Lets Celebrate-CIAA Week Charlotte, NC

There's so much to do, will you get out this weekend and enjoy the festivities with me?

I hope you all get a change to get out and enjoy!

Sorry my New York family, there will be better days, but you can always just sit back and enjoy the beautiful white snow!




CIAA Tournament Charlotte, NC February 23-27th 2010- click here for more details

Be safe and have fun out there!

The Lovely Things in Life-Week 2

Dinner Theatre-Welcome to Rufus's World

My star Basketball player- Little Paige Jr.

Well that's all folks, this hasn't really been an eventful week. Maybe next time!

Life is a road trip and I'm ready to keep moving

I feel a bit relieve, I've got a few to-do's off my long list of never-ending things to do.

But of course I still have so much more to get done, who doesn't?

This week so far has been one of the busiest yet. So many unexpected things both good and well lets just say uneventful. I'd absolutely agree with erasing the days and starting all over again, but I'm assuming that's not an option. But of course its Thursday, I've made it this far, so why stop moving? I have more to do in the by the end of the weekend than I've already done so far this week, how will I survive?

If only I could detour on my road trip and go to Vegas, or the Bahamas, the beach, I'll settle for a day spa right about now. But I can't because this is real life, and I can't walk away from my responsibilities or my conscience. So I guess I better keep moving. Slow at times, some roads I wont go down at this time, I might even hit a few more dead ends, but I'll just turn around and keep on truckin! You should too!

In Honor of Black History Month

To often we allow time to slip right past us and before you know it, its too late, you have regrets, you can't turn back....

Don't allow the rest of February to go by and you haven't taken a moment to honor our race. In this modern day world, we seem to consume so much of our selfishness that we lack recognition for the things that we do, the accomplishments we made and the knowledge we once knew. Don't let another day go by, don't let another story be untold about how blacks played a part in our lives, in our past, in our present and the future.

I'm an guilty of being too busy and allowing it to near the end of the month without using my full potential to capture the moments, educate myself, and share my experience with my friends and family. The great thing is its not too late to do so and you don't have to beat yourself up. Join me in honoring the Black Family Pledge. I found this online and can't quote who wrote or was inspired to write this, but its all for good and I wanted to share.

THE BLACK FAMILY PLEDGE

BECAUSE we have forgotten our ancestors,our children no longer give us honor.
BECAUSE we have lost the path our ancestors cleared kneeling in perilous undergrowth, our children cannot find their way.
BECAUSE we have banished the God of our ancestors, our children cannot pray.
BECAUSE the old wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearing, our children cannot hear us crying.
BECAUSE we have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fathering, our befuddled children give birth to children they neither want nor understand.
BECAUSE we have forgotten how to love, the adversary is within our gates, and holds us up to the mirror of the world shouting, "Regard the loveless" Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters.
We ARE our brothers and sisters.
IN HONOR of those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues,and in gratitude to the same God who brought us out of hopeless desolation, we make this pledge.

Will you too join me in making this Pledge?

The Lovely Things in Life Weekly Post

Girl Scout cookies- Tag Alongs to be exact

My little boy winning another basketball game and me being so into it baby girl's squirming didn't bother me

The movie: Couples Retreat

Having lunch with My Dear

My Career

The expectation of good weather this weekend

Sister Davis' homemade original Cheesecake

The Griffins homemade chili with ground turkey

Is food my top pick of the week? Uh oh, we have to work on that and the consequences of eating too many Girl Scout Cookies...lol

You've got to see this!

Ok, sorry but this one is for the family back North. After all my hopes for better weather, Oh no it didn't! Oh Yes it did!!! Again. Snow!!!!! Real flaky, light snow. Not that slush or freezing rain. Its the second time around. Boy were my little ones over excited especially my little boy. Well family this is for you, enjoy and don't rub it in. Its unbelievable, but don't forget the grass is greener on THIS side. Literally, its gone already.

