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 |   This life of mine is filled with blessings and I'm gonna focus on that and move forward. |
  And here's my Simpsonized picture...  and my daughter, Baba. Isn't she cute?  Actually, I need to upload the whole family, just for the heck of it sometime. Then, I'll always have them right here with me.  This journal forced itself into being because I loathe, no, I mean, I want to write. It is a struggle to state what I am thinking inside so a daily blog is just what I need. Not because I like doing it, I must. My thoughts are begging to be heard before they are lost in the caverns of my mind cave.  |
Wow! It's been 21 years since I signed up to Writing.com in Florida, in 2004. So much has changed since then, in me, in my life, and in my families lives. I'm so blessed to have a loving husband who supports me and loves me. That's no small matter in this life. I'm so blessed to have children, two who are here, and 1 in Heaven waiting for me, who love me in spite of me. I'm so blessed to have two wonderful grandchildren from our son, Ares and Luna, they are just GREAT grandkids. And they call me gram gram! lol It's funny how my focus changed. It's funny to me that now I want to learn knitting. And crocheting. And I MEAN it this time. lol So, I'm not talking about writing but I want to write much more in 2025. My husband has some great writing strategies that I plan to use to get more good work in my portfolio. I'm glad for the newsletter that do here. I'm also glad that it is looked at and enjoyed. This makes me feel good and this is such a positive aspect of this commitment. Well, I hope that this year, 2025, will bring much more surprises than 2025 brought but not with medical surprises or deaths. Or near death. I've done enough for my fair share of years. lol Better get this posted. lol |
| Today is Monday, January 6th and I'm gonna try to write in the blog. This is not what I wanted to document but I think that I must write something daily. This is hard but I think it will be worth it. In the long run. It's funny that a week ago, my husband and I went to get flu shots and we've been fighting sickness on the day, a week later. It almost feels like it is a waste to do it but my husband told me he'd never gotten the flu shot so Dec 30th 2024 is a memorial day. lol Ares said he wanted to journal daily. I need to ask him the next time we speak how it is going for him. He is a wonderful child. I am proud that he is our grandson. Our granddaughter, Luna is a wonderful young lady that is just a dream girl. She's girlie fun smart and lovely all at age 5. What a great age to be so young! It' crazy that in two more days, I'll have joined WDC on Jan 8th 2004. Sigh. I don't have a body of work from that time at all. Oh well. Such has been my life. I spoke to our son Kane yesterday. He's such a good son. I enjoy speaking with him and hope that I can be more of a Mom in his life, and more of a gram gram in my grandkids. Here's to more writing in 2025! |
| It is a strange feeling to start something like journaling and to forget to do the journaling until the day is nearly over. Well, that is me again. Sigh, so I'm feeling sick now that I want to journal but I can journal about that, I guess. No! I won't do that. That's a waste of paper and effort. I can talk about life changing ideas. Dr Peterson, in one of his shorts said something so strong. He said that we were made in God's image and because of this God expects us to use this reality to affect change in our personal lives. I didn't know what to think. I was so overcome with emotion because I'd read this before in the Bible. I heard it spoken to me in a sermon. Only when Dr Peterson said it in the way he spoke those words, did it strike me and I understood finally. I'm drinking lemon tea right now, trying to warm up my insides and get these thoughts out before they float away. He said God, in the beginning, brought order to the Chaos that was the Earth. We too, in the same way, are imbued with this ability if we try to start on ordering our lives better. WOW!, Just WOW!!! So, I've got work to do then. It's better to get on it than to just know that it needs reordering. I'm excited to start on this new path. You know, I've been nervous about writing for a long time but I'm going to try now. My grandson journaled today and so did I. Today, was a good day. I'm glad to note things of importance in my journal. it will be nice to reference it later on in my life. So, we started watching Creature Commandos. It's so good! We finished 100 Years of Solitude from Gabriel Garcia Marquez and my husband just LOVED the series. They did a good job of not deviating much from the novel. We can't wait till season 2 in 2026 and oh, I just saw more stills from GTA Miami...this is going to ROCK the gaming world! This game is not just a game; it employs so so many devs, it's not funny and they will pay for the game in the first week of it dropping! lol I love GTA! It was so fun watching our son play this game when he was younger. I hope he'll play it when this one drops this year. I know he won't want Ares to play this game though we let him play all the GTAs. Okay till tomorrow... |
Entry 3: My loved one is...wow! Where do I start in talking about my loved ones? I must start with my husband, who, if he were not in my life, I wouldn't even be where I am today, and that's the truth! My husband and I have been together since we were teens. Thirty-four years (actually 35 years since we were engaged for one year prior to our marriage in 1991), and our lives are so intertwined together I couldn't see it without him. My husband is the glue to hold our family together. Our children love the fun times that my husband created for them. He is the "fun" and spontaneous part of our marriage. He is the one who will do an unplanned trip to another amusement park just to see the smile of glee on the kids faces. Or he is the one who will create a work of art or a silly song to sing with them, all the while to bring joy to them. Now, I seem to leave myself out of this joy but I can assure you, he’s not missing me at all. My husband is keenly aware of my presence and what brings me joy, elicits laughs or giggles, or makes my heart burst with love for him, and I just