Goals? What goals? I had goals?

It is quite obvious that I haven’t written a blog in a very long time. Let’s just leave it to the no time in my life excuse. On to my topic, looking back at my goals I set last year, I have accomplished some and others I am no where were I would have liked them to be. I have accomplished one of my 16 goals… ONE!!! The ONE goal I accomplished was potty training my son. Now, like others they may look at 16 goals I set and think geez that’s the pits. Well, you’re darn right that’s the pits! The problem was that I did not keep my goals close and did not remind myself of them every day. That is where I failed! What it is going to take from me this New Year is self discipline. That every day no matter what is going on or how I feel get it and do it make it happen! I’m not going to let myself get down about it and I will think of it as a new opportunity to try again until I get it. The old me would have cried about it and kept my head down. I am stronger than that, I know better. How is this for a comeback blog? I’ll keep this one short and work on how I want to gather my other topics to write about. There have been so many on my mind and it feels good to write in this blog again.

Now go Innovate yourself and goodnight!

 

P.S. Click the link below and you can check out my blog I wrote last year with my goals listed if your interested in knowing what they were and all :-)

http://feliciaunveilingme.blogspot.com/2013/01/2013-goals-resolutions.html

Fathers Day Weekend Weekend Wrap Up

    Fathers Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. To many this day is a blessed day filled with honor. To me this day is a double edged sword, a reminding stabbing pain to the heart with a more confused mind of my father and the example he was. The pain still haunts me after all these years and, on other hand I am so blessed to have two great examples in my son’s life! My husband is the very best father that I could have ever asked for. He always makes sure Brayden’s needs are met before his own. He works so hard so we can have the time freedom in the future. He takes the time to spend special moments with Brayden and make them memorable. This is only a mirrored reflection of the father he had. Johnny has shown me that even though he also had a hard childhood he didn’t bring it to the future he stood tall in his decision to stop the past and have a better future for his kids and grandkids. He has shown me that hard work blood sweat and tears is what it takes to be that father!  I am so blessed that I get to see how much a blessing he has been in my husband and sons life.

     Yesterday, I spent my day at my mom’s house tearing down a huge rock structure my father put up I believe in 1997. He says he built it just to piddle, but the way he build it and the fire place my neighbor called a old fashioned bread oven was really great architecture for just cement and rocks. He built it level and strong the only place it showed weakness was the very top around the edge, but that was due to the earthquake we had a year ago. We tore it down so it wasn’t a hazard. The structure was about 8-10 feet tall was half moon shaped with stairs winding up the side. It had a place on the top level of cement. I remember my father taking his telescope up there and looking at the stars late into the night. I honestly think that structure and the fire place was few of the many things that he actually completed. Oh he also made a really nice pond in the front yard. In the tall structure he placed a few coins in the cement with the date 1993 on them not sure if it held any significance or not. We will write him later and ask. We also discovered a rock he placed his initials on as he always did when he completed his work. It was bitter sweet tearing it down. I remember when my dad started to build it he went and gathered rocks from all over the country that he would visited, mostly the lake and private property ha ha. You could even smell the lake as we tore it down. My mom didn’t want to throw away the rocks, but keep them to maybe make a small flower bed where the structure was. I think it would make the back yard look really nice if she did do that. With all that said I am super soar today and got a great workout yesterday we picked up heavy rocks, walking, running, hauling and swinging a sledge hammer.  The morning was really nice a little humid, but it was perfect sprinkling no sun perfect weather for wrecking that huge structure! We have to go back and still finish the bottom part. My dad filled the bottom with tons of sand so that made one huge mess with clean up. Good part is my mom had a huge sink hole my dad dug up to put in an above ground cheep old swimming pool. My mom had wanted to get it filled in for years well now we have the opportunity to do it. I feel really bad for anyone who owns that house in the future and wants to put something there. We threw in all the scrap rock and mortar that we knocked off the rock in the hole along with barrels of that sand my dad had in that structure. Later we will put some fresh dirt on top so some grass will grow there again. It is exciting to see an actual big yard again even though she has her yard lined with jumbo cedar trees it still looks huge. There is still a lot of clean up in the future, but we have a great start.