Friday Light Night 12/31/11

...on Saturday.  Hi Everyone!  Well, it's the last night of the year, can you believe it?  I hope that you have had a wonderful year.  The last few years have been such a learning experience for me with the minor, yet trying health issues I battled through and becoming a new mom.  Being a mother is such a rewarding experience, but it takes a ton of patience and lots of love.  I look forward to giving my little one a sibling to play with sometime over the next year.

As I look back on the year, through the good times, the trials and the tribulations I know that everything was as it should have been.  Everything was written out in the pages of time... I look forward to what is in store for my family and I in the coming year.  Most of all, I look forward to creating that "1 extra hr of time" to do the things that are important to me, so that I can be the best wife, mother, daughter and friend.  I look forward to making the time to hang out, relax and rewind with old friends and new friends.

I hope that you make time to do the things that you love, to be with the ones you love and care about and to just relax.  Find that extra hour to do something for yourself... get up a little earlier and workout, or to read and have a cup of tea.

Here is to a blessed, healthy, happy, safe and prosperous New Year 2012!
Jennie

Friday Light Night 12/23/11

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... everywhere you go..."  I hope that you, your family and friends have a very Merry Christmas and a blessed, healthy, happy, safe and prosperous New Year 2012!

Jennie

Friday Light Night 12/16/11

Happy Friday!  The countdown is on... one week until Christmas.  I am surprising my hubby and taking him out to dinner tomorrow evening, maybe a movie, or some shopping/walking around to enjoy the Christmas season.

Live in the now.  Be in the present.  Stop what you are doing and really take something in.  Enjoy a child walking and shopping with their parents, breath in the fresh, crisp, cool air (assuming you are somewhere cool) and really breath it in, close your eyes and take 5 deep breaths and relax and think... if you are feeling overwhelmed, or stressed, do you really have any reason to feel stressed?  Is it that bad?  Do you have a roof over your head, a bed to sleep in, food in your belly, family and friends who love you, clothes on your back?  Be thankful for the many things that you do have today and make sure your appreciation is accredited to the One who deserves the praise and thanks.

Have a blessed week... until next week...

Friday Light Night 12/9/11

...on Saturday!  Hello my dear friends.  The Christmas holiday is approaching quickly.  I will start baking my cookies over the next week, I have a few small gifts to get and Christmas cards to write up.

I can only hope that the next two weeks move as slowly as possible.  I get tears in my eyes almost every year when Christmas Day nears the end.  I know it will come again, but it's so relaxing and such a joyous day with family and friends.  I hope the Christmas music plays on through New Years, as it always starts a day or so after Halloween and it stops the day after Christmas- that just doesn't make sense!

I hope the next two weeks are full of fun, laughter and joy for you and your's!  Be spontaneous and do something fun!  Talk to you soon!!!

Friday Light Night 12/2/11

It is December 2011!  I is the remaining month of the year and what a joyous month it is!  Shopping, baking, Christmas parties with co-workers, family and friends, holiday foods and treats, breathing in the cool, fresh air after being inside all day, living, loving and laughing...

My daughter is growing up so fast.  I am embracing and enjoying every minute with her, as I know that a day will come when I look back and think, "I remember when..."

Have an amazing weekend!

ABC'S- I Am Not Waiting For A Change

PUMP IT UP!  Embrace change.  It is inevitable.  The more you anticipate change and embrace it the easier it is to work with the changes themselves.

I was working out last night and listening to my MP3 player.  You know how that song, or series of songs comes on and you get pumped up?  Well...

A- I am Alive
B- I am Belief
C- I am Consistent
D- I am Determined
E- I am Encouraging
F- I am Fearless
G- I am Grace
H- I am Health
I- I am Inspiration
J- I am Joy
K- I am Kinetic
L- I am Love
M- I am Motivating
N- I am Never-ending
O- I am Optimistic
P- I am Power
Q- I am Quick
R- I am Ready
S- I am Strong
T- I am Thankful
U-I am Unstoppable
V- I am Victorious
W- I am Winning
X- I am (e)Xhilarating
Y- I am Youthful
Z- I am Zealous

Get a fire blazing in your mind and in your heart.  Envision yourself over and over again just as you want to be and become that vision.  Believe in it with every inch of your body.  Inspiring and motivating you... go get em!