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My Letter of appreciation

March 3, 2011 by 1 Comment

This week is write a letter of appreciation.  And at first I was like that is silly who would I write a letter to.  But then it hit me. There is one person I appreciate more than anything.  Someone who has taught me so much without even knowing it.

Dear Dad,

I remember when I was a teenager and a young adult I always thought I was right and I always thought I knew everything.  But boy oh boy was I ever wrong.  Now that I have grown up and I have my own family, I have to say that you were always right.

You were right about they will not always be my friends.

You were right about I was running with the wrong crowd.

You were right about being a grown up is not as much fun as it look.

You were right Dad.

It has only taken me 36 years and the loss of you to realize it.

I want to thank you for everything you have taught me.

I appreciate you being a single Father and raising us the best you could.

Thank you for always putting us kids first.

Thank you for teaching me to cook even if we did not always like what you were cooking us.

Thank you for teaching me the real meaning of love and understanding.  You taught me how to be a loving parent and always put my kids first.

I appreciate the way you taught me to always keep a clean house.

I appreciate the way you taught me that making an income for myself was very important.

I appreciate the way taught me how to work on my own car.

I appreciate the way you taught me to be strong and independent.

I appreciate that you loved me no matter what I did and how much of a jerk I was.

I appreciate you letting me be your little girl no matter how big I got or how much I grew up.

I appreciate you not always lecturing me when I so deserved it.

Daddy I appreciate you…

Love your daughter,

Tricia

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2011 = Amazing Grace

December 31, 2010 by Leave a Comment

For the last couple months I have had an awesome feeling about 2011.  A feeling that 2011 is going to be a amazing year for myself and my family.  But I wanted to base my year on a one word theme.  A theme I could be proud of but that could really help me grow this year. Grow spiritually, personally, and truly in every aspect of my home and business life.

And if you know anything about me you know that I plan ahead, I make list and create routines. And as I have began getting ready for 2011 I purchased my 2011 planner, I purchased my daily devotional for 2011 and I began to create my routine all the while trying to figure out my theme for this year.

I put all my important stuff together to take a picture to share with you what was important to me for the upcoming year.  So of course a picture of my family was in it, and my planner, and my devotional, and my purse.  And while taking pictures I noticed.  Or should I say God pointed me something out to me.  On my purse was the letter G (for Gardner), on the cover of my daily devotional was the words GRACE for the moment, and on my 2011 planner it says amazing GRACE….

Yes you guessed it This year my theme is GRACE.  Great amazing Grace…. So I started doing some research.

The defintion of Grace accourding to Dictionary.com:

  • elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action.
  • a pleasing or attractive quality or endowment.
  • favor or good will.
  • the freely given, unmerited favor and love of god.
  • the influence or spirit of God operating in humans to regenerate or strengthen them.
  • a virtue or excellence of divine origin: the Christian graces.
  • Also called state of grace. the condition of being in God’s favor or one of the elect.
And that is it.  That is what I want this year.  I want to be in God’s Grace.  I want my health and personal life to be in God’s Grace.   I want to help people in their business as God has Grace me with an amazing business.  I want my family to be in God’s Grace and to have a amazing year together.

By God’s Grace this year is going to be AMAZING!

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Starting out Right

July 26, 2010 by Leave a Comment

How do you start out your week?  Better yet how do you start out your morning?  Do you start out with a bang?  Or do you get up, drag yourself around the house and just do what has to be done? With no motivation, no energy no nothing?  I am a strong believe of starting out right will make your whole day or week amazing.  I have personally started out both ways before.  I have started out with a bang and I have started out like a slug and trust me the bang makes everything  sweeter.

Starting out your week ~ I always try and start out my week with a bang.  I create a list on Sunday night of everything that I know needs to be complete, all errands that need to be ran, all household duties that need to be done.  Then I take that list and put it into my planner.  Then I know what I have to do when I have to do it. I write myself any notes that I might need for the week to remind me of things I need to do or want to do that week.

I then also created a to do list for my clients of special projects that I know they have coming up and due dates so that I am sure to get them finished by the deadline.  Creating a weekly client list is very important to me staying on top of my client work and also to being more organized.    I have found if I don’t do this then I will fall behind.

I also pray on Sunday nights for an amazing week and let God know that I am ready for whatever He sends my way.  I am ready because I have God on my side and with God on your side anything is possible.  I pray for a productive work week.  I pray for a productive week in my household and I pray to keep myself and my family safe all week.

I have found that praying and writing everything out really helps me stay on top of things, stay focused and stay positive.

Staring out your day ~ Some of the things I am going to mention I do to start out my day I have just started doing.  Others I have been doing for a very long time.  I have found that to start out your day positive you need to end your day the right way.  So every day I end my day with some good Christian reading, checking my calendar to see what I have to do tomorrow and scheduling my client work for the next day.  And of course last but most important I pray.

Before my feet even hit the floor in the morning I always say, “Today is the day the Lord made, Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”  I then thank the Lord for the beautiful day and then hit the ground running.  I found that if I drag myself out of bed or don’t look forward to the day then my whole day pretty much goes down hill.

I always start out my day with Bible reading, a good devotional, and prayer. I then move on to prayer, exercising on the wii fit or wii active and then a good healthy breakfast.  All the above is super important to starting out my day.

I have found that if I miss my Bible, study, prayer time then my day does not seem to run as smooth as when I start it out with my quite time.

How are you staring out you morning and your week?

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Making some Changes

July 24, 2010 by 2 Comments

It seems like there comes a time in everyone’s life where changes need to be made.  Some changes are good some changes are bad.  Some changes are welcomed and some changes you would prefer to slam the door on.  But changes are changes and they need to be made.  I have come to that point in my life where some things need to be changed.  Changes in my house, changes in my life, changes in my business, changes in my blog, changes in me…

Most of these changes are going to be welcome changes.  But some of them are going to take some serious getting used to.  I have been praying about these changes for a long time now.  And God has chosen now to start making these changes in my life.  Some of these changes have been coming slowly but some of them were just dropped at my feet in the last couple days.

My life is going to get a so called make over.. I am working on some personal issues right now and one of them being my weight.  I have let that go for far too long and it is time to take care of it so that I can have plenty more years with my family and friends.   But weight is not the only thing I am going to be working on.  I am going to work on becoming a stronger women of faith and the women God created me to be.

SO I have decided to blog my journey and share it with you so that if you would like to join me in this journey, hope on my little wagon and hold on tight because this is going to be one wild and crazy ride with an amazing outcome.

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