posted by EmpressSassy on Jul 27
For anyone that doesn’t know this already here are some rules of life:
- Life is uncertain
- People can be mean and hurtful
- Marriages do fail
- People do fall out of love
- People do fall in love unexpectedly
- You can be happy if you truly want to be happy
- YOU are in control of YOUR emotions
- You cannot choose your family so deal with them
- If you don’t like something change it, but stop complaining about it
- Love hard, play hard and try not to hate anyone
- Life is messy, if you don’t get dirty what is the point?
- Trust, honesty, loyalty; these are traits that you will rarely find in a lot of people. You’ll be hard pressed to find it in one.
- Surround yourself with a few good friends, don’t try to be friends to everyone.
- Bad things happen; recover and remember to stay strong is the key to survival
- Kids are a gift from God; treat them as such
- Treat others as you would want to be treated
- If you don’t like someone then stay away from them; don’t fuel their fire or give them attention in any way
- Work hard at your job as if you don’t want to lose it.
- Age is a number; how you feel is up to you.
- Attend church; the sermon will stick in your head and it’s good for you.
- Tell someone you love them as much as you can
- Fall in love at least once if you can; even if you get hurt it’s worth the trip.
Your life is your road trip. You can take the easy road or the crazy road trip and that’s totally up to you. You can pull off to the side, you can take a few side roads, but always remember to forge ahead. Never look back just forge ahead and be happy with your trip. Memories are there to remember past trips, but moving forward is important for you sanity. Be happy, life is short.
posted by EmpressSassy on Jul 26
The sermon at church on Sunday was about forgiveness. Even if you’re not a religious person you could have learned something from this message. We all need to learn to forgive right? We’ve heard this before, but I have to tell you this is one that is tough right? Our sermon indicated you can actually forgive, but you don’t have to forget. Let’s get real you AREN’T going to forget and I understand that forgiving is a step toward healing, but again sometimes it’s hard to “let go.”
I can forgive past wrongs, this is a little easier and I’m working on some of those now. I have to admit when you do let go you do feel so much better about yourself and the ability to feel free.
What I struggle with is when you have people in your present life and they wrong you and even as you are thinking to forgive them they wrong you again. How many times do you have to forgive? When is enough truly enough? If you have someone with a problem and they won’t get help or won’t see their problems how do you continuously allow them to wrong you and forgive them? How strong must we be as one person?
Our preacher said, “The person that said time heals all wounds must have not been hurt very badly.” I agree. Time doesn’t make the hurt just go away. You have to allow forgiveness and let go of the past. You don’t have to forget. Memories are apart of who we are, it makes us who we become. I guess the people in our lives now are where I struggle.
It’s a tough call to say, “I forgive you.” More difficult sometimes than to say, “I’m sorry.” Is there someone you need to forgive? Is it time to let yourself “let go?” Life is short, think about how you can try to let go and forgive. It will set you free.
posted by EmpressSassy on Jul 12
We were at Holiday World on Saturday (what were we thinking) and at the water park changing clothes. I was in a stall by myself as Noah was with Jerry. I heard a lady start yelling for someone to grab her son. I wasn’t sure what was going on and I was dressed so I came out of my stall.
She came out and looked at me and said did you see where my child went? He is 18 months old, Thomas the Train shirt and he crawled under the stall and I couldn’t get my door open. That quick and he was gone. She was in a panic as any mother would be of course.
We started to tell the attendant and anyone that would listen to help us find this child. First of all the attendant acted as if we had told her there was too much water on the floor. Her reaction sucked and the level of urgency was pathetic. The second thing is that we couldn’t seem to get anyone else to help us. Maybe 3 or 4 other females helped us start searching for this child. I even heard one loser woman say, “This isn’t my problem” as she walked away.
20 minutes into this search the child was located and let me tell you he had wandered quite a long distance in this short time and ANYONE could have taken this child. My heart went out for this mother so much because all I could think was this could be me, it could me by niece, it could be any of us and no one seemed to give a care.
