All Around Me.

Coming home from college is great. I get time to spend with my family,hang out with some old friends and just get to re know everyone that I have been to busy to see over the past couple of mounts.. However,"yes there is a however" it's not fun to come home when you are feeling sick.

So this week I am back in Canada where I belong with my family and wouldn't you know it I of coarse have the stomach flu along with a cold. Let me tell you it's not fun at all.

I hate being sick. I mean who likes being sick,not me and I am sure none of you like to be sick,RIGHT. I just hate the fact that I come home for a family member's birthday party and that I am going to stay for a while and as it ends up they end up taking care of me.How lame is that

I have been so sick lately that I have not been able to eat any thing since last Saturday. I am just so sick. This is not fun my Friends,not fun indeed. I did not even do a blog a couple of days ago. Yes I felt horrible that I did not write one,but who can blame me really. I passed out on my bed so yeah. Hopefully this will all go away soon and I can actually end up spending some good quality time with my family before I go back to the states for school. Let' s hope.

Lets All Gather.

Family gatherings are always fun. It is a time that you can reunite with your loved ones that you have not seen in a long time. It is a time that you can share stories and laugh together and see each other, plus eat lots of yummy food (that is always a plus).

I have a lot of family,and I do mean a lot. I have family from all over the place,some in the states,and some in the great country of Canada which is where I am from(it is a great place to live). Anyway,we like to gather at least once a year and sometimes twice a year which is not bad. We either gather in the states or in Canada. This year it was in Canada which is good because I did not have to go far from my home.

I got to see a lot of my family from both my moms and dads side which was good,because some of them I have not seen for a long time and the others I only get to see at holidays, so it was good that I got to reunite with them.

The only part that I hate about a family reunion is that I never know what to bring as far as food wise goes. I have very picky eaters in my family so it is hard to please everyone,but I have learned that sometimes you can't make everyone happy no matter how hard you try.Besides the food worries I always worry that I am not going to know who everyone is there.The only reason I say that is because, I go to school in the states so I am only up in Canada for vacation from college, so I don't get to see some of my distant family when they come and visit. I am always afraid that I will get to a reunion and forget who someone is, and if that happens it would be so embarrassing

Besides those thing I love family reunions. Where some people hate them I love them. For me it is a chance to talk to people that I only get to talk to on the phone or by mail. So when you get together with your family take that opportunity to get to know the ones you love a bit more. Laugh and share stories with each other.

Family is very important to me and it should be important to everyone. The thing that I have learned is that if you have family and friends nothing else should matter. Like I have said in many on my post and will keep saying, is that family is the most important things so take every moment that you have with your loved ones and treasure it.

Money, Money, Money.

Money can buy you a lot of things, and I do mean a lot. It can buy you clothes, and a nice home,and a car, and even trips around the world(which is great,by the way) but one thing money can't buy you is happiness.

Money can't buy you the time that is shared with your family, or the laughs that you share with your family,or a great job, or the happy memories that you and your friends have. No matter how important money is to our everyday lives it's not everything, no matter what we all might think sometimes.True, money can seem like it can make everything better in an instant,but sometimes it just makes it worse.

What I mean, is that sometimes you will be in a situation where you can't worm your way out of it just by using. With me, I have always felt like I would never trade a life time of memories and exciting times with my family for money,not even in a million years. Like I said money can get you a lot of things and is important in everyday life, but it can't buy you happiness.

I think that the way to get true happiness in this crazy world of ours is just to be with the people we love, and not put so much care on money. Just be happy that we have all got the basic things in life like a roof over our heads,and clothes on our backs,and that you are together as a family. It's kind of weird, but I think of everybody who reads my blogs a a big part of my life. And I would not trade any of my life or this blogging world for all the money in the universe. This right here is something that can't be taken away for anything.

PS: The reason that I wrote this blog,was because I was inspired. You know when I first can into this whole blogging world, I did not know what to think. Was it a good thing or a bad thing, honestly I didn't know. Now since I have gotten more into it I simply love it. So I just want to think everyone who visits my blog and reads them. I also really want to think Ruth over at Phooling Around for checking out my blog and the ladies over at The Middle Ages for doing the same thing. Again thank you all so much, this is a place where I can be myself and express who I am as a person so for that I say thanks.

The Great Beyond.

Have you ever just sat out side and looked up at the clouds, and stars at night? I love to do that. When I am looking up at the sky I always just think of it like a piece of art. Actually in a way it almost is. It is just so beautiful and can take away any stress that you may have had for that day.

When I was little I use to lay on the grass and look up and try to make different shapes and objects with the clouds. It was fun to just look up and see what I could see. I still like to do that to this day. Except now I like to go out when it's night time and look up at the star's and try to find different groups of stars,like the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper and different cluster like that. When I look up and see the clouds It just really calms me down and makes me think about different things that I have going on in my life and also makes me appreciate my life that much more.

