Thursday, December 30, 2010

Merry New Year



A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day.  Don't clean it up too quickly.  
~Andy Rooney

Monday, December 13, 2010

For Willow & Dante


"  No heaven will not ever Heaven be. 
Unless my ferts are there to welcome me." 
~Anonymous 

See you on the other side my sweet comedians. 
I will miss you my whole life. 

Sunday, December 5, 2010

# 28

The Book of Questions 
~by Gregory Stock, PH.D.

~*~*~*~*~

What is your most treasured memory?

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

On the Eve of Thanxgiving 2010

I am Thankful for:
Punkin, The Cowboy, and my Surrogate Daughter.
Friends who act more like family and family that act more like friends.
The Journey
Always in All Ways 
Faith, Hope And Love.
 Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.  
~Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord
 Once you choose hope, anything's possible.  ~Christopher Reeve
 The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.  
~Mother Teresa 

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

On the Eve-Eve of Thanxgiving 2010

I am Thankful for:
Punkin, The Cowboy, and my Surrogate Daughter.
Friends who act more like family and family that act more like friends.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

kimbalie's kwotes

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

~e.e. cummings

Monday, November 8, 2010

#140 follow-up

The Book of Questions
~by Gregory Stock, PH.D
How might knowing when you'll die help you plan your life? Is life enhanced by feeling that death could strike at any time? by not thinking about death at all? if you knew someone was dying, would you tell them the truth or deceive them about it? How many more years do you think you will live?

Friday, October 29, 2010

them all


Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting 
and autumn a mosaic of them all.  
~Stanley Horowitz

Monday, October 25, 2010

~**~

The Book of Questions
~by Gregory Stock, PH.D

 #140

Would you like to know the precise date of your death?*

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Write about what it feels like with the seasons…

Drastic. But with all the seasons it’s a love/hate relationship. I love the colors of the fall but it means the world will be dark and cold almost dead very soon.
Moving into winter is like hunkering down for the end. The trees are dead the earth is dead and if you don’t drive well you’re pretty much dead.
I hate to be cliché but spring is like a breath of fresh air. I imagine what it must feel like if you died and came back to life. Spring is about hope and dreams and the beginning of it all.
Summer. Blessed Summer. Look at pictures of anyplace in the summer and the meaning of life is right there. Big and bright and strong. 
Summer is the season for me to be free to be me.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

My Weekend At The Moose Moose

I guess Tuesday is the blog day for this week. I had the most amazing weekend with my cousin/sister/friend!! Dr. Kirst rox AND rolls in the hostess department. We have dedicated Columbus day weekend to “Girlin’ it up!” Dr. K and her sisters and her momma and her aunts are the best group of girls a girl could spend time with. Most of them live in amazing country in the western mountains of Maine. The rest come from NH. We just get together and live, laugh and love.
Have you ever seen a vertical log cabin? Can you imagine being married to a bear hunter with bear dogs? And if you go there you will find a big gentle soul named Gus. He has a pelt as soft as a deer and slobbers and loves to give and receive love. Bear Hunter had some good friends show up to chase the bear (with more dogs!?!??)  and they offered to come to the Moose Moose and cook steaks, lobstahs, muscles and corn-on-the-cob. We let them...HA! They are nice men and I thank them. It was wicked YUMMY!!! Poor Gus-Gus was just “stahvin’ too deaf!”
We went to Big Aunt’s huge cabin complex and ate alien cupcakes with frog eyes on. As they went off on the Kabota woods-ride, we headed back to a mellow evening of S’mores and dogs barking and the sweltering log cabin syndrome.
Can there be a better way to live? I think not.
I love them all so much. I can't thank my bestest girl evah, Dr. Kirst for sharing her world with me.
Absolutely Beautiful!!

Thursday, October 7, 2010

C25K Saga

I  wonder if typing on something pretty like this will inspire me to write more. I need all the happy-place things I can get to inspire... me. I have committed to my daughter to blog once a week like she does. I give her so much crap when she doesn’t do this once a week, I know she will make sure I am accountable.  WOW this could work…I wonder if I can post the clip art too? That would be wicked cool if I could.
So this week…I learned that I am beginning to say nice things to myself. Now that sounds gay…oh well it’s what I got. I have had more positive ~ note I don’t say positive vs. negative its more positive than negative thoughts. When I said to me ‘you quit that running program’ I changed it to ‘no wait I chose to do something more fun.’ In this process I have still committed to going to the gym with Trisha 3 days a week and today I committed to meet one on one with Tony, my physical trainer, twice a week to work on strength training. I did it for the first time today and it was wicked fun!! Amazing. And you know what that’s from? It’s from trying to run! Wayne the wellness coach calls it the C25K Saga.  Love that!!
Ok so results of C25K Saga:
#1 didn’t think I could run. I can!
#2 trusting two men to help me through some of the hardest shit I’ve had to face yet.
#3 realizing that I am worth the time to learn how to take care of me.
#4 getting to the place that I like exercise
#5 hearing that I am doing a lot better than I think I am
#6 living with a man that is kind and fun and cares for me and mine
#7 loving that man
#8 getting back into college and doing well
#9 knowing that I raised Rachel well and it’s ok for time for me
#10 seeing the light at the end of the self-destructive tunnel on this road I have been traveled

