Autumndaze's Blog

It is Wednesday morning and I just finished checking out the Braveheart view. I love tuning in to see who will be the guest and what they will share. I have learned so much from each one along with each person on the panel. It has taken me many years to find happiness and contentment with my life. I am still a great work in progress and each day I look forward to growing more within myself. To all my braveheart sisters I wish each of you the best on your journeys in life!

Wow another week has come and gone and I feel so unaccomplished! I spent most of last week in bed not feeling well. I am much better now so I am trying to gather my wits about me to figure out what I want to post on this blog. Right now it is a winterwonderland outside. Beautiful, but bitter cold. I would love to take my grandson sledding but it is way too cold. So I think I will just look out the window and enjoy the scenery while sipping a warm cup of java. One thing about this day, it will be a good one to bundle up and read a good book. Have a wonderful day all you BH Women while I go contemplate something to post on my blog worth reading.

I am trying to figure out what words to use so that this will make sense. Saturday morning before Valentines day I was taking care of my grandsons once again as I do every Saturday. I decided to take them to the park for something to do. I loaded them in the van and off we went. I did not realize at the time that the wind was so bitter cold. We got to the park and even with the chill in the air the boys wanted to stay for a while. Thus started my weekend of challenges. Within 30 minutes of arriving at the park, I managed to slip on a piece of ice falling flat on my bottom. Needless to say I was wet for the remainder of the time we were there. At lunchtime I told the boys that it was time to go home. Normally that would have led to a howling of "no's". However, they were ready to leave. We got to the van and I put them in their car seats. After I buckled the first one in, I turned to the other one. As I did so, he leaned over the edge of his seat. To my horror, my little grandson fell 4 ft. out the open door of the van and face planted on the cement with his car seat falling on top of him. He and I were both traumatized. Long story short, God was watching as he sent help through 2 women who were passing by until medics could arrive. After being taken to the ER my grandson had no broken bones. However, everytime I look at his bruised little nose I am reminded of how much worse the situation could have been. While in the ER with him, my youngest daughter called me and stated that she was at an urgent care and tested positive for strep throat. UGH!! That night I went to an urgent care with my husband who also tested positive for strep. Needless to say that I was never so thankful to go to bed and sleep. Valentines Day came with it's own little gift to me in the form of "pink" eye which I unfortunately shared wih my husband. Now, three days later my house is still a biohazard as my husband and I are trying desperately to get through these "challenges". So now my question is what lesson aside from the car seat saga am I to learn from this?

So I just posted a blog on another members site.  The question she asked was "what do you choose for you?".  That question totally blew me away as I have never been good about making any kind of choices.  Just going to the store and making a decision has been an issue with myself.  Needless to say, my family gets exasperated with me when it comes to this.  Long story short, it was pointed out in the blog that not choosing is making a choice.  I guess I never really looked at it that way.  I know deep down now that it is true.  So, my objective now is to choose to make my life what I want it to be. 

So I am not really sure what I should include in this blog but I hope that putting ideas in writing will help give me focus on accomplishing goals that I have yet to reach.

 I have read many books that state in order to accomplish your goals you must write them down so that you see them daily.  Everyone I know who is successful has put into writing and sometimes added pictures creating the dream that they want to accomplish.  They have then worked toward their dream and made it a reality.  I think somewhere in the mix is a passion for what they want too.

So now it is time for me to join the group of successful women who have done the things needed to create their own successes.

That being said, I give thanks to God for another day...