Today's Ramblings

I can't believe how fast time is flying by!  It is the end of August already and we are heading into Labor Day weekend.  Next week will be 1 month since Karey started school and we have officially been in our new apartment in Tennessee for just over a month now.  I just can't believe how quick the days go by. It has been a little bit of an adjustment moving here.  Being away from my friends and family for the first time in my life....it is difficult for me.  I have always been used to being so closed to everyone that I am now starting to realize how much I took it for granted.  

I love Tennessee. It is beautiful here and I do feel "at home" but I am homesick for my family and friends.  I miss them all so much.  Not a day goes by that I am not thinking of all of them, wondering what everyone is doing today...what everyone's plans are for the weekend.  If we were still in Ohio, I would be getting ready to host a Labor Day picnic or Saturday night bonfire....we don't have that here.  It's going to take some time to get used to. 

On the bright side, I am finally getting back into my crafts.  I started a crocheting project on Sunday...and I am just about finished with it. While I am not sure if I am liking the results, I am still working on finishing it and hoping that the final product is to my satisfaction.  I am thinking about starting my candle making again and very excited about making time to work on my scrapbooks.  Life is getting better everyday.  

Life on Life's Terms

I can't believe it is Thursday already!!!  I also can't believe that I haven't blogged in a while.  I am slacking....It has been a long week so far and I am looking forward to the weekend.  I just need a mental break.  I have so many things to get done, and so little time to do them.  Now, Karey wants to have a sleep over this weekend....and my house certainly is in no condition to have house guests.  

I am quickly getting exhausted and I feel totally discombobulated!  I have no organization in my life.  I desperately need to get organized but I am so tired that I just don't want to do anything.  I finally have a "craft" area in my house, but no time or energy to get it organized or even work on crafts!!!

Things will come together...I just have to prioritze and conquer. Things are starting to feel so much better being here. I am happy that Jeff & Karey seem to really enjoy it here.  We have a pool right outside of our building and I have only been there 2 times.  I have to find time for me.  

Trying to still get my Creative Memories business up and running while working 40+ hours a week.  I also dream of building my own craft business.  I just don't have the time to follow my dreams.  I have to make time and I know I do.  I know I can be successful at anything I put my mind to. 

I found out this week that a friend of mine from Ohio may be relocating to the Nashville area.  That would make me so happy and it would be great to have some friends from home here.  I miss my friends and family terribly.  I am torn because I love it here so much.  It's a slower pace and it's a beautiful place to live.  Yes, as with anywhere, there are things I don't like (like the higher sales tax and the tax on food), but there are so many things that I love.....and we do have some family here.  

I guess it's time for me to start making lists, budgeting and working toward our goals.  The only way to succeed is to have a plan.  And in order to have a plan, I have to write it out. I unpacked all of my books the other day....there are so many books that I have that I haven't even read yet.  I want to find time to read my books too.  

Well, it's late, and again I am extremely tired.  Tomorrow is a busy day at work...then my OA meeting....can't wait, cause I haven't been doing too well lately. 

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Dreams?

 

Hello out there in cyber land!  I know it's been a few days since I blogged.....just haven't felt much like getting on here for too long.  So life in the Kimbrough home is slowly getting back to a "new normal".  We have in our apartment now for about 2 weeks, Jeff is working steadily at the Hermitage Walmart, I am still working like crazy and today, my baby girl entered Middle School.  Where has the time gone?  It is amazing to me how different things can be in different parts of the country.  Karey brought home her math lesson from school and I pray that the teacher is just doing very simple review.....the stuff she did today in class was stuff she learned in 2nd grade back in Ohio.  I am praying that there isn't that big of a difference between the curriculum here.  I were to go solely on the work she showed me today as a gauge for what 5th grade is expected to learn here....Karey might just be way ahead of the rest of the kids.....and if that's the case, then everything I have ever said about Painesville City Schools being just as good as other Ohio schools would hold true....just saying.  Only time will tell.  One thing that is a little different is Spanish is a required class here in 5th grade...not sure that it is in Ohio...and I am glad that she is starting to learn Spanish now....cause in 7 years when she is out of high school, she is going to need it in order to be successful.  

But I digress.  The topic of tonight's blog is "dreams".  I have been thinking about this all day.  What are you dreams?  What are my dreams?  What am I doing today to realize my dreams?

So here are some of my dreams...I thought I would share them with the world, not for any reason in particular other then I was once told that once you put it down on "paper", they become real. 

1.  For my daughter to grow up happy and healthy. 

2. For my daughter to go to college and choose a career that she is passionate about. 

3. For my husband to finish his degree. 

4. To become a successful business woman - own my own business. 

5. To have a successful business. 

6. To become a professional genealogist - helping people learn about their family history and helping people record that history to share with others. 

7. To become happy with myself again.  

8. To live a healthy (ier) lifestyle

9. To reach my goal weight. 

10. To build a life here in Tennessee similar to the life I had in Ohio. 

11. To make lifelong friends. 

12. To have "girls" weekend with my childhood besties Carrie, Sarah and Jenny - but also have a "girls" weekend with Bean and Julie too. 

13. To travel and give Karey the same experiences I had as a child - see Arizona, Florida, Texas and all the other great places my parents took me and my sister when we were young.  

I part tonight by asking - what are your dreams?