A Penny For Your Thoughts

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Welcome back again.....

Well it's been a minute....lol I feel like my my yearly post is to say I am going to start blogging again, and then never do. I hope this is the year that consistency is in my wheel house so to speak. I have again changed career paths. Not completely though. I am now the School Librarian in one of local schools. I LOVE IT! I am looking at utilizing all my degrees in some form or another this year: Teacher cert in Family and Consumer Sciences, Reading Teacher, Library Information Specialist, Psychology, and maybe even Cosmetology. In know, I know.... it may sound like how? but really, I use all of them every single day, and I have some ideas on how to use them to benefit more people than those in my inner circle. I will share more as it develops. So in my world nothing says back again like a currently post, so here goes: Currently reading: The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic by Breanne Randall All the hyp...

Find Your Passion Question #2

Questions #2 is When you were a child, what did you dream of doing when you grew up? Like most little girls I use to play school a lot when I was little, but I don't think it was as much of a passion as it was modeling some pretty amazing influencers in my life. I also liked to play librarian and my mom got me library cards and pockets that I could put in my books, this was so fun. But ultimately I just wanted to be a mom. I really always thought I would just be a stay at home mom, girl scout leader, Sunday school teacher, etc. When I was in Junior High during the 80's the idea of being a stay at home mom didn't even seem to be a consideration anymore. There was the whole push of what are you going to do, where will you go to college, etc. I think at that point I only thought about where I would go to college, still not "what would I do". I figured I would go to the local State University (where I eventually did go) and decided I wou...

"Resolutions"

So I am not going to write my resolutions here because I feel resolutions are better kept to oneself. I don't necessarily wish to have someone else's accountability because if they fall through the cracks then I will feel defeated and that is not something I need to sign up for and also sometimes what I think I want actually changes the more I work on it. Sometimes it evolves into something a little different and my success is measured differently. I will tell you what areas of my life I try to look at when thinking about my resolutions for the year: Personal Career Financial Family/Home I try to have at least 1 if not more for each area. Some areas have 4-5 but they usually tie together as more of many goals or steps. I do not have diet goals specifically but I do always strive to add something health related. Last year my health goal ended up being following through with a surgery that I have not wanted to have. It ended up b...

Word for 2021

Word or Words for 2021 I have put a lot of thought and prayer into my word for 2021. I decided on the final three but since they all go together, I have decided to use them all. Drum Roll please........ Hopes Dreams Goals I am ready to do some reevaluation, some work towards growth, and thinking outside the box. I could have added faith as well because I know that faith will help with learning to hope and dream again. It has been a long time since I have allowed myself to truly hope and dream. I try to live in my current reality but in doing so, I have forgot that without hopes and dreams, goals are kind of boring and not always what I really want from life. I am HOPING that this year will bring more sunshine and less rain, more flowers and less weeds, more smiles and less tears, more butterflies and less stomach flips. 2021 Let's call a truce, maybe during all the craziness I can call you "My Year"

Find Your Passion Question 1

On Pintrest I found a journal writing prompt list from www.solutionstoallyourproblems.com for Finding Your Passion. There are 10 Questions and I am going to answer each one post at a time. So here goes with Question #1 What was your favorite thing to do growing up? So without saying this would have been different for different ages. From about as young as I can remember to at least 10 years old (maybe longer if I admit) was to play Barbies. I LOVED playing Barbies all.the.time. I loved her clothes, camper, plane, dream house, tiny accessories, carasel kitchen, car, dog, cat, boat, pool, horse, and on and on. I had all the stuff. When I was little my dad was a drill sergeant in the army and when families with older girls would move and purge their toys, I got all the barbie stuff. I was over the moon. I think it was partly due to the fact that it was something I could play all by myself, since my only sibling was male and 13 years old...

Winter Goals

Winter Goals: Try a Hot Chocolate Bomb and document on here. These look so amazing 💓 Maybe make a Ginger Bread House. I have not done this since my girls were really little. Actually go out and document the first real snow. We had a small dusting the other day but I plan to document the next one and try to make a new relationship with winter. Since moving to Illinois at 7 years old, I have never really developed a friendship with the white stuff. Maybe at 50, I can call a truce. Make a specific home office area in my living room. I am pretty sure this is going to be a necessity and if not, I am sure we will still use and appreciate it.