45 Lessons

This was emailed to me, and I thought it would be cute to share.

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.
My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's,we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

Congrats, Angie!

The lady that I nanny for, Angie, was featured on the news yesterday! NBC 29! She's a local photographer in Crozet, and was interviewed for cvilleentremom! Congrats!

And the kids I nanny are beyond adorable! Just to stick that in there...hehe :)

Another Week Gone By...

I love meeting up with the hubby for lunch! It makes my week. We had Panera, which is one of my favorites, and then Cold Stone, which I havent had since I worked there 2 years ago. It definitely tastes better when I get a 50% employee discount, lol. Anyway, I love getting to see Peter for an hour or so during the day.

The puppy decided to eat a pair of my wedges this week. I'm still not speaking to her.
I'll have more updates later...

Soaring, Flying!

Peter and I struggle trying to find new things to do together that we are both interested in. Yesterday, we met up with our friends Ben and Laura in Charlottesville for some wings (yum!). On our way home, Peter decided to stop by the small hobby airport in Waynesboro because we've always wanted to go on glider rides - you know, the planes that get towed up in the air and you fly around for awhile and then land in the grass. It was really expensive to go on a ride, but you can take lessons, get a pilots license, and do it yourself, which in the long run is a lot cheaper. So, we decided to take flying lessons together! There are commercial pilots who just do this on the side for fun, and they said that all Air Force pilots are required to learn to fly on a glider first. Im interested in getting my glider license, and then going on to a commercial pilots license so I can fly other planes.

We're sooo excited!

I stopped taking the cake decorating classes after the first course was finished. I realized that I already knew how to do the majority of what they were teaching, and it was kind of expensive to not really be learning anything. It was a lot of fun, though! And, Im excited because I get to make the cake for Maddie's first birthday in July! Yay for princess cakes! It's going to be a lot of fun!

I guess thats about it for now. I've gotta get some stuff done around the house before work tomorrow.

My Sicky

I'm pretty sure that if Peter didn't have bad luck, he would have no luck at all!

He has been hit with just about everything in the past week; as in cold shivers, cold sweats, nausea, shakiness, sore throat, exhaustion, and a few other things. The past week has been spent in bed, for the most part. He thought he was getting better until he noticed his eye turning red, which he assumed was pink eye. There was also a rash near the outside corner, which I thought looked like the shingles. Yesterday, he decided if he had pink eye, he finally needed to go to the doctor since that is so contagious. We went to the only clinic open on Sunday, in Charlottesville, of course, and spent a good 3.5 hours there. Besides the initial waiting, Peter was sent to a room, was looked at, they started freaking out, almost sending him to the ER, then sent him to another waiting room, and then had to have several tests run.

He for sure has the shingles on the outside, but they weren't sure if it was in his eye. This meant a couple of tests. If it had attacked his cornea, he could end up blind in that eye. Good news, it wasn't. They ended up giving him both pink eye meds and meds for the shingles to be safe. Yay for health insurance! lol. I dont know what we would have done without it!

Luckily for me, I didn't get sick from any of this. Let's just hope it stays that way...I hope this is the end of his sickness for a while.