I am writing!!!! Days 9,10,11,12,13, and 14

Hello, Hello!

I know, I know I have not been on here writing, but I have been writing! I didn't take the time to write here and make a blog post, but I have been writing! Yay me

So My daughter got me the book 300 Writing Prompts a couple of weeks ago. Since school started, and I'm back to work,  my excuse is time. So by writing in this book, I have short prompts to write about.  Here are the 5 days this week I wrote:

  I know the pics are a little blurry and I wasn't taking the best photos, but I think you get the idea, I am writing. So proud of me 100 days of writing here I come!

Write later.

Day 8

Good evening,
Last Sunday night before school begins for me! I'm not sure I am ready to begin. I haven't been to school as much as I have in previous years, I haven't been texting my friends like I had before, I feel like I am not quite ready for students yet. I know I will be.

This is all I've got tonight. I know its not very much, and there is no point to this, but I just wanted to get something written, so write I did.

Thanks for reading, more later!

Cleaning Day 7

Hello, good morning,

Hope you had a restful and peaceful sleep. I hope this morning finds you rejuvenated for the Saturday ahead.

Saturday's at my house use to mean cleaning in the morning, and then the fun in the afternoon. Unless we had baseball games, or soccer games, or basketball games, karate tournaments, band competitions, cheerleading competitions, or whatever Saturdays are filled with., Then if we were lucky the house got cleaned in the afternoon, or not at all!

One year when all 4 kiddos were still at home, and I was trolling Pinterest, I found a cleaning schedule, and my life (cleaning) changed!  I like schedules so a cleaning schedule fit right into my life. How had I never thought of this before?  The schedules I found were amazing, but I needed something that I could follow, so I tweaked it a bit and made it my own.

This is my house cleaning schedule:

Morning: Make Bed, Empty dishwasher, One load of laundry, the chore of the day.
Evening: Load dishwasher, wipe kitchen counters, sweep/spot mop kitchen, pickup.

Chore of the day:
Monday: Mop/vacuum floors
Tuesday: Toilets n tubs/ Clean bathrooms
Wednesday: Wipe/dust furniture, Wipe down kitchen cabinets
Thursday: Thrift/budget and bedrooms
Friday: Free day: Or makeup day
Saturday: Swing Day

Swing Day: Once a month
Week 1: Windows/Mirrors
Week 2: Scrub oven microwave, and refrigerator
Week 3: Wipe walls baseboards and doors
Week 4: Upholstery
Week 5: Purge/organize

This takes about 20 mins to 1 hour per day, but then the house is clean.

I am not an OCD person, so this schedule may not work for you. Change it look for other schedules and make them your own. Im telling you changed my life. Yes, I still follow this schedule even though my kiddos are now kidults, I just like not having to clean the whole house every Saturday Morning! And Fridays Yahoo!

Be consistent Day 6

AGH-AGH-AGH-!

I didn't do this! I didn't write! I am up for this challenge, I just didn't do it. For 3 days now, I haven't written anything. 

I know this is just for me, but I need to do this. It's like anything, the more you do something the better you get at it!. I know I know. But I didn't write on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. I am not sure why I had the time! It's just that  I don't like writing in front of anyone, because they are gonna ask me what I am doing, what I am writing, and I don't want to explain. Then the way Jesse asks me, makes me feel like he is thinking oh she is so weird and is laughing at me. So that is my excuse, for not writing. I couldn't write because someone was always here! How stupid is that right? Suck it up buttercup and get your writing done!

I like this quote! It is very very true! Be consistent, write every day, complete this challenge!

Reasons I want to write!

• I have a story to tell!
• I want to publish books!
• I want to read my books!
• I want to be called an Author!
• I am creative!
• I want my voice heard!
• I want others to hear me!
• I have something to say!
• I am facing my fear!

Writng I am doing Day 5

Hey good evening guys,

I'm late posting tonight.
 I had a leadership conference today so back at school. Then our admin team wanted to introduce our new principal so we had dinner at school. How cool was that? Then I had to pick up Aubriella from Ashleigh's friend's house who was babysitting her since Ash was working until 9 tonight. Well after I got home, I had to take care of the cutie patootie Aubriella. Such a difficult thing to do, yeah right!

Oh and Happy Birthday to my sister Barb the big 59 today!

So did you get my excuse for not getting to my writing until now?

 I was gonna go to bed, without writing but I remembered I made a challenge with myself. I don't have to write a lot, but I have to write, so writing I am doing.

Now I am going to bed. Goodnight!

What Do I, Want! Day 4

Hey Good afternoon,

I read something today on Art of Affirmation app "What do you really want? Write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.

This is what I want, this is who I am, this is my life!

