because to me thats what life is about .. the simple pleasures!
i dont need a million dollars or a mansion tucked somewhere high in the hills.. i need the simple things that bring a smile to my heart and my face..
it gets me sometimes when i see folks talk about what they dont have.. i mean i get the whole aspect from it and i understand why they do.. they are venting and letting it all out which is totally understandable. but in truth, you only get out of something what you put into it.
if you jump in and do your very best.. work hard.. love like no other and life like today is your last, and you look for the small things that bring that smile to you, you will be happy and life will be grand.
i try not to put to much into the bad and more into the good.. the funny jokes the kids will tell that arent really all that funny but you laugh because their laughter is so contagious. the fact that my husband has held some jobs that many would feel were to good for them and yet he did it.. not for anything other than the fact that he did it for us!
yes i get annoyed who doesnt? but hell we have been through it all.. we have gone without and always put the kids first.. their needs and even some wants.. i was looking over photos the other day .. old pictures from our kids growing up and how happy i am to have the memories that we do.. and looking forward to making many many more!
i dont care what it is that your facing in life today, take a moment and think about the simple things in life that put that smile on your face.. theres always something positive to see! you just sometimes have to look a bit harder as reality likes to toss what there isnt in your face a bit more than what is.
if you work hard and do your very best than you will reap the rewards for that.. i dont care if its some job at a gas station or flipping burgers at mcdonalds .. or in my husbands case.. being the guy to picked the pine cones and sticks out of pine straw so that it can be bailed for sale.
weve been on top of the world with buying our own home, having the brand new car in our driveway.. to having everything we own minus a few things stuck in a storage shed and no vehicle to drive and depending on others.
the fact is.. we are ultimately the only ones in control of where our future goes and its our job to learn from our own past mistakes.. its our job to make our dreams come true and no one else can do it for us.
we have learned, we continue to learn, and i hope we will always learn from bad decisions we made.
our life isnt always perfect but hell as many times as we get knocked down we will brush ourselves off, get back up, hold our heads high and try again!
