An Hour In Heaven

Eight Hours In Heaven

Wii Bowling

This morning as we all settled back into the work week, Kyle came over to grab a cup of black breakfast and do some weekend catch up. He said that he had played Wii Bowling at some time during the weekend, but must have been toasted. He remembers being great at it, but now his backside and his  legs are growling at him!!

NASCAR ON THE BUCKET LIST

I met a lady in her mid sixties, she lives in Cali. She was fun to chat with; real, honest, delightful! She asked where I was from, I told her that I am a native Phoenician. She said "You have NASCAR there!" I told her we do and invited her to come for a race. She told me that she had started her bucket list when her husband had passed away. We shared some of the things on our lists; things we have yet to do, things we have checked off. Going to a NASCAR race is on both of our lists. She says she quilts, and as she quilts she watches NASCAR. Got to love the perfect grandma that has the need for speed!!!

Quote of The Day

I LIKE MY WHISKEY STRAIGHT AND MY HONEY RAW AND WILD!!!!

The Country Crooning Accountant

April 28th...Spring Is Over

Yes That Is 101 Degrees TODAY

My Princess and The Peas

Dinner with Cookie is always a treat. Tonight I sauteed chicken and steamed green peas. A very simple dinner, but tasty. We chit chatted during dinner, it was nice. Cookie has the most interesting table manners. As she was finishing her peas she picked up her plate and looked at me over the edge of it. I said "You are kidding me right?" she said, "They were bothering me" And at that she shoveled the peas from her plate right into her mouth. I sat there in disbelief. I told her I would be blogging this charming event. And she said if I keep blogging what she does she will never get a boyfriend. I agreed. 
So can I just say.....even though my princess had the most atrocious table manners.... at least she likes vegetables!!!!

Quote

"My forties are the college years I never had when I was young.....well, no I am not taking classes nor do I attending school......But it is like Spring Break all the time!!!"  

My Love For The Harbor

Today I wrote out a check for eighth grade graduation pictures and a check for a 2013 year book.
I have had a student at this school since it opened in 1995. My daughters were in second and third grade. Mark was just a baby. When he was in kindergarten Cookie was born. He took her for show and tell! The school has a Beach Party every spring, we have attend it ever year for the past 17 years. This May will be our last year; Beach Party, Graduation, and then my baby, the last of my four, will move on to high school. I have loved this school. I love that my kids all have gone to elementary and junior high here, that it feels like home. (I went to 12 different schools before I graduated high school, I wanted stability for my kids) I have loved the ownership I have seen in each of my kids here. It is their school. Just as Centennial is their high school.
So as this school year quickly comes to an end, so does my 18 year journey with Desert Harbor. They say that it takes a village to raise a child. I know that village includes a Harbor.
And yes.....Sand Sharks Rock The Dock!!!

COMATOSE

I hate feeling like thisI'm so tired of trying to fight thisI'm asleep and all I dream ofIs waking to you
Tell me that you will listenYour touch is what I'm missingAnd the more I hide I realizeI'm slowly losing you
ComatoseI'll never wake up without an overdose of you
I don't wanna live, I don't wanna breathe'Less I feel you next to meYou take the pain I feel(Waking up to you never felt so real)
I don't wanna sleep, I don't wanna dream'Cause my dreams don't comfort meThe way you make me feel(Waking up to you never felt so real)
I hate living without youDead wrong to ever doubt youBut my demons lay in waitingTempting me away
Oh, how I adore youOh, how I thirst for youOh, how I need you
ComatoseI'll never wake up without an overdose of you
I don't wanna live, I don't wanna breathe'Less I feel you next to meYou take the pain I feel(Waking up to you never felt so real)
I don't wanna sleep, I don't wanna dream'Cause my dreams don't comfort meThe way you make me feel(Waking up to you never felt so real)
Breathing life, waking upMy eyes open up
ComatoseI'll never wake up without an overdose of you
I don't wanna live, I don't wanna breathe'Less I feel you next to meYou take the pain I feel(Waking up to you never felt so real)
I don't wanna sleep, I don't wanna dream'Cause my dreams don't comfort meThe way you make me feel(Waking up to you never felt so real)
Oh, how I adore you(Waking up to you never felt so real)Oh, how I thirst for you(Waking up to you never felt so real)Oh, how I adore youThe way you make me feel(Waking up to you never felt so real)
ky i miss you

I WANT CRAZY

I'm booking myself a one way flight
I gotta see the color in your eyes
I'm telling myself I'm gonna be alright
Without you baby is a waste of time

Yeah, our first date, girl, the seasons changed
Got washed away in a summer rain
You can't undo a fall like this
Cause love don't know what distance is
Yeah, I know it's crazy

