Blog Challenge Day 27

Almost day 30, so freaking proud I’ve stuck this out!!! Huge thanks to all who have followed!!!😜🤪💞

Today’s prompt is ; What’s in your purse!

  • Luckily for me my daughter has just finished cleaning out my purse not too long ago. LOL that would have been a really fun post that day. I’ll probably end up sharing some of what was in it anyways but for now let’s go through what’s in my purse.

  • Ticket stubs from the gondola in Banff when we were there in March
  • Multiple hair elastics yay I finally found them all. LOL
  • My wallet
  • My estrogen pills.
  • Allergy pills. I’m allergic to cats
  • It’s cool keychain that I bought but have not put keys on yet.
  • Airline boarding pass from our trip to Edmonton
  • A dime in the bottom
  • lip gloss
  • a pack of peanuts.. half eaten😜

That’s it that’s all for now. In the past my kids have always made fun of me because of the odd things they would find in my purse. Couple of things that come to mind are a small monkey wrench, a fork, and a spoon!!

I’d love to hear the craziest thing you’ve had in your purse or bag. Drop me a comment down below.

Until next time my friends be kind to yourself and look out for others! XO

Blog challenge Day 26

Today’s prompt: What do you collect?

In the past few years I’ve really started to get rid of things. To have less t

materialistic stuff around. I was never much of a a big collector of many things. I did collect porcelain dolls for a while but as of right now, I would have to say I’m collecting pictures and memories.

I know that may sound cheesy – I want my kids and my grandkids and my great great great great great grandkids to have pictures of everything that life was when I was living.

Hopefully with these pictures that I’m saving will help to tell a story and it will help to have my family remember me. For my kids I hope that they will keep the pictures, always bringing happy memories.

I know my kids often resist when I want to snap pictures and I kick myself when I don’t take a million pictures. Really though,one day pictures are all we’re going to have. Pictures and memories. Memory is sometimes hard to rely on and pictures are great because they really do tell us a story that sometimes even a memory just can’t.

So definitely now as I try to downsize and try to hold on to as little amount of material things as possible I really really am happy to be snapping pictures all the time. Creating folders of pictures that I will have for hopefully years to come that I can pass on.

To me right now in life that just seems like the most important thing that I can collect and keep to pass down to my family.

What about you? What do you collect ?

I love hearing about people’s collections. I know people that collect rocks, sea glass, motorcyles. I know eople that collect coffee mugs, heck I people that collect dust bunnies LOL okay well I guess maybe I collect those also!!

Until next time my friends be kind to yourself and look out for others.

Blog Challenge Day 25

PICTURE POST TODAY AGAIN;)

Today’s prompt is;

What is your favorite part of your body, and why.

My Tattoo’s

I love each one as they all tell a story. A artistic display of my journey, if I do say so!

A poem from when my baby died

Until next time my friends, be kind to yourself and look out for others! xox

Blog Challenge Day 24

Day 24 of 30! Today’s prompt is:

Something you miss!

This is such a broad prompt, lol but I guess they all are really! Anyways, I miss a lot of things, I will share a few!

  • My kiddies living close to me!
  • The feeling of holding my babies in my arms!
  • The innocence of childhood.
  • My friends and family who have left this world before me.
  • My friends and family who live far from me.
  • The feeling of hot sand between my toes, and the warmth of the sun shining down on me
  • The taste of baby aspirins, lol you know, the light pink ones that tasted like candy!! LOL ( I should add my daughter and I were just talking about how awful some pills can taste! She is 4 weeks post surgery and has been having to take meds for about the past 6 weeks!) That is why that is on my mind!

So, there are a few!

Share something you miss!!

Until next time my friends, be kind to yourself and look out for others! xo

Blog Challenge Day 23

Well yesterday was a miss thanks to a nasty migraine..

Im thankful that the next 2 prompts are supet quick! lol

Prompt from yesterday; Your favorite tv show!

The Big Bang Theory

Who else loves this show? Sheldon makes me laugh!

What is your favorite show?

Until next time my friends, be kind to yourself and look out for others! xo

Blog Challenge Day 22

Well well well, we are nearing the end of this 30 day Challenge! It has been alot of fun, and I truly hope you have enjoyed learning more about the gal behind the journey!

I am excited to be getting back to focusing on my journey through life with PTSD and sharing my emotional health journey in greater detail! I am working on a 5 week mini series blog on ” Really understanding and accepting what makes YOU, who you are!” It is just a fun little series of 5 different ways to better look at who we really are emotionally. I explore some ways I found to help better understand and accept that emotions are ok and we shouldn’t be trying to hide that! Of course remembering that I am NOT A PROFESSIONAL, I am a middle aged gal sharing my journey!

But for now back to today’s prompt:

If you could have dinner with anyone in History who would it be?

Let me share some of my favorite quotes from this person and see if you can guess!!

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

Any ideas yet???….

You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

The more real you get, the more unreal the world gets.

His initials are J.W.L  Think you know who it is?

Until next time my friends, be kind to yourself and look out for others! xo

Blog challenge day 21

The Prompt for today is

If you could live anywhere in the world where and why.

Welcome everybody. It is hard to believe there is only 9 days left in this challenge. I have to say it again I’m super proud of myself that I’ve made it to this heart and this 30-day challenge I was only late one day with a post and I’m pretty content with that.

The neat thing I’m finding about these prompts now is I’m exploring. I’m learning new things and it’s exciting to share.