When they met the mother grabbed this child as a mother would and burst into tears and I have to tell you I cried a little too. I was just a little overwhelmed with what happened. My sister asked me why I was crying and I just told her it was too much for me. It broke my heart. More so that no one seemed to want to help us find the boy.
Thank goodness he was found. Also during the day at the crazy water play area there were 2 other little girls that were lost and they were no older than 3. The parents didn’t even seem to care when they hooked up with them. It was as if they just waited for someone to help them show up. One lady even let her child back in the madness and went back to her chair.
I don’t get people and how they choose to let children roam free with all the evil in the world. Noah went NO WHERE at that park without us by his side at all times. People are just crazy. You have to protect your children, they are a blessing.
posted by EmpressSassy on Jun 24
We built a tent last night in the living room using the couch and some chairs with sheets and blankets. Once we tried a few designs I have to admit our final design was pretty good. We moved the TV over and we had our pizza supper in the tent as we watched cartoons. Noah had a blast.
It was a fun way to spend the night and beat the heat outside. We put all of our pillows and blankets down and just hung out for the night and then we even slept in the tent (until about 1:00 and then he decided the bed might be better!).
Sometimes the simple things can be fun and kids love it. I actually had a pretty good time too once we got settled. We even had a wild cat from the jungle that kept attacking our tent from the top and crashing into us! We had to finally lock her up for a while! It was exciting stuff.
We may get back in the tent tonight, but we haven’t decided yet. He wanted to think about it! We used the back of the couch and draped sheets over to the top of chairs and used heavy books to hold down the sheets. It was easy and fun.
If you get a chance build a tent and hang out; it’s better than sweating in the heat and being exhausted when you come in for the night!
posted by EmpressSassy on Jun 18
Father’s Day is coming this weekend so are you ready to praise dear old Dad? My dad is a one of a kind! If you know him then you know this to be a true statement. He is Bob with 2 B’s
Growing up I have to say that I had a basic “Leave it to Beaver” family life. It was very close to perfect. We had a great set of parents, we always had fun, we were treated wonderfully and our parents always enjoyed us being around them.
My dad was the kind of guy that participated in our lives. He practiced my sports with me, played with me, taught me things about nature, life, history, family and so much more. He never missed any sporting event that I had and trust me you knew when he was there! I was fortunate to have a great father growing up and to this day I still ask him questions about things in my life and I KNOW I’m fortunate to have him in my life.
It’s awesome to have Father’s Day to celebrate your dad, but remember to celebrate them all throughout the year. Also remember to celebrate Uncle’s, Brother-in-laws, Grandpa’s and any other important men in the families lives! It’s takes a village to raise a family and all men should be appreciated when it comes to Father’s Day if they help out!
Happy Father’s Day Weekend to all!
posted by EmpressSassy on Jun 18
IT’S HIGH TODAY IN MY PERSONAL WORLD; USUSUALLY I HAVE TO USE THIS IN MY WORK WORLD, BUT TODAY THIS IS FOR MY PERSONAL LIFE. IT’S RUNNING HIGH WITH PEOPLE IN MY PERSONAL LIFE.
SOMETIMES I WONDER HOW I LIVE THE LIFE I LIVE!
posted by EmpressSassy on Jun 16
I was recently fortunate enough to volunteer at my church in the Food Pantry. It was new to me since I have just recently started attending this church. I have always wanted to volunteer with this type of organization and at my past church I had hoped to get involved, but unfortunately they didn’t really offer any type of program within their church.
The Food Pantry is an organization that allows families to come and shop off of a grocery list and obtain food items for their family. They offer meat, vegetables, fruit, pasta, juice, frozen items, amenities for the home, items from the church garden in season as well as misc. items that have been donated.
The night I volunteered 46 families were assisted and I was amazed at the food that was given out to each family. They are allotted a certain number of each food item and it’s not like it will last them an entire week, but it will certainly help out. They are also given a list of local churches in our community that offer a dinner meal each night of the week which is awesome. They have a place to go every night if need be for a hot dinner. It’s awesome that a list is available for them to take with them.
