AtoZ Blogging Challenge ‘ J ‘

I don’t know what happened, but I must of lost the first draft I had on the letter ‘ j ‘ … So many balls in the air, I’ve fallen be hind with the challenge but I’m going to do my best to get caught up.

Today I’m going to continue on with the letter ‘ J ‘ … s howcasing the plethora of journal’s that I have. I love to journal write, archive history, weather journal, yadayadayada. I find peace when I put pen to paper.

Here’s a look at what I call the, “Mother Ship” of my journal’s even though she’s really my planner. I keep everything in here….The daily tasks, Financial’s, Family Facts, Appointments, Menu’s, Seasonal Tasks, yadayadayada. I think you get the picture. Say hello to Ms. Serena…

This is not my first daily planner. I got introduced to my 1st daily planner by a very special person in my life, but that has since gone in my rear view mirror. I am very thankful though for being introduced to planner’s and writing b/c it has been the focus of my world of a very long time.

As I mentioned before, I have a plethora of journal’s … I use them every day at least once.

The small one to the left is one of my fav’s !! I keep a lot of very cool memories is this one along with emephera…

My “10 Year Journal” Is where I keep track of the weather over a period of time, and happenings.

Next I have my, “Made From Scratch” … Which is my Cookbook that I’m trying to write…It also dovetails w/my need to use my scrapbooking skills…

Finally, there is my, “Common Place Book“… This is where I record many of my prayer’s, meaningful sayings…

I hope you have enjoyed my journals…They are my Happy Place and whenever I’m down I turn to these journals and write something in them and it lifts me up. Either that or I just go shopping for a new one 😉 …Happy Blogging to all my fellow AtoZ Blogger’s…Blessings from Scarlet

Scarlett’s Stories for A through Z Blogging Challenge

Who knew April 1st would be here so fast. So much going on so I’m just going to let this challenge evolve. I have found out after 60 odd years in this life that sometimes it’s just better to wing things. Doesn’t mean you are not putting in 100 percent, just means you’ve learned to be more mindful with your content. Let it go and we’ll see. Hopefully I won’t disappoint and we’ll have some fun with it.

I’m going pull from my many books and journals of my writings. Easy little tidbits of Scarlett’s Wisdom that gets me through this thing called life…

Today we will start w/the Letter

Thoughts, Musings, Getting Through Life

Today’s writing is a quote I found many years ago. This quote below comes from Julian of Norwich, England 1342/1416

“All shall be well,

And all shall be well,

And all manner of things shall be

Well.

Below is a link to more of her writings…Well worth the read. Happy AtoZ Blogging…

https://julianofnorwich.org/pages/who-is-julian-of-norwich#:~:text=Julian%20of%20Norwich%20(1342%2Dc.1416)%20is,classics%20of%20the%20spiritual%20life.

Friday’s Words of Wisdom…

Here’s one of my favorite songs anytime of the year…

90 percent of your problems will go away if you…

  1. Stop reacting to everything – peace starts when you stop explaining yourself to people who don’t care to understand.
  2. Learn to walk away the first time respect is missing – you’ll save years of pain.
  3. Focus on what you can control and let go of what you can’t…That’s real freedom
  4. Spend less time online and more time building a real life…Clarity lives in silence, not screens.
  5. Say, “N O” w/o guilt. Protecting your energy is not selfish, it’s survival. And finally…
  6. Accept that not everyone will like you. The day you stop chasing approval is the day peace finds you…

I don’t know who needed to hear this today, but I always like things that give you some insight on being wise…Happy Friday, Blessings from Scarlett

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 🙂 …

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…

Notable Quotes…

Happy Mother’s Day …

This comes from my husband the lover of all things baseball !!! I saw something on-line today that upset me and I was talking to him about it. Being the great guy he is and always working for everything he’s ever gotten, I guess I understand his motivation in this quote…

“Just b/c someone lands on third base, ass backwards, doesn’t mean they hit a triple 😉 !!! “

No it really doesn’t…. Definitely going into my Common Place Book…Thank you husband you always know how to put things in perspective 🙂 … I love you …

Now we are going out to celebrate this Mother’s Day with a great steak dinner from Sullivan’s Steak House !!!

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and have a great day…

Here are this week’s questions:

1. If you could reinvent yourself, how would you like to be? I’m great with who I am. Have done much growing in my life and I’m at peace with who I am.


2. Would you like to be a pet in your household? Like I said in the 1st question, I like who I am so I don’t really think I want to be a household pet 😉 …


3. How many house moves have you had as an adult? I think it’s been 8 which seems like enough…I don’t think I’m done yet 🙂 …


4. What was your favourite home? It’s not a favorite home. My motto has and always will be, “If there is love in my home, it will always be my palace.”

Gratitude


Monday’s Masterpiece…

I am just going to post this to get this done. Been away for a bit, Life Happen’s. I am just going to go straight to the point of this blog and try to stay on message. Not really a message just getting back at the blogging thing again. Weekend went by really too fast as the summer will too. Very exciting things happening but I will have to get further down the road on that before I share that in a post.

Had dinner at Grandmama’s on Sunday (that’s me). I decided to cook every Sunday and it’s an open invite. No pressure. Here’s a quote taken from the movie of, Field of Dreams. “If you build it, they will come.” (I’m thinking that is the movie.” So I said that, “If you cook it, they will come and if they don’t you’ll still have an amazing Sunday dinner.” We grilled Hamburger’s & Hotdog’s, my amazing homemade potato salad, baked beans corn on the cob. The weather cooperated and grilling out is always easy. Desert of course was a quick trip up the street to Dairy Queen. Daughter Lizzie never forgets to remind me of what I said. Thanks, Lizzie 😉 I think.

And the Masterpiece the Artist is working on is looking good…

I also came across a real pretty picture of Mom. She went to Heaven. She was my person, and I’m trying to get back to life. She would want me to do that, so I’m going to do that.

I’m going post this just to get going. Morning is slipping away as they always do…Happy Summer PS…I’m working on my summer journal and will share the fun of that and of course still working on Mz. Serena. Man , I have been gone for way to long…