Friday, January 1, 2010

Happy New Year!

A friend sent me this email and I LOVED it enough to actually blog!

Health:
1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy
5. Make time to pray.
6. Play more games.
7. Read more books than you did in 2009.
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
9. Sleep for 7 hours..
10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:
11. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
12. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control.. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13. Don't over do. Keep your limits.
14. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
15. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
16. Dream more while you are awake.
17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
18. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with His/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more.
24. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree...

Society:
25. Call your family often.
26. Each day give something good to others.
27. Forgive everyone for everything.
28. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
30. What other people think of you is none of your business.
31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:
32. Do the right thing!
33. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
34. GOD heals everything.
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
37. The best is yet to come.
38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.
39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Since I've neglected this blog

I thought I'd update you with some recent pictures of my girls courtesy of my amazing babysitter: http://maracav.blogspot.com/

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Happy Halloween

We started the day at the donut shop - you know, we thought we needed to jump start the suger overload bright and early. Next, the girls participated in a Halloween storytime at the library. It's always so fun to see all the chitin's dressed up and all the DIFFERENT costumes.

Saylor was a Lily and Sophia was Cinderella. I had initially ordered Sophia a sunflower but once the Cinderella dressed arrived for disney, the sunflower costume was out.
Last night Saylor switched it up and went as Belle. Here they are trading candy.
Finally, Saylor came home and sorted all of her candy treasures...from favorite to least favorite.

Happy Halloween!

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Do you think she's trying to tell me something?

Final Disney Post

I'll just recap the remaining week in a few photos. Sophia meet her twin and it was her highlight of the trip. Saylor sassed up like Belle and she was the bell of the ball.
Really never felt the need to feed them to the sharks - shockingly.
and Sophia finally warmed up to all the characters by the end of the vaca.

Life is good.

Monday, October 19, 2009

A weekend Friend and another SPECIAL friend

Saylor was the chosen one on Friday to tend to Blackey Fuzz - the preschool bear. She was THRILLED and I was thrilled because returning to school after a vacation had been a little daunting and this perked her up! Blackey Fuzz was wonderfully behaved and he/she is welcome back anytime.

The other special friend is someone unbeknownst to me but I'm FOREVER grateful. Evidently I left my wallet at Panera this morning. My wallet, consisting of my credit cards, debit card, drivers license, house key and CASH (which NEVER resides in my wallet but it was a special occurrence since we just went on vacation). ANYWAY, my guardian angel was looking out for me because it was returned back to me - consisting of all the above. Remarkable and thankful that good people still exist!

Sunday, October 18, 2009

day 3 of Disney

Loads of characters we start to relax...
a little ice cream
and the triceratops's spin.

day two of Disney

We started at Hollywood Studios with a character lunch then traveled to Magic Kingdom. Sophia COULD NOT WAIT for the up/down aka carousal.
living like a bug. petting June.
Hollywood style.
met a few characters.Sophia was not to sure...
and Saylor's favorite part of the day - the bippidy bobbity boutique.



Thursday, October 15, 2009

we survived...

our Disney adventure. I'll post day by day since we all know my blogging track record has not been so hot the past few months. Speaking of HOT, Florida had RECORDbreaking temperatures while we were there. It was HOT.airplane ride via southwest. Bags fly free.
bus ride to Hollywood Studios.sharing the magic!

the best job...

for a 2 and 4 yr old - picking up tennis balls. The girls has a 'BALL' watching the high school girls practice tennis and loved assisting in the ball chasing endeavors.