Under/Over... So Limited!

♫ I'm limited
Just look at me--I'm limited
And just look at you--♪


I don't think people see me. If they do,they are constantly putting labels on my forehead that don't come from getting to know me at all.

They either think that because I have 5 kids I'm incapable of anything else, or they expect me to be able to conquer MY world AND theirs.

Why can't I just be the one to set my limits?

If I offer to do something, it's because I feel like I can handle it. If you tell me all of the reasons why with my circumstances being what they are, I can't accomplish what I'm offering to do for you, then it just makes me feel like "Oh, yeah. Maybe I CAN'T do as much as I think I can, so why try. Why stretch my wings. I just need to stay with what's comfortable."

♪ I'm through accepting limits
'Cuz someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try, I'll never know!
Too long I've been afraid of
Losing love I guess I've lost
Well, if that's love
It comes at much too high a cost! ♫

People who limit me or demand way too much aren't people worth having in my Support Circle!

The people worth having are the ones who take the time to know me. Let me stretch my wings, but understand when they need to rest.

HOW much does our Freedom mean to ME?!

I am a Veteran. A Veteran is someone, who at one point in their life, wrote a blank check payable to the United States of America (AND it's people) for an amount up to, and including, their life.

Just how much do you think I care about My Country and those who live here?

I think it's safe to say, I walk the walk. :-)

May God keep our freedoms in tact and watch over us always.

Oh say, Who can see?

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Fast Sunday Nov 4th

I won't tell you how to vote this election. I WILL however, remind you that if you believe in fasting and prayer for things that are critical in your life, and this election is that important to you, Fast Sunday is just DAYS before this, what I would deem, VERY Important Election.

So, Let's fast for the health and security of our country.

You don't need to fast for a specific candidate. This doesn't need to be political at ALL really.

Just knowing that the future of our Nation is on the table no matter WHICH way things go, we can fast that God's hand be in what EVER the outcome it is, and that He will watch over and protect our SACRED land.

That He will keep us free, and safe from oppression.

This is not a call to Vote. (Do that too ;-)

But a call to Ask.... no, PLEAD for Our Country's well being.

No One is Alone

♫ Mother cannot guide you
Now you're on your own
Only me beside you
Still, you're not alone
No one is alone, truly
No one is alone ♪

♪ Sometimes people leave you
Halfway through the wood
Others may decieve you
You decide what's good
You decide alone
But no one is alone ♫

♫ Mother isn't here now

Wrong things, right things

Who knows what she'd say?

Who can say what's true?

Nothing's quite so clear now

Do things, fight things

Feel you've lost your way?

You decide, but

You are not alone

Believe me,
No one is alone


Truly ♪

♪ You move just a finger
Say the slightest word
Something's bound to linger
Be heard ♫

♫ No one acts alone

Careful

No one is alone

People make mistakes

Fathers

Mothers

People make mistakes
Holding to their own
Thinking they're alone ♪

♪ Honor their mistakes

Fight for their mistakes

Everybody makes

One another's terrible mistakes
Witches can be right
Giants can be good
You decide what's right
You decide what's good ♫

♫ Just remember

Someone is on your side

Someone else is not
While we're seeing our side

Maybe we forgot
They are not alone
No one is alone♪

♪ Hard to see the light now

Just don't let it go

Things will come out right now
We can make it so
Someone is on your side
No one is alone ♫

Starting Now

I've heard 2 things this week that have really impacted my thought process:

1)A Friend of mine was talking to someone and admitted to "merely surviving" for the past 11 years. And also "running" from her past. This person said to her, "You have been actively procrastinating."

2)Status Shuffle: "We use our fear as an excuse, when really, fear should be our motivation."


Starting today, I will no longer be an Active Procrastinator.

Starting today, I will use fear as my motivation. Not my excuse.

Also, today I "signed" an online pledge to not text and drive. Please join me and keep our roads safe(r) ;-)

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And now, a statement I just read as I typed this post:

You could NEVER walk a mile in my shoes... WHY? Because my shoes are AWESOME and I don't loan them out!


AWESOME! I'm adopting that!

One More Time

I have a Proposition for you.

That one, I get!!!

I think it's obnoxiously hilarious when people who know I've been divorced; that David doesn't even live in the same state as I do.... just visits every 2 weeks; that we had a rough marriage before..... which left me on my own A LOT during the first 6 years of our marriage; OH, AND that he was deployed with the Military from the time I was 8 months pregnant with Elizabeth until right before Elysia was born; Think that I know NOTHING about being a Single Parent. NOPE! I get that one!

I have been a Single Parent of anywhere from 1 to 5 Children throughout the 10 years since I got married the first time.

I think people get caught up on the fact that A) Our divorce was only 3 months, and B) David is still in the picture.

What they don't see/understand is:

Although we were only DIVORCED for 3 months, we were officially separated for 3 months BEFORE that. And that was the SECOND time we had officially separated. I had kicked David out, or left him MANY times before that. So, I had at LEAST a year and a half of "official" Single Parent time under my belt.

And it doesn't matter that David is still "in the picture" and paying the bills. He is 100% NOT AROUND most of the time. I don't HAVE a second parent to help out. It's JUST ME!

SO, labels may need to be adjusted (No surprise THERE! People are ALWAYS trying to put strict labels on things that they don't always fit) But I am DEFINITELY no stranger to being a Single Parent!