About Me

I love seeing my children laugh, my family and my friends, mexican food, a good bottle of wine, coffee, summertime, I love to laugh and I love to smile. I love cute sunglasses, my jeans, back rubs, curling up on the sofa with a warm blanket. I also love the color orange, turning the radio up loud when I'm driving, banana splits, frogs, sweet text messages, happy hour, new clothes, getting flowers for no reason, girly movies, and people who make me laugh. I'm not too hard to please, but I'm not perfect. I lack patience and the ability to listen for a long time, I am clumbsy and quite forgetful. I get easily frustrated (especially with traffic, long lines in stores, bad grammer and dirty dishes). I hate when my toe nail polish chips. My hair drives me crazy and it makes me insane when I can't find anything to wear. I can't carry a tune and can be a dork at times. I get easily sidetracked. So while I may not be hard to please, I admit that I may be hard to put up with, so to all of you, YOU ROCK for putting up with me ;)

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...

I've decided to start a blog..."A Little Dose of Life As I Know It”, mostly as a home for the gratitude I feel for all of the little things in my life that mean so much, as a safe haven for all of the times when I want to express feelings, and most importantly, the truly joyous (and often comical) moments that my family and I share together, as our life is genuinely filled with laughter.

For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.  ~Author Unknown

Think back over all the years of your life. Think about the things that you worried about, anguished over, and mulled over for days, or even weeks. Think about the time, energy, and negative emotion spent on these situations and the disruption they caused for you and those close to you.  So often we take on so much, and we spend so much time trying to be the perfect mom, the perfect wife, the perfect friend, the perfect employee, the perfect daughter, the perfect sister...we eventually crash and start to really sweat the small stuff. But guess what, it's just STUFF. So we didn't make it to that soccer practice right at 6:00 because we were held up at work. So we dressed our child this morning and we didn't notice until we are dropping him off that he had on one blue sock and one white one. So we get home and forgot to take the chicken out of the freezer for dinner tonight, so we are all heading to McDonald's.  So what if we neglected to answer a work email on our blackberry and it went unnoticed until Monday because we were on the sidelines of the soccer field rooting our kids on as they score that perfect goal. It's okay to say, "I can't do it all!" But we'll certainly continue to try :)

I am investing time in this blog because I love weaving words and images together to tell a story, one that may be of inspiration to others or one that may just give someone a good laugh... And in doing so, I find myself looking more deeply for the beauty in life and consequently finding it in more places.

~Nancy~ 

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