Friday, August 3, 2018

I like the larger, stronger balls....


Have you ever wondered if you were a person who fidgets? Yeah, me either…until one day:

There was a van full of us, I was driving, we were headed to an event where I had been asked to be the main speaker. Which for me, isn’t strange, however, it was a larger event. This time, for the first time in a long time, I was pretty nervous. I started to wonder why and then it hit me a few days prior to the event.

I was asked to share my experience, strength and hope and yet inside, I didn’t feel as though it was my time to share. For the audience that I had been requested to share in front of was incredibly full of a desire and motivation to live a different way of life and I did not think that I had a message of HOPE to send to them. For everything I had tried, prior to this up and coming business and my two children, seemed to have ‘failed’. What I hadn’t considered and looked at was what I had actually achieved and what I was sharing on was exactly what they were yearning in their lives. I had achieved self-confidence through a loving and spiritual program that allowed me to become the woman I had always wanted to be. The program had given me an opportunity to become a person I had only ever admired. The program had shown me how to gain courage and strength to make it through any obstacle placed in front of me. The life that was so unknown to me, I was now living. Which, if anything happened that night, other than that revelation, is nothing shy of a miracle.

“To live life without knowing who you are or growing into the person you’ve always wanted to become, is a life wasted.” ~LJY

I realized as I was driving, when someone pointed out that I had been messing around with some small balls, or otherwise known as fidgeting, that I may have always done that but in many other unhealthy ways. It started out when I was a baby, trying to find comfort, it came in the form of sucking my thumb.  Then my fidgeting habit changed into nail biting, then onto smoking and so many other horrible forms of fidgeting.  I’m 42 years young and  I have a fidgeting addiction…. Who knew? Probably everyone around me!! I’m always the last to know!!

I went to order the objects that I was fidgeting with, magnetic little 3MM balls…yes, balls. I’m now obsessed with fidgeting balls. Funny, right?? I think it is, especially since this marks the 10th year of being single. However, I have a confession to make … boy I bet your mind is running mad. HA.

I ordered a size to small and weak!!

Do not fret. I have the right size now. Trust me, my larger and stronger balls go everywhere with me now and when they are not near, those around me notice.

Take time to listen to things others point out about you. They are not doing it to harm you. They are your little whispers telling to look inside and learn more about who you are. Instead of always looking at the world as though it is a negative vibe, turn it around into a positive one. For it is through those messages you can become MORE.

Here’s to learning more lessons and living an even fuller life!!! 



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#laughter #smile #Inspire

Sunday, June 3, 2018

Hope is NOT Lost - I feel the Angel's Arms


As I drove the back country roads, as the day was coming to an end on this Friday, I look over and see a huge oak tree, with its beautiful branches all filled with amazing green leaves, gently swaying in the wind, as our hair was doing the same from the wind blowing through the van.

“Can you see yourself and the man you love, sitting under that tree? Enjoying the moment?” I say to my co-worker. She immediately, laughs and says: “In what world do you see that in?” I share with her, in my world.

My world consists of so much HOPE. It doesn’t stop with the HOPE. There’s so many blessings that I have experienced and witnessed that I know and absolutely believe, that there’s HOPE. In every dream, every thought, every feeling, that no matter what someone else believes or thinks, it is possible.



The tree …. Under that tree, the one that seems to appear randomly on my drives, I see myself sitting with an amazing man, who wants nothing but to be with me and only me, in that moment, enjoying nothing but the wonderful world that God created. Where there’s nothing in those moments but our love and desire to spend the rest of our lives together, enjoying each moment to its fullest. The kind of love, where when you don’t speak but you look at each other and you know, absolutely know, what each other are thinking and exactly how to act towards them. Only because you spent the time getting to know one another so well, that words no longer matter.
There comes a time in life, when you realize that it is not about the gifts or the material items that matter in life, it is the time that one gives to you. The time spent was not wasted. It was a gift. A gift that meant more than anything that can be ‘bought’ in this world.  For example, my ex-husband, gave me some of the most profound and wonderful ‘gifts’ of his time and moments I’ll never forget, nor do I want too. For you see, those moments, give me HOPE. Hope that it will happen again, and that it IS possible to have the ultimate love again. Those moments and others, with others that I cared deeply for, have given me a huge bucket of hope.

Hope that there will be someone to come up behind me, while I’m making breakfast, wrap their arms around my waist and whisper in my ear: “It looks and smells amazing, just like you!”

Hope that there will be someone that sees the pain in my eyes and doesn’t ask me what is the matter, they just put their arms around me and will hold me until I cry and say: “Thank you for loving me”

Hope that there will be someone there when I need an ear to vent too and nothing else, and all they do is say: “Is there anything you need?”

