Hello????

I believe that would be a wake up call to me. And I don't know how long this blog will be up, but we'll see. I had a brief discussion with my sister this afternoon and I was pretty much put in my place. Now, I am not saying that as a bad thing. I have had many hours to re-evaluate my advice to her, and I have pretty much realized that I am giving her advice I should have applied myself a long, long time ago. She is at a crossroads in her life (but has pretty much figured out which way to travel). I want her to go down road A, but she has found road B to be the better route. While I may disagree, (as only an older sister can do), I had to analyze why I wanted her to take road "A". I have spent a lof of time today trying to figure out her choices.... you know the analogy.... walk a mile in my shoes...blah, blah, blah.... My only hope is for her to be happy and not to make the same compromise decisions I have made.... Apparently, I am superimposing my life on her as I have come to realize. I made many choices in my life out of bending to other people's opinions and not standing up for my own life, and I want her to be able to be free to make her own choices. While I may not agree, disagree, or even have say, I have to let her make her own decisions and sit quietly by (or well, not that quietly, but I'll try). We all have to live our own life, for good, for bad, or for the ugly. It has made me analyze my own life's decisions, and well, I don't know how well I've done, but at least I am the one who made them. I have to live with the consequences, as we all have to. I may look back with many regrets, and yes, I probably would have made a hundred different decisions, but the two things I can never regret are my two children. For them, I have to thank God.... without Him I never would have had them, and for that I am forever grateful. So I realize that we do make a lot of our decisions based on how it would impact our children. While we can't live our lives for our children, whatever we do in life does impact them. Great!!! Something else we can screw up.... All we can do is...do our best, pray for it to work out, and hunker down, and hope our kids won't need years of therapy overcoming our shortcomings....

Are You Kidding Me???

Ok, so my husband is a tv addict. So we watch not only a lot of tv, but lots and lots of commercials. There are two that drive me insane. One is where a woman is talking to the female symbol on the bathroom door. Excuse me, but if you are talking to the outline of a woman, you have a lot more problems than some bladder control issues.... The other is for some sort of deodorant. It shows a woman trying to avoid white marks on her "little black dress". One way of avoiding those telltale signs is to dive from a high rise building head first into her dress. Or the other way is to use this deodorant. As the woman is pitching, face first, downward into her dress, the words "don't try this at home" appears. Hello, do you think any sane woman would do this???? Give me a break. I am really hoping that women, worldwide, have a lot more brain cells than that. Right now, those two commercials, aside from the typical political ones, are driving me crazy. Give the women of the world a few more brain cells.... the political ones, well, that's a whole other blog....