25 Days of Christmas Music

Ok, so most of my friends know of my obsessive relationship with self-help books. .  . . but alas, it is who I am. So this week, Duane showed me this clip from a book HE has been listening to. . . another reason I love him sooooo much! We listened to part of this…

Love this GREAT song! It is a great reminder for me . . .  as I tend to be forgetful when it comes to this subject . . . . I need to remember to put my trust in the right place. . . . because ‘you are strength in my weakness’.  Enjoy.. When every…

A great song! Now I need to remember the message in this song while I deal with these 5 kids at home for Easter break!  Sigh. . . oh how ‘me’ changes. . . .and freedom takes on a whole new meaning when school is out. . . . or in . . . ….

So a few weeks ago, a funny thing happened. . . . within about 24 hours, I had 3 different people tell me about Susan Cain, precisely this TED talk.  Ya, this one right here.  You may recall a while back (Feb. 13 to be exact, I had to go and find it. . ….

This is a GREAT song on so many levels. . . SO MANY.. . . . I had to use this girls version, because Natasha had a bad word in her lyrics, and it was just a bit harsh. Here are the words – LOVE them!  Except for the one, you can imagine which word…

I am WAY behind in my blogging, and alas we are just going to skip ahead – Look, now I am caught up. . . Now that feels better I thought this was amazing, simply amazing . . . .

So one of the things that I learned on my trip was that I really want to live life like a tourist – – see it all, do it all, and enjoy where I live. I know I don’t live by the ocean, where I can ride my bike, swim or run outside all year…

So I have now been in Hong Kong for a week and what an experience it has been. Hiking in the mountains of Hong Kong with the stairs – holy smokes – it gives the stair master a whole new meaning. The ladies market, the jade market, Stanley market, dim sum, the MRT, the A.S.I.A…

So I would usually just chalk up 3 weeks of missed blogging as 3 weeks as missed blogging ( after much guilt and turmoil of course – ya, I’m kind of hard on myself) Anyways, I have become a bit of a new me in the last 3 weeks, and if I had not had…

So, Duane and I have been watching this video for a couple of months, and I love it.  I think this video is one of these things that I could listen to every day for the rest of my life and hear just what I need on any particular day. Today, I am trying to…