HUGS AND KISSES!!!!

Let The Good Times Roll

I am officially ready for the cold weather to be over. I can’t digest anymore of it; I don’t want to deal with it much longer. Being from Central New York, I shouldn't complain , but I know God sent me South for a reason and I’m sure it was to receive one of the many blessing he has in store for me-such as getting away from the long and treacherous winters.

I miss my friends and neighbors, I miss outings with the kids outdoors, and I miss walking the neighborhood showing my children nature without being afraid they’ll get sick. By the way, how can they get the max of their physical activity if they can’t run around outside? My little one-18months is frustrated because she sees it(the outdoors), but can’t experience it just yet. I miss My Dear cooking out- preparing and grilling the best Baby back ribs I’ve ever tasted! I miss comfortable time on my patio. I miss the birds chirping in the mornings. I’m ready to plant my Garden this Spring and try something new.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had and will continue to have many great experiences this winter, but I feel I’ve been limited. There were Good times, but let’s get moving old man winter, roll along and turn over some warm weather, allow my family along with many more to live and enjoy every day to our fullest potential.

Denial

Every time I talk to my Aunt back home, we have a conversation about how my health is. I've been through some things for those that know me, but with Jesus as my Savior, I know that he is keeping his loving arms around me, protecting me, and helping me along my journey. Well at this time I have to be blessed about the obstacles I encountered and recovered from, but also confront the current ongoing struggles. And then reality hits...

Now that brings me to the fact that I have been in denial....I've had some aches and pains that I've encountered in the last- lets say over two year....I've had to put off some things, cancel some appointments, get mad at some doctors, ignore their prognosis/diagnosis and treatment plan in order to take care of other things in my life.

I do try hard not to stress or let things bother me and I must admit, I've been successful for the most part, but the time has come to start addressing my next moves and I'm ready! I embrace that I have the time, opportunity and resources to start taking more responsibility of my health- not that I'm not doing that now. But there is a lot more to address. More appointments to be made, physical therapy to go to, possible minor surgeries, and treatment plans to follow. I choose to end this denial immediately and get back on the path.

I want to be a better me as the years go on, I want to be healthy physically and medically. I want to be here on this earth for many many years and in my best condition ever! If you find that you are in denial about some aspect of you life. Address your concerns, find a plan and get on track.
Jeremiah 29:11 says
"For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."

Its raining, Its pouring, I have been snoring.......

I just busted another goal of waking up on this week at 6:00 am in order to stop my morning rush and frustration of not having enough time to get ready and out the door on time.

I'm in the making excuses mode so I'll take my frustration out now, before I have to snap back to reality. It all started Monday, because of inclement weather, our School District was closed, so was the day care. So all I could do was let the kids stay asleep and go back to sleep. How fun! An unexpected, lazy day off.

As excited as I was about having Monday off, I thought I'd be off to a good start today. Well as my alarm went off this morning, I looked at the clock only to see the numbers 6:00 AM on the display. I thought there's no way, it was still dark, raining and I was still sleepy. SNOOZE! 5 minutes later again RRRINNNNNG!!!!!!!! I hit SNOOZE again. 6:10 AM after taking a deep breathe, I set my alarm for 6:35 AM, I figured it couldn't hurt my time too much, My Dear and the kids were still sleep and I could get another twenty five minutes of well deserved sleep.

As the alarm went off at 6:35 I wanted to cry out- Nooooooooooo, not yet, I'm STILL sleepyyyyyyyy...... but then I had to think about the kids, their school, My Dear and my career/job. I looked out my window only to see the rain and darkness that still hovered over our house. No wonder I was so sleepy after getting about 8 hours of shut eye...

Time management has been one of my New Year resolutions and as you can see, I'm struggling with this aspect of it. I know we all have some goals or tasks that seem impossible to accomplish, and this is one goal that continues to be a hard one for me. But one day, I hope to have it down and tackled. Keep praying for me and I'll do the same for you.