11.07.08
Posted in Economy, Parenting, Self Improvement, Yikes! I don't have a category! at 2:09 pm by Cassie
Have you ever felt like life was living you instead of the other way around? I’ve felt that. I’m just floating along with whatever happens next instead of having some real focus and attention on what I really want. Don’t get me wrong, my life is pretty fulfilling and pretty full! I have three biological kids (two out of the house) and four foster kids, whom I am adopting. Life is very much in transition. Income for the future is as yet undetermined as we go through the adoption process. I will get a subsidy stipend, but it is not likely to be at the level I am receiving now. I work part time, but really what I want to do, need to do, is work from home. I have been researching Internet marketing for several years, but have not yet found a way to make it happen. Actually, I’ve never sat butt in chair long enough to make it happen. I have received a generous offer from someone willing to be my mentor, but I need to get myself focused and on task before I start with him. I am decluttering my house, but more importantly, I need to declutter my mind. So on the weekend of Nov. 21-24, I am sending the kids away and I am going to find my own little weekend getaway place to focus and renew.
So this is where I need your help. What kind of questions should I be asking myself? Here’s where I’ve started:
Do I go back to college?
If yes, do I get my Associates in Web Design or my Master’s in Public Administration or something else?
Do I really want to spend my energy into delaying the money AGAIN to go back to school?
What am I passionate about?
What is important to me?
What can I let go of to make room for the new?
Where can I have more fun?
How can I get a little romance to balance the Mom?
Where is my life out of balance?
What are my talents and gifts?
What am I supposed to be giving to the world?
How can I benefit my readers?
How can I celebrate my accomplishments so far?
That’s what I can think of right now. What other questions should I be asking myself? How else can I create an “action plan” for my life? I’ve done enough reading. It is time to start doing.
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10.12.08
Posted in Economy, Parenting at 7:23 pm by Cassie
Today my daughter learned a hard lesson in natural consequences, or perhaps it was more rightly logical consequences. At any rate, all the kids were going to go to the homecoming football game with a friend of mine. I told everyone to be sure to take a sweatshirt because it would get cold after the sun went down. I told them at least four times. Well, we get to my friend’s house and my daughter doesn’t have her sweatshirt. My friend told her she couldn’t go. Ouch! My daughter cried for almost an hour over it. When she calmed down I called her to me and we talked and then I held her on my lap for several minutes. Parenting can be difficult at times. We don’t want to be the meanie, but we’re really not doing our children any favors by letting them slide by. The world will be a lot tougher on them and the world won’t discipline with love.
Speaking of the world, we seem to be having our own little lesson in natural consequences, aren’t we? We’re learning hard lessons in bad debt, over-extension of credit and overall bad choices by the banking industry. Do we really learn the lesson if there is always someone (big government) there to bail us out when we get into trouble? I’m certainly no economist, but I do know basic math and that tells me we can’t keep spending beyond our means, draining our natural resources and running the credit dept up without eventually having to face the consequences. It may not be easy, but we need to get back to basics - spend within our means, pay only cash, buy in bulk, conserve energy, walk or ride a bike when possible, grow our own food and basically, be wiser with all of our resources. A downturn in the economy may be exactly what we need to get back to a more balanced use of resources
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09.28.08
Posted in Gardening at 11:49 pm by Cassie
If you’re looking for Square Foot Gardening information because you attended one of my classes or know someone who attended one of my classes, please email me at Cassie@CassiesStuff.com. I’ve removed that content for the time being as I redesign my website. If you need direct info, please visit www.SquareFootGardening.com for information direct from the author of SFG, Mel Bartholomew.
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Posted in Yikes! I don't have a category! at 2:27 pm by Cassie
This is my second attempt at starting a Blog. The genre fascinates me, but I don’t yet know what I’m doing. Stay tuned. One of the top bloggers on the Internet has offered to help me personally! I won’t reveal his name yet ’cause it is not all confirmed, but when it is, I’ll share what I’m learning.
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