Time for an Adventure

Amazing how busy we can get at times with kids, grandkids, hobbies, meetings, friends, etc and forget to spend fun time with our closest family member-our HUBBY. Writing my husband's life story as helped him become a bigger priority in my life as we are working together to edit and compile his history. It's also helping me get to know him and his family background as we've been married 16 years so far. Marriage is probably one of the most important relationships we have in our lives. (Click to make photo collages larger.)

My spouse is perfectly content to hibernate at home, spending hours watching sports on TV and working on designing projects on his computer. It takes some effort to plan an outing or adventure. Yesterday I decided it was time to explore outdoors more now that fall/winter temperatures have come to our area. So we went find some rock art nearby that I would like to take visiting family to see sometime. It's called Anasazi Ridge and is near Santa Clara.

Love my family

A special thank you to Daniel who has his family as number one priority or for that matter has our whole family as number one priority. Coming from a broken family because of my divorce, he tries to be a special dad to his four children and I admire his efforts. He always take time from his busy schedule to help me with my computer problems and is a great listening ear and heart. His greatest wish, as is mine, is UNITY in our family. Despite our diversity and distances from each other, we need to make the effort to come together and be thankful for the opportunity of being a family. I love all my sons: Jeffrey, Brook and Frank, and not to forget my daughters-in-laws: Tina, Rachel and Nedret plus all the grandkids: Emilee, Heather, Nathan, Hakan, James, and Lorien still to join our family in Dec. Then there is my husband and my four step daughters-Deborah, Alicia, Katherine and Sarah, and their families. We are trying to blend together our lives as we interact in person and through the Internet. FAMILIES ARE FOREVER!

November is here!

I read an article the other day in the news that said "Life is long but time is short." That's how I feel today as we start another new month, end daylight savings time, and are almost to the end of another year. Time is going too fast although my life has been long-69 years so far, it seems like I've rushed through most of it. Always looking forward to another time that would be better, rather than experiencing the NOW MOMENT. I have had that feeling while on vacation also. So many times, I've just wanted to stop rushing about, rest and let the moment sink in.

Looking back at this past month, there are moments I would like to remember as I focused on CONNECTING. Moments of happiness, self reflection, inspiration, depression and loss. Even the down moments helped me get going again. I overcame a nasty cold, cough and sickness that lasted two weeks, visited with family in Northern Utah, restarted my husband's life story, helped him with his archery meet, started a utah geology class, finished the Writer's monthly newsletter, and blogged daily. Also got my vol. 2 together to republish my book with all my articles with my son Daniel's help and submitted several poems to a competition-so it's been a productive time. This month of November I want to try to cherish more moments together with my family and make time last longer. My words to focus on for this month are SLOW DOWN and ENJOY!