Well hope this works. It’s my version of puking in a blog. If you know me you’ll understand. If you don’t I truly will improve and I hope you’ll read again.
LUB


Saturday, September 25, 2010

Wise Words

To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did~the will of God will never take you where the grace of God won't protect you.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Running makes me cry

Or at least feel like crying...I haven't cried yet or puked. I did kinda wanna puke even though I hate puking. So yea i know this seems random but it's time to start using this forum as it's meant to be used. i'm tired of being afraid. And my girl has inspired me with her blogging. I started this blog to get my writing out there but i've been too scared. i named this blog The Journey because i thought it would hold the journey of me learning to publish my writing. The Journey was also picked because i had an idea/hope/dream that some big changes were about to happen to me. They have...
I won't bother to list the changes right now they'll come out as i hopefully write more and more often...but if you want to know just let me know and i'll tell ya all 'bout it. 
So running...yea...how the f*** did i, the ultimate fat girl, end up running!!?? i know there were choices and challenges and stuff but i really do feel like WTF how did i get to running. 
So i'm in this huge lifestyle program MEFirst that is through work and it's the start of my second year and my wellness coach (who is ... wait he needs his own blog...stay tuned on the Wcoach) is a runner and offered to train a group from MEfirst to run. It's called Couch to 5K or C25K. after the meeting he talked about C25K at i said 'i'm interested.'?? (wtf) I just wanted to see if i could even run. a couple days later at the gym on the treadmill i tried and lo and behold i could...until Wcoach come up behind me and scared the shit outta me...talk about getting the heart rate up!! Any way, he was all excited for me which got me excited too. Believe me though before tonite there were weeks of excuses and he just kept not letting any obstacles get in my way. 
Now this is the good part ...I ran 8 one minute intervals over 2 miles tonite!!!!!!!! WTF??? I hated it, it scared me, i was angry, i was sore,  but I did it so i was also amazed!!! i'm kinda still in shock that i did it.
So i called Jewels-my gym buddy- who went with me tonite and i told her why i think i'm so sad:
This extra 125 lbs. that equals a whole other person, i've been carrying around all these years is my protector; she's feisty, defiant, a loud obnoxious punk really! And she was there in front tonite. I was mouthing off to Wcoach and making frustrated noises- for example, 'stuff that whistle!' this f***in sux! I hate you Wcoach!! AAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHH! and more much worse...(sorry Wcoach and Jewels) and even though it was joking, that part of me, that extra girl, really was saying all those obnoxious things.
When it was over and we stretched and i got to my car and started to drive home I was so friggin sad ... hence... Running makes me cry! I called Jewels and in talking to her i realized why....
If i'm gonna stay on this journey to get healthy and strong and lose the extra 125lbs (which i am!) my protector (i've always named her Rosey) is gonna be gone. I don't need her anymore. i'm surrounded by loving protectors and i'm safe and making safe choices so Rosey can go. I'm still scared though and obviously Rosey isn't going without a fight...
I love you Rosey but maybe you should think about finding someone else to protect now...no hurry, it'll be ok...

you out there reading this, thanx for listening

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Success ring for my Punk

Blue topaz stone is for success
Diamonds are forever
this ring means You have Succeeded.
Even though you will make mistakes; 
You will never be a failure.
You have succeeded and will forever be a 
Success.

