Changes........

Life is all about change. How we view these changes and cope with them can be the difference between elation and depression, happiness and frustration.

As I look back over 40 + years I see that the better I accept change the easier it is to move forward and see life as a journey. I hope the next 40 + years I am able to take change in stride.

Recently this quote by Winston Churchill - “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” - has helped me let go of feeling like a failure and see life as just changes that are working toward the next change.

Currently, I'm enjoying spring and looking forward to a fruitful summer.

Hooray for February!

I don't know about everyone else but for me, I thought January would NEVER end!!!

Thank goodness it's over!!!!!

We are having GREAT weather here. It's like early spring. I'm loving it. I have no patience for winter this year. Just happy to skip right over it.

Lots of changes for 2012. One of the biggest if finally getting a job in my field!

Yippie! I can't wait for that! I look forward to teaching (even though I'm a bit scared -but that is natural I suppose). I'm pounding the pavement to get a job teaching somewhere in my state or surrounding states.

Also I want to (intentions time.... )

Let go of old limitations and start expressing myself freely and creatively

Release the need for this excess weight

Love myself

Approve of myself

Know that I count and am important.

Allow others to be themselves, we are all safe and free.

Nourish myself with love and with joy.

Know that I deserve the best and accept the best NOW.

Love, laugh, smile more and release the past with peace.

I want to spend time with J and K enjoying life and be able to monetarily help, when they need me to.

I want J and K to have health, success, safety, friends, balance and fun too.

I want to be free of debt and have a saving, affordable healthcare, eye care, dental care.

I want friends that are creativing, caring, trustworthy, balanced.

I want to: go to plays, ballets, galleries, museums, concerts, dancing, travel, write, knit, paint, draw, read, photograph, eat, drink, enjoy, have fun and find all the things in life that *I* love.

Dear Universal Source hear my intentions and help me to manifest a balanced long healthy life (like 100 or so). Amen! V

New Year - New Life?

After 3 years of working and attending classes I have completed my 2nd BA in Art Education. Now it's time to FIND A JOB TEACHING ART!!! AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!! Limbo SUCKS!

Currently things are in a stuck pattern. I'm making plans to visit Lexington and meeting with the recruiter for the school district and there is a job fair in March. Yippie!

Also getting K graduated from high school and moved off to college.

So much to do but it's all in the future and for now it's just time to wait. I guess I'm impatient about the future.

I pray for patience and the ability to enjoy the moment. Amen.

Fall to Winter Update ----

Wrapping up student teaching

Looking for Art job

Planning on sleeping alot --- I need sleep

Finishing portfolio

Getting Kai ready for college

Seeing Joe and Bubbles for Thanksgiving and Xmas

Looking forward to seeing my grand-dog :)

Enjoying the dreary cold - yippie!

Knitting

Drawing

READING -- Fiction... wow!

Snuggling

Soups and other comfort foods --- Yummy


Baking Bread ! :) To share with new art buddies :) - I can't wait

Enjoying the breath.

Summer Update

Summer - Hot

Teaching - Art

Kids - Good

Hubby - Home

That's the highlights. More to come.

Change will come, oh change WILL come.....

Well where to start. Last Friday, Jan 28 - I got a shocking bit of news - the company I have worked for - for the last 4 years - laid me off, along with about 9 others.

The shock is wearing off and the reminders of "everything happens for a reason" & "it's probably for the best" & to quote my aunt "one door closes and a new one opens" (love that one!).

Remembering to breathe and that money flows like the breath and being open to new possiblities.

I had planned on jumping right into observing this week but my daughter has been home sick so, as blessings go, Thank You God - for this time to heal. There is always next week.

Plus I want to teach!!!! I know it IS my vocation. Amen!

Snow, Spring 2011 semester begins, student teaching on the horizon........

Well it's January---- February is already just around the corner. This semester looks to be the most jam packed yet. 71 hours of observation needed for student teaching, 9 hours of classes, 35 + hours of work required to stay fulltime, TEAC, finished portfolio, PLT test.... kids, bills, house and work. Hubby still out of town, son off at college - just me and cutie pie.

I just hope and pray that I can get through it all with my sanity and my health in tact.

I'm trying to breathe more - take things one day at a time and NOT procrastinate. Get my rest, vitamins, eat healthy.. think positively.

WISH ME LUCK AND ASK GOD FOR HELP AND MERCY! Amen.

thanks universe. vb