A Different Scene for Christmas

This year Christmas will be a little different. In the entire time I have been alive I have known Christmas as waking up with my family on Christmas morning and opening gifts from Santa. Then spending the day as a family. Now since Paul moved in my Christmas as I know it will be different. I didn't realize all the things one has to take into consideration in order to please both sides of the family. But I guess it had to come sometime. Also having Bella around the holidays is very different as well. She gets into EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!! Especially the tree! Bella loves the baskets and the ornaments.

Paul and I decided to try and enter her in to win a contest. So at Target I found the outfit she is wearing in the picture and sent the picture in to 96 KX. She hid the outfit the minute we got it off of her.

Quotes that get me through the tough days.

There are days that seem to be sooooo tough. So over the years I have complied quotes that have helped me in those really tough times. Here are a few that I want to share with you.

You will only be faced with lessons that you are capable of learning and are specific to your own growth-you cease being the victim of fate or circumstances and become empowered-life no longer just 'happens to you.' ~ Jack Canfield

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ~ Helen Keller

I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works. ~ Louise Hay

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

When you are open to seeing your lessons, experiencing heartbreak can look like a crisis, rather than a hint to learn the lessons of the kindness and unattachment. While the less attractive lessons may not be fun, they can actually be the biggest gifts to you.

You can either continue with this resistance and feel badly or you can learn whatever the lesson is there to teach you. What am I resisting?

Decisions are made in your mind, whereas choices are made in your gut.

Focusing on the unfairness of circumstances keeps you comparing yourself with others rather than appreciating your own special uniqueness.

You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny. ~ Harold Kushner

Grace comes from when you understand and accept that the universe always creates circumstances that lead every person to his or her own true path, and that everything happens for a reason as part of a divine plan.

Fear is the path of darkness. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering. ~Yoda, Episode 1

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be only afraid of standing still.

Don't be jealous of the freedom of the wind for you too can have the same freedom. There is nothing holding you back except yourself.