Hope that there will be someone to know when to run or come and when to call or not and when to make sure I feel wanted and needed and so on and so forth….

HOPE – All these moments that I experienced, felt and had smiles through, are very possible again. There is someone out there for everyone. I believe this. I know that my god didn’t leave us here to be alone and miserable. My god believes in the spirits and serenity that we all deserve to feel every day, all day that will wrap the angel’s arms around us and remind us that we are never alone. EVER.

I may have felt some of the most unbearable pain in this world, but I am here to tell you that you don’t need to lose HOPE. There is a god and that god, whoever or whatever it is that you believe in, will NOT leave you live in pain and misery. That is your choice. My god believes we are all to live in love and happiness.
You see, the happiness is already inside, it is up to us to allow someone the blessings to see that and enjoy it with us. We are in no way shape or form alone. God is good. All we need to do is believe.

I believe …. That anything, absolutely anything, is possible. I’m proving it as we speak, my world is constantly expanding and growing with the impossible and it is not about to slow down. I may not have the love of my life at my side, yet, but God is building him up so he can handle this independent, stubborn, outgoing, exciting, profound and exuberant woman that was created and continues to blossom and help her to grow into the woman she has always believed she could be.

Here is to HOPE and BELIEF.

We are NEVER ALONE.
We were meant to DREAM, FEEL and KNOW LOVE.

May you never give up and always chase your dreams!!!
Life won’t wait for you – go on and GRAB IT!!




#Romance #Love #Hope #Faith #NeverAlone #DoNotQuit #Believe

Saturday, July 15, 2017

A Throw Back to when I met 'HOPE'

As I texted him to share with him that I have the opportunity to show up in his home state, I didn’t realize that what the chances were that things would actually come together and work out, to conclude that in less than 10 hrs I’d be in front of him.

He didn’t only respond to that text message with a text, he called and we spoke about the opportunity as well as what was to take into consideration as we solidified the plans to make this unexpected meeting to occur. For it wasn’t in the books to meet for at least a few more weeks….
As I drove with the friends that helped this meeting to occur, I listened to the conversations at hand, for I knew that if I sat in silence, I’d work myself up inside, knowing that the moments were counting down to stand in front of this amazing human being that I’d been speaking too. Then came the drop off to the airport where I was to board the plane that would take me to him.
I decided that checking my carryon bag was the best idea as the plane was full and I wanted to help the others out, not realizing that prior to seeing him I’d not have the chance to change and freshen up from a long day in NYC. As I chose my seat, I sat next to two women, one of them giving off a comfortable feeling, showing me that sitting next to her I’d be able to calm myself down and enjoy the 4 hour plane ride to the man I’d connected with.

Her name was Amy and she listened to my obnoxious stories and all the feelings that I was going through. She was thoroughly interested and helped me to decide what to change into when I would have the chance prior to appearing before him. Yet, then she also shared with me what the airport lay out was like and that more than likely he’d be waiting for me prior to grabbing my bag. WHAT??!!??? I’m not going to be able to change or freshen up!! Panic had now set in….. And he suggested that I sleep on the plane. This was not an option any longer.

I was able to read, for a little while, as we flew through the night sky. I sat there, in awe, for I’d just experienced another EPIC Event and weekend in my life that was profound and here I was, on my way to meeting a man that I was connecting with, yet I’d never met.
 This was by far way better then what I’d seen in the movies – he was real, handsome, and strong and even better yet, he was everything that he had shared, even better because the man that stood in front of me, wanted me for me.

He took my bag and my hand and walked me to the baggage claim, all the while both of us knowing that we were both nervous yet ecstatic that we were both real and lived up to what we had shared up until this point in our lives with each other.
After we grabbed my bag, we made our way to the vehicle though before we made it outside, he pulled me to the side and I found myself up against a wall while he gently kissed me and we connected in so many more ways that I’d imagined!! It was magical and it felt extremely exotic and I wished that moment would not end, as he looked at me with his beautiful eyes and held me, it felt so welcoming and it was as though I was the star in something I’d always watched.

We had a drive ahead of us before we’d arrive at his home and I was okay with that for he and we needed more time to get comfortable with each other. Even though we’d never sat next to one another, it wasn’t nerve racking, it was more comfortable then I’d figured it would be. He was real, that’s all that matter at this point, I just wanted to know more and learn all that I could while I was near him.
We stopped off at the grocery store, where we shared another kiss and then, being his playful self, threw me over his shoulder and carried me into the store, all the while both of us laughing. We walked around the store, hand in hand, and then I began to realize that I had no idea what to get to eat, for I was at a loss. Whatever was happening, I didn’t want it to end.
As I walked into his home, it was as though I’d walked into my own home. It was a comfort that I only felt when I would walk into the homes of those that are extremely close me, including my own. It was as though I’d been there before and knew that no matter what happened, I would be safe and welcomed.

