Goodbye Winter! Hello Spring!

Happy first day of Spring everyone!!!!!

Just have to be honest, I'm so not sad to see Winter go.

There's no denying that this Winter was a hard for me and the whole rest of my family. Winter itself is kind of blah to begin with, but then add walking along side a loved one battling brain cancer and our whole Christmas and Winter season was anything but normal and well..... Winter just plain sucked!

I welcome spring with open arms. Spring is such a time of hope and joy. There's new life in this season. You get that extra hour of daylight. There's flowers blooming and budding all around you. The birds are chirping. The sunglasses come out a little more. Outdoor sports. Kids with lemonade stands. Iced tea. Kids at the park. Pretty spring clothes. Green grass. Warm sun. The slight bite in the air at night. Easter Celebrations.

Truly, what is there not to love about Spring??

It’s like a second chance,

Only it comes back every year

Thus outnumbering

The previous number

Of chances!

It’s just as if there was

A soulmate for every

Living thing,

Every colour,

Every rainbow.

What's your favorite things about Spring??? :)

Take Note: SPF is your friend!

Yesterday was GORGEOUS! Spent the day at the beach! Seriously, it was pure perfection.

 

And I was an idiot and now I'm paying for it dearly! 

Don't EVER EVER underestimate the Florida sun!!!!!!!!!!!

Wisdom to know it's ME.

I’ve found it’s especially true in my own life that it’s easy to look around us and the people around us and see their flaws and things they need to change.

How does that scripture go???

Oh, yes…… 

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."

Straight out of Matthew.

I never want to have a judgmental attitude to where I become so blind to that plank in my own eye. I never want to live in that state of being a hypocrite. 

Here’s a different spin on the Serenity Prayer I came across: God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s ME.

I am by no means perfect and I fall short, and does this not stop and make you think?

We have no control over the way people treat us. But how I act and react, that’s all on ME. That goes for anything in life. I think a lot of what we face in life God allows to cause us to look inward.

And that plank.

Ouch.

We just might find it.

God, give me the wisdom when I need it to know it's me! 

Feelin' a little feathery.

Friday after work I went and got my hair did. Hair day has become one of my favorite days :)

My hair girl talked me into trying the feather trend that's going on for the hair and I said what the heck!

What do you think? It's different for me and kind of sassy. I like. 

I seriously have come to love my hair stylist. She's wonderful.

A month.

It's been a month today since Larry passed away. Hard to believe.

A month since we've physically seen him here on this earth.

Oh but what a month I'm sure he's had in Heaven.... Happy, healthy, whole, and free from cancer. But for us it's probably been one of the most challenging months but we're clinging together as a family and getting through it together with a lot of love and support from each other. 

There's not a day that goes by that I don't think of him. Words can't explain how much we miss him and his presence in our lives. 

I don't have the heart to delete his name from my phone.

We had some of the best car ride talks and hard when you just can't pick up the phone and talk to him. A few days prior to Larry passing he was in a unresponsive state. He couldn't communicate or talk with us but they assured us that he could still hear us and encouraged us to talk to him like he could. So we did and I still do, knowing that I can talk to him anytime I want and know he can hear us and is listening from Heaven.

He was an avid surfer! LOVED them waves!! Keep riding them waves in Heaven, Larry! I'm sure they're awesome!!

Miss you L-Train!!

Weekend in pictures!

Friday night I spent with my favorite ladies!

So a pretty neat thing happened. Over the weekend we received a Fed Ex box filled with letters from the first year med students from the class Larry went and talked to during his illness. They sent after they heard of his passing. Such a sweet reminder that Larry's legacy will live on and he will be making a difference long after he's gone. "You have forever changed the way we will practice medicine." Highest compliment EVER!! God is so good!! 

We had my nieces over for the the weekend  because my brother and his wife had a wedding to go to and we spent the day at Daytona Beach on Saturday and met family! Here's sleeping beauty! And how cute are the pig tails??? :)

My happy place!!!

Having fun at the pool. Such a fun hotel. Right next to the Daytona Beach Boardwalk and had a lazy river and a huge slide.

Daytona Beach Pier. We rode the Ferris Wheel. Saturday was a beautiful beach day! But then Sunday it was cold. That's Florida weather for you!

On our way home. The sign was lit and we stopped. Need I say more??? LOL

It was a great family weekend!! Hope y'all had a wonderful weekend. Happy Monday!

Here we go again.

There's a couple of health issues I've had all of my life.

I was born with Turner Syndrome.

Secondly, I have hearing loss in both ears, which is in large part due to the Turner Syndrome.

I made yet another trip to the doctor this morning for my ears. It's an ongoing issue with these ears of mine. I have a hearing aid for my right ear. Anyway, my left ear has been giving me some issues for the last couple of months, it's been an on and off again thing. But the left ear is a mess. We've been keeping an eye on it and knew eventually it was going to need some surgical work. Well, it looks like surgery will be in my very near future here soon. I'm on medicine right now to get the ear under control and then have a follow-up in March to discuss surgery and proceed.

Remember me in this beauty back in 2010?

In life, it's easy to to define ourselves by our circumstances. But what life has given me, I've chosen to embrace it. Maybe one day God might open the doors for me to work with the hearing impaired, who the heck knows.

Trust me, there are moments where it sucks and I sit in my self-pity, but you can always look around and see people who have it way worse. And I say I'd do all this 100x over if this is all I have to deal with.

I'm blessed.