I am so proud of you my girl!
Forever and Always in All ways.
mkp

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Grateful

I didn't think I would be this happy living in Freeport. Except for the commute, I am happier than I have been in a very long time(if ever). Even missing Rachel as much as I do, I'm still happy. How can I be so happy with a broken heart? The Cowboy is so good to me. I enjoy his company. I trust him. He doesn't have to say he loves me, he shows he loves me which is far more important to me. He means what he says and does what he means and says. It's beautiful. Any young girls out there reading this? if you listen to nothing else an elder tells you listen to two things:
First my Grandmother told me some priceless advice I didn't follow:
DO NOT marry a man if you think you need to or even can change him.
Second my advice is:
Make sure when you commit to a man that his actions match his words. And better yet, his actions are true to his words.
I feel so blessed this day. I never ever thought I would be this in love with a good man. I am secure and warm and loved. WOW! Cowboy's daughter is a love. I am crazy about her too. She and I can but heads but we are bonding too. I just have to remember she's young and not always treated well when away from us. I love being a part of her and her Dad's life. It's like a privilege to watch such a great father/daughter relationship. Sometimes I get sad that Rach didn't get to have that but she is really doing well and building one with him now. Better late then never I guess.
I CAN NOT believe she has been gone from me for a month today!! I got to see her and Samira yesterday(thank goodness for SKYPE) so it feels a little better. I really wanna hug her so much. My lap aches for her to snuggle with me. I know! I know she's all grown up but she still fits on my lap. She's my baby!!! I am so dang proud of her. She is doing wicked great. I didn't really know if she would...well I knew she would I just didn't think so well so fast. She's a brilliant beautiful girl and she has only just begun to shine!
LOOK OUT WORLD YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE ROCKED BY RACHEL!
I don't want you to feel bad for me but I have to go to an ocean side lobster bake with my new family!! I know! I know it's a tough life considering I love lobster and this new family!!! :0) (sarcasm rox)
So I'm happy, getting healthy, going to school and loving the Cowboy and his little girl. And I live in So Free ME.
Life is NOT crap.
:0)

Friday, September 3, 2010

IT'S BEEN A MONTH

I'm back online and I live in South Freeport!!!

Friday, July 30, 2010

R. I. P.

Tirgrr, King of the Bag Jungle ~ February 23, 2000-July 30, 2010

Thursday, July 29, 2010

July 29th 1964

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Monday, July 26, 2010

I Don't Gotta

I DON'T GOTTA BE ME UNTIL MONDAY!!!
DANG IT'S MONDAY . . .

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

What if ?

What if everything goes smoothly and happily and healthily?
What if The Cowboy is the one and we live happily ever after? 
What if my girl goes out into the world and is the success I know she is?
What if I succeed when I publish my writings?
~kwestions kimbalie asks?

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

kimbalie's kwotes

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.  
~Charles Dudley Warner

Friday, July 16, 2010

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.  
~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Monday, July 12, 2010

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Love is the only sane and satisfactory
answer to the problem of human existence. 
~Eric Fromm

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

The Book of Questions~by Gregory Stock, PH.D.

#149
Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered and you know the identity of the murderer,
who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime.
Would you seek revenge?

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The Book of Questions~by Gregory Stock, PH.D.

#90
If you could choose the sex and physical appearance 
of your soon-to-be-born child, would you do it?




Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Monday, June 28, 2010

Sunday, June 27, 2010

The Book of Questions~by Gregory Stock, PH.D.

#110
If you were having difficulty on an important test and could safely cheat by looking at someone else's paper, would you do so?

Friday, June 25, 2010

Strawberry Moon in June (6/26/10)

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing,
and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
~Bern Williams

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~Francis Thompson

Strawberry Moon in June (6/26/10)


The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Confucius

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Confucius

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus


Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Summer's on it's Way

The Book of Questions~by Gregory Stock, PH.D.


#87 pg. 78~Which of the following restrictions could you best tolerate: leaving the country permanently, or never leaving the state in which you now live?

#88 pg. 79~You, your closet friend, and your father are on vacation together, hiking in a remote jungle. Your two companions stumble into a nest of poisonous vipers and are bitten repeatedly. You know neither will live without an immediate shot of anti-venom, yet there is only a single does of anti-venom and it is in you pocket. What would you do?

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Too scared to write my own stuff


I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.  Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.  Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. 
~Theodore Geisel
Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. 
~James D. Finley
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. 
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Some stories are true that never happened. 
~Elie Weisel

Monday, June 14, 2010

kimbalie's kwotes

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ~David Carradine

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~Homer

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.
~Tom Masson

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

I wonder if I can get away with running around hitting people with sticks and yelling
"it doesn't matter its in the past"???
~from a Facebook status

WE DID IT ~!!!~

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They plan to move to Illinois. Because Maine is their problem...
These two girls are happy beautiful smart creative talented girls!!!
LOOK OUT WORLD HERE THEY COME!!!