We had a wonderful evening, chatting until the later part of the next morning (I was wondering why he had picked out one red rose among all the other roses in the bouquet, he shared that the red one was for ‘hope’). We were connecting on so many more levels. We found ourselves interested in so many more categories and intertwining a closer relationship then I’d experienced in years.

I ended up falling asleep in his arms, then I rolled over and I was able to listen to him sleep. I watched him as he rested and it was so calming and serene, I wished I didn’t need sleep myself so that I didn’t have to let these moment slip away.

As I woke the next morning, of course it had only been a few hours later, I knew that he’d wanted to get up to take me to see things in the area. I woke him, a little later then he’d wished (he needed rest, I’m a high energy person, I thought to myself).

He had an appointment that he had to get to, so I was able to get myself ready for the day, the best I could with what I had brought.

He took me to his favorite breakfast spot, where we shared more experiences and he shared his food with me, making sure that I didn’t miss anything. Then, as we were finishing up, he pulled my chair closer to his and told me to kiss him. (What a GREAT dessert!!)
We proceeded to the next location, which was a beautiful and serene area. Nothing but God’s land and the simple beauty that it entailed. He then had me follow him to a ‘cave’ area and we spent some time there, connecting even more and then he decided that he wanted to carve our initials in the limestone that surrounded us. He had me choose a rock and he chose one himself and asked me to choose one with him, then he put the one we chose together and the one he chose on top of each other and then he asked me to place mine on top of these, he called it our ‘foundation’. He wanted me to remember it and to never forget the moments that we shared, being our ‘firsts’. As I sat there and watched him, listened to the noises and his voice, I was in shock and awe and felt the serenity of the location and situation upon me, hoping only for more moments like these.
We sat for a little while, then the time was slipping away so we decided to move onto the next adventure. He took me to a place with some history and wanted me to experience the area as well as what it all had enclosed in it. He wanted to share with me where his daughter and him were the week before and show him what they were able to accomplish together. He wanted to make sure that we took pictures to remember our ‘first’ time together and the places we went.

Later that night, we spoke of when we would meet again and spend time, for we are over 900 miles apart in our homes. We made sure that we didn’t let the moment slip away from us, we snuggled on the couch and began to realize that we both needed sleep prior to the drive the next morning to the airport.
When we woke, we both prepared for the next few hours together. I took a moment to step into the kitchen and stared out the window, for a moment, tears came into my eyes. For I knew that I had to leave, yet I didn’t understand how I found someone that was so unbelievably loving,  caring, fun and all that I’d ever wanted. I was tearing up from gratitude that I was able to find a man that had such a soul and was interested in sharing it with me. I wanted nothing more than to head out on another adventure with him, yet I knew I had to go home to my babies.

 I wanted to take some of the rose’s home with me, for he’d picked them out and I didn’t want to leave them all behind. He chose two of them, one red and one reddish orange. He wrapped them in a wet paper towel and I watched him, he placed the paper towel around them so carefully and gently, his hands working on something with so much love, I knew that I’d found someone that would make a huge impact in my life if I’d allow him to do so.
As we drove to the airport the next morning, we both tried to avoid the inevitable. Getting into some discussions about our opinions on different subjects, yet sharing with each other that that’s exactly what we were both doing.

We arrived at the airport and both of us knew that we’d see each other again, so we said our goodbyes with kisses and hugs. All the while, he assured me that we’d soon be back in each other’s arms.
As I walked through the airport, I realized that I just encountered one of the best experiences that I’d known in years. I realized, as the tears welled up, that what I just experienced is what I usually watched in movies, not in my life. I realized that the man that I met was exactly who he’d proclaimed through our previous conversations and that I couldn’t wait to learn more and spend more time with him.

He called me as I was grabbing a water and some goodies for on the flight, for he wanted me to know that he was thinking of me and that he wanted to know when I was boarded and on the plane. I thought to myself “Where did this man come from!??! What is happening to me!!??!!”

As I boarded the plane, I was ready for sleep, for I was extremely tired. I rested, remembering his arms around me and the warmth and comfort I felt, knowing that when I land I had to deal with the life that I had back home, yet also hoping that what I just encountered was only the beginning of something magical and that it will only become more of a lifestyle then a dream.

