Reenie's Ramblings

In some ways I approach each new year this way.. like its a chance to start fresh... make some changes and redirect my course. We still take into the new year who we are and have been in the previous year.... but sometimes having a "new start" gives us the motivation and hope we need. Wishing you and yours a very happy new year and a year of positive choices and many blessings. A lot of our successes and accomplishments are purely up to our choices..... lets go into this new year making great ones!

Today I sit at my computer getting caught up on a few things for my business and enjoying the fact that I can be home most of the WHOLE day! Its a fairly cold day at 20 degrees and I have a glorious cup of coffee at my side... Even so, I find my mind wandering... wandering to places warmer, more historic, far away and with yummy food. I have the travel bug!  It's bitten me and I want to go, do, see MORE!  We enjoyed a wonderful trip to Rome recently and I have no right to complain or dream of travelling again so soon, yet here I am dreaming of another trip! In part, I think it's because this idea of travel is a whole new avenue for us to explore!  It wasn't long ago that the idea of taking a trip ANYWHERE seemed hysterically impossible!  Yet, as we have powered through, living simply, paying off debts and working to grow my business all while finding that balance between family and work... we are emerging from the depths of financial despair into this open, grand, wo

"Sometimes Hope is Cruel" I wrote these words after my heart was broken the first time... I kept clinging to the hope that we would get back together but the reality was, it wasn't going to happen.  The hope that kept fighting its way to the top ended up being a stumbling block for a while. I've never forgotten the words and they have had different meanings over the years. I currently have a friend going through some difficult times.... it seems like for her life has been a roller coaster of hope, then despair, then hope again... then.... crash.. Sometimes we hope for things that are not possible or realistic and that hope is cruel. I am thankful for hope though... there are other instances where hope is what kept me going. Hope is a wonderful gift, a blessing even.... But sometimes, when we put our hope in the wrong things, it can be a cruel thing. Here's to putting our hope in something worth hoping for.

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Do you ever have moments where a song comes over the radio and it immediately takes you back to a specific place, moment or memory?  This happens to me often.  There are so many songs that have had special meaning to me and the instant I hear them, I am transported to a specific time... I feel the exact emotions I felt when the song became special... I can even sometimes end up in tears because the feelings are so strong, its like I'm living the moment again.  Other songs have a different impact on me, make me feel excited and energetic... Just the song from a specific time in the past where life was vividly fun and joyful. I sometimes marvel at this.  How can something so simple create such deep, moving emotions?  I was pondering this today and realized its not just songs. There are Dates that hold special meaning to me and no matter how many years pass, when I live the date again, or see the date on a milk carton, it wrenches my heart.  When my Dad passed away... that date