Hey there everybody! Have you ever been on a zipline before? I did it today and I kept the camera running while I zipped across the tops of the rain forest here in Costa Rica, it was AWESOME! Sorry I got so much of the sky in the picture but I was hanging on and the camera was on it's own.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Here comes Mr Sunshine
Sun, Surf and Sand, what a combination. We have been fortunate enough to take a wonderful all expense paid trip to beautiful Costa Rica and may I just say....if you ever have the chance to go, you should snap it up in a heartbeat. This is truly a tropical paradise.
Mr Darcy and I feel very fortunate to be here with not only beautiful scenery but with some very quality people. Life just keeps getting better doesn't it. Who woulda thought that I would someday find my way to Central America in the dead of winter back home but the height of summer here.
We also passed the temple in San Jose on our way to the resort and all of a sudden it felt like home. Funny how that happens.Monday, January 11, 2010
Confessions of a Closet chef-a-holic
I have a confession, a guilty pleasure.
I love the Food Network,
I love Ina Garten (the barefoot contessa). She is my Julia Child.
Now mind you, I don't like to cook or rather I am really bad at it, but I love to watch someone that knows what they are doing in the kitchen. Now that is truly a beautiful thing.
Today I learned how to make date bread with orange cream cheese spread and homemade orange marmalade.
I also am a fan of Alton Brown (good eats). Now this man knows everything there is to know about food, cooking, science, entertainment. Then there is Bobbie Flay and Tyler Florence also very fabulous cooks with great recipes. Man...there is just something about a man that can cook, it almost sends me over the top. That is why I love it when Mr Darcy mans the BBQ grill.
Watching these skilled chefs makes me almost giddy with the thought of bringing wonderful, tasty, beautiful creations of love for my family.
But alas, my thought process is as far as that goes. Wouldn't life be wonderful if the pictures in your head became your reality without any work or effort. Okay, okay.. before I start getting comments about the effort being the thing that brings joy to the experience...let me say this. I know...I know, I really do, but a girl can dream can't she.
I love the Food Network,
I love Ina Garten (the barefoot contessa). She is my Julia Child.
Now mind you, I don't like to cook or rather I am really bad at it, but I love to watch someone that knows what they are doing in the kitchen. Now that is truly a beautiful thing.
Today I learned how to make date bread with orange cream cheese spread and homemade orange marmalade.
I also am a fan of Alton Brown (good eats). Now this man knows everything there is to know about food, cooking, science, entertainment. Then there is Bobbie Flay and Tyler Florence also very fabulous cooks with great recipes. Man...there is just something about a man that can cook, it almost sends me over the top. That is why I love it when Mr Darcy mans the BBQ grill.
Watching these skilled chefs makes me almost giddy with the thought of bringing wonderful, tasty, beautiful creations of love for my family.
But alas, my thought process is as far as that goes. Wouldn't life be wonderful if the pictures in your head became your reality without any work or effort. Okay, okay.. before I start getting comments about the effort being the thing that brings joy to the experience...let me say this. I know...I know, I really do, but a girl can dream can't she.
Organize me, Please!
Have you ever had a crazy, crazy span of time? Well, I am in the throws of crazy business travel right now. Mr Darcy and I have been traveling A LOT. We usually leave on Monday and return home on Thursday so that we can be home on the weekends, however last week we were gone Monday coming home Wednesday and then left Friday returning home Saturday. It was a crazy week, and next week will not be much better, the difference is that next week is strictly a pleasure trip. I will be traveling with my lovely parents to a wedding in California and they have agreed to let me tag along. We will be gone about 10 days (depending on the weather) and get back just in time for me to entertain company for a couple of days and then immediately hop a plane for Costa Rica (by immediately, I mean the day they leave, we leave). After arriving home we will then have 1 day at home and then run down to Vegas for the blessing of '10' my latest and greatest grandbaby.
Whew! just writing it has left me exhausted. Why did I just spill my guts to all you innocent bystanders? well, I will tell you. I am extremely disorganized, it is a natural state that I live in daily, but as part of my new goals, I want to change this part of my brain makeup. So I have written this out to try to get a handle on my next three weeks. I figured if I saw it in black and white it would give me a starting place, you know, kind of ground me a little. Unfortunately after rereading what I have written, all it leaves me with is a feeling of bewilderment and yes, exhaustion.
To all you wonderful people reading this, any suggestions on reworking my brain so that organization is not only natural but ...oh I don't know.... Fun, would be oh so appreciated! I would love your input and your suggestions. After reading your posts, and may I say you are amazing, I know that you all can help me with my issues, even if it is just to help me laugh at myself.
Now, while I wait for your pearls of wisdom, I think a nap is in order.
Whew! just writing it has left me exhausted. Why did I just spill my guts to all you innocent bystanders? well, I will tell you. I am extremely disorganized, it is a natural state that I live in daily, but as part of my new goals, I want to change this part of my brain makeup. So I have written this out to try to get a handle on my next three weeks. I figured if I saw it in black and white it would give me a starting place, you know, kind of ground me a little. Unfortunately after rereading what I have written, all it leaves me with is a feeling of bewilderment and yes, exhaustion.