That night, I’d spoke to him several times as well slipped on his T-Shirt that he’d given me to bring home to feel close to him, it was time to retire from an experience of a life time.

I drifted off to the feeling of him holding me…. Dreaming until the next time I’m able to feel his arms around me.

Here’s to more HOPE……


Saturday, January 28, 2017

I Am Alive

The past few years, I have had to battle against some pretty deep demons!! This has nothing to do with anyone other then myself and the world that I had created. There was not one soul, other then mine, to blame. The only person to be upset with was myself. There was no one else.

The way that I see it, was that I had to crash, yet another time ( and I am in no mean immune from it occurring again ), to learn how to get  back up and utilize all that I had learned, apply it and make a living and future for myself.

The lessons that we are placed in front of ourselves are for us to utilize. They are there for us to teach others and create an environment that others are allowed to learn how to live differently. There will be difficult times throughout all of it. There will be trials and tribulations. There will be hard feelings, loneliness and times we plain ole' want to give up. Those times, these feelings, these situations..... are the times we DO NOT GIVE UP!!!

I was taught many  moons back, to not leave before the miracle occurs. That there is a factual meme and I have actually pushed it to the limits. I have put it to the test. This is the honest truth. You must work through it and make your way through the situation in order to learn the miracle on the opposing side.

You will have to fight.
You will have to breathe.
You will have to learn.
You will have to adapt.
You will have to CHANGE.

However, throughout it all, you WILL become better. You WILL love yourself. You WILL be able to share the love. You WILL be stronger. You WILL be more courageous. You WILL be more tolerable. You WILL have more patience. YOU WILL BE MORE!!!!!

Never ever give up.
Persevere.
Always show up.
Keep moving forward.



You will find:

YOU ARE ALIVE!!!

Monday, October 24, 2016

How important TRUE Honesty is to ME

As we speak, every day, all day long whether it's via messenger, phone calls or our short visits, you continue to open up to me and share with me all of you. You take all the doubts in my mind and throw them away. I don't have to ask you to do so, it's almost as though you know that it's possible that I'd ask you about the last few hours and instead you just simply share with me what you'd been doing. You back it up with pictures, posted without me knowing, cancelling out anything that I might question.

I don't know if you do it on purpose to prove that you are an honest person, or if it's simply who you are and you don't question it yourself. Although, it's important whether or not it's built into your soul and being. It's extremely important for me to know that you are what you indicate that you are. It's important to know that my trust isn't wasted on another individual.

My soul and trust has been through so much on my journey here on earth, that it's easy for doubt to set in. At times, it is even easier for the doubt to ride the negative wave and remember what happened, verses what is real. There's been people, men, that have hurt me over and over all my life. They've never given me a chance to trust them thoroughly. They've taken what I knew was comfort and turned it into a hell I don't particularly enjoy. They've thought that was their path to happiness, was also a path to a misery that I know all to well. With my temple and spirit knowing this path all so well, opening up becomes much harder and more sacred as the years go by.

As time passes, the risk of that hell surpasses the loneliness I meet each day. As the children grow and my dreams continue on,  it's incredibly hard to grasp the reality that each night as I lay my head down, I'm alone with my higher power and no one else to share it with. I sit in the darkness and wonder if I'll ever have a chance like others to share my day with someone, other then my teddy bear who lays there still and has no response to my tears. Sometimes, it's as simple as knowing that someone else is there to share the good, bad and ugly with, that makes me want to surpass the risk of the hell that may appear once again.

They say that if you don't ever take the chance to love, love will never find you.  They say that if you give up, you'll never know. They say that if you close the door and don't leave it open a sliver, nothing will ever get through. I don't want that - any of that. I don't want to leave this earth with out having known love again.

I like that you show me I'm on your mind.
I like knowing that you think of me through out the day.
I like knowing that you wonder what I mean when I say something you don't understand.
I like that you trust me with your daily redundancy.
I like that you let me know when you are upset, confused or happy.
I like that you pick on me.
I like that you are taking your time to get to know ME.
I like that you put me in my face, call me on my own shit and that you are not afraid to say it like it is
I like that you are just as stubborn as I am.
I like you... alot

As you drove back the other night, I sat there, thinking how great it felt to just be with someone who wanted to actually be with just me. It felt good to know that even if you aren't THAT into me, you at least like my company. Sometimes, I like to just sit and be... it's when I know that everything in that exact moment is just the way it's suppose to be and that no matter what nothing can take that moment from me, as it could end in the next. That's what those 20 minutes were. Moments that I enjoyed, captured and realized that I'm extremely fucking scared that it may end the next moment, but yet also engraving them into my soul. Engraving HOPE. Hope that the reality of not being alone forever, actually could happen and that the truth of the matter is....I have to let it.

