Happy New Year!

Be always at war with your vices,
at peace with your neighbors,
and let each new year find you a better man.
~Benjamin Franklin

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~T.S. Eliot

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:
To rise above the little things.
~John Burroughs

I know this phrase is overused. I see it everywhere, but this is about as close as I come to a New Year's Resolution this year....

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

The courage to change the things I can,

And the wisdom to know the difference.

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May all of you have the happiest of New Years!

I TRULY appreciate ALL of you! Thank you for being my friends.

Much Love to All!

Happy 2007!

Happy Anniversary!

It was 23 years ago today that we wed.

I love you more today than yesterday.

I wasn't going to blog again before Christmas, but while checking out friend's blogs, I came across my friend Beej's latest post. It made me laugh, so I had to try it out for myself!

I just made a total elf of myself.

Check me out by clicking the link below.

I'm an elf! (<--- click!)

Thanks for the laugh, Beej!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Merry Christmas!

From me and mine to you and yours...

Have a very Merry Christmas,

and the best of New Years!!

I hope that 2007 is your

Best Year EVER!

Don't Quit

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow--
You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out--
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are.
It may be near when it seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

Attitude

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past,
than education, than money,
than circumstances, than failures, than successes,
than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.
It will make or break a company …a church …a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude
we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past
…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude
…I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
And so it is with you …we are in charge of our attitudes.
Charles R. Swindoll

I'm OK

This is for many people.

This is for me.

This is for many, many reasons.

It doesn't mean one thing to all people.

It means what it means to you....



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Thank you for reading my blog.

You mean more than you know.