To all you wonderful people reading this, any suggestions on reworking my brain so that organization is not only natural but ...oh I don't know.... Fun, would be oh so appreciated! I would love your input and your suggestions. After reading your posts, and may I say you are amazing, I know that you all can help me with my issues, even if it is just to help me laugh at myself.
Now, while I wait for your pearls of wisdom, I think a nap is in order.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
2009, you were fine
We made it, it is 2010 and 2009 is officially behind us now. It has been a very busy and productive year for my family. We have been blessed with great opportunities as well as great challenges and both I find to be blessings from a loving Father in Heaven.
As I take stock, I wanted to give a special Thank You to the people in my life that color it with love and flavor it with laughter and kindness. It has been a year that has increased our little family by 2 beautiful babies, bringing it to a total of 10 choice little spirits that grace this family and for that I must give an extra measure of love to my 3 beautiful daughters-in-law and 1 beautiful daughter. Where would I be without the love of my very special support system. MY GIRLS (and yes, they all are my girls) are the best of the best.
But we must not forget the testosterone that is also part of the pack. My darling Mr Darcy and my boys (all 4 of them) are incredible men, fathers, husbands and sons. They are truly honorable men.
The year has been one that I will treasure for the moments spent with friends both near and far and with siblings that give much more then they ever get back from me. How I love you all. Thinking about you makes me want to be a better person, love more, share more, serve more, so if a New Years Resolution were something that I was prone to make, that would be it.
And probably my greatest wish of all would be for all of you to have the righteous desires of your hearts both great and small and that you will always be blessed for the good that you are in my life.
As I take stock, I wanted to give a special Thank You to the people in my life that color it with love and flavor it with laughter and kindness. It has been a year that has increased our little family by 2 beautiful babies, bringing it to a total of 10 choice little spirits that grace this family and for that I must give an extra measure of love to my 3 beautiful daughters-in-law and 1 beautiful daughter. Where would I be without the love of my very special support system. MY GIRLS (and yes, they all are my girls) are the best of the best.
But we must not forget the testosterone that is also part of the pack. My darling Mr Darcy and my boys (all 4 of them) are incredible men, fathers, husbands and sons. They are truly honorable men.
The year has been one that I will treasure for the moments spent with friends both near and far and with siblings that give much more then they ever get back from me. How I love you all. Thinking about you makes me want to be a better person, love more, share more, serve more, so if a New Years Resolution were something that I was prone to make, that would be it.
And probably my greatest wish of all would be for all of you to have the righteous desires of your hearts both great and small and that you will always be blessed for the good that you are in my life.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Journal Entry
It is early and I am not sleeping. Too many things running rampant through my thought process. Isn't it amazing that no matter how old you get, you can so quickly be thrown back into the past and relive experiences that you would just as soon forget. It is interesting to feel like an outsider to your own life....... or wish that you were.
As I sit here trying to sort out my emotions and try to make sense out of an emotional situation, I long for the days when all that I had to concern myself with was where to find a matching sock.
When taking stock of my relationships, it is with some confusion that I realize only those that you love deeply enough can truly get under your skin and hurt you, hurt you with a deep wound that never seems to heal completely and remains as an ugly scar tissue on the most sensitive area of the soul. It seems to await 'the trigger' and then proceeds to look for any and all areas of weakness to bring you emotionally to your knees. I am there.
The strange thing is, I wasn't part of this situation other then being a bystander witnessing it. It was slightly surreal. Watching two people that I love hurt one another with words and actions that stemmed from exhaustion and hunger and probably deep down wounds that have never been addressed, was nothing short of painful.
I have found it hard to be forgiving and even harder to be objective.
I know in time the sting of this event will soften as it becomes buried by day to day goings on, but unless I find compassion and charity in my soul, this will become another defining image in the movie in my mind that is my life, and that is unacceptable.
As I sit here trying to sort out my emotions and try to make sense out of an emotional situation, I long for the days when all that I had to concern myself with was where to find a matching sock.
When taking stock of my relationships, it is with some confusion that I realize only those that you love deeply enough can truly get under your skin and hurt you, hurt you with a deep wound that never seems to heal completely and remains as an ugly scar tissue on the most sensitive area of the soul. It seems to await 'the trigger' and then proceeds to look for any and all areas of weakness to bring you emotionally to your knees. I am there.
The strange thing is, I wasn't part of this situation other then being a bystander witnessing it. It was slightly surreal. Watching two people that I love hurt one another with words and actions that stemmed from exhaustion and hunger and probably deep down wounds that have never been addressed, was nothing short of painful.
I have found it hard to be forgiving and even harder to be objective.
I know in time the sting of this event will soften as it becomes buried by day to day goings on, but unless I find compassion and charity in my soul, this will become another defining image in the movie in my mind that is my life, and that is unacceptable.
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