As you can see from the photo, I had a great time coloring eggs this weekend.

Not only did I get to have fun, be creative and relax but I also have hard boiled eggs to enjoy for the next week.

As a kid, I have always had fun coloring eggs so why should I stop now I am an adult? I shouldn’t and I didn’t.

I hope you have a good time this weekend and do something fun to celebrate that spring is here!  

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This year I must have been on Santa’s good list. I finally have made the jump and I know am a MAC user!! I got a Macbook! I know I have been talking about this for years now but I finally did it!

But not only did I get the Macbook but also an iPhone. I am going MAC in a big way. They love me in the store because already they know I am addicted. I have been taking my time to load my contacts into my Macbook before I activate my phone. My friend Nick is pushing me to just turn it on and start playing with it. He knows I tend to get new toys and take awhile to start playing with them.

I signed up for Macbook classes with my friend Stephanie. We thought it would be fun to go to the store and learn more about our new toys. We also know we need cool bags to carry into the laptops into the store with. I found a Cirque bag I think I am going to go with. We also plan to drink Starbucks so we can be the complete MAC user profile during the class.

For the holidays I was also lucky to spend it with my family. We had a small lunch that my mom prepared for us. I missed the HUGE family dinner on Sunday do to being sick but was able to make it on the holiday. It was great but mom and I have already made plans to do brunch next year at the Gaylord Palms so no one would have to cook.

So the holiday season has come and gone and I hope all of you had a great time and I know we will all make the next one even better!!

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 When I was a kid I really believed in Santa. Other kids tried to tell me over and over he was not real but I knew that just could not be.Every Christmas morning was so magical while I grew up. My parents did a wonderful job of making each holiday so special. I would also go to bed right after our huge Christmas Eve party and just try to fall asleep so the morning would come. Of course, I spent most of the night staring at the ceiling because I was too excited to see what Santa would bring me in the morning.

Usually, I would get the courage to take a risk that the monster under my bed would not get me as I ran to the living room to see if there was anything by the fireplace. I would also be surprised to see tons of gifts waiting for me to open. I would then run and jump back into bed (so the most couldn’t get me on the back either) and try again to fall asleep so the morning would come. I think I would just pass out from exhaustion and morning would finally arrive and I couldn’t wait any longer.

I would open my presents and find that every wish I had made that year had arrived. I knew it had to be Santa who brought it because my parents would never spoil me that much because they knew I really belonged on the naughty list.

It really can not remember all the gifts I got. I do remember some of the items but that doesn’t count for the years and years of tons and tons of gifts. What I do remember is the magic that took place each year. As I grew older, the magic faded each year. I do not even decorate my house now because Santa doesn’t seem to come anymore even though I wake each morning, hoping he may prove me wrong.

I realized this year how powerful it is to believe in something. When you truly believe in something, no one or thing can stop you from believing in it. That magic came from no allowing anyone’s opinions or view affect what I believed in. It was magic that was created because I trusted in a belief that I held close to my heart and valued each year.

Can you imagine if I just believed in myself so strongly? Well the opportunities and possibilities would be endless. It may take time to build it up, but with work I can make it happen.

I also decided that it is time I believe in Santa again. Why should I give up something that brought me such happiness each year? Besides, if I start believing in Santa again, it will only help remind me to work on believing even more in myself.

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The holiday season is in full swing and I head to my friend’s Becky and Fred’s for a great party. While there Suzanne and I joked about the new pop culture term “cougar”. Cougar is an older woman who dates are is interested in younger men. This got to be thinking about how we label things in life and how that affects our outlook. We are quick to understand things so we add labels to them which may or may not be right. Either way this labeling ends up really affected how we feel about other people or even ourselves. A cougar, before we came up with the term, would be considered pathetic for going after younger men and not being married and in a stable relationship. Now, we have a different outlook. Older woman who chose not to settle for just anyone and isn’t afraid to go after what they want. It is all how we look at it.

