thank you. 🙂
An appropriate start ?
04 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in daily thoughts, Mom, Reflections Tags: Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, Mom, reflections
The Mountains!
03 Dec 2014 4 Comments
in daily thoughts Tags: Daily Thoughts, Montana, reflections, skiing, Whitefish
Tomorrow is Thursday and we are expecting another snow storm. The skiers are rejoicing because the mountain’s opening day is this Saturday. Seems like this year has just passed so quickly! We have not been through a winter in the new house yet and now we have a garage!! Wohoo!! It is absolutely fabulous not having to scrape frost or snow off the windows and the car starts so much easier… I am happy 🙂 At work, we are gearing up for the skiers. The hotel is usually completely booked and I am very busy. Skies, poles, lots of people and beer… let the good times roll!! It is party time!!! The mountains of Montana are beautiful. There is such an unexplainable feeling about stepping out, looking up and gazing out over the land… where the mountains meet the sky. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!! Whitefish has become quite the hot spot.Its downtown area is really cute with specialty shops and restaurants.There are parks and walking trails and plenty to do. There is a ski bus that picks up and drops off skiers downtown. It really is a great place to come and visit while enjoying all the area has to offer. Glacier National Park is only about 20 to 30 min away with all its trails and beauty of its own. I can see why people are attracted to this area. Gosh, the airport is only 15 min away, the train comes right into town and of course always your own car. My grandson is on the ski racing team so watching his races this year will be a big thing for me. It certainly is wonderful being next to family 🙂 Well, getting late and have to get up early so must say good night.
Have a great day tomorrow and remember to “live your life in the moment with passion, love and kindness”
NaBloPoMo Day 30 last day!
30 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in daily thoughts, NaBloPoMo, Reflections Tags: Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, Mom, NaBloPoMo, reflections
As I post for the last time for NaBloPoMo I thank all the fellow bloggers for reading, commenting and liking my posts :-). I also thank you for all the great variety of posts that I have read, commented on and liked. It really has been fun, entertaining and informative. I look forward to the continued blogging and reading of this wonderful community of new found adventures and friends!!
My next goals include my “Purple Elegance and Lace” blog for my Mom (purple elegance was already taken by someone so I added “and Lace”), My Sweet Bullie blog for Maggie Mae and my whatever posts for my Our life in the moment blog… I may also do a bit of the e-writing 101 for tips here and there :-). A bit of fun for me…
Now I am on my way to PurpleEleganceandLace to work on getting it up and published today! I will reblog here, to this blog, when it is published.
NaBloPoMo Day 29 Mother Teresa
29 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in NaBloPoMo, Reflections Tags: Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, NaBloPoMo, reflections
Being that November and Thanksgiving are just about over I’m feeling a little reflective. Christmas is coming and the feeling of thankfulness and gratitude is slipping its way right in! I am so thankful for where I am. I turn and look down the road of past, I look where I stand today and then invasion the road ahead… I am truly blessed and live with much gratitude thanking God everyday!!! Things could have turned out so differently!! I welcome this opportunity to help others, to understand and not judge as I have been there, to smile and to love :-). My blogger friends, may your last day of November tomorrow and your fist day of December on Monday lead you into a beautiful and wonderful December filled with love. :-).
Leaving you with this reflective thought from Mother Teresa:
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
NaBloPoMo Day 28 Shopping :-(
28 Nov 2014 6 Comments
in NaBloPoMo, Poems Tags: Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, NaBloPoMo, poem, reflections
Run me over
Mow me down
Look man here I come!!
In the store, wanting more..
mine, mine, mine I say!!
Do not touch, do not grab
least I stab you in the ab
Life means nothing
I’m going hunting
sales are it!!!
Live you say
then stay away
come what may
you will pay!!!
I, in particular, do not care to get involved with black Friday. I have never jumped in as that kind of shopping takes the joy out of it for me. I would rather take my time and enjoy the sound of Christmas bells, the decorations…. I know discounts are great and I really don’t have the funds to being paying top dollar but I just don’t enjoy the crowds, the pushing, the grabbing and rudeness. Oh well, maybe someday???
NaBloPoMo Day 27 Happy Thanksgiving!!
27 Nov 2014 3 Comments
in daily thoughts, NaBloPoMo, Reflections Tags: Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, NaBloPoMo, reflections
I would like to wish all my blogging friends and the blogging community a very happy Thanksgiving!!! Hope it was a good one for all!
I just got back from a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration at my daughters. Family and friends, plenty of great food and lots of fun!! I feel very blessed and very thankful :-). She lives way up on the mountain and the roads this year were slushy and a bit slippery but everyone made it. We are looking at a big storm and arctic air coming in for late tomorrow so again I feel very blessed to have had a great weather day for everyone to get around.
