So, I first saw this over on another blog and was immediately intrigued. I love the idea of setting goals and planning for the future. More and more these days, I have been searching for the things that I am truly passionate about, so that I may pursue them now, rather than waiting until the end of life, looking back, and wishing I had spent the time differently. So, this was a great way for me to put down on paper the things that I truly desire pursuing, plus a few fun things thrown in there.
10.Go on a date with my man at least once a month for a year
36.Get all the puppies housebroken
37.Mow the yard at least once of week for hubby
38.Take daily walks with family and dogs when weather permits for one month
39.Get on the Dean's List
40.Stay on the Dean's List
41.Take one dog obedience class with the whole family and dogs
42.Plant landscape flowers around the big house
43.Take a bunch of stuck to the auction house
44.Get my all pictures together in one place
45.Finish Disney scrapbooks
46.Finish First Florida scrapbook
47.Finish Ocean City Scrapbook
48.Finish our bedrooms walls
49.Keep van clean (inside and out) for one month
50.Continue with my schooling
51.Mail birthday cards and gifts out on time for one full year
52.Register dogs on time
53.Save all spare change for one month
54.Donate saved spare change to a needy charity
55.Ring bell for Salvation Army as a family
56.Send Kaitlin's graduation announcements out on time
57.Watch my daughter graduate from high school
58.Go without unnecessary sweets for one week
59.Get a filing cabinet
60.Start a filing system
61.Keep up filing system for one month
62.Pay it Forward at least twice a month for six months
63.Weed the flowers of at least 5 neighbors over one full summer
64.Volunteer to help with CCD for a school year
65.Offer help to a friend in dire need
66.Drink 2 glasses of water a day for one month
67.Do a family game night once a week for two months
68.Do a family movie night once a week for two months
69.Give a regular tithe offering to church for one full year
70.Do a family rosary once a week for six months
71.Make a monthly call or write an update letter to Grandmom and Grandpop for six months
72.Give the dogs a bath every two weeks for one year
73.Give dogs heartworm meds once a month for one year
74.Remember to reat dogs for fleas every month for one year
75.Change furnace filter every month for one year
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If you've created a list of your own, let me know. I would love to take a peek at your goals!
Watch my progress:
I decided this afternoon that the time has come to bid good-bye to my beloved Ami Girl (aka Amaretto), she is 14 years old and her health is failing miserably. After Kahlua suffered so badly before he died I promised myself that I would never allow another one of my faithful companions to be in such pain again. So I will be calling our trusted vet on Monday to schedule her sad departure.
I am very sad about having to make this decision but I know in my heart it is the right thing to do. She has never been a very social cat, but she has always been my baby. She has seen me through many of Paul’s two week deployments, she cuddled with me during turbulent times in my marriage, she bore my beloved Kahlua, she has licked more tears from my face than I care to count, she was there with me through each of my pregnancies with the boys, she was there to sit by my side during the night time nursing sessions with the boys, she consoled me through the deaths of my Grandma Myers and my Grandpa Campbell, and in more recent times she has been a listening ear during my vents about my reunion. She has been a very faithful companion to me for the last 14 years, and I have not one single complaint to make against her.
She is going downhill pretty fast, and I don’t want her to suffer. Her thyroid is going bad, she has severe arthritis in her back legs, and now seems to be developing some stomach issues. She is not a fan of our dogs at all so she has always been able to find comfort away from them by being on the top of our kitchen cabinets or even on top of the fridge. With her arthritis she can no longer jump up there to get away from them, so instead she hides out under our bed all the time. She only comes out at night when the dogs are sleeping to eat and potty, and over the last couple of days she seems to be bringing up most of what she eats so she has begun to lose quite a bit of weight. This is no way for her to live, and obviously her quality of life has diminished.
I will miss her terribly, but I will be strong enough to let her go. So one day next week she will cross that “Rainbow Bridge” and join her son, Kahlua, to lounge in the sunny patches of kitty cat heaven. I will hold her tightly until her last breath is taken and then I will release her into God’s loving arms.
Love to all...I am such a reader, I will read practically anything. I am usually not without a book to read, but a few days ago I finished up the "Twilight" series, and hadn’t been to library yet. So I decided to take a look at the Chicken Soup for the Soul books that Kate has, now she mostly has for the teen soul, pre-teen soul and such titles like that...but I had actually forgotten that she had other titles such as dog lovers, horse loves and ECT. Even though I have read the horse lover one about 50 gazillion times, I was out of reading material and figured one more time wouldn't hurt.
I came across a story titled "A Gift of Gold" in the "A Special Bond" chapter, now honestly I can't remember how many times I have read this book and I can never remember reading this story. Well after reading it last night I don't think I will ever forget it. It is kind of sad, as it is about a mother who has a daughter that is absolutely horse crazy! The parents buy this little girl a horse and soon the child is showing and the mother becomes a "horse show mom". At the age of 17 this mother's daughter is killed in a car accident, and the mother is devastated, and she can't stand the idea of selling her daughter's horse so she learns to ride it and begins showing it. (I can't remember if the horse is a gelding or a mare, and this is a very brief description of the story).
