Brave search

So, I enjoy quotes, and I think a good one can really help you put things in perspective, I've had a super rough couple of days, and this morning I decided I was sick of having these kind of days and decided I am going to make this day good. Here's what I found to help me have a BRAVE day.

“Women are like apples on trees, the best ones are on the top of the tree. The men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and don't want to get hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples from the ground that aren't so good but easy. So, the apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top becuase they value quality.”

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

Erica Jong quotes

“Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.”

“Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”
Mary Tyler Moore quotes

“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world”
Helen Keller quotes

Fortitude Quotes

“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”

“I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road.”

“What fortitude the Soul contains, / That it can so endure / The accent of a coming Foot-- / The opening of a Door.”
Emily Dickinson quotes

“Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.”
Jerry Reed quotes

...It's about really having the inner fortitude to overcome anything that's in front of you, and doing that with the help of God.. .”
Holly Davis quotes

XOXO ~S

When I Grow Up I Want to BE JUST like my mom!

For most things in this world there are either survivors or victims; me? I am a survivor! How do I know this, well mostly I know from my mom. My mom is the BEST person I know in this world, she, wow she is tough! She just does it, whatever it is, she does it, she puts her big girl panties on and does it, not only does she do it, but she does it HAPPILY, so happily and kindly and gently. She is a true friend, she's not just my mom, she's my BFF, she HAS my back 24/7; there has not been ONE day in my life where I don't thank the Lord for her, not one day where I don't know how lucky I am, not one day that I don't cry tears of joy because I was put on this world with her, not one day where I haven't been able to count on her. No matter what. I get really, really scared that she is going to get sick again, that something might happen, but I believe in good juju, and my mom has truckloads of it, so I am going to wipe away my tears, tell myself its all going to be ok, and most importantly I am going TO BELIEVE IN GOD and pray and just know my mama is going to be ok. I love you mom!!!!!!!

XOXO

~S

Game Plan

you all have been so sweet and asking what needs done, we are getting closer to a game plan so i thought i would just update everyone:

• paint-this weekend, downstairs wall, upstairs floor stain/sealed, upstairs wall, ceiling
• next week-plumer/electrician for toilet, vanity, lights
  upgrades-shower head (no giggles aloud, hehe) weather stripping around door, child proof stairs outdoor patio, upstairs railing
• general cleaning- spider webs, wipe down walls, clean out cupboards
  shelves in bathroom, kitchen, cupboards
• fabric-barn isn't insulated so add roman shades to help keep heat in, curtains downstairs 2 yrds, stairs 4 yards upstairs, door upstairs 2 yards
• to find at yard sales/buy on sale
  new crib fitted sheet for addison, possibly blanket and quilt
  twin bedding for sara
  smaller fridge?
  pots/pans shelf for ceiling/wall?
  storage ideas for kitchen for food, bottles, etc
• next week, box up as much as possible -kitchen, home decor, list things on craigs list to sell, donate extra's
• move Oct 10/11
• and if somone could also please find my sanity, that would be great
• and somewhere in there start divorce papers/find cheap attorney

XOXO
Sara

I'm not sure I can do it, put I'm going to put my big girl panties on and keep telling myself I can! .....Then not too far down the road it will be done. I will be on my own, and proud and strong and I WILL have done it. I will not do it alone because the Lord has blessed me with this huge army of amazing women in my life, I know I am at a turning point, things are going to go up from here. This 24/7 sick to my stomach feeling, like I am literally going to hurl at any minute, cry at any moment or could just run away, all those feelings will leave. I will stand here, plant my feet in the ground and go for it. I have watched you all do it, pulled yourselves up, dusted off and said bring it on again b*tch. I am too stubborn not to do this, to blessed to have to do it alone and to optimistic about the future to let anything stop me.

~S