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Today My Heart Is Heavy

Today is my daddy’s birthday. I haven’t got to spend it with him for 31 years. I was almost 7 months pregnant with my first child when he passed away. I was 21 years young and still very much daddy’s little girl.  Greg and I lived at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio Texas. I’ll never forget that call, it came in the middle of the night with no warning. Why and how my daddy died isn’t important. What...

This Is 53

I can’t believe I’m in my 50’s much less 53. It seems so unreal for me to even blog about such a large number birthday. I look back on life and think why did I waste so much time on things that had so little value. In the moment those things seem to have value but looking back the value was what I made it at the time. I don’t believe in seeing into the future but sometimes I think...

Disciplined

It took years to get to where I am with my heart and I’m still not where I want to be.  I keep thinking when I grow up I’ll do this or that.  The reality is next month is my 53rd birthday and growing up fully just might not happen like I pictured it.  There is this fine line where you dreamed your life would be and where it is in reality.  As a kid I remember spending hours on...