It happened with being a housewife. Housewives were never seen as cool and a lot of people looked down on them. In Sex and the City, Charlotte quit her job to stay home when she married Trey and the girls had a hard time with it. It wasn’t until television shows like Desperate Housewives and Real Life Housewives of Orange County that we started think being a housewife was cool. It took us seeing a different perspective to change how we felt about it.

I remember my friend West and I going out all the time and was tired of all the skinny boys talking about 6 packs. How hot 6 packs were and how they spend hours working on theirs. One night, after another boring conversation with strangers about 6 packs, West said, “Why would you want a 6 pack, when you can have a keg?” I loved it. Again it was all about how you looked at it.

Think about all the labels that you give yourself or others give you and see how you can change them from negative to positive. If you can’t, then just do not accept them. You do not need them in your life!

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I was lucky enough to enjoy the wonderful Florida weather and go with my parents and sister to Disney’s Magic Kingdom to see the newly holiday lit castle. I had a great time with my family and I am very lucky to get to enjoy these events.

Before we headed to Magic Kingdom, we had dinner at the Whispering Canyon Cafe. During our meal, we colored Disney character coloring sheets and My sister and I hung up our artwork with Mickey stickers. The host at the front gave me at least 10 stickers of which we only used 4. I stuck the rest in my bag and thought maybe I would see a kid to give them too.

Well as we were leaving the park, we had to wait in line to purchase a family photo we had taken. I noticed in front of me was a family with a little girl dresses as Belle who had made friends with another little girl with a Jasmine doll. They sat on the floor and played together. Another little girl showed up and happened to be the sister of the girl in the Belle dress. She gave her sister a Mickey sticker she got from someone that worked in the park and now both sisters had the stickers on. The other little girl with the Jasmine doll said how cute the sticker was but of course did not have one.

I remembered that I happened to have the exact same stickers in my bag, so I reached in and gave the girl on of the stickers. She lit up and said, “Thank you so much Mister.”

That “Thank you” meant so much to me. She was OK that she didn’t get a sticker like the other girls but she really wanted one and to belong. When I gave it to her, she was so excited and so happy it was all worth it. How simple was that of me to just keep the extra stickers in case.

Think about all the times you could do something so simple that would make somebody’s day, or week, or maybe even their month. This is the holiday season when we are supposed to be extra giving. Why don’t you just try and see what you can do to make somebody’s day today.

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I was talking to my friend Nick today when he mentioned he was going to put up his Christmas Tree after he got him. He mentioned how he doesn’t many ornaments for the tree. He didn’t want to just buy a bunch to fill the tree but he wanted them to have meaning like his childhood ornaments do at home.

I suggested that he email all his friends and ask them to send him one ornament that represents them. This would then decorate his tree with his friends and would allow him to include all his friends in his holiday celebration.

What a great idea to make your holiday celebration more meaningful! He is going to send all his friends a picture of the tree when it is complete. I can not wait to see it and I am glad I will get to play a part in his holiday celebration.

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On Thanksgiving, I went with Justin to see ICE.  At the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando they produce a great holiday display each year. It is a walk through exhibit of GAINT sculpted scenes made completely of ice. Of course, being Florida we do not normally get to see things as this because of our warm weather. The whole exhibit is kept at 9 degrees and they give you coats to wear.

Not only is it a great way to ignore the holidays and experience the cold BUT they have a whole scene which is designed as a toy-land with 3 giant ice slides. Justin and I arrived very early., so we were the first in the exhibit which meant we were the first to arrive in the ice slide room. The employees are so excited to see us and invite us to go down the slides. Justin has already said he doesn’t want to go down the slides.

Why would you not go down the ice slides? I know he is not scared of them. I know slides are fun so why not? Could he be afraid of what other people would think?

I run of the stairs to the first slide and talk him into going on the tallest slide. After I get off the slide, I find him smiling at the bottom of his slide. I walk with him up so we both can go down the last slide.

What is people had been in that room, would Justin chosen not to go down the slide? Why would you miss out on having fun because you are afraid of what others may think? What would you do in your life if you weren’t afraid of what others would think?

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