Choices

Life is all about choices. God gives us free reign to pick and choose any pathway, roadway, or avenue we so choose. He gives us warning signs....detour advice....and tries to "block" the road when there is imminent danger or bad choices ahead. WE must open our eyes to see all of His advice. So....if you:

stay in a relationship where one half is llieing to you, cheating on you, deceiving you when you aren't looking....then you will have to deal with a life of uncertainty, stress, and horrible insecurity. It is YOUR CHOICE to put up with that!!!!! (wake up)

allow adult children to berate you, insult you, judge you, and use you...then all you will get are those children when they need or want something. That isn't love or respect at all. If you accept that, it is your CHOICE.

squander your money and waste it when you could be putting it away for emergencies, and abusing what you are lucky enough to have then you deserve the collectors and phone calls and the strife that accompanies being bad at your finances. It is a CHOICE to live that way.

if you are a bad friend and use people only to get ahead or if you are a kiss up at work because it is the way to get ahead in your job, then it is your CHOICE to be that way and to treat others that way, but don't cry when you are left alone because no one trusts you or has faith in you.

It is all about choices. I made choices along the way simply for my children to live in a loving home. It was my choice to do that. It is my choice now to live a life that is filled with friends, my family that has supported, encouraged, and stood by me with respect and love, and to have a job that I find to be satisfying and in line with who I am as a believer in Christ.

This is MY choice. Thank you God for guiding me and helping me see the right path.

Ax-ually No Splitting Hairs Here!

Our neighbors are awesome. They are just a part of the family now. Yesterday...we were preparing for our bon-fire and Lindsay ended up swinging an axe at Josh's house. Now..she doesn't look like it but she can swing a mean ax and she "hits" her target every time. Enjoy pictures of the "Ax" event. By the way, we enjoyed all that firewood with our friends as we sat around the fire, laughed, told stories, and ate "weenies" and made s'mores and "pudgy pies". Josh was the master of the "pies". They were awesome..... we even melted coke cans in the fire. It was an amazingly fun and relaxing time.

Splitting wood the "hard way"

Lindsay swinging the ax

Family Weekend

My son EJ came home with a friend to utilize my ND/Boston College tickets and attend the game enjoying the type of "fall" we have here. We all met at Bob Evans this morning for breakfast. It was good to get my EJ bear hug I always get and to spend time with the whole family.

I enjoyed my hour with Ej and the family!

Ej opening up a gift from Dawson

Uncle Ej and Dawson

We are blessed to have Grandpa with us. He enjoyed seeing his grandson!

Lindsay and Dawson

My daughterinlaw Elena and son Jon

Bye Bye Fly!

Part of my job is to train and teach associates in my territory how to do things and how to find things. So I am sitting with two owners and we are at a desk around a computer. I was side to side with one and the other one was behind me. The one behind me is a card...and comes out with quips all the time. I am attempting to show them where something was located and he said one of his little gag lines and I, without looking, swiped my hand back and smacked him on his forearm. He didn't say anything so the other owner and I turned to him and there it was. I had killed a fly on his arm when I smacked it... All of us were sitting there with our mouths open for the longest time and then hysterics broke out and all was lost in the concentration.

I couldn't look at him without him breaking into laughter.

It was just a funny, funny visit. Who would have thought that a random swat could be a dead on target to a fly. Go Figure!

Opening your heart and mind

Picture this: You are driving down a road going in the direction you wish to go in and you know you are going the exact right way even though signs along the way tell you to detour...take another route....turn around....or change your chosen path but you know you are heading in the right direction so you ignore all of the signs. Then all of a sudden you are faced with despair as the road you chose has a dead end that all those signs talked about along the way. You chose to forge ahead even after reading all the signs. Then all of a sudden....you believe the change in direction and you go with it. You all of a sudden experience forward movement in a roundabout way and you see things you haven't seen before and you experience great accomplishments because you decided to go with "it" instead of "against" it.

This has been my past month at work and I can tell you that the new direction and path is much more satisfying and definitely more productive. Life is good!