Happy Easter...Buona Pasqua

This may be the last year I can get away with them matching outfits so I had to enjoy every minute of it. 

Easter was different. Hard not having the extended family around. Some cousins came to drop off gifts. Was sweet. Still miss them and we are all wondering what will happen once life goes back to “normal”

For now we are just grateful for being healthy and well. Grateful for the love we have in our life. Our family our friends. 

Cherish those who love you and who you love. 

Why Do Fish...

Today’s joke. Courtesy of my daughter’s ice pop:

Why do most fish live in saltwater?

Because they are allergic to pepper. 

April 11th Get Hopeful

Feel Good Song: Roses

The Real Reason Why You Do Things For Others

Just Be...

You Can Have The Things You Want In Life

Don’t project on to others. Don’t carry insecurities from previous relationship failures. Be confident in yourself. Do know every situation is a new situation. 

April 10th What’s Love?

When This Is Over...

Maybe this is showing us who and what matters. Who we want in our lives. Who we appreciate, love, miss...

Happiness Depends On Who You’re With

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This is so true. When you’re with your favorite people it doesn’t matter what you’re doing your heart will be happy. Respect. Honor. Value. Those people. 

Easter Traditions

You have to color eggs. It’s hard not having Easter with the extended family but I still wanted to keep traditions going with my girls. 

Next was making Easter bread. I love making this. I have been doing it for years. My favorite is adding cinnamon and sugar to the recipe. I eat it for breakfast with cream cheese. So fun and delicious. 

And it won’t be Easter without an egg hunt. It will just be us doing it this year. It’s ok. The girls still had fun helping me stuff the eggs for the hunt Easter morning 

What Easter traditions are you keeping alive? What’s keeping you sane? What activities have you been doing with your family?

Go With The Flow

Homeschooling Humor

Wake Up & Be Grateful

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What’s Meant To Be...Will Be!

Dealing With Worry

Today’s Goals

What Is This Teaching You?

You Have Control Over Your Life

Always Be Positive

Pink Full Moon

April 8th Learn From Your Past

Traveling Humor

You’re Amazing

Embrace Your Life

Let Go Of Fear

Never Stop Doing Good

You don’t do good to get credit. You don’t do good thinking the same person will do good back to you. 

You do good things just because....

April 7th What Feels Right For You?

Focus On What You Want

April 6 New Week New Possibilities

What’s Really Attractive

1,000 Years From Now

Maybe It’s Just The Lesson That Lasts Forever

Why Communication Matters

Tell me how you feel. Tell me what’s bothering you. Tell me how I can help. Tell me how we can fix things. 

How’s your communication style?

I am very vocal- if you don’t already know. I like uncomfortable conversations because it clears things up. I like telling people how I feel about them and hearing how they feel about me. I learned to let my guard down and do and say what I feel in the moment. Sometimes it backfires other times it’s allowed walls to come down and relationships to blossom. 

What I don’t like is a guessing game or when things get weird or awkward. I don’t like not knowing where I stand. But I realized one thing....

Communication is up to you. Really. I have met people who are openly aggressive and speak freely what’s on their mind. I have met super shy people who keep it all in. It was really up to me to adapt to make them comfortable to have an open dialogue. 

We think we can be the same way with everyone. But we don’t talk to our children like we talk to our friends or companions. We don’t talk to our coworkers like we talk to our family. We don’t talk to our companions and spouses like we talk to another person in our life. You have to adapt to your audience. We have to also accept who we are dealing with. 

You can’t change people. You change how you handle the person. 

Be Patient

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Accept Your Life or Make a Change

Always Be Grateful

The Type Of Love You Need

I can’t teach you how to love someone. It’s not that simple. It comes naturally. It’s like you just know. You know how to. 

Will there be off days. Yes. Of course. But not painful days. That’s not love. Love shouldn’t be painful. That’s young love. The jealous controlling painful love        That’s not the same. Love is having your life. What you need. Happiness and someone adding to what you already have. 

See the difference... I want to add to your life and you add to mine. I want our time together to be amazing, fun, secure. I want you to be at peace when you’re with me and not have doubt. 

I don’t want you to change me. I want you to see things in me I don’t see in myself. 

Listen we have learned life is short and unpredictable. 

Stop wasting it away. No doubts. No second guessing. Just happiness. Calm. Good times. Real. Nothing forced. Nothing painful. 

Do you have that type of relationship? If not. Fix it. 

Easter Crafts

By now we would have had a huge egg hunt. Been to egg hunts. Had breakfast with the Easter bunny. I swear I almost forgot to even do their baskets. I finally ordered ones because I didn’t have the mindset to actually go in a store and make one for them. Not because I didn’t care or have time. Funny time. Trust me I have the time but because my mind isn’t there. 

So I had to toughen up I ordered baskets. I took out Crafts and I said let’s get in the Easter spirit. 

We plan on making Easter bread this week and coloring eggs. We will also make homemade pasta and a lasagna. We need to try to adapt to our new norm. Things are changing for everyone but we have to still see the good in our day. We cannot stop living. 

Please don’t fall apart. Please try to make the best of your situation. Please try to keep traditions alive. This is our new norm for now. Embrace it. 

What Changed You?

What Energy Are You Sending Out

Break Your Cycles

Not Your Typical Palm Sunday

It’s Palm Sunday. One of my favorite holidays and due to the virus it started as just a typical Sunday. I wanted to make lunch a little special so I stopped at our favorite bakery and picked up croissants and monkey bread from Wave Hill Bakery in Norwalk. 

It’s great with ordering. You order ahead and use a card to pay. Then you go to the door and they hand you the order. Super easy and delicious. 

It’s not the Season of lent without Strufoli so I stopped by Angelia Mia for one. It’s nothing like the homemade one we are used to making but at least it sort of felt like Palm Sunday. 

I stopped by a friends this morning to do some distancing walking and she handed me a Palm that her mom had. 

It made my day. 

After I picked up my kids and we stopped by the cemetery to see my Grandparents. Every year I visit them on Palm Sunday. I normally bring them a Palm Cross but since I wasn’t recently at the store I couldn’t get one but I was happy to see my mom had brought them one. 

So many of the holidays aren’t the same lately. Maybe Palm Sunday and Easter seem different due to lack of family and traditional meals being made BUT you can still add some little touches to you day to make it special. Add your own traditional twists to your days. 

I can’t wait for next year when we look back and say remember last year when we...

Happy Palm Sunday to you all! Don’t worry the best days of our lives are yet to come. 

April 5th