Like I said I don't know what it is about the clouds and star's that are so calming to me, but it is. I have always been fascinated with them. Even when I was in school I took astronomy that way I could know more about the stars. To me it's almost like reading a good book and not wanting to put it down because it is so good. When I look up at the clouds and sky it is the same thing, I don't want to ever stop look up because it seems to me when I look up I can see past the stars and it all just seems so good to me.

So here is my advice( I know, I got a lot of advice, but just go with me on this one.) When you have the time or have had a bad day or even just for fun go outside and look up. See what you can see. Make it a family thing and enjoy each other's time together. Who know you might be surprise about what all you think about and see. So give it a try, and see what you see.

Table Talk.

You have seen those commercials on tv. The ones that talks about spending as much time as possible with your family around the kitchen table. Well I know that I have seen them.I use to think they were kind of dumb. I use to say to my self "that will not help you become closer as a family, just by sitting around the kitchen table." I was younger, so I really didn't thank much of spending time with my grandparents. Actually a lot of times they would be in one room eating and I would be in another. Now when I am home, we all sit around the dinning room table and discuss our day and feelings with each other.I may not have appreciated the family dinners when I was younger but I sure do now. I am very thankful that I can sit with them and tell them my feeling and share my stories.

Now, I know there are some nights that family's just can not have dinner together either because, they are to busy or because they are in a couple of different place at once,but as long as you have dinner at a least a couple times a week together then that is all that matters. Family dinners can be so important. They can be the place where you share stories and memories with each other. It is a time where you can share what you have done that day as well as your feeling for that day.

Now I love family time. I just love the fact that I am so close to my grandparents. Just like today we we all went to a restaurant and talked about the things that were on our minds. We shared memories and laughed like crazy. I love that. Being near your family is so important. Take that time to just sit down and talk to your family.

Like I said, I know that there are times that everybody just can not be in the same place at once,but you should try to get together as often as possible. Family time can be a great time as long as you let it be. Not only do you get to spend time with your family,but you also grow closer. Maby when you are younger you think it is pointless to sit around the table,but when you grow older you start to think about how important it is. Life goes by in an instant, so take the time while you have got it to spend time with your family. I promise you will not regret it.

To Judge Or Not To Judge.

I have a quote that I live by each and every day, it helps me everytime I start to judge my self my quote is "You are your own worst critic". I don't know how many people agree with that but I know that I sure do. I never use to judge my self this hard so why do I do it now? When I was younger my grandparents and great grandparents use to tell me that I could do it , and that is all they would have to tell me and I would believe them and not think a second time about it. Now if someone tells me that, I still sit there and think to myself "is that true, can I really do it, or are they just telling me that to make me feel better.

I know that maby I should not judge myself so hard but i do, and i think that sometimes we all judge our selfs like that sometimes. I really do think though that my quote is true. You are the one who judges your self the hardest. Yeah I know that other people my judge you and say things like they know your life,but those are only words, and you know the old quote"sticks and stones my brake my bones,but words my never hurt me". When we judge our selfs it's like the words are written in stone and we can never get away from them, well that's how I feel at least. Just like the other day, I was doing a paper for school. I knew that I had written it right, I knew that I had,but yet I still judged myself. I was criticing my self because I though well nobody is going to like it or I am going to get a bad review on it, and I got an "A" on it and a great review on it.

I think that is why I say I live by my quote "You are your own worst critic". I don't like to judge my self or to think twice about something that I do. I have gotten a lot better now that I have entered collage. I think that collage has made me relize that you can't always judge your self cause if you keep doing it then you will judge your self your your whole life, and you will never get anything accomplished. I even have that quote posted up in my house and room. Now everytime that I start to be too hard on my self all I have to do is look up at that quote and think to my self that I am doing it right and not to think twice about what I am doing too. I also know that I have family to tell me what a good job I am doing. I love having the support of my family. Thank God that they are behind me with everything that I do. Isn't family great.

The Best Of Both World's

I was talking with my cousin the other day, we are very close(We are only 3 days apart).when I relized I have the best of both worlds.My family is everything to me. I don't know where I would be today if it would not be for my family. They have tough me so much over the years, and put me in line when I did something wrong or when my head would get to big. I have a big family so i was always learnig something, anything from how to be polite or how to take care of myself. Now that I am older I have come to relize that the lessons that I would learn from my family would help me in my life with my friends.
I have amazing friends. We are always doing something on the weekends, weather it is just going out to see a movie ( which happens often) or just jokeing with them over the phone or at work. I have come to relize that sometimes your friends can teach you a life lesson with out you even knowing it. I have had a really good friend since I have started working at my job. She is such a great person and helps me whenever I need it or when my head gets to big. The other day we went to a movie and before the movie started I was telling her about how stressed I was and without even missing a beat she said "Your only as stressed as you let your self get". I didn't think much about it until later that night when was in bed later that night, but she is right.Friends can teach you a lesson without you even knowing it .
Your always learnig something from someone. Dosen't matter if its from your friends or family. Sometimes they are doing it without you knowing it. It dosn't matter who you are or even how old you are just take the time to learn from people cause it can help you when you least expect it and then you can say you have the best of both worlds.