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Write Anything Wednesday

Maybe it’s the fall, or maybe I just decided to start writing. Anything, just start telling your stories. Just share your day, your life. It’s really interesting and funny and sad. Many emotions tangled all together.

I’ll start by introducing myself. I’m Scarlett, a homemaker, mother (love all my babies ), wife, blogger and I love life & family. I love to blog, organize, plan, arcrchive (i.e. save publication, Newspaper’s, People Magazine. Interesting stuff that you look back on and remember.

I have been with my most favorite person in the whole world since 1976, when I was only 16 years old. The very first time I laid eyes on him I said, “That’s the guy I’m going to marry !!!” and I did. We have 5 children, and 9 grand babies…

This is our song…

We’ve met in 1976, our first date was a Milwaukee Brewer’s game against the White Sox…My oldest sister introduced us. It was love at first site. He was gorgeous and still is.

I hope you’ll follow along as I tell my stories. Like I said up above, it’s the story of an amazing journey of love and loss. Strength and the Grace of God.

Today I’m going to start my cook book, b/c I love to write and I love to cook. It’s a dessert that’s easy to make and delicious on a warm September day…I hope you’ll follow along, and I hope I can get it all down on my blog…Blessings, to all my blogger friends.

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Summer, 2025

Today is the beginning of the Summer, 2025…It’s going to be a great summer. Let’s start it off the right way, with some music. Here we go!!!

Who would of thought this song would make it back all the way from 1978…Thank You President Trump !!!!

Happy Friday, Happy Summer

Don’t call those who never call you back. Don’t wait for people who aren’t waiting for you.

Remember this: beautiful things begin to happen the moment you step away from negative people.

Never look back—there’s nothing new behind you.

And instead of wiping away your tears, wipe away the people who made you cry.

Protect your inner peace. Don’t let the actions of others disturb the calm within you.

Life is too short for anything less than joy.

Choose yourself. Choose peace. Life is beautiful.

Let’s have the best summer ever !!! Don’t forget to start your Summer Journal 🙂 Now go !!!!

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AtoZ “C”

I’m not sure why I’m always a day late but hopefully I’ll catch up today. Probably b/c of the wonky weather we had on Wednesday…

I’m going to share my (C)ommonplace Book with your today. I started this book back in 2012. It’s a place where I write down things that strike a chord with me…Usually it is a profound quote that we all are familiar with, but sometimes I do write some pearls of wisdom that I have often said.

My Commonplace book

The outside got ruined some how and the husband tried to fix it. He did his best but then he said that just added to the charm of this book. I have to agree with him 🙂 …

Commonplace Book
Power of a Dog/Rudyard Kipling
Commonplace Book
Commonplace Book
Commonplace Book

This is truly one of my happy places. I read it often. I have an, “Inbox” where I keep scraps of paper’s with things written on them that I want to add to this book.

I’ll share more of it in future posts. Happy Friday !!! Y A Y for the weekend…

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AtoZ Challenge “B”

Hello Wednesday AtoZ Blogger’s… Stormy day in the Midwest, looking out for Tornados and crazy weather so I’m a bit tardy w/my post today.

My post for today is about a (B)book that I started to write and my Artist Husband illustrating. He’s the artist and gave me the inspiration to write this story. This too is a work in progress. Below is just an excerpt from what I have so far.

“I need to get out of this place. Winter is coming and this truck will not keep me warm and fed when it does. There will be snow and no food at all. I will freeze and starve to death. I have to get to the city. Tall buildings with garbage cans full of leftover food. People everywhere and other mice. But you need to think of the rats too. You’ll stay away them.

Winston's Home

I need to focus on finding a home. Somewhere that will keep me warm and fed thru the winter. I need to get to the city with buildings and basements.

There was a problem, the rats. I’ve had problems with them before. I was a small mouse. Whenever I had to deal with them they would steal my food. Rifle through my belongings. I didn’t have much. Most of what I did have fit into my bandana what I carried on my back.

I can’t think about them now, I’ll think about that later. First I need to get to the city, but how ?? Winston grew tired and drifted off to sleep.“

That’s all for the story today. There’s more but I think I’ll post more on Winston and his adventures in the coming days. We’ll see what the next letter, “C” brings. Stay safe out there with the crazy spring storms. Blessings, AtoZ Blogger’s. Hope you enjoyed my post for the letter, “B” today…

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AtoZ Theme Reveal

Happy Wednesday Blogger’s…Today I’m going to announce my, “Theme Reveal” for the April Challenge AtoZ … I absolutely love, love, love this challenge and it is great for a number of reasons.

