William James said “Things are not as they are, but as we are.” We really do see differently from anyone else. Every moment is seen from our perspective and that’s a great thing. From our perspective, we are the center of our world and from that center, we have the power to choose how we see anything. The gift of freedom to perceive is priceless! It’s the key to being happy

Thought….

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Hopeless!!


That’s it I give up. I am going to just come out and confess that I am hopelessly in love with David! This man is like no other! He thinks of me first no matter what. He worries he will disappoint me, he makes something he’s doing harder for him so it’s easier for me. I have never really known anything like this. My life has been filled with men who are in one way or another abusive and to find one who is , whole, it’s amazing!! I find myself being embarrassed by his compliments and I have yet to become used to him opening doors and being so protective of me on the ice and snow. I know I lived a lot of my life sorting out myself by understanding my past but I have decided that I’m tired of looking behind me. I have discovered enough to feel as if I am capable of loving myself and others as I was meant to. I may not have learned it all but I think it’s enough. I don’t want to look behind me anymore. I have decided it’s time to look ahead at my future and how I want it to be. I also have decided that he is the one I want to do it with. The next two months will be packing and moving and unpacking as the process of closing the deal for the house starts and my new life will begin.

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Someday


Someday

Oh today I am all about someday!

I want, to have half less stuff, to continue having this wonderful man in my life, to have my health get better or at least not get worse.  I want to also come up with a stable income next to my child support, so when someday comes that the house is built enough to live in , we can move in and me not feel like I don’t contribute enough to pull my son’s and my weight.

Even thou cook, housekeeper, and companion is worth something!!! Maybe I should figure out how much that would be worth. lol. oh boy.

Someday my dreams will come true. I already feel like I have met my soul mate even if it has been only 6 weeks.

It’s amazing how much motivation finding someone who gets you can be.

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Memories


Memories are what keep lost time and people alive in our minds and hearts. 

Pictures help memories become more real. 

Things and times we have forgotten become real and alive again. 

Sometimes, I don’t want to remember, sometime the pain that comes with the memory I don’t want, but I have to have the pain to have the memory. 

Pain of a dead weight on your chest burning as it becomes heavier and heavier. The memories rush through you like waves in the ocean. 

Was it worth it now that all we have left is the pain,…..

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Challenge!!!!!


 “Imagine how powerful and how visible our world would change if everyone kept just one more promise each day, week, month, or year.” – Manish

Although I may not know who he is, he has a point.

My Challenge, should you choose to except it, 

Do one thing extra, everyday till Xmas to help someone, keep a promise or just do that thing you said you would do and haven’t done it yet????

I do it, Because I Said I Would……

Now of course I have no way to keep track or check to see who’s actually doing it but, I figure I will post what I did that day, and you can comment with yours!!!! 

So, Is anyone up for the challenge????


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Countries 


​I’m going to italy. To live. I’m watching a show, the way they work, the way they get paid. They have the longest life expectancy. They get paid to honeymoon. They get paid so much differently. The company treats the workers as they deserve to b treated. 2 hr lunches. They say it’s important to make the workers happy. They dropped there mouth when they found out there is no paid vacation time by law. 8 weeks vacation to get married, 5 months paid to raise new baby, wow. It just keeps going. We don’t take enough vacations. The us and Italy produce about the same but we work twice as much!! The Italians have more vacations to enjoy life. They believe people need to be happy!! Wow.

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The French teach children how to eat healthy from day one in school. They get 5 course meals and have 1 hour lunch that is just like a class. The kids looked at pics of us kids school meals and they said those poor kids. The chef at the school spends less but the kids eat way better.
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In Germany they have free collage, they work 36 hours but get paid 40. If a worker feels stressed they get a 3 week stay at a spa. Nobody knows anything about a 2nd or 3rd job. They also believe to have good work then you need happy workers and this is all from a place that makes pencils.Oh my. It’s against the law to contact employees on vacation or after work hours. This is still germany. This show is called Were to invade next, on epix2. I’m awed at seeing how other countries do things so different and the people r so into living life to live!! But they think America is the place to be, not so much anymore. Tons of American students go out of country to get free school. They have plaques outside each house to name the Jewish family that lived there. They believe germany needs to remember there past so they can change the future.
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Finland kids go to school 3 or 4 hours and yet do better. No multiple choice, they just no the answer. Wow. They go about education so much better. The us only cares about the standard testing. None of the schools are different. No paying to go to school, no privite schools. They all go together. The us has made schools a business.
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In Portugal,  using drugs of any kind is not illegal.Human dignity is above all else, that’s what the police in Portugal are taught.

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Norway has the lowest murder rate but they don’t do death penalty and they don’t need guns because the prisoners are treated w something they say they stole from our Constitution,  no cruel or unusual punishment. They do not lower themselves to the criminals to think they have the right to treat anyone cruel. They send them to prison and show them, love. They have less than a 20% rearrest rate!! The hardent prison on the outside looks like ours but inside, wow. They again, don’t use guns. no fights, no rape, no stabbings, nothing. The prisoners loose the freedom but are still human beings. It works. 

I never do anything political. I don’t get into any of these things usually I change the channel but this is all blowing my mind. How has America changed from love to so much hate.

It almost makes me ashamed of how we have become. The US is supposed to be the country of dreams and the country every wants to run to, why?. our crime is high, our majority rate of criminals returning is high, our education is low, our workers are not happy, we have high welfare, no free health care, we have low and middle classes. All of these countries doing these things and got the ideas from us!!!! But we don’t use them. I wish Donald Trump could see this show. We are not the land of opportunity ,  we tell our kids they can be anything they want but they cant. In America it is I, in the other countries it is we, our, always looking at things as equals. 

I am disappointed. 

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Clumsy


The Daily Post one word prompt for today.

Clumsy, I think of my love life, my relationships with others, my social life.

I have few healthy relationships that are as I said, healthy.

I feel like we stumble through life clumsily just trying to find our purpose, our meaning, our y.

I don’t know the point. You can drive yourself insane asking y

Everything happens for a reason, ok

It’s all about the paths we take, the choices we make. Ok

I don’t really know who I am. 

I want something to believe in. But, how?