BLOG CHALLENGE #4
OK so I have to admit...I thought that I would be able to do this every day,ROFLOL! What was I thinking? OMG what a struggle! Sorry ladies!!! I heart you for sticking it out with me...I know a number of you said you liked the daily challenge but I just cannot do it :( Sorry!
So I will try a weekly challenge! I will TRY to do the challenges on Mondays just like the Monday LO of the day, Coffee Chat, and sketch challenge on the site!
I thought summer would bring tons of extra time considering I am not working as much, or so I thought?! Ugh...seems as though it is busier if you can believe that I could get any crazier?!
OK so for todays challenge I want you all to blog about a personal story or something like that! Something very near and dear to your heart that will help others understand the type of person that you are?!
OK for me;
I am a 33 year old wife and mother to 2DS. I am just like many others out there. I struggle with everyday things...just searching for a little time to grasp a moment here and there as life seems to be buzzing past.
I am a simple person I think?! DH has other ideas of that,LOL! Simple little things make me happy! As I sit here in my scrap room looking out one of the windows overlooking my vegetable garden with a few apple trees off to the right of it. To the left sits my flower garden. Then behind the vegetable garden fence I see the path leeding into the wooded acres. The trees are are swaying slightly in the wind. I hear the birds chirping...hmm could it be baby birds? You see just above this very window I am looking out of sits a bird nest. I see momma bird flyin and out everytime I sit here. This make me happy. It is a simple little scene. But it warms my heart and lifts my soul to see such beauty in nature.
You see this scene is one of those moments that you "stop to smell the roses" type of thing, you know! We all must do it! We cannot let life drift away from us or bring us down!!
OK here is another one for you;
So for the summer time I work at my cousins sweet little italian restraunt in Dorset, MN the restraunt capital of the world (seriously it is search it if you don't believe me!). Here I work a few days a week to kill some of the summer time while I wait for my professioal job to start back up in the fall.
Here I also meet so many people on a daily basis. Many people that I have grown to love!
For two years now I have waited on a couple I would say that is in their early 60's that honestly I do not know how I can go a week without talking with them! Oh before I forget I must tell you they speak another language, a language I do NOT know! They are amazing! They honestly are. They are the kindest most caring people I have met in a LONG time! They are very sincere and I just love them!
Two weeks ago they made me cry out of joy, happiness. I am getting tears just thinking about it. The day prior I was chatting with them about the wife's hobbies...they are a retired couple. He was formerly the head of a American Sign Language School. She I believe worked in the school as well, but not positive. So they have taken up hobbies...she is into cross stitching. I said NO way can I do that! I am a scrap booker...she looked at me with amazement and said I scrap to! OMG so cool! I told them what I do in the industry,etc they were amazed with me...so I said that I would bring in a album for them to see what type of scrapping I do the next day.
So I brought in 4 albums as I couldn't decide which one at 6am that morn,LOL! They LOVED them! When they were done eating they sat for an hour looking at the albums...reading the journaling,etc. I would check on them now and again..and they would make comments about my DH and DS's,etc.
I went to the table one last time and the husband said many kind words to me that made me cry! He told me he could tell that I was a very wise and extremely intelligent person. That I was a very kind and generous soul and I was amazing, I was not only beautiful on the outside but beautiful on the inside. He said my wife scraps events YOU scrap life, feelings and moments, that is amazing! OMG I cried. There were other words said from them to me and me to them.
This couple has amazed me! I so wish that I could speak even more to them! As I mentioned I do not speak their language. I try and am slowly picking up bits and pieces here and there but not enough! You see this couple is deaf. They read lips and we are able to speak.
They have made me realize a few things. I have always known that I try to treat everyone the same no matter who they are or what there abilities are. I do not think of them or look at them in a any different light if they have something different than I. This couple is a prime example.
They are an amazing couple! They brighten my day just by seeing them walk in. They brighten my day when we chat. They brighten my day with a smile!
So many times in life we let things stand in our way of things. For this couple being deaf has not stood in the way of life, of who they are and how they treat others. To me they are someone to look up to and to admire!
Honestly you meet the most wonderful people in the least expected places. Its up to you to make a difference. Always remember to be yourself, be genuine. You never know who's heart you will touch. So come on ladies make this day a meaningful one!!
