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Bio: I'm a vivacious wife and mother of 3 teenagers. I am also a Melanoma in-situ & Stage 1A survivor. If you want to know more about me, go to my 'About Me' page. ♥

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Archive for October 2010

I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Halloween!!  Be safe while you are out trick or treating.

I feel it is important to always remember where you came from.  It helps to keep us grounded in a world obsessed with material things.  I grew up in a small dairy farm community in Northern Kent County Michigan.  We raised Californian white rabbits, and  a HUGE pig I dubbed “pork chops” for meat.  I also remember the very disgusting job of killing chickens (yes, they really do run around when their heads are cut off),  de-feathering them and then gutting them.  We had a vegetable garden as well as a herb garden.

My step father hunted (bow, muzzle loader & a 22), trapped, and fished.  I grew up with a deep appreciation for nature and hard work.  My childhood was riddled with traumatizing experiences, but I also had a lot of great ones as well.  For instance, I owned a horse by the name of Tom Swifty.  He was part Quarter and Arabian, with a chestnut color.  I participated in 4H where I showed my horse in the local fair.  I enjoyed the Western style of riding and took to it very naturally.  I was learning English riding when my left knee locked up and I had to have surgery.  The English style of riding is so elegant, everything about it fascinates me.  My favorite part was jumping and posting…there is nothing like it.

I grew up poor in material things but rich in life experiences.  I have learned to appreciate the good in life and not dwell on the past.  If I want something, I know I have to work hard to achieve it.

People won’t remember things you said, or things you did, but they’ll remember how you affected their lives  ♥

 

 

 


This past Saturday Westerville’s Central High School had their Homecoming dance.  Alec took one of his good friends Alexis Cunningham to the dance this year.  It turns out that Alexis’ grandmother is one of the ladies in my water aerobics class from 3 years ago.  She and I spent some time catching up, it truly is a small world.

The kids started their evening with pictures, then dinner at the Olive Garden and then it was off to the dance.  They had a great time.




“Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another that both attracts and heals.” J. Isham

Sweetest Day is celebrated primarily in the Great Lakes region, and parts of the Northeast United States, on the third Saturday in October.Once known as a day to spread love and cheer to the unfortunate, this popular holiday in the northern U.S. is now known as a day to show affection to the ones in your life whom you like. It is described by Retail Confectioners International as an “occasion which offers all of us an opportunity to remember not only the sick, aged and orphaned, but also friends, relatives and associates whose helpfulness and kindness we have enjoyed.
 
 
 


“You are beautiful…when you let friends have their space, when you believe, when you laugh, or are moved to tears, when you let it just roll right off your back, or when you lose it from time to time, when you talk about your dreams, when you help a turtle across the road, when you try to do the right thing even when it comes out wrong, when you love.”  ~  Anonymous



I am flirty, frisky, and fun.  All adjectives that describe me.  I am a wife, a mother, a friend, a lover.  But most of all I am like no other!!

Love is calm and comfortable, if you have to manipulate someone into loving you, then it’s not love at all.  The best kind of love is the kind that grows over time.  Love that starts out smoldering with friendship and burst into a flame of love and respect.  When their happiness means more to you then your own.  When you show genuine interest in them as a person and hurt when they hurt.  When you try to protect them by keeping a secret or watching their back.  When hurting them hurts you more and last but not least when an earnest apology brings you closer.

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The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
Emma Goldman
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