So anyway…
As I was reading this story this weight of melancholy settled in my chest when I began to read about the bond that this "horse show mom" and her daughter had. I had a lump in my throat and was fighting off the tears as I read about her years as a 'horse show mom" and all that went into her title as a “horse show mom”, for the first time in a very long time I realized that I too miss being a 'horse show mom". It was not always a glamorous title, but I cherished that title. My daughter and her passion for horses earned me that title...and I loved being my daughter's "horse show mom".
Many many of days were spent running Kate back and forth to the barn in below 0 temps (and I am NOT a cold weather person) and just as many were spent in 100 or above temps...but I always did it with a since of pride. I loved every minute of being a 'horse show mom", it was our bonding time...it was our mommy/daughter time. Now Kate is almost grown and will soon be heading out into life and I miss that blonde curly headed little girl that so proudly loved, cared for, schooled and showed her horses. They were her pride and joy, her heart and soul, her sun, moon, and stars, to be quite honest they were her world.
We have since sold off her "old babies" and have bought her a "new baby", but we haven't gone to a show in over 3 years nor I have been as involved as I once was. And I miss it...I miss the smells, the excitement, the horses, the people, the big smile when she completed a class …I miss it all. I even miss the hub-bub of having to get everything ready, the making lists so you don't forget anything, the packing, the braiding or banding, the schooling, the apparel shopping. Heck I even miss all the trips to the local tack stores, even though it always meant spending a lot of money. I just miss it!
In the end I realize for all the money and time spent on horses, and even through all the criticism that we endured because of the cost or the time taken up I wouldn't trade those years as a "horse show mom" for anything else in this world. I miss my little girl being a little girl, but I mostly miss watch my little girl blossom with the help of the thundering hooves of her favorite horse (or in her case horses). Since we were not given the ability to turn back time God gifted us with a memory...and my memory is filled with those sun filled and not so sun filled days of my life when I was a "horse show mom". I have never really understood the passion that Kate has for horses, but I don't have to. What I do understand is the passion I have for my little girl and the special bond we share because at one time in our lives I held the coveted title of "horse show mom".
***Big Deep Sigh! Now I need a box of tissues!***
Love to all...
- Mood:
melancholy
She is hoping to run and be elected for FFA president this year, so if she doesn't make National Honor Society this year, then hopefully she will next year. It is just so hard to know what they are looking for when they accept the kids, so we will turn in the packet and hope for the best. If not this year then hopefuly next year she will be inducted in, we all would love to see her hard work pay off by being inducted in to the National Honor Society.
Pray that she is accepted this year, she is really hoping to make it.
Love to all...
BPC Jr High had their first Scholastic Bowl match against Avon Jr High last night. It was very interesting to watch, and quite amazing to hear the types of questions that were asked. BPC has 2 teams…the first is comprised of 7th & 8th grades and the second is comprised on 6th & 7th graders.
Last night the 7th/8th grade team won 69 to 68, but the 6th/7th grade team lost 58 to 80. I must say though that you have to practically be a child prodigy to be able to answer the questions. It was incredible to us the kinds of questions that they asked these kids and expected them to know. When the first question was asked (I don’t remember how it was phrased exactly) Paul and I mouths both hit the floor. It was a question that a college freshman taking a class in physics could answer…maybe!
We were so very proud of Matthew because even though he didn’t answer any of the questions correctly he at least tried. From what the coach was telling me during practices he acted like he was afraid of the buzzer or would just shout out the answers. He would usually forget to buzz in and wait for his name to be called before answering, so she (as were Paul and I) was so proud of him last night for using the buzzer, waiting for his name to be called, and for trying to answer. Hooray for Matthew!!!
Matthew really seems to like it, and honestly it is right up his alley. He loves to have small pieces of information floating around in his head all the time, so this is something he seems to be enjoying. It is also a good way for him to have some structuralized socialization, and that is very good for Matthew as well. We are so proud of him for trying out for the team and making it, hopefully this will give him a sense of new found self-confidence.
We have approximately 8 more regular matches over the next 4 weeks, then it is Regional, then Sectional, and then if they make it that far…State. The matches are on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but not every Tuesday and Thursday. On the Tuesdays and Thursdays that they don’t have a match they have practice, so it is a lot of shuttling him back and forth, but so worth watching him grow through this endeavor.
Love to all…
I am a new blogger (or do you call yourselves journalers?) to this site. I have been blogging on Blogger.com for about a year now, but have felt the need for a few months to make a change to a different blogging site...so here I am.
I have not yet decided if I am going to transfer everything from that blog to this one or if I am just going to leave that blog alone and start anew here.
At any rate for now this will be the new home for my family blog/journal only until I get to know the site a little better, then I may transfer the reunion and birthmom blogs over. I'm just not sure yet what I want to do with all of that yet.
So here's a big thumbs up to a new blogging home and fresh start on my family blog!
Love to all...
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