But I don't want good and I don't want good enough
I want can't sleep, can't breathe without your love
Front porch and one more kiss, it doesn't make sense to anybody else
Who cares if you're all I think about,
I've searched the world and I know now,
It ain't right if you ain't lost your mind
Yea I don't want easy, I want crazy
Are you with me baby? Let's be crazy

I wanna be scared, don't wanna know why
Wanna feel good, don't have to be right
The world makes all kinds of rules for love
I say you gotta let it do what it does

I don't want just another hug and a kiss goodnight
Catchin' up calls and a date sometimes
A love that revels and stills believes
We're the kind of crazy people wish that they could be, yeah

Oh, I know we're crazy, yeah

But I don't want good and I don't want good enough
I want can't sleep, can't breathe without your love
Front porch and one more kiss, it doesn't make sense to anybody else
Who cares if you're all I think about,
I've searched the world and I know now,
It ain't right if you ain't lost your mind
Yea I don't want easy, I want crazy
You with me baby? Let's be crazy

No! I don't want good and I don't want good enough
I want can't sleep, can't breathe without your love
Front porch and one more kiss, it doesn't make sense to anybody else
Who cares if you're all I think about,
I've searched the world and I know now,
It ain't right if you ain't lost your mind
Yea I don't want easy, I want crazy

Yeah, look at us baby, tonight the midnight rules are breaking
There's no such thing as wild enough, maybe we just think too much
Who needs to play it safe in love…
Let's be crazy!

Who cares if we're crazy, we gotta be crazy
I know that we're crazy, so let's be crazy
Yeah…

I'm Ready To Come Home!

Lived NOT Endured

Life is meant to be lived, not merely endured.
Theodore Roosevelt

Yeild To Your Inner Child

The world is every bit as fascinating now as it was when you were in kindergarten.
But we get caught up in life and we no longer see the world through the eyes of the inner child.

An adult laughs an average of 15 times a day. A pre-schooler laughs on average of 400 times.
The moral is: yeild to the child within you.

NORMAL

NORMAL: Conforming to the standared or the common; usual

I guess this confuses me. I tried adhering to this. I did not find conforming to be easy or always right.
I choose to establish my own standard. I don't want to miss out on a minute of enjoying my life, just to fit into what someone else thinks is normal.

Thought of The Day

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."




Leo Buscaglia

BABY BROCCOLI

Got to love it!!!!

An Evening With Stevie

Banjo

BACK IN BLACK

Shook Me All Night Long

BROKEN ROAD

True Story  EEK

Catch My Breath

Sure Be Cool If You Did

Our House by Madness

AMAZING BEAUTY

Morning

Afternoon

Monday With Mom

Cookie and I spent Monday afternoon together.

I don't have words to describe how much I love this child.

She is, and has always been the Frosting on the Cake.

I am older with this teenage daughter, and maybe that is a blessing.

She needs my mid 40's patients, she tests it daily.

She is bits and pieces of her siblings all rolled into one,

but new and unique, all her own person.

I am thrilled daily to see the young woman she is turning into.

She delights me is so many ways.

Her enthusiasm is delicious, her creativity is exciting.

Dessert First!!

OH MY GOODNESS, OH MY GOODNESS, HEAVEN ON A STICK

KAIZEN

KAIZEN:  Japanese Philosophy; Continuous improvement. Change for the better. A little each day. Like a blade of grass. The exact opposite of stagnation.

KAIZEN=GOOD CHANGE

Thought of The Day

"Be brave. And if you are not, then pretend to be. 
You'll be pleasantly surprised to learn
that no one can tell the difference."
~Anonymous

Thought of The Day

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.
Truth and courage aren't always comfortable
but they're never weakness.
Brene Brown

http://www.brenebrown.com/

Car Wash

Your Very Best

Thursday In The Hammock

PERFECT!!!!

I took my laptop and dinner out to the hammock. 

There I watched a cool tv show from Australia 

and the stars as they moved in the sky. A perfect night!

The Man In The Arena

The Man In The Arena

Excerpt from the speech “Citizen In A Republic”

delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on April 23,1910

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. 

The Hidden Past

The Hidden Life Within -
Artist Giuseppe Penone
 carefully removes the rings of growth
 to reveal the ‘sapling within’.
 By carving out the inside of a tree
 and leaving the knots in place,
 they eventually emerge as tiny limbs.

YES PLEASE!!!!

Quote of The Day

If you'rs excited, you can make things exciting.
Pat Croce

PEEP SHOW

This is my Teams Peep Show entry!
Mary put it all together, she is amazing!!!

Peoria Library

You Have To Love The Architecture!

NACHO NIGHT

LOVE DOING THE FAMILY THING!

ARIZONA

Lake Pleasant

Sunday at Lake Pleasant ~ A perfect Day

Our Wishing Lantern

We all wrote our wishes
 on the lantern.
Then we lit it and let it go! 

Check that one off the bucket list!

Greg's Birthday

Love Coming To Work