love this about him. He is amazing and definitely the reason I succeed in my life. Next, our kids. God blessed us with two beautiful kids - a boy first, and many years later, our girl. It seemed as if this was not in the cards for us since it took so long for her to appear but I am glad when God chose to send her to our lives. Our son is a joy to us and we marvel sometimes at the intelligence, the handsomeness, the height that neither one of us had, God bestowed on him. He’s been a joy in our lives and a consolation through the years when it seemed we only would have one child. God thought it best many years after we were calmer and much more appreciative of our lives together, to send our surprise daughter to us unawares. I discovered when I was working a job that was highly stressful to send our daughter to us. I didn’t know the signs of pregnancy since it was that long for me. Our daughter, named aptly after her father, is more like her father than our son is. She is very analytical, not prone to girly things, but is one of the most loving persons in my life. My life is so blessed with so much love and conscientious people in my life that make me the person that I am. |
For the day 2 entry, the question asked, "What was an earth shattering Life and Death situation that took place in your life? What happened, and how did it change you? Well, quite unexpectedly, this past summer, I experienced a shift in my world when I during a surgery, the surgeon made an error with my surgery, and I nearly passed away. I spent two weeks in the hospital fighting for my life and learned more about my spouse and my children, about the love that we have for one another during this time. This was my first surgery apart from my children's births and I had delayed any female surgeries for years, only recently deciding that I should agree to have this surgery. And once I did, not only was this surgery not normal but it grew complicated by the surgical error that nearly took my life. This rocked my life. It rocked my husband's life as he was stretched in ways and I found out what was most important in my life in a matter of days. I found myself regarding my life differently once I learned I was this close to death. Fortunately, the surgeons were very motivated to work on my care. The original surgeon spent most of his days apologizing for this mistake, even though I never asked him to apologize. I felt gratitude. I felt indebted to my God for keeping me here a bit longer. I felt more love for the goodness my husband was in my life. For our children who called me daily to ensure that I was still here. I am keenly aware of how fragile life is. Life swerved for me, and I barely survived. However, I am so grateful to be here. I am grateful for our children, for our grandchildren, who are precious to me. Life is precious to me. I am going to enjoy it and do more. |
I've been a member of Writing.com for 24 years and I LOVE this site! It is important to me to be here and I remember going through some stressful things that mark my joining the site and remind why being here is important to me. I don't know why I haven't done more with my membership than I have because I love being here, and I love what can be achieved if effort is put in. Sigh It just seems that when I think that I need to start doing something more, the universe moves in such a way that I can't circumvent it. This place is great to find new people to befriend you, to review your work, or your writing, basically, to help you, if you seek out the help. I've met more people who are interested in helping another person than not here. I have seen members come and go but I think that I could not leave this site because it's now become my obsession. I sometimes take breaks away, some unintentionally, sometimes intentionally but I always return. I must return to this site because I feel tied to it. It's part of my life. I've been here a very long time and now it's longer than any other place in my life. I recently had an unexpected personal event that wrenched me from my home and placed me in the hospital. I was terrified. I wanted to write about it but I didn't have access to any devices to login to Writing.com. Now, I can talk about it. I hope that I can organize it better but I defintely wanted to post here and now, I am using the blog for the first time, in a long time. I hope it is the start of something productive. Writing.com has helped me to maintain my sanity and know, that it is always my friend that I can confide in. Thank you, Writing.com for always being here for me. |
Gonna try to write in my blog again. This is a strange thing to me, to document what I'm thinking but I am going to try, specifically for the birthday celebration week. My life has gone through some strange changes, medically, and I never saw this one coming. Talk about a blindside! I hope to discuss it here, in some small part, and keep track of it better. I hope this is the start of some changes in and with me. See you tomorrow! The Tale of Coco Adore:   |
Today started pretty simple, very much the same as it usually does. But I woke with thoughts. Positive thoughts. It's a good feeling when this is the case for the start of a Saturday morning. I had an idea. I shared it with my husband. He thought is was GREAT! It will change many things in our life but change them for the better. We've got a focus. We had a goal. We will move forward. |
Wow, wow, WOW!!!!! Everything is about to change and it is strange, and excting and bittersweet and AMAZING!!!! I don't have much time to post what is happening but I just want to document that this YEAR, 2022 is starting off unlike ANY year from my past, bar none! I'm so excited to see it and feel the changes, Yaaayhooo!!! I'll be back to post more hopefully tomorrow, if I find the time that is! lol |
| Well, I am not as talkative today but I still wanted to thank you for the well wishes for my 18th WDC anniversary on the 8th of January. It's really crazy to see this many years pass and know that things are really changing for the better. I'm feeling hopeful for future changes...can't wait to talk about them here. |
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Thank you both for your comments! I had fun with this one...just let my thoughts run free for a bit.