A story for love thursday

As you are reading this, I am on my way to Blogher… and no doubt feeling pretty nervous, but very excited.

While I’m away, I thought I would share with you a story about my dad, as it’s Love Thursday and everything.

Since I was about 10 I’ve lived away from my dad, and although I have always felt his presence in my life, I always miss him, and now when I see dads with their daughters it makes me smile – I think that it’s a relationship that is special to me because it allows me to reminisce about the times with my dad.

Anyway, when I was a little girl, I think we were asked to build a circuit or something like that, and I had no idea what to do so I told my dad and he said that he would help me. My dad is a bit of a perfectionist – something I only realized in adulthood – so after about 2 hours I got really bored and left his side… The next morning when I got up, I was completely astonished to find that my dad had built an entire house with working lights!!

Now, as much as I was impressed with his dedication to my simple circuit, there was no possible way that I was toting that thing to school! I envisioned walking into my class with this huge house and decided that the embarrassment would be way to much to handle. And so, sadly, I left the house that my dad spent an entire night working on for me. Yes, I regret it to this day, but it made an excellent doll house, and all my cousins were really jealous of it!

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Is it love thursday already?

So, since I am in a crappy mood, like, everyday, pretty much, I thought I would share with you my new “best thing since slice bread”, which I need to consume everyday, and which I hope is aiding with my struggle against the allergens, and not making it worse, because that would be very sad, and I am not sure that I will recover. Seriously.

I know that you’re dying with anticipation, so… it’s Del Monte’s red grapefruit cuz I loooooove red grapefruit, and the fact that it’s already pre-packaged makes me happy, and I will choose to ignore anything negative about this product!

Ok, as you were!

Life sucks and then you die

Well, not exactly, but sometimes it kinda feels like that.

Actually, I never think like that, I mean, life does tend to suck, but I am more of a “make lemonade” kind of person, so I like to concentrate on what’s good about life, you know, like it’s the first day of spring! Yey! People, I LOVE spring, I cannot explain how much I love spring… and although we have fresh snow on the ground, and it does not feel particularly “springy” at the moment, I have hope that it will be here soon!!

I really think that spring is about new beginnings, fresh starts, and loving life. The trickling of water on the ground, the birds coming back, the tiny little leaves starting to grow, the smell of the air, it’s truly an amazing and inspiring time.

A few weeks ago I started to write in a journal again, a real one, with pages and everything! When I went to the store to buy it, I saw one with a quote on it… “life is not about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself”... and I just fell in love with that saying. I mean, surely our past can define who we are, but it does not have to control us. Most of the time, we just need some goals for ourselves, and so when life serves us crap, at least we won’t lose focus of the “us” we’re trying to create.

Happy love Thursday, happy spring, and go forth and create the best you ever!

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Love Thursday & my comfort

Isn’t it strange and wonderful how each kid is so amazingly different? I marvel at my kids sometimes, each one has his own specialness, his own strengths, his own weaknesses, and each, my favorite, depending on my mood.

My first born has so much of me in him it’s a bit scary, he has an answer for everything, which he executes with such confidence and “spunk” that it’s hard not to smile, today I asked his brother if he has taken off his boots, and my ‘mini-me’ said “don’t you see 2 pairs of boots there?”, to which I responded, “well, yes, I guess I did”, and he quickly retorted, “then why would you ask him if he took them off, huh??”

I love him to pieces, that kid, he is my rock sometimes, he is the one who comforts me, he is the one who notices if I am upset, he is the one who knows if I need something, he is the one who says “mommy, I love you” just for no reason at all, the one I almost lost, I feel really blessed to be his mom.

Happy Love Thursday

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Love Thursday & being happy

Me: I love you baby
5 year old: you too mommy
Me: do you know what love means?
5 year old: yes, to be happy

Happy Love Thursday!

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