...100 posts...

What an adventure!

This is my (drum roll) 100th post!

Started out

thinking this would be

fun

entertaining

unknown.

I didn't really know

what blogging was about

what it would be like

if I would enjoy it

if it was worth the time.

I had expectations

of a community

of connection

of processing

of outlet

of sharing.

And I think the adventure has been worth it.

First and foremost, I process when I write.

And be it about the simple things...

the boys,

my family,

my day,

a project,

food.

Or about the deeper things...

conversing with God,

hearing Him talk

life lessons

working though issues.

I have found I enjoy doing that here.

With you.

I still don't have a desire to be about

reaching more people

having more followers

getting more comments.

(though I do get WAY excited when someone does decide to comment - connection!!)

But I do wonder who reads

who scans

if anyone is relating to me

if a subject hits a cord with someone

if a post ever initiates a smile, offers some insight, or opens up some good questions?

So I think the adventure will continue.

I am not an amazing writer.

I am not an amazing photographer

or an amazing organizer

or an amazing foodie or outfitter or hair person.

But I am curious.

I do like to share

to write

to journal

to be a part of something

to hear God work through me

and in me

to link up

to comment

to meet others.

So the adventure continues.

Maybe another 40 days?

Or another 100 posts?

Or.....

...Friday High 5...

I love to find blogs I love to read.  People whom I feel like we'd be friends if we ever met (kinda feel like we are anyway!) 

I feel that way about Lauren, and her blog From My Grey Desk.  She is fun!  And one fun thing she does is a Friday High 5 - five things from the week that she's thankful for or were fun or whatever. 

Fun idea, yes??!!  And good way to keep my heart thankful. 

So with no further adu (how do you spell adu?) here are my High 5s from this week......

1.  My husband.  I am just thankful for him.  He really is my best friend. He is silly.  He works hard.  And my favorite thing is seeing the guy wrestling my 3 sons when he gets home.  Boy do they get wild!!

This is my handsome hubby, right after he won the Sumo Wrestling competition at his work!  Ha!

2.  Cadbury eggs.  I'm thankful I had willpower to stop eating them for a couple days, and I am thankful my hubby surprised me with another bag of them!!  Even though that means I am eating way too many of them again!!!

These are heaven!

3.  Dinners!  I am not a cook.  And I was pretty anti-cooking most of my life.  But with my 3 little guys I have decided to try to cook.  Healthy, organic, and low-carb when possible!  And this week I made something every night.  Yay!



Quick and easy combined with healthy!  That's my goal for dinners!



4.  RUNNING!  I love to run.  And running keeps me sain.  For real.  When I am tense and grumpy my husband will say....  ummm, should you go for a run, honey?  Ha!  He knows me!  Due to the boys, a friend of mine and I usually run EARLY (way too early) in the mornings so I can get home before my husband has to go to work.  She's been injured so I have only been able to run weekends lately...  but I am thankful for the weekend runs!!!!!!

I love to run!!

5.  I am thankful for this blog!  And for trying something new, have a creative outlet, and seeing whats this like!  (And thankful for Lauren and this idea for High 5s.  I like it!!!!)

All right - have a super weekend all!!!!!! 

...40 Days...

A blog! 

Intimidating?  Exciting?  Fun?  

All this is going through my mind... as I think that yes, I will do this.  For so many reasons.  And for no reason!  For 40 days.  And then we'll see.

Forty days?  Yep.  Forty days is a good time frame.  If life is crazy, if you want to change something, if you're thinking of trying something out, if you have to get through something... give yourself 40 days.  It works! 

Its worked for lots of people.  Take a look in the Bible - 40 day chunks of time were a big deal!  Noah, Moses, Jesus - they all had 40 day experiences that were life changing!  And its a time frame God gave me once, during a super hard season... Just hang in there for 40 days.  Hang on for 40 days, and then see...  see whats happening.  See where you are, see whats going on, see how circumstances have changed.  Forty days.  Its long enough to create a new habit, to get a new perspective, to get hope! 

Forty days.  Its also long enough to see what its like to blog.

So... let the blogging journey begin.  Blog #1.  Here it is!  Thirty-nine more days to go...!

Lotsa love,
Pam

(So, what's up with the picture?  I love coffee and my boys love angry birds!  What a good combo!)