Image by aftab. via Flickr Have you ever heard the saying "People come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime"? It's something people say especially when someone has passed on or when a relationship ends. Another saying I've heard is "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same." In our lives, there are always people who leave their mark on us. Whatever kind of mark they leave, whether they are good or bad, these people seem to affect our lives in one way or another. People come into our lives for a reason. Sometimes, it could be that they are here to help us solve a problem or they are here to teach us a lesson. People come into our lives for a season. These are people who stay with us only for a length of time and then for some reason, they leave. They either pass away or our relationship with this person just falls apart. This is not necessarily a bad thing. This person … [Read more...]
My Blogging Sisterhood
Biologically, I have four sisters I never met. By adoption, I have a sister who did not support my parent's decision to adopt me (she was only 2.5 at the time but still very vocal and physical about her unhappiness with the situation). When I started blogging, it was because I wanted to find a community of women where I would fit in, where I would feel like I was one of them. I didn't just find a community, I found a sisterhood. I'm no longer close to my sister-by-adoption. Instead, I have blog sisters. Some of them know how much they mean to me, and some don't realize that to me, their friendship is as important to me as a family relationship. We don't share parents. We didn't grow up together. And yet, to me, my online sisters feel as real as if we had the same blood running through our veins. I always imagined that sisters were best friends who also shared a parent or some other kind of family situation, but I've had to create that sister relationship from people I met … [Read more...]
Sunny outside, cloudy inside
It's a beautiful sunny day today. Blue sky, no wind, even at 27 degrees the sun feels warm. Ryan got Kaitlyn up this morning and kept her entertained so I could sleep in, which I did, until 11:50 am. Then we went to Quality Dairy and got Paczkis for lunch because why not. I'm in no mood to deprive myself of fried balls of jam-filled dough today. It was a bad weekend. I can't say a lot about it because I didn't get the other person's permission, but suffice it to say, my feelings about pretty much everything I do and have done over the last 20+ years are not as good as I would like. You know that saying "you can't un-ring a bell"? Well, I can't un-hear things that were said this weekend, and I'm having trouble figuring out how to proceed. How do you do it? How is anyone supposed to have personal fulfillment plus have a successful marriage plus be a good parent plus keep up with bills and cleaning and everything else that goes into running a household, without going completely … [Read more...]
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