Posts Tagged ‘thankful’

May 11th was the last post I did before running head long into my 18 year old’s issues.  Now what issues might those have been to keep me away from my bloggy for so long you may ask.  Oh let me tell you.

James is leaving for the USMC Boot Camp on June 15th.  Just a few weeks from now.  That is – as long as he gets his high school diploma.  Why would this be an issue I can hear you ask.

HE DIDN’T DO EVERYTHING HE WAS SUPPOSED TO!

.. ahem ..

Pardon the out burst.

So, until yesterday at 6:00 PM my handsome young man has not had much sleep.  His assignments – all of them – were due today.  Which, btw, he did get all of it done.

But WHY wait I ask you.  Why until the last momento?!

Stress your mother out!  I am stressed beyond belief that little booger!

He’ll be graduating per the teacher.  He called the SSgt to let him know all is good.

Ahhh….

Now, more stress – my son is leaving to the USMC Boot Camp!  Oh why why why do they grow up anyway?

Thanks for all the comments…I’ll be blog hopping as soon as I catch up on my sleep.

He’s not a Marine yet… they aren’t one until they graduate from Boot Camp.  Meanwhile… I’ll be a momma realizing the nest is getting a bit thin.

Hugs to everyone.  I have so much to tell you but my eyes are really tired!

Hugs hugs hugs

~Mon

This is my fourth Valentine’s Day with my husband, Daniel.  We were married May of 2006, and dated off an on since November 2004.  I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge this man and how much I love him.

He went from having one child and a quaint life to being the head of a household of then 4 kids, his – the youngest.  He went through the trials of me and my daughter before she moved out.  He went through the trials of one of my son’s just not truly engaging in school and feeling lost.  He continues to go through my youngest’s mental health issues.  Although sometimes he says it’s about all he can take – he continues on.  I respect and admire this man who took on so much when he had the slow and calm life before.

With all of the issues my husband has dealt with by marrying me, I’ve given him the three most important *beings* in my life.  My children.  It’s a gift I would not have given to just anyone.  Although there is drama – there is more love than someone could ever imagine if they were not living it.

He has provided for us, loved us, and generally put up with us.  That’s quite amazing.  On the other side… I’ve put up with him as well.  That’s marriage and it’s what we signed up for.  I’ve been so busy with work, sleep (boy I’m tired!) and Stephen – that I haven’t had much time for my hubby.  We are making time tomorrow which will be wonderful, even though it’s storming.  Hey, storms are romantic.

While we venture closer to our wedding anniversary I can honestly say it’s been a wonderful ride.  I love him very much and thought I’d tell him here as well as together tomorrow for Valentines Day.

He sent me flowers to my job today.  I got to put the beautiful roses in my cubbie and feel loved publicly.  Very nice indeed.

I love you Daniel, thank you for taking on this adventure with me.  Happy Valentines Day.

Love,

Monnie

Happy Thanksgiving To Those Who Celebrate That Holiday – And To Everyone For Everything You Could Give Thanks For!

Well hello there and hiya!  I haven’t done this in awhile, and I get to today.

I’d like to thank the following fabulous folks for taking the time to comment on my blog.  Without comments, we would feel like we are just yelling into oblivion.

Please stop by and visit their sites!

Commenters from 10/27/08 through 11/14/2008

• Loving Annie
• Jean-Luc Picard
• Akirah
• Shinade
• Alex
• Fragile Heart
• Oyvind (I don’t know how to make the “O” correct!)
• Woman Tribune
• Thinkinfyou
• Penny
• Chelle
• Teresa
• MammaDawg
• Sapphire
• Penelope Anne
• Daisy the Curly Cat
• Nicole (no blog)
• Slick
• Zhu
• Tess
• Stephanie
• Bad Evan
• DianeCA
• Ivanhoe

Thanks for keeping me from Oblivion!

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This was taken directly from chethstudios and is all information for the contest.  Oh good luck!

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BEST OF LUCK!

I am very thankful for the beautiful comments you all left for me.

Thank you thank you thank you.

This week I am going to be back on as much as I can, it’s been a very difficult October it seems.

Just a smidge of depression I suppose. Sometimes it hits like a ton of bricks.

But – there’s always light at the end of the tunnel.

Let the sunshine in!

First, a huge amount of gratitude to those that have commented, emailed and given their love and support in the times I’ve had in the last week.

I have had Stephen read the comments and he teared up.  He’s 16 but can be touched by kind hearts and beautiful words.  Thank you.

He is starting his own blog, and I’ll link here when he’s got it a bit under control.

Second, if there is anyone else out there that is empathic at all – I ask you this – how heavy are you feeling now?

Those reading may not believe in what I do, and that’s a blessing because varied views are beautiful and learning experiences for us all!

Let me tell you where I’m at right this moment as a 40 year old lady, living in the U.S. on this planet Earth in this Solar System and a part of the Universe:

I’m fighting to keep my world full of light, and love and stillness.