The church I recently left had a Wednesday night meal and it was strictly fellowship. There was never a mention of assisting anyone. Now, don’t get me wrong I’m all for fellowship, but please explain to me how you can stand up every, single Sunday and beg for money and say we are in the red, but yet you can fix a meal every Wednesday night that is strictly for fellowship purposes only. Why are we wasting funds to fix a meal for people that can afford a meal when in reality we could do fellowship in a different manner? Shouldn’t this meal be opened to the public to assist someone who is actually in need as most churches do? It just left me in a bad mood to think we were wasting money to socialize when most churches want to reach out and help people.
The Food Pantry is an awesome organization sponsored by donations, Dare to Care and some government assistance. It makes me feel good to be a part of something and to help give back to the community. There was no shame, pressure or guilt toward anyone; that is the goal. Everyone has need at some point in their lives and it’s an amazing feeling to know you can help someone’s family. I know I have had tough times and it’s good to know we can all help each other. Noah went and was our runner taking the list from the hall to the back room to help us keep the orders moving. We talked later in the evening and he completely understood how we were helping families. It’s never too early to get kids involved in giving back to the community.
We all have our organizations and I just wanted to give a shout out to all of those who give back and volunteer to any organization. Where would we be without volunteers!
posted by EmpressSassy on Jun 14
How nice to come back to work today to find birthday surprises on your desk! My awesome co-workers showered me with fun gifts that I just loved! I got a great plant (that I probably will end up killing sadly enough), but I do like it. I got a fun 80’s CD and a great book that I can’t wait to read about Oscar, the cat that works at the Nursing Home and has a great gift of helping families in need.
I also got a great candle and some perfume. My cards were funny and one even referenced Barry Manilow so you know that one was awesome. It was a nice way to come back to work. AND………………….(drum role please)…….they are having TACO DAY for me tomorrow. How much am I loved?
It’s been a great first day back thanks to great friends!
posted by EmpressSassy on Jun 14
We went to the park in Georgetown the other night to play on the swings and in the process we took a mini-hike through the woods.
In the midst of our hike we came across several blackberry bushes. I was so excited as I hadn’t seen blackberry bushes in the wild for years. As a kid there were tons of bushes at my elementary school and me and my dad would pick them and take them home to my mom. I would eat as many as I would pick. I love blackberries straight from the bush. They taste amazing. I was in heaven when we found this great stash.
There weren’t too many on there that were ripe yet, but there was a ton of pink ones so I may have to sneak back up after all the rain and see if they are ripe now. I did have to stop by the store to get some since I was in the mood for them after that finding at the park. Noah tried one and spit it out immediately. Guess they were a little tart for his liking.
We all know I’m not a great fruit person; but these are just the exception especially when you find them in the wild. If anyone knows of any great areas to find these (yes, I know Huber’s has them but it’s not the same people) let me know!
posted by EmpressSassy on Jun 3
It’s the time of year again to start the summer vacation. We aren’t headed to the ocean this year and even though I’m sad, I’m still excited to be on vacation. Who isn’t excited when it’s vacation time right?
No work, sleeping late, planning some fun events, what more could you ask for in the summertime? We have to start out with a Dr. appointment in the morning with 6 shots for Kindergarten, but other than that we are golden after that tragedy.
We have a few new things planned this year; headed to Guntown Mountain to check out some cowboys and maybe some Dinosaur World. After the dinosaurs we just saw at Freedom Hall though, I’m not sure we can top that show! We are of course headed to Holiday World next week; as if we wouldn’t be going there right? Love, love, love that place but we are bummed because Noah is 46″ and he needs to be 48″ to ride the really cool rides. Maybe we can spike his hair!
Well I hope everyone has a great week and I’m sure I’ll see some sights worth writing about in the crazy world of traveling!
