It’s Here! My Birthday! I’m 39 today and I feel like I should be feeling all the feelings. You know the ones. Those big ones. The I’m officially 365 days away from being 40. Whoa! The who am I, where am I in life, what do I want from life kinda feelings. The adult feelings. Yet instead all I keep thinking is: Happy Birthday To Me!
Reflections
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This morning I had a chat with my neighbor through the fence (yup there’s a loose board and we talk through it – don’t judge us). We were talking about how both of us – two ambiverts *introverted extroverts – need to schedule play dates, grown up time and basically everything around those days when we need to be alone.Do you know those days? The days when you just don’t have enough ‘umph’ to be adequately social. The days when I just have to let myself be . . .
“It’s not you – It’s me”. I think nearly any introvert has felt the need to make this statement at least once. It can be so difficult to express and explain what it’s like to be an introvert. Most times when the awkwardness takes over it has absolutely nothing to do with the […]
One Word. One word to take me through a full 365 days, 52 weeks… a whole year. I must admit this year it has taken me extra long to figure out what that one word would be. I knew I wanted a word that would help propel me forward in […]
Sorry isn’t always easy. To say or to be. Saying sorry when your wrong and without making excuses has got to be the hardest part of being an adult. For me anyway. I can be in the midst of a conflict and know I’m walking the wire of being wrong and […]
Faith is believing God is working behind the seen…behind what my eyes can perceive and what my mind can imagine. When all I see is delay, denial and doubt what I see is not what God has planned for me it is not the end result. Delay His plans […]
The Only Father I Knew We never had the memories of how I grew up We never spent lazy weekends playing games or watching cartoons We never had fun days at the movies or playing games We never spent hours just talking about how life was We never […]
Dear Fear, You tried to make an appearance and I just wanted to let you know you are not welcome here. Not only are you not welcome but you’re not even allowed in my life. I’m sure I’ve told you this before when you tried to creep in during the low […]