July!

Happy late 4th of July! Time is flying! I am working on getting started with a new blog to display my/our baking creations and also our new baking exchange that we are starting...exchanging delicious baked goods cross country!! Look for a new blog coming soon, I promise I will post more then! So many ideas and good things coming to a city near you!

Image: My July 4th Coconut cupcakes

Old lady or 5 year old?

So perhaps I'm not very good at this blogging business since it's been a few months now...oooops! So in the last few months I have bought a new car, kept my job, kept my marriage, lost my voice, lost three pounds, gained three pounds, then lost three pounds again. There are probably a lot more details there but those were the ones that stuck out in my head. Oh and I turned 27! I almost forgot about that one. I feel partly like an old lady though and partly like a 5 year old. I feel like an old lady because I recently rediscovered that I love scrabble and am hooked to it like a crackhead on crack and also a five year old because I insisted on having pretty balloons at my birthday party. And cake. With my name on it. :) So overall, I actually had 3 birthday cakes, cookies, reeses, cupcakes, and more food than we knew what to do with. Maybe now you understand the losing, gaining, losing reference I made earlier. I had some great friends over though, including my bff from out of town and some other good friends over and we shook our bon bons to Just Dance 2 on the wii. There goes my 5 year old self again. It is now 9:40PM and I feel like I should have already been in bed (there's my old lady self.) They are constantly fighting! If only there were some type of disorder I could label myself with and then tell my doctor I need to see another doctor to tell that doctor that I need some medication! Oh wait, I could but then I would be losing my mind like everyone else so I think I'll pass and embrace my dual personalities. ;)

This coming from a psych major...how embarrassing...

This moment

I am taking to heart the quote: Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein


This is so true and I feel many people do not realize this or cannot break the cycle. I am guilty of this myself sometimes; so this year instead of making the same ol' resolutions and expecting something to actually change, I'm not. I am just going to try and change the way I think about life, myself, and the things that happen in my life. If I live each moment as if I am truly in the moment and not constantly thinking about the next moment, then I won't miss every precious moment. So many things happen each day that I love and enjoy so I want to soak it all in and enjoy as much as possible. Everything happens for an eventual reason so why not take it all in stride and strive to be the best person I can possibly be...right now. Living one day at a time, stopping to enjoy every little moment that comes to me. Not everyone can enjoy their life moment by moment, but I can. There is that much love and joy in my life that I would be a fool to not love every minute of it. There are always improvements that can be made, but there are also wonderful aspects of myself and my life that do not need improving. The way my son thoughtfully comes up with ways to say "thank you" or comes up with a gift idea for his daddy...or the way my daughter tugs on me to try and lift herself up on me or cries when I leave the room.. those might be little things to someone else but they are some of the most important things in my life..