30 day picture challenge

Day 21
A PICTURE OF SOMETHING YOU WISH YOU COULD FORGET

30 day picture challenge

Day 20
A PICTURE OF SOMEWHERE YOU WOULD LOVE TO TRAVEL

This would be a A LOT easier if it asked where I didn't want to travel VS where I do want to travel. There are soooo many places I would love to go and visit!! I almost fear I want to go to too many to even squeeze it all into my lifetime!!
I have been a lot of places here in the States but would still love to get to New York, San Francisco, and the Napa Valley someday. Maybe even Las Vegas!! :-) I have never been West of Phoenix or Denver so there is a lot of exploring I need to do on that West coast of ours.
But if I am going to dream big it would of course be to lots of Europe!! Greece, Australia, Italy...the list could go on forever!! So many great places go to and so many great places to see!! The art the culture the food and of course the wine!! :-) Here are a few pictures of places I would love to go someday!! :-) I am sure I will get to some of them, just have to be patient and plan.

30 day picture challenge

Day Nineteen
A PICTURE AND A LETTER

Hmmm, this one is sort of vague.
Does it mean a picture and a letter, as in, "Today's blog is brought to you by the Letter J"
Or does it mean, a picture of a letter?
















Well, here is my interpretation:
This is a picture of me and my Daddy from when he was here at Thanksgiving time. I love him for everything he is and what he means to me!! He is not someone I would want to piss off and yet he is someone who would let me cry on his shoulder! He is all man, with that respectable sensitive side. Maybe it's because the poor guy had a house full of girls for some so many years, but none the less, I like it!! I like who he is today and who he was to me as a child growing up.
I won't write too much here about my past but lets just say that I have not always made the best of choices. Growing up, I was sort of a brat and thought my parents were fun suckers!! They wouldn't let me date who I wanted, I always had to go to church, I couldn't listen to the music I wanted, blah, blah blah!! (See, they were really awesome parents who loved me so much!!) I know now how much they cared about me!!
One day, I made some really bad choices that ended me in a place that is not pleasant to talk about. In the end, it made me stronger and of course my parents were there to walk me through that valley every step of the way BUT I have always felt that my Dad blamed himself for my behavior. They say a lot of a girls behavior is dependent on her relationship with her Dad. I think other people made my Dad feel like he had dropped the ball somewhere and that if he had been there more or done more I would have made different choices. I have always disagreed with that, I was 16 at the time and was making my own decisions (be it bad ones, but they were mine). I never felt unloved by my Dad and I never felt like anything was more important to him other than family. I have always wanted to write him a letter and tell him that but I just haven't taken the time to sit down and do it. Well, today is the day!! I am going to take that pen and paper and write my Daddy a letter. So here we go....
A picture of my Daddy and a letter!

30 day picture challenge

Day 18
A PICTURE OF YOUR BIGGEST INSECURITY

Wow, what is up with this picture challenge? My biggest insecurity, where aren't I insecure?! I am insecure about who I am as a lover, as a mother, in my beauty. Where does it end? I don't know? Not liking today at all! Hmph! No picture today, tomorrow better be better!!

30 day picture challenge

Day Seventeen
A PICTURE OF SOMETHING THAT HAS MADE A HUGE IMPACT IN YOUR LIFE RECENTLY

Okay, I am really stumped by this one....something or someone that has made a huge impact in my life recently? Can't say I can think of one. Not sure if this is a bad thing but....I've got nothing. Sometimes it takes all I am to just make it through the week and be the Mom, wife, daughter, and lover that I am.
God is always there and some days I hear Him better than other, even though I know He never leaves my side! If anyone makes an impact on me it's God. When I listen, He can do more with me than anyone or anything! :-)

30 day picture challenge

Day Sixteen
A PICTURE OF SOMEONE WHO INSPIRES YOU












Who better to inspire me than my own 4 kids!! They are my greatest Happiness and sometimes sadness. They can lift me up and they can bring me down. But at the end of they day, we always love each other!! They are so brilliant and get good grades, I tell them all the time that they can be anything they want to be someday!! So, if I tell my kids that, I have to believe the same to be true for myself!! I can do anything and I know I will always have them (and their father) to cheer me on and keep me going!! They are inspiring!!

30 day picture challenge

Day Fifteen
A PICTURE OF SOMETHING YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE







It is hard to get a picture of this but I want to do a wine tour somewhere in Europe before I die. There are so many places I would love to go but even one place would be great! Italy would be near the top of my list along with Germany.
I do not like Australian wines (I don't know why but I just haven't found one I like and I know Australia is not in Europe, I am just talking places now! :-).
Argentina would be cool too because there are a lot of good Malbecs from there.
Even a wine tour in California would be awesome!!
I think you get it, before I die I want to tour a wine country, be it domestic or abroad, European or not, I want to experience it! :-)