The Pixie & a Dragonfly: 2010

I gotta start this blog with...I love FaceBook (I know pathetic) but being on FB has allowed me to get back in touch with some special souls that have truly touched my life for the better and these friends each in their own way have inspired me to become the person I am still trying to perfect! Becoming re-connected with these friends has re-lit the sparks their fires started, for some...(Jenny, Angel, Suzy, Tammy) those sparks go back to the days of Sunbeams, MIA, and scary 7th grade. Others...Rebecca (we all called her Becca), Donna, Angela, Andrea, Robin - (just to name a few) were my dearest friends in a great new adventure...All of us fresh outta High School, Fresh outta the sticks (Utah, Idaho and Colorado for most of us) and into the grand State of NY all wandering into a little church in Yorktown, New York as nannies fresh off the airplane and all looking for that one seed we knew would help us establish some small piece of what we were use too, and help us meet new friends in our new world. And more recently..Amy, Karen, Brenda, Geni and Becca - I've seen the lemons life has given you all yet you make the BEST lemonades ever.....My friends inspire one to greatness!!

One of these fantastic women in my life (she'll know who she is after she reads this) that I haven't seen since we both headed our separate ways after a couple of years in nanny-land has re-surfaced (20 years later) as my friend on facebook. She is a crazy blogger (sometimes 2-3 times a day) and lets me glimpse into her life through her musings. I LOVE reading this lady's blogs and I am truly inspired by her and the life she has lived. Why does she inspire me....Because she has LIVED her life for good or bad she has lived it, owned it and rejoiced in it! When things were and are fantastic she rejoices in those moments. She thanks her maker and her family for enjoying those time with her. When her life has been in the shit (and TRUST me it truly has been) She pulls up her boot straps improves where she messed up and moves forward and she once again thanks her maker and her family for standing by her through those times and for the things she learned! I tell her regularly how much her story means to me and how I enjoy reading about her triumphs and failures. There was a book a few years ago Eat, Pray, Love. It was a HUGE success - top of the best sellers etc. I being a very avid reader, of course read this book and to be completely honest...I could NOT choke my way through it! I was so disappointed to be reading once again how some individual "threw in the towel" on their life and ran away to find themselves!! In this book this woman left her marriage , her job and for a long time her family to go about her personal journey. What a luxury!!! Reading my friends blog is real life...She hasn't thrown in the towel, left her friends, family or her child behind, nor ran away from the messes she has made. She has faced her situations, and her maker, she wrestles her demons and more importantly faces her child in her brightest and darkest moments. In doing the things she has done I know sometimes she has to swallowed her pride, and dug through the muck in order to apologized and make things right. Ito me that is what life is.... Like they say "That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger!" THAT IS INSPIRATIONAL!!

I know I have learned running away never fixes ANYTHING. No matter what you run away from or how far you run IT will come back and you will have to face it, own it and deal with it one way or another! Thesed are things we will always carry with us no matter how deep we try to burry them. But the knowledge that you did the best you could with what you had makes those situations more bearable and their burdens much easier to carry. I believe the same holds true for the blessings and good things we get and do with our lives, and those things also help make the shitty things livable! And great friends make the ride a lot more fun!!

So to ALL my friends and family that inspire me, guide me and help me become a better person - To each of you I say thank you and I love you!! xoxo

Hello Lava Hot Springs!! This is so my favorite place to go play and relax. We went with Karen and Daryl and some of their kids. They have a fantastic little house that we all had a great time lounging and vegging in.

We went t o Dinner at the White Wolf....