Monday, June 7, 2010

LOOKEY WHAT I DID

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My daughter graduates Lawrence High School with an Academic Achievement collar, a pierced lip, and Mom's pearls...Is there a prouder Mom? amen.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that "individuality" is the key to success. ~Robert Orben


Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. ~Richard Halliburton


There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. ~Orrin Hatch


Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money. ~Gary Bolding


The tassel's worth the hassle! ~Author Unknown


The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. ~Edward Koch


All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder. ~Author Unknown


Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference. ~Arie Pencovici


At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. ~Paul Freund

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Finally in Maine

It's a little warmer today. Gads there is nothing worse then 3 freezin' cold days after having 70 degree weather in Maine. I love this state though. I do think i want to be a snow bird! For 3 months~~~Jan-Feb-Mar. Wonder what the Cowboy would say about Costa Rica in the winter time? LOL. I'm beginning to feel better again. Weird but better. I'm not really myself lately. Not like when I used to pretend i was ok as i have done before but being a not fake better is weird. i can feel what i feel and deal with what comes my way. I was remembering last week how I cried almost everyday for years and years. if i had a great spell...i wouldn't cry for 3-4 days. now, while i was crying this last time i couldn't remember the last time i cried. that makes me NOT feel like crying! :-) it makes me happy. i am happy and i am blessed and i have a good life and i am worth everything that is happening to me. i won't ever be homeless, hungry or huge. i have time for this life. i have a place here called home. i have a family worth fighting for. i have love that is deep and true. WHO WOULDN'T WANT TO BE ME? ...lots of people lol-- i was just feeling a little Kenny Chesney comin' on.
coming up:
Saturday auction with the Cowboy
NELE
Rachel Katharine Smith GRADUATES (wearing white???) weird!!!

Monday, May 10, 2010

Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer. 
~Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

May 4th 2010

May 4 2010
Before you were conceived...I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. When you were born, I saw your face and knew I was in love. Before you were an hour old, I knew I would die for you. To this day, I will. ~~found on face book at Aimee’s status update…where does she find these things?

Kimbalie’s Kwotes:

The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William Goldsmith Brown
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. ~Author Unknown


The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh


All mothers are working mothers. ~Author Unknown


When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back. ~William D. Tammeus
Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.
~Ann Taylor


Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
~Ann Taylor

Monday, May 3, 2010

Down and Out

All I'm gonna say is it'll take a lot more growth for me to post online through a depressed few days...i'll be back asaic

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Yesterday

I didn't write yesterday because I had to pick up the birdie from the airport. I was so glad to see her. And she was glad to be home. At least she said she was. I had to tell her this morning she didn't get accepted to SIU and after the break down she came up with a plan. Well it is my plan and it wasn't so hot when I was suggesting it could happen but when her Illinois friend Kiki suggested it...well mothers know what happened next. So then we went to the K Cafe for b-fast and talked more. Then to the Mr. paperback but I talked her into going to GM Pollack to look at a senior ring. We found one of white gold and topaz. Then we almost got out until I saw the white gold and ruby one!!!Now I have two on layaway and can barely afford one. Oh well I’ll call and put the ruby back. It was a silly idea. But we had fun. Spent money a Mr. Paperback and then went to see the movie Kick-Ass. Very violent but really good. We enjoy it. Now we are home in our separate rooms, she with her best friend and me with the Tigrr, blogging before I go see Ruth.
Maybe more later maybe not….
tj

Tuesday, April 27, 2010


April 27 Tuesday 2010
Ethics~ Values~ Morality, they are nothing without courage. Courage is facing the truth about you. Courage is moving despite the fear, but not moving in flight. Courage is finding the rainbows in the clouds. We all have clouds. Do we all have courage?
~Inspired by Dr. Maya Angelou
tj

Monday, April 26, 2010

Dr. Maya Angelou

I feel amazed, in awe, and honored to have listened to this incredible woman. Listening to her was incredible validation to me. As if she was talking only to me. full of wisdom and courage. I didn't feel envious like i sometimes do because i don't believe the speaker is living their truth. I thought of Dennis Leary with her poem about smoking carnivores. The poem about courage. The song about Willie. We are all important to someone somewhere down the road. Be a small ripple or be a large ripple. Rach and i have to go see Gummy. Gummy is my own Dr. Angelou. Gummy is one of the rainbows in my clouds.
One of my ripple effects that i'm grateful to have seen before i'm gone. is that i have stopped the chain of alcohol abuse. There is a pretty good chance Rach won't get stuck in that trap. for this i am grateful. Gratitude and Humor. I have this as does Dr. Angelou. She knew from the start that there is always one better and one worse than you are at any given moment. I'm jsut learning this maybe i can write and let the world know what it's like to live through some of life's toughest events.
It Was A Night Well Lived,
amen
tj

