It’s Not About Me…

Hi all!  Ok, bad grammar in my title, I know.  But that is just the way it is!  No circumstances have improved for us, YET.  (And I emphasize the yet!)   But, I am as happy as a dog with two tails today!  “Why?”  You ask…  Well, let me tell you!   

First, Greg and I celebrated our 24th Anniversary on Sunday.  Actually, we celebrated it on Saturday so we could celebrate Father’s Day on Sunday.  We went for a drive up to the mountains on Saturday, just the two of us.  Absolutely nothing went “as planned” but we had a better time then we could have planned anyway!  We even ran across an awesome horse farm on the way home where we got out and I got some bonding time with the horses.  I LOVE HORSES!!!  Greg started being silly Saturday night and we were laughing so hard I felt like I was going to pass out.  We just couldn’t stop laughing and ended up laughing so hard and loud that we woke up the kids!  YIKES!  We STILL couldn’t stop laughing!  We have not laughed that much in a long time and it felt great.   We rang in our Anniversary (after midnight) with laughter and I have a feeling we are going to be smiling and laughing together for many, many more years to come.  What a great feeling.

Speaking of horses and laughing, I miss my Goldie (a Palomino Quarterhorse I had in Ohio) and I deeply miss being around horses in general.  That is me with her in the picture above.  I have started on my own “bucketlist” of sorts and have decided that when I grow up someday and have the money to spend I am going to buy some acreage and have a horse farm for boarding and riding.  That way I can manage it, smell the horses, hay, and manure on a daily basis.  Oh, and of course snuggle up to all of the horses and feed them starburst mints with abandon.  And of course, I will hire someone (or two) to do all the hard work so I can just enjoy the sights and smells.  I  don’t even need to “ride” a horse again, I just love to be around them.  So…   that’s one of the things on my list. 

Also I have put aside the non-fiction book I have been trying to finish for some time called,  The Perfect Homeschool Mom…   Does Not Exist!   I have come to the realization that I am simply not enjoying writing it right now.  I WILL finish it at some point but I have decided to instead follow my heart and do another thing on my bucketlist which is to write a novel.  I actually have 4 novels roaming around in my head!!  But one that I just can’t get out of my head!  That is the one I am writing first.  Well, I wrote quite a bit yesterday and even more today and I have the entire story to tell, it’s just a matter of getting it down before it leaves me!  Seriously, I am having more fun writing this fiction novel than I have had in a very long time.  Since I created HOMESCHOOLOPOLY two years ago, to be exact!  My creative juices are flowing and I feel like it’s energizing me head to toe! 

That said, I am off to write some more before I call it a night.  With the kids and the business and the planning and the meals and all the other stuff, I don’t have time to write.  But I am MAKING time!  

Keep us in your prayers - still have some very pressing unspoken needs.  Thanks a bunch!