Cherish The One You're With

How to get a husband to help...I just stopped doing everything and not worrying about what isn't getting done. Geoff now washes and dries the laundry, I fold it. He will load the dishwasher and start it, I put the dishes away. If he trims trees, I go help him pick up the branches...I take the trash out, he rolls the can to the curb and brings it back in. We just started sharing the jobs. I never have ever complained, not once about what he doesn't do and it's just been groovy.
If he made me a bouquet of wildflowers and left the mess all over, I'd honestly be astonished and love the wonderful thing he had done. He doesn't bring me flowers but he shows me he loves me by cleaning the toilet, going to work everyday and coming home to me. He shows me he loves me by eating my food too, telling me thank you and that it was good (and I can't cook that great). I know I goof around a lot and try to be funny about everything but when it comes to love and Geoff I get serious when I say I got it all with this guy. He loves to sit on the porch, hold my hand and drink coffee with me while I do all the talking. I am so blessed to have him in my life. I appreciate the little things as well as the big things he does for me and I wouldn't change a moment of the last 11 years we've been together. Something that I think of every day: I cherish this man I married everyday as there may come a time that I will be without him and I'll wish for the mess he leaves by the coffee maker.

I am Thankful

Sometimes I forget to be thankful. Today I have been given the day off with the rest of my company because we are ahead in our orders. So I'm staying home, doing laundry, cooking, shopping for food, taking care of my doggies, cleaning, dusting, sweeping and mopping the floors, doing more laundry, listing things in my clearance section of my shoppe and if I get a second I might have a peanut butter sandwich. But I will say that I am blessed and thankful because there are those who don't have jobs and are hurting financially and emotionally right now. I've been thinking about taking a portion of what goes into my paypal account and putting it aside for team mates that made need it worse than I do. It will build up over time but this will give me a little fund to draw on to help my friends. They've given me so much support over the months that it's well and good to do something for them.

Designs By LaShelle

I try to bring beauty into everything I do and sometimes I run out of materials. I have to tell you about what one soul did for me.

We were laid off at my company for a while and I was running out of supplies and couldn't create anything more. One day I came home and to my suprise there was a bag on my front porch. It was FULL of wire, beads and other findings. It was like Christmas!

I came in the house, got online to check my etsy store and I had a convo from one CatherineMarissa.

You can check her shoppe out at

http://www.catherinemarissa.etsy.com/

She was the one who I found out left this delightful and very needed bag of wonderful "overflow" from her own craft supplies.

I began making things right away, trying to create through tears is tough. But there was no stopping me. The need to bead! Through the kindness of this dear woman I was able to list more things in my shoppe and to this day I still can't believe it. But that's the heart of CatherineMarissa.

THIS IS WHERE IT ALL HAPPENS

This is where it all happens when it's time to make something wonderful.

I'll sit and think about how I'm feeling at the time and begin to handle beads and then start to envision what I want to do. Early in the morning around 4:30am is the best time for me to begin to formulate ideas in my head and it just all starts to come together. Creating a new piece of jewelry or night light shade takes a lot of thought and other times I can make so much as it flows across my mind my fingers can't keep up.

I love to laugh. Anyone that knows me knows that I just wanna crack up, I can be serious but not too often. I love life, want to live it and live it well.

I would love to get to the place in life where I could afford it to do what I really want to do. I love elderly people. I love their stories, their charm and their wisdom. I can learn so much from just listening to everything they would have to tell me. It would be a priviledge to care for them, even in my own home. But it wouldn't pay the bills.

I had a daycare at one time, for 4 years. I love children as well, caring for people is so rewarding. But again, it doesn't provide enough money for medical insurance. So I stay at the job I'm at until my ship comes in, but at this point I'd take a row boat.