It helps me to stay focused on what is important in my life. My motivation for this is, I love to write. It started when I was young girl and we had to read, “The Diary of Anne Frank”. That made such an impact on me and I realized the importance of writing.

So actually my theme is writing. I’m going to share with you everything, well not actually everything I have written. I write a lot … I have my commonplace book, my planner, my junk journals, my 10 year journal, my morning pages journal, my traveler’s journal !!! I could go on and on, but I think you get it.

I realized that Anne Frank didn’t realize she was going to have her diary as required reading in school’s when she was creating her diary. I am so thankful for reading that book and being able to read and write. They both are truly a gift.

Here are just a few pics of my different journal’s I will share with you…So happy to be back with this community. It truly has made a difference in my life on so many levels !!!

My Commonplace book
My Junk Journal
My “TN” Travelor’s Notbook
Travelor’s Notebook
Summer TN
Travelor’s Notebook

Last year when I broke my right arm, not being able to do the physical act of writing was the worst thing ever. I’m so thankful to be able to write again with my right hand.

I’m hoping to get some new follower’s, and I hope you enjoy all of my craziness and love of journaling, writing and creating. Blessings to all and it’s going to be a great

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Good Tuesday, Blogger’s

I guess I’ll be starting from scratch but at least I’m starting !! I’d hoped to have my blog’s new look up and running but not so much. I just have to get busy with AtoZ as we are already on the letter ” D ” OMG…

I started this blog with the idea of writing my cookbook. I am still moving in that direction and AtoZ will keep me focused. I am doing R E C I P E S from the family vault…Not really, but family favorites from Scarlett79.

I’m just going to start with the letter ” C “…Below is my recipe for “Chicken Tortilla Soup.” It is a basic recipe and you can add pretty much anything you want to make it your own. This recipe proved to be a good one for Sunday Afternoon’s with a houseful of guest watching a sporting event. Makes for good leftovers for the week too 😉 ..

Scarlet’s Chicken Tortilla Soup

Let’s just hope this gets a little bit easier as I go and I get back into the groove. I do so enjoy A to Z…Any comments that can help me to get this back to the way it was are welcome. But I’m here for the duration of April. Enjoy the recipes 😉 Love ya Blogger’s and AtoZ’ers…

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#SoCS and #JusJoJan

A short story from my stream of consciousness 😉 Enjoy and I ended up with something for #JusJoJan Blessings <3 Mz. Janet <3

I knew the end was coming, but I had hoped. I really didn’t know what I had hoped for. Rosalee, our dog, heard him coming before me. She woke out of a deep sleep in front of the fireplace and was completely alert and barking at the door.

Maybe I had hoped it wouldn’t ever happen. So much time had passed. So many years had been lost. I looked older, and although the getting older had been kind you always want to seem like aging was agreeing with you.

As I was walking toward the door, I thought should I open it or just pretend I wasn’t there. Or he could think maybe I was sleeping and didn’t hear the bell. I wanted to do anything to avoid this moment. I was lost in my memories and thought, “Should I just get it over with so I can finally move on, put an Amen to it ??” The bell rang again and I was jolted back to this moment certain he knew I was standing right on the other side of the door. Just open the door and smile. Act surprised , be civil. The way I see it if it does not feel right you have an appointment that you can’t get out of. Make it a short conversation and say, “Can we do this another time, I have an appointment that I can’t get out of. We’ll do lunch. We can talk and catch up. Call me.” Or something to that effect. If it seems comfortable, invite him in for coffee. Keep the conversation light, away from the past. Definitely away from that horrible day that’s for sure.

I opened the door and there he was. Standing there with that same sparkle in his eye’s and that smile. Oh that smile, that made my heart melt. The smile that I fell in love with. Yes I remembered that smile. His suit was perfect, the color’s were a total match. The tie, his shirt, the scarf in his pocket, perfect. Then I looked down, OMG even his shoes and socks, EVERYTHING was perfect and there I stood in my sweats. My hair was tied up with the scrunchy on top of my head, and then I felt it, there it was. That same feeling I always had, that we were never meant to be but we were.

I wanted us to work, but for some reason we never did. “Can we do this another time, I have an appointment that I can’t get out of. We’ll do lunch. We can talk and catch up. Call Me.” It sounded like the beginning…

#JusJoJan