OK so I have to admit...I thought that I would be able to do this every day,ROFLOL! What was I thinking? OMG what a struggle! Sorry ladies!!! I heart you for sticking it out with me...I know a number of you said you liked the daily challenge but I just cannot do it :( Sorry!
So I will try a weekly challenge! I will TRY to do the challenges on Mondays just like the Monday LO of the day, Coffee Chat, and sketch challenge on the site!
I thought summer would bring tons of extra time considering I am not working as much, or so I thought?! Ugh...seems as though it is busier if you can believe that I could get any crazier?!
OK so for todays challenge I want you all to blog about a personal story or something like that! Something very near and dear to your heart that will help others understand the type of person that you are?!
OK for me;
I am a 33 year old wife and mother to 2DS. I am just like many others out there. I struggle with everyday things...just searching for a little time to grasp a moment here and there as life seems to be buzzing past.
I am a simple person I think?! DH has other ideas of that,LOL! Simple little things make me happy! As I sit here in my scrap room looking out one of the windows overlooking my vegetable garden with a few apple trees off to the right of it. To the left sits my flower garden. Then behind the vegetable garden fence I see the path leeding into the wooded acres. The trees are are swaying slightly in the wind. I hear the birds chirping...hmm could it be baby birds? You see just above this very window I am looking out of sits a bird nest. I see momma bird flyin and out everytime I sit here. This make me happy. It is a simple little scene. But it warms my heart and lifts my soul to see such beauty in nature.
You see this scene is one of those moments that you "stop to smell the roses" type of thing, you know! We all must do it! We cannot let life drift away from us or bring us down!!
OK here is another one for you;
So for the summer time I work at my cousins sweet little italian restraunt in Dorset, MN the restraunt capital of the world (seriously it is search it if you don't believe me!). Here I work a few days a week to kill some of the summer time while I wait for my professioal job to start back up in the fall.
Here I also meet so many people on a daily basis. Many people that I have grown to love!
For two years now I have waited on a couple I would say that is in their early 60's that honestly I do not know how I can go a week without talking with them! Oh before I forget I must tell you they speak another language, a language I do NOT know! They are amazing! They honestly are. They are the kindest most caring people I have met in a LONG time! They are very sincere and I just love them!
Two weeks ago they made me cry out of joy, happiness. I am getting tears just thinking about it. The day prior I was chatting with them about the wife's hobbies...they are a retired couple. He was formerly the head of a American Sign Language School. She I believe worked in the school as well, but not positive. So they have taken up hobbies...she is into cross stitching. I said NO way can I do that! I am a scrap booker...she looked at me with amazement and said I scrap to! OMG so cool! I told them what I do in the industry,etc they were amazed with me...so I said that I would bring in a album for them to see what type of scrapping I do the next day.
So I brought in 4 albums as I couldn't decide which one at 6am that morn,LOL! They LOVED them! When they were done eating they sat for an hour looking at the albums...reading the journaling,etc. I would check on them now and again..and they would make comments about my DH and DS's,etc.
I went to the table one last time and the husband said many kind words to me that made me cry! He told me he could tell that I was a very wise and extremely intelligent person. That I was a very kind and generous soul and I was amazing, I was not only beautiful on the outside but beautiful on the inside. He said my wife scraps events YOU scrap life, feelings and moments, that is amazing! OMG I cried. There were other words said from them to me and me to them.
This couple has amazed me! I so wish that I could speak even more to them! As I mentioned I do not speak their language. I try and am slowly picking up bits and pieces here and there but not enough! You see this couple is deaf. They read lips and we are able to speak.
They have made me realize a few things. I have always known that I try to treat everyone the same no matter who they are or what there abilities are. I do not think of them or look at them in a any different light if they have something different than I. This couple is a prime example.
They are an amazing couple! They brighten my day just by seeing them walk in. They brighten my day when we chat. They brighten my day with a smile!
So many times in life we let things stand in our way of things. For this couple being deaf has not stood in the way of life, of who they are and how they treat others. To me they are someone to look up to and to admire!
Honestly you meet the most wonderful people in the least expected places. Its up to you to make a difference. Always remember to be yourself, be genuine. You never know who's heart you will touch. So come on ladies make this day a meaningful one!!