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Day 2 of the New bloggin Year

So ok, i have to fill this blog up everyday. 'The Journey' is about me...putting myself out there. learning where the drafts are saved on Blogspot...crap i hate that. omg Donny is here and i'm blogging. but i couldn't not do it. It's a new year; a new start to blogging. i have to make myself public. i have to live with no fear. that's 'The Journey'...getting myself out there...showing people, me...who/what/where/why/when, i really am.
OK e.i....my Tigrrr is rubbing on me to pay attention to him and all i can't think about is...geezum crow i have to euthanize this poor bugga. he'd make a great only-cat; ya' know lots of treats and big litter box, all to his ownself. I wish someone like that would show up for him. Would he forget me? I'd think so... if he is as primal as he acts, it'll take about 10 minutes for him to be over us :-) As long as somebody was lovin the stuff outta him and lots of treats forever more...
OKEE DOKEE he just gently crawled up onto me and gave the best kitteh hug and sweet purr...which humans can not deny... is the best feeling in the world to hug a kitteh that knows exactly how to hug you. I'm keepin Tigrrr and Li'l Bear until they get sick and die...i will not be euthanizing any of my animals. the ferts...well that's another's day brevity...but they will live happily every after...
mkp

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Happy Anniversary TODAY!!

I got my copy of Writer's Digest yesterday and it is the annual 101 best writer's websites edition. Started me thinking that the 2009 edition was what started this blog. WD listed blogspot as one of their best websites. So as i was thinking it was a year i looked and Guess What!!?? A year ago TODAY i started this!!!
WOW !! now i feel like i have to write something inspirational or interesting at the very least. but alas all i can do write now is to give you a Kimbalie's Kwotes:

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  ~Marcel Proust 

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.  ~Proverb

Thanx for being here if you are ... and thank you Blogspot for a year of The Journey. And now to close for now a toast:
Here's to a new year of a better blog...and "here's to you, here's to me, and if we ever disagree F  you and here's to me :-)
kl 

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

4/21/10

my post is so boring compared to this...and she is my child!!! so if you are bored here go here:
twoweekswithoutmaplesyrup.blogspot.com
it's a blast!!

Saturday, April 10, 2010

April 10, 2010

My little birdy flies to Marburg Germany in 4 days!!
I'm not really sure how i feel about that, I'm not really worried about her travel because she's with a teacher who i trust explicitly but I'm worried about who she'll be staying with. i guess there is nothing i can do about it. Letting go is so hard even when i know God will do great things for her, or at least protect her through her journey as He has protected me through mine. this growing up process is like a version of giving birth. you push and push and push just to watch them fly away from the safest place they've even known, never to be able to go back again. Beautifully Bittersweet.
mkp

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

I was hired

I am now a planning and research assistant for the Marketing, Production and Development division of the ME Dept of Agriculture. Who'da thunk it? Go me.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The past can't see you, but the future is listening.   
~Destin Figuier

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."  ~Robert Byrne
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.  ~Pietro Aretino
I like these cold, gray winter days.  Days like these let you savor a bad mood.  ~Bill Watterson
I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.  ~Will Rogers

Friday, January 15, 2010

I believe:

"A room without books is like a body without the soul."
~ Cicero

quote o' the day

Jonathan Swift - "May you live every day of your life."

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
~Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
~Francis Maitland Balfour
Happy New Year!
Trade Show week, Sami turns 13 today, I am taking the exact same classes as I took last year at this time. I hope I can journal what happened to me...Rachel and me laughing at a bat...man...WE WANNA DO THAT!! too funny
it is a new year and loving my body and feeding my mind are the most important things to focus on these days. next would be getting Rachel graduated and away to college. She will soar in college...I love her deeply. And last but definately not least is Donny and Sami Randall are mine...our family is new and sweet, and will be old and wonderful :0)

kimbalie's kwotes

Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. ~Author Unknown

Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you? ~Author Unknown

Life is not a final. It's daily pop quizzes. ~Author Unknown

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About Me

Kim’s Ideal ~ Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much. Kim’s Passion ~ helping children (of all ages) know their potential to be amazing. Kim’s favorite hair-down-shoes-off kinda day ~ exploring this incredible state I live in: Maine ~ the way life should be. Kimbalie says: “I have raised Rachel well. Learning is crucial to my existence. I think I am a Phoenix. I work hard with Ruth to be a better person and to help build a better future for all of us. It is all about the journey.