Overwhelmed

This week has been rough. My daughter is sick. More sick than she has been in a long time. Coughing, crying, in pain because of an ear infection.
To add to a stressful week, I've got job, financial/tax stuff on the mind as well as nearing the end to the hardest year of my life. When it seems that everything is closing in at once, I often find myself becoming resentful to the fact that I'm doing this whole parenting thing on my own. OK, don't get me wrong, yes, I know God is with me, and my parents are a HUGE help, but, at the end of the day, in the wee hours of the night when I need my sleep too...there is just one of me to do the parenting. I don't get to take turns with anyone at night...this is it!...I'm it! Instead, I know I need to be greatful that I AM THERE to raise my daughter. It sometimes is just hard to remember when you're in the middle of it all. (and now the song "I will survive" comes to mind...lol)

Pony Parade

My daughter LOVES My Little Ponies....I mean really loves them. Sometimes I wonder if it's turning into an unhealthy obsession, lol. Last count I took she had 11 of them and she always knows if one is missing and can tell you exactly which one it is. Not too long ago I went into the bathroom after she had finished her bath and gone to bed....and this is what I found... I'm not sure if every kid does this or just certain ones, but she is ALWAYS organizing things to be perfectly in order. She'll separate her ponies into size, colour AND which ones are actually unicorns and which ones are not. This amazes me...especially since she's only 3 years old!

Finding ME!

One thing I've realized this past year is that in the nine years I spent with my "significant other", I completely lost who I was! I got wrapped up in the trying to "jive" with the other person, that I lost the things that make me me!

I've just slowly started to make me, me again. First thing first: my faith. God was staring me right in the eye this whole year (and even before!) There was NO WAY I could ignore it any longer. God put together so many puzzle pieces in the exact time and place they were supposed to be, that I really couldn't even consider calling them coinsidences any longer. I continue to put my trust in Him DAILY as there are so many things that still need to be worked out. Things I simply don't have an answer for.

A few other "to do's" I have on my list are: snowboarding, wakeboarding, camping, and I may even try to learn to ride a motorbike! Hmmm....I've got quite the year ahead of me. So far, I can cross snowboarding off the list!!! Yes, I actually loved it and will be doing it regularly in the winter time!

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