Although I’ve dealt with emotional ups and downs this last week – I can tell you that isn’t all that is creating a difficult situation in my spirit.

In the U.S. we have so many crisis’s right now.  From the election, to the financial “Wholly Heck”, to the day to day issues of homelessness, abuse and suffering.

In the World we have suffering, war, and hate.

On Earth we have a general tone of “oh well, someone will fix it later”.

*We* does not mean each individual by the way, there are many doing what they can in each instance.  But not the whole.

Mahatma Ghandi has a quote I attempt to live my life by every day and I do fall short most days unfortunately:

Be the change you want to see in the world.

That doesn’t mean look to someone to change it.  It does truly mean for you to be the change you wish for.  It starts with each of us.

With that said, there isn’t many American’s right now that aren’t having great angst and fear around this election.  Both the Obama side and the McCain side of voters actually FEAR the other getting into office.  Why?  It’s because of our media and mis-information being thrown at you. These two are men.  Humans like us.  They will each do the best they can to assist this country.  Neither is as bad as each side paints them to be.

I can say I’ve personally seen things that make me question the integrity and sincerity of both sides.  Enough to make me wonder who to “write in” on the ballot.  Then I catch myself.

Folks, either candidate will be perfect.

If that statement jolts you from the inside and you want to SCREAM “it’s not so” – then I urge you to look inside and ask yourself what your true fear is.  Take a deep look at what you fear and work on that.  Yourself.

Whoever gets elected is going to have a tough year ahead of them.  It’s just where we are at right now.

I get that lately – many folks are going to need therapy in heavy doses after this election.

It will all be okay.

It will all just *be* and that is perfect.

Please get yourself to a place of calmness, stillness and light if you are currently in fear, stressed or generally off balance.  At the very least, if you are feeling this way – take a look at it.

It feels to me that the world is going faster and faster and folks are attempting to move away from it, not with it.

It will all be okay… really.  It will be perfect.

Love and Light to everyone that reads this.  You are loved.

Monica

Oh pooh! I don’t remember who had this up!

Jeeze, there I go clickin’ to quick!

Anywho… thanks to whomever found this fun thing!  Hugs and Love at ya!

So, here’s my contribution to a little fun stuff…. A OK?

You Are an “A-OK”

Your life philosophy can be summed up as, “Whatever will be, will be.” Your greatest wish is to live each day a little better than the next. You are naturally calm and stable. Some people would call you a rock. You feel one with the world. You are a spiritual person, though no one who knows you would guess it.

I’m 40, and I don’t feel old.  Old would be 90 perhaps.  Not 40.

I smoke, have for a long time.  Disgusting, I know.  But I smoke.

On Friday, a first happened for me.  I was called “The Mean Ugly Old White Lady” by 3 children and their father.

Here’s how that went.

I was standing in a handicap parking lot space outside of the hotel (the Friday night fun night!) instructing my hubby on where the night of mystery was gonna be and what to do when he got there.  (It was a blow your socks off night!  Well planned out, I might add).

I was standing in the parking space because I was outside of the hotel having a cigarrette chatting on the phone.  If I smoke, I do it more than 20 feet from the door, in California there are laws on where to smoke.  I understand and abide by them happily.

After my phone call I looked up and noticed a Mercedes Benz with it’s blinkers on clearly waiting for me to move out of the space their were trying to pull into!

Ooops!

I hurry out of the way and made sure I was quite a bit away from the car.

Out popped three little kids with their hands over their faces.  I didn’t notice as I was yelling at the dad “Goodness, I’m sorry.  I completely zoned!”.  Smiling my usual smile and waving at him in apology.

Things happened a bit quick from there.

He said:  Yeah, well we are more concerned about your smoking.

Me: My what? (not sure if I heard him right, I’m quite a bit aways from them)

He said:  Hurry kids, get away from her and run to the door!  (not kidding here, he sounded like I had a gun)

Me:  Um…. (remember, I’m pretty far from them and they are entering a hotel with smoking rooms ~ so they aren’t getting to safety runnin’ inside of there!)

He said:  Cover your face kids!

Me:  Okaaaaay (I backed up even further, although the smoke was going the opposite direction of them – all I could do is watch while the kids covered their faces, but stuck their tongues out at me yelling “gross” “she’s gross” “daddy hurry up!”)

He said:  Yeah well (turning to me) they teach them this in school (almost, although not quite, apologetically)

He brought the kids inside after they gave me dirty looks and he just laughed and encouraged them to look at the gross smoking lady.

I was dumbfounded.

Not at the fear of smoke, although – that’s a bit over the top.  But I get that, if they don’t like it now maybe they won’t pick up the filthy habit.