NaBloPoMo Day 26 NYC
26 Nov 2014 4 Comments
in NaBloPoMo, Reflections, Writing 101 Tags: Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, Mom, NaBlogPoMo, reflections
As I was passing by the TV this evening I saw the ad for the Macy’s Day Thanksgiving Parade. That sent a cloud of memories and a thought production of reflections… Going back to my childhood years ago, living in Connecticut, my Mom would take me to NYC every year around Christmas time! Wonderful years of fond memories of time spent together in what I think is one of the most wonderful cities I know! We would wake up that day, have breakfast and get ready for our day affair. We would cross the street in front of our house and take the bus that would drop us off at the Bridgeport train station right downtown. The ride on the train was filled with anticipation and excitement. I loved to watch the buildings fly by, the traffic on the streets and all the different train stops along the way with the conductor walking through the aisles clicking tickets and checking the cars. Me and Mom together on a day trip to the big city where we would look at the retail store Christmas window displays, watch the ice skating at Rockefeller center, have lunch and just float around the big city engaged in people watching, hot pretzels, popcorn and tons of all kinds of activity. Totally awesome! The memories so vivid they seem like yesterday., I always remember one Christmas window display in particular: Macy’s window had a Christmas display made up of dogs in a village setting. It was snowing and the gas attendant (a handsome Dalmatian) was pumping gas for another dog who was pulled up at the pumps when this red convertible with a very pretty blond with dark sunglasses pulled up!! . Well as she pulls in he is absolutely mesmerized and can not help turning to follow her with his eyes. As he does so the gas pump he is holding goes with him and gas is flowing everywhere and the other dog is getting very angry. It was hilarious!! I will always have that etched in my memory. Or the year we were getting ready to head home and my Mom kept saying to me watch your bag, watch your bag… well while she was so concerned with mine she had hers lifted!! We ended up at the police station as all her money was stolen and we could not get home. I was so intrigued with the police station. I had never seen so many interesting kinds of people… Woman with skits up to their rear end, people who couldn’t walk or talk straight, people in handcuffs. Again, amazing!! The police got us tickets for the train and we made it back home but wow was that a trip to New York to remember! I wouldn’t have given up any of those New York trips for the world! Is was me and Mom’s time. Our special time where no one else could take it away. Thanks Mom for the most beautiful, happy and fun filled days to NYC.. I love you 🙂
NaBloPoMo Day 25 Through my daughter’s eyes!!
25 Nov 2014 2 Comments
in daily thoughts, NaBloPoMo, Reflections, Writing 101 Tags: Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, NaBloPoMo, reflections, writing 101
As I sit here and think about writing a blog for my Mom, the one she never had the chance to write, I wonder if I can really do it?? It is so scary!! I wonder if I will be able to do justice to her writings? It is going to be a bit of a shaky road at first and probably not to many posts. I need to find her notes and sort through her writings… I am going to need time to do all this so it will definitely start out very slow. I will need patience. I guess the first thing I need to do is to start a new blog just for her. Purple was always her favorite color and she loved white lace so the blog will be “Purple Elegance” and the tag line will be “through my daughters eyes” . Wow, sounds good, but the material is going to have to back it up! It’s like looking at this wonderful appetizing plate of food that is presented in a beautiful display and decorative fashion but unless the taste backs it up the presentation will mean nothing!! That is the scary part!! Hum… must think a little more!!!
NaBloPoMo Day 24 , Writing 101
24 Nov 2014 8 Comments
in daily thoughts, NaBloPoMo, Writing 101 Tags: Daily Thoughts, life in the moment, Mom, NaBloPoMo, reflections, writing 101
If you could zoom through space in the speed of light, what place would you go to right now? Choose a place to which you’d like to be transported if you could — and tell us the back- story. How does this specific location affect you?
So I go back in time to the summer of 2007. My Mom and I are in Kennebunk Maine. We live in Florida but Mom is not doing well and while she is still able I want to bring her back to her favorite place (the oceans of Maine). Her soul sings on the beaches of Maine as she walks in memory of all her whispers with the ocean! We are in this beautiful Inn by the Sea. Her room faces the cliffs. She can see and hear the mighty waves of the ocean as it sprays the cliffs with foam. Her eyes sparkle with delight and child like excitement as she curls up in a big chair by the bay window and watches. I see a tear, not of sadness, but of delight as she shares the gifts of the sea. No words can even attempt to describe the touch of that moment. Her joy, her thankfulness, her spirit… all she asks is to come back to the sea. Her dream of a house, by the Maine cliffs of the captivating sea have come true, if even for only a weekend. The beauty is everywhere and I am filled with a gratitude and love for my Mom that I will never forget.
NaBloPoMo Day 22 eBook writing 101
22 Nov 2014 7 Comments
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!!
Our LIFE - in the moment 