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Rainy Days and Round Bellies

It’s been a cloudy, overcast, rainy day in CA and I LOVE it! I know I’ll be moaning about the cold soon enough and missing the warmth of the sun, but in the meantime I’m feeling refreshed and happy with this welcome change in weather. I’m still very much pregnant and going strong with no real consistent… Continue reading Rainy Days and Round Bellies

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Calling All Twitter Peeps!

If you’ve got a Twitter account would love it and be so thankful if you followed the link below to help out Southern California Bulldog Rescue aka SCBR. I’ve avoided opening a Twitter account of my own for a long time but so want to help SCBR that I joined today. Here’s the link with… Continue reading Calling All Twitter Peeps!

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Round and Beautiful

Today I started week 37 of my pregnancy and am now considered full term, yay!! I was doing some light exercises in the living room and then happened to glance in the mirrors we have and felt such a glow and happiness to see my big round belly and I felt absolutely beautiful. It was… Continue reading Round and Beautiful

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“The Me I Want To Be”

Not too long ago I wrote in a post that there are so many blessings in my life that I’m thankful to God for and also that I had this feeling there is something more that God created me to be but I haven’t quite figured it all out yet because it’s a growing process. Then I heard at our Church that… Continue reading “The Me I Want To Be”

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Friendly Encounters

I had two really neat encounters with complete strangers this week and it made me think about my experience with strangers as I was growing up. Of my brother and I, I remember being the shy and introverted girl while my brother was always the one striking up conversations with strangers, as in literally like by… Continue reading Friendly Encounters

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Embracing Flexibility

It’s interesting how change and flexibility work and how we process and accept it in our minds. How depending on what the situation is, you either openly accept change and embrace flexibility or you let yourself get frustrated by it. As I logged in to wordpress I noticed that a few changes had been made to it… Continue reading Embracing Flexibility

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Relief

Sometimes I get a little antsy or anxious and I find that when I write it’s like this current passes through me and the feelings spill through my fingers with each word that I create and clarity always seems to follow. My thoughts are a jumble right now so bear with me… Today I start my 32nd week in… Continue reading Relief

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Pictures and their secrets

I love to look at old pictures. I was going through some pictures from the last few years, of different hiking trips, vacation spots, and times spent with family and friends. I love to take pictures because they’re such a wonderful reminder of things that we’ve lived through and most of all I love that when I… Continue reading Pictures and their secrets

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At 36, I’m ready for each new adventure

When I was in High School I had this vision of graduating from college with a degree in English at age 22 and then of course meeting the love of my life and getting married by age 24 and having my first child within a couple of years of that. Little did I know then that non… Continue reading At 36, I’m ready for each new adventure