I'm glad you drove that night, just like you said, sometimes I have to remember to get outta the drivers seat and let my higher power drive.

For what it's worth --thank you. Thank you for opening up your soul to me and to allow me to realize that there's still really good men out there and that it's possible to have one in my life. I'm grateful for you.

Friday, September 9, 2016

What he didn't even know he was doing to me ...

After spending a few short hours together in public, trying with all our might to not allow the butterflies to interrupt us, working on paying attention that we were actually in public and not giving into every temptation that we had and giving into exactly what our minds knew we wanted too.....

You walked in front of me, after having listened to me and the issues that I'm currently dealing with, being a single mother of two, juggling life on life's terms while going to college and putting them into their next years in school all the while, knowing fair well that I'm inching by to make it financially, you shared with me thoughts that made my attraction to you even stronger.

Maybe it's because I've not allowed myself to get close to a male being in a very long time, or maybe it's because you took the simple time out of your day to go with me for a few hours and give them to me, or maybe it's because you are simply that amazing ....

Whatever the 'real' reason was, you took another step closer to who I am inside, with your responses to what I was sharing. It was as though you knew that as I shared about struggling, exactly what I needed to hear to make the struggles more bearable. It's as though the thoughts that you had shared with me matched the embrace that you also shared with me when we first met. It's as though God heard me and knew that I needed you, It's as though you were put there, at that moment, for a reason much larger then I could imagine or explain.



What you don't know is that what you shared, I'd not even thought of, I'd not even put that thought process to what I was doing in life. For what I'm doing in life, isn't always about what's so far in the future but more so what's in front of me and the children. For I continue to do the footwork, to make it to the next moment,  not  that far in the future.

It felt as though you knew.
You knew the exact words that I hear in movies or in others lives that actually made a difference in their children's lives.
You knew, perceived and applied what I was living to what you'd seen in other's lives and worlds and confirmed that what I am doing is the 'right' things to be doing.
You confirmed that the struggle is worth it, even though right now I could collapse from the stress and pressures of life it's self.

I'm not even sure if you realize the impact you had on me by what you said/did that night. You were attractive to me the entire time we'd spent together, even more so each time we'd see each other or chat with one another, but that night, those words, you opened up a whole different level of attraction to you.

Thank you.



Thank you for being you.

Thank you for what  you shared.

Thank you for showing up in my life.

Thank you for impacting my world, in the extremely short time you've been here.

Thank you for showing me that the HOPE that I had tucked away in my back pocket, was actually real and that there's still a chance for an ole woman like me.



Thursday, April 21, 2016

My life didn't go that way

🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 ~~ BE THE CHANGE ~~ 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀

When I was growing up the thing to do was to be in sports, grow up, meet the spouse of your life, get married and have babies and then grow old together.

🎈 🎉 🎈 🎉 Well, my life didn't go like that. 🎈 🎉 🎈 🎉

I'm grateful that I was not married long and that my world crashed after I realized that living life to the fullest meant, not using any chemicals and helping others is the key to living a different way of life, all the while learning about myself, through the pain, the trials, the errors, the tribulations. If it were not for my husband leaving me for another woman I'd not be who I am today. I'd not be the parent that I am today. I'd not be the friend that I am today. I'd not be even close to who I am today.

I'm grateful that I was blessed with two bankruptcies, near homelessness twice, loss of an unborn child and a foreclosure, for I've learned between that and growing up with the bare minimum that these are all only ITEMS. The real 'things' in life are in the heart, the arms of those you love and the souls of those around us.

I'm grateful that I was blessed with two beautiful, healthy children that my higher power seems to believe that I can raise on my own ( 3/4's of the time ) and that I'm able to see right from wrong to show them a healthy way of life and that I was offered a chance to a third child. Yet, I'm able to know today that two was my magic number.

I'm grateful that I hit my heaviest weight while I was married with children and that I became disgusted enough to change my entire world and integrate fitness and health into as a way of life.

I'm grateful that today, I'm being given a chance to follow every dream that I ever had and that I'm able to do this on my own free will ( with the help from above and the angels that surround me ). That I'm able to chase after a life that was completely unknown to me while growing up and only ever seen in the movies or cartoons. That I've been given tools to make a difference ... in more then one person's life.

Today - I'm grateful that I'm not the same person that entered her adulthood and that all the trials and tribulations that were presented to me, I was able to turn them around 100% and make them a positive verses a negative.

Today - I'm grateful for YOU. For it was you that believed in me to get me to this point and YOU that keep me moving forward.

#ONWARDTOEPIC
#BETHECHANGE