We all have those dreams we all have those visions of the perfect spot to live it’s different for everyone I’m sure. For me my mind always goes to blue water sunshine and sand. My dream home location would be and Island somewhere warm somewhere that’s the people are dumb and peaceful and enjoy what life brings them each day. I like the idea of an island being surrounded by water I find the water very peaceful. I’m fortunate to live on an island now, but I have red sand, not so blue water and Snow! lol

Palacio de la magdalena, santander, spain

I decided my morning coffee date with Google this morning would be spent looking for isolated Islands that could potentially be my home. LOL one day.

I came across this one article about this island that is extremely isolated and has a population of only about 62 people right now.
I think perhaps that might be a little bit too isolated for me but it was a really interesting read. Check it out here.

Now I don’t think I want to be on an island that is quite that isolated and requires quite so much Logistics to get to but I would certainly be down for a visit.

So where would you be if you could live anywhere?

Until next time my friends be kind to yourself and look out for others. XO

Blog Challenge day 20

I’m very happy being me, although sometimes I’d love to be a bird so that I could fly.

Joy Fielding

Hard to believe my amazing friends, were at day 20 of this 30-day Journey already. If you haven’t taken the time to check out the 19 days prior, please do! You can click here for those links!


Today’s prompt is: If you could be an animal what animal would you be, and why?

This one was really fun for me. I’ve always told my kids that in my next life I’m going to come back as a bird. And they laugh at me which is okay because they laugh at me for many reasons so it’s all cool.

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/bird

Florence Welsh

But in all honesty, think about it! A bird, free to fly wherever you want. No worries of spring cleaning, no need to worry about downsizing no need to worry about how to declutter. Like a bird, you just worry about you. No baggage no luggage no strings no attachments, once the wee ones leave the nest! lol. Just pure freedom. I would still like to have my family and some type of closeness, birds have emotions and feelings, they just do it differently than humans.

 “I’m like a bird, I only fly away. I don’t know where my soul is. I don’t know where my home is.”

Nelly Furtado

I love the thought of being able to soar so high up into the clouds just being free. The ability to swoop down and fly right above the water. The ability basically to fly anywhere you want. To grab a wire have a seat enjoy the view, when you get tired of that view, flap your wings and soar.

I think of peace when I think of birds, BUT, I would have some fun with being a Bird too. You know, find those people that are scared of birds and of course have a little bit of fun with them. Maybe even have a poop or two on someone being not nice! LOL I know two wrongs don’t make a right!! LOL, but when ya gotta go ya gotta go!!

For now, though, I will continue living this awesome life I have right now and being free as a bird in my thoughts and always think of this quote!

I’m like a bird on a wire!

“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”

Victor Hugo

Until next time my friends, be kind to yourself and look out for others! xo

Blog Challenge Day 19

Welcome back my friends! I am sorry that this is being post being posted one day late- Yesterday was one of those flippin days! Check out my podcast about ‘those flippin days” Yesterday was a day that wore my mind right down!

Today is a new day, so lets shake that crap off from yesterday and carry on!! lol Right?

The prompt for yesterday was to right about a typical day in my life…. LOL well

There really is no typical day, the days around here go according to where my mind happens to be.

On a good day I start around 7-730am and get my work out in. Then I will get mu girl off to school. Then its home to do something!! LOL perhaps housework, blog work, doing some sort of email or research for Brave & Broken, a Veteran support group I am involved with. Perhaps there is a dr appt for either me or my fiancee. A walk with the dog.

Now, if its a bad head/mind day, most of the day is spent in bed or doing small little things around the house. I hate the bad days and luckily they happen less and less each month. But still self care needs to be top on my list or else I slip into dark places that are not good.

Supper is usually around 5, after I have watched Ellen 😉 I make supper or my fiancee and me or my daughter and me make supper, OR if its a really great day my fiancee cooks for us!! I love those days!! He loves to BBQ 🙂

I like to do yoga around 9-10 before bed time!

Ugg, this post was probably my least favorite. IF this is the first post you have checked out on my site, PLEASE give me another chance, lol check out a few more, not all are as drab as this one!! LOL

You are all amazing my friends!!

Until next time be kind to yourself and look out for others.

Blog CHALLENGE Day 18

Today’s prompt is really cool, I promise🥰!!!


What is your Love Language?

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I had never really given much thought to LOVE LANGUAGE- in all.honesty I didn’t realize it is really a thing! However thanks to my coffee date this morning with good ol Google I discovered this! There are actually five languages of love! Yup 5! A bunvh of books about it, and of course a multitude of websites thst explore it furthet as well. oh and of course the online quiz to help you determine what your Love Language is. lol

So before I take the test, I will share what I think my love language is, based on the definitions found here. You can read more about the 5 languages at that link also.


For now, this is what I think for me!Acts of service and quality time are the two that really stick out for me! I feel that for me the doing and spending quality time together, really melt my heart. I think for me this is really what speaks to my heart.This is kind of fun in a sense! It really gets you thinking about what makes you feel loved. I am really thinking that more people need to look at these as a couple or even if you are single. It really helps you realize what love is to you. So often we try so hard in relationships, but we are speaking different love languages, and frustration can set in.


So now then, Im going to go take that quiz and see what it says!! lol grab a coffee and you do it too!!

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Wellllll, lol, how did you do?This is my result! lol


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If you want to read more on the 5 languages of love

TRY THESE ONES!

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I hope this was a fun read ! Feel free to share your LOVE LANGUAGE below!!

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Until next time my friends, be kind to yourself and look out for others !xox♥️