But at the fact a parent did not reprimand their child for treating a human, a perfect stranger, like dirt.  I’ve seen it happen around me and it disgusts me.  But to really pay attention to the little ones that night, it hurt my heart that beautiful souls are being taught at such a young age that being mean to someone is okay and simply part of your day.  That left me in disbelief at the door. It’s only the beginning for these little ones I’m afraid.

As I walked upstairs thanking myself for raising children that don’t see race, physical limitations, or anything out of their norm as something they use against people – I heard the family through the door and stopped for a moment just outside.

The kids were telling their mum I suppose of the event.  But what I heard was this:

The dad was agreeing “yup!” after everything each of the kids were saying.  The mum was saying “I should go down there and kick her butt (different word used).”

The children were telling a tale of a “Mean.  Ugly Old White Lady downstairs smoking at the door and not letting them in.  She was blowing smoke at these poor little kids.  This Mean Ugly Old White Lady was giving them dirty looks and threatening them.”

Oh.  My.  Gosh.

She promptly said she was calling the manager and complaining about the Mean Ugly Old White Lady and the kids were happy and yelling “yeah!”.

The father never corrected their story.  He laughed and described how ugly I was.  I’m not joking.

I’m left with being the Mean Ugly Old White Lady at the Holiday Inn Express.

I got this idea from “Designing Hilary” as she thanks her commenters by giving a post with their names and their websites.  This assists in some areas of popularity for folks’ blogs.  The other side to this is publicly thanking those that have taken a moment of their time to contribute to your thoughts, ideas, photos… etc.  It’s something I personally am very greatful for.

I’m going to piggy back onto “Designing Hilary“’s wonderful idea and thank all of those that commenting on my *stuff* and making me feel “luved”   Thank you, without commenters or folks reading what I write here – I’d be hearing echoes. 

Comment Love - Thank you Aug 2008 Commenters

Ada – http://scramories.com/blog
Alex – http://alexiswired.com
Angela – http://memoirsofachaoticmommy.blogspot.com
Athena – http://www.hotchildinthesuburbs.blogspot.com
Babette – http://www.onehomediva.com
Beamer – http://bmw101.blogspot.com
BoBo – http://thebobofiles.com
Brenda – http://www.enroute365.com/
CatScratch Diva – http://rantingdiva.wordpress.com
Chelle – http://soodz.com/blog
Christy – http://www.motherhood-unscripted.com/
Dawn – http://dawnandjimmy.us/blog/
Deanna – http://deannascraps.wordpress.com
DianeCA – http://dianecasmetamorphoses.wordpress.com/
Emila – http://emilayusof.com
Fragile Heart – http://www.fragileheart.com/journal
France – http://www.francelovescars.blogspot.com
Gin – http://e-pamilya.blogspot.com
Goofy Girl – http://goofygirl.org
Hillary – http://57designstudio.blogspot.com/
Ivanhoe – http://ivanhoe76.blogspot.com
Jean-Luc Picard – http://jlpicard.blogspot.com
Jim Spence – http://www.wedding-cake-charms.com
Jitendra – http://www.sezwho.com/blog
Julie – http://www.sexymagick.com
Kathie – http://mytake.stayathomemama.info/
KoKo – http://lplpx.com
Kristen – http://momjeansblogger.blogspot.com
Kristy – http://www.shinyadornments.com
Lady Rose – http://2witchesblog.wordpress.com
LaLa – http://by-la.com
Loving Annie -  http://www.lovingforyourheart.blogspot.com
Mabelle – http://greatmomentsinlife.blogspot.com
Mariuca – http://mariuca.blogspot.com
Momma Dawg – http://www.mammadawg.com
MommyBrainReports – http://www.mommybrainreports.com
Monique – http://moniquerenae.com/blog
Paige – http://paige.ericksonfamily.com
Pandora – http://pandorascasket.info
PurrPrints – http://purrprints.blogspot.com
Rachel – http://www.asouthernfairytale.blogspot.com
RBV – http://www.roastbeefvag.com/theflapper
RennyBA – http://www.terella.no
Sapphire – http://theweirdnessfactor.blogspot.com
Sami – http://freewomensblogs.com
Sassy Mama Bear – http://cafeendofuniverse.blogspot.com
Sheila – http://designsbysheila.blogspot.com
Stanleyliew – http://stanleyliew.blogspot.com
The Happiness Workshop – http://www.thehappinessworkshop.com.au
ThinkinOfYou – http://writingquietsthevoicesinmyhead.blogspot.com/
Titania – http://titaniastarlight.blogspot.com
Tom Awesome – http://tomawesome.blogspot.com
Unbalanced Libra – http://www.unbalancedlibra.com
Vera – http://verabear.net
Webbiestuffsw – http://www.webbiestuffs.com
WitchyPoo – http://psychicgeek.com

Great idea Hilary!  Hope you don’t mind I’m a copy cat.    You are wonderful!

Thanks again everyone ~ you made me feel so good.