Taking Action!
I have a dream… No really, I do! I have a very vivid dream that I can see in my head of the life that I long to live. I won’t go into all of the specifics right now, but I will tell you that …
Tag: Dreams
Re-Post: An Evening of Vision Boarding!
Good evening! Instead of taking Saturday nights off from blogging, I thought I would go back, back, waaaaaay back, and re-post a blog posting from my old blog, ChristinaVille. I have decided to call this weekly Saturday night post called a Re-Post! 🙂 I hope …
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Good evening!
My sweetie spent today planting all of the vegetables into our new vegetable garden, and I am very happy to report that I have some new pictures to share with you!
I am soooo very impressed with what he was able to do in such a small space!
We now have growing:
- Spinach
- Green leaf lettuce
- Red leaf lettuce
- Green romaine lettuce
- Red romaine lettuce (I didn’t even know that existed!!)
- Butter crunch lettuce
- Red bell peppers
- Green bell peppers
- Cherry tomatoes
- Yellow grape tomatoes
- Broccoli
- Snap peas
All of these veggies will be a great and tasty foundations for some very healthy salads this Summer!! 😉
We also planted an herb garden in some large pots we had on hand! They now hold:
- 4 kinds of basil
- Thyme
- 2 kinds of oregano
- and 2 other herbs, that I am going blank on at the moment (sorry!!)
My sweetie also got us some strawberries for our hanging pots, and two blueberry bushes, which he is going to let grow in 2 different large pots. I am SOOOOO EXCITED to see what grows and how well we can incorporate these fresh goodies into our our new healthy life style!
This whole adventure has been so much fun! I haven’t actually gotten my hands dirty (thank you, Love, for doing all of the dirty-work, literally!). I will eventually get my hands in the dirt, weeding and tending to the veggies’ care, it is a garden after all, but Jason and I have had so much fun planning it out, and seeing it come to fruition. I realize it is just a small garden, right now, but it means something so much larger to my husband and myself. This little garden is a small glimpse of what we envision for our future; owning our own little farm. It still makes me smile ear-to-ear when I think of it even now!!
We are so blessed, and life is so good!
Here is to a FABULOUS evening!! 
If you want to have a different life, you have to live differently!
You Have to Start Somewhere!
Good evening I wasn’t planning on posting tonight, and I know that I have been out for the past couple of evenings. I have been having a rough few days; a pretty bad case of “the mean reds” a la Breakfast at Tiffany’s, if you …
I Dream About!
I dream about… living on a farm growing my own vegetables picking fruit from my own orchard having a child of our own running around barefoot in little denim overalls owning my own home furnishings business swinging on a swing hanging from a large tree …
Wanting More!
Good evening!
Life is good, but do you ever get the feeling that there has to be something more? More to life than what you are living? This has been the same revolving thought in my head for quite some time now. This can’t be all there is, is it? There has got to be more to life than this! More purpose! More action! More adventure! More….MORE!
When I went to Women of Faith with my sisters a few weeks ago, Sandi Patty sang a medley of Disney songs that for some reason hit me really hard, and I cannot seem to get their, once unrealized, POWERFUL messages out of my head. Today I decided to actually look up the words to see what they were, and to see if they were really truly as powerful as I thought.
The songs were:
When You Wish Upon a Star
When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you
If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do
Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing
Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true
Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing
Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes
A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you’re fast asleep
In dreams you will lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling thru
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
the dream that you wish will come true
Aren’t these AMAZING lyrics!?!?! When I see them in print, I get a little misty-eyed. What woman doesn’t remember hearing these songs as a fresh-eyed little girl, wishing that if only she could be the princess in the movie, then all her dreams will come true too? Now as an adult, I realize that that little girl inside of me still lives, and she still wants her dreams to come true, even if that means she never gets to be a real princess. It is up to me to make my dreams come true, because there is no prince who is going to do it for me, no magic that will make it happen without some work on my part, and as hard as I call, I can’t seem to find my fairy godmother who is going to make all my dreams come true with just a wave of her want.
As depressing as all that may sound, I am not giving up! I may not know exactly what I want just yet, but I do know what I don’t want, and it is up to me to start taking action to make it happen!!
Here’s to new things coming in my life, and maybe yours too!! 😉
Have a FABULOUS evening! 😉
Feeling Grumpy!
Good evening! How deep do I let myself get? How much do I allow myself to share? Well, the reality is, is that I am a very spoiled girl who lives exactly the life I have worked hard for, but I am sooooo not happy. …
Do You Have a Dream?
Good evening!
I have had an Ah-Ha moment this evening. A couple of weeks ago I had picked up a copy of a book called The Dream Giver by Bruce Wilkinson. It was one of those purchases that was unplanned and kind of random, but I had read one of his other books called The Prayer of Jabez, and loved it so thought, why not? Well, for some reason, I decided to carry it around with me today. I just had this strange feeling that I really needed to read this book, and NOW!! Well, as I got home from work today, I sat right down and started to read.
WHAT AN AMAZING LITTLE BOOK!!
It is basically a little story about a very big idea. This modern-day parable tells the story of a man named Ordinary, who dares to leave the Land of Familiar to pursue his BIG DREAM.
This book, in a very interesting, and compelling way shows you how, with Faith, and some truths that you learn along the way, you too can leave your own Land of Familiar and pursue your big dream, the one that God had made you for, too!!
This book starts out with Ordinary living his life day in and day out going to work, coming home, watching the tele, going to bed, going to work, coming home, watching the tele, going to bed, etc. Sound familiar to anyone out there? Well, Ordinary starts to become sad as he realizes that there has to be more than life to this. Sure it is comfortable, but he is not content to live the same life he has been living for so long. So he embarks on a journey to go towards his big dream. What an awesome little book. I truly believe that it was serendipitous that it almost literally landed in my hands that day!!
Anyway, before I leave you for this evening, I thought I would share some of the pics that I had taken from my dad and his wife’s visit with us this past weekend!
This is my sweetie and my dad “cooperating” to have their pictures taken!! I couldn’t get them to look at the camera, and when I told them to scootch closer together, they literally just leaned there upper bodies towards each other while hiding behind their menus! Thanks guys!! 😉
Here is a book set that Trudi found at a large antique store we were in, she said she had this set as a kid. I want this set as an adult!! 😉
Here is Jason’s dream find of the day! It is a Dutch cast iron Aebelskiver pan. Aebelskivers are like Dutch pancake balls – they are truly very DELICIOUS!! Here is a recipe in case you are interested! 😉
Here is a Shriner’s tunic my dad found. Is what really cool! I love the colors and the designs of this!!
We went to a brass band concert on Saturday night, and I will share pics of that with you tomorrow!! 😉
Have a FABULOUS evening!
Motivational Quote of the Day!
Here is your motivational quote for today! “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” ~Henry David Thoreau Have a FABULOUS afternoon!!