• I am happy!
• I love God.
• I am blessed.
• I love and respect Jesse who loves me, unconditionally.
• I am in close relationships with my children.
• I  am a dear friend with 4 other women. 
• I am a great sister I have a good relationship with each of my siblings. We talk and visit each other frequently.
• I am a true colleague at work.
• I am a writer.
• I am an author.
• I am a blogger.
• I am a teacher.
• I am a multi-millionaire.
• I am financially secure.
• I am an active member of a book club.
• I am an active member of a writing group.
• I actively participate in church activities.
• I am confident.
• I am friendly.
• I am funny.
• I am fabulous.
• I am kind.
• I am outgoing.
• I am healthy.
• I am slim and fit.
• I exercise every day.
• I travel frequently.
• I own a beautiful house with a pool on 1/4 an acre of land near a small community outside San Antonio.
• I own an RV which we use in our travels.
• I am beautiful.
• I AM ENOUGH!

Wow, I have never done this before, very cathartic, very moving, very positive, very motivating. Try it! Tell us how it went. 

Words on Paper Day 3

Good afternoon my friends,

Whew, this is turning out to be harder than I thought. I have started this post at least three times, but I don't like it then I change it again, and again.

I started during lunch telling you that I was watching my Aubriella, then I changed that to this being about who I am, but all that seemed so boring so I stopped. Finally, I wrote about the movie we saw last night, but once again boring.

So far this blog doesn't' seem to have a point, but I guess writing for 100 days in a row will help me find the point of this.  I've been wondering where this, writing will take me in my life? I enjoy writing, and I know I have stories to tell, but I get scared when I'm writing. I know I will be judged, and my writing will be judged. Being judged is what I'm afraid of.

Ok so now that this is out in the open, I just need to go for it. I want to write, I need to write. I want to blog, I want to publish a book, a novel or even a screenplay.  So I gotta just do it, without worrying about what others will think. I am stronger than that. I have more courage than that.

Words on paper... Words on paper I gotta get words on paper. I have to get out of my head when I am writing, and just write. My Son Jesse does improv comedy and he says when people can't get out of their head, the show is not as good. Don't think about what the audience is thinking, just have fun, just get the words out. Worry about what they think when you are done.

So that's it I'm just scared, what if I can't do this what if I am not as good as I want to be, or not good at all? I know every writer has that same concern, but this time it's not going to stop me. I am going to get my words on paper. out of my head and onto the paper....

Sentences? Day 2

Good morning guys,
I'm here again working on my 100-day challenge. I was looking at different blogs posts about this and I found all of them were 2016-2018 apparently I am behind the times once again. Oh well don't care, I'm going to do my best to complete this challenge!

I have been thinking about and considering writing a book, a novel. I know I know everyone is writing a book, everyone has a story to tell and thinks they can do it. I have tried a few times, but this writing thing is harder than it looks. I have a couple of ideas for books but I'm not ready to tell you about them yet.

So what am I gonna do? Brain dump, yep I'm going to brain dump on you the sentences that are in my head, the pieces of stories that are there. These sentences have been running around in my head for years. I don't know what stories they go to, I don't know which characters say them, but they are there. Hopefully, when I get them out, they will let me put them together in some semblance of order. I don't know, I just don't know. But I hear them all the time. I even say them from time to time, which kinda makes me sound like a lunatic, talking to myself.


So here they are:

• " You knew? You knew about this and you never said anything? How long did you know?
• " I am me. I don't know who me is right now, but I know I am me. I still have brown hair, hazel eyes, a nice smile, I'm still kind and compassionate, I just don't know who I am. Am I Emma or am I someone else?
• Will you marry me? Will you be the mother of my children? Will you let me be the father of your children? Will you be my wife?
• I have always been in love with you. On that first night, I knew there was something about you, you just made me feel like I was home, I was settled. I  know, I know it doesn't' sound right, but it was you, it has always been you.
• " You were so mean, you and your little buddies laughing at me because you, even if you had too much to drink, never would have slept with someone who looks like me!"
• How could I?  It was the worst day of my life the most humiliating, the most depreciating, I couldn't tell you the truth,! so I changed the story a bit"
• Its time, Its time to move on. Its time for a change. Its time for me to do something different.
• So what did you do?

That's all of them. and the granddaughters are awake so I gotta go for today.

Talk tomorrow

100 Day Challenge Day 1

Day 1

Day one of what you ask? Day one of something new, something consistent, something disciplined in me to continue for 100 days.

I've done 100 days of happiness and it changed my life forever, I am now still constantly looking at things that make my life happier. It is basically posting a picture of something that makes you happy every day for 100 days. Check it out here: http://100happydays.com/   or # 100happy days. It is an amazing experience and truly has changed how I look at life now.

So now I want to start another 100-day challenge. I want to take a 100-day writing challenge. I want to write for 100 days, 100 days in a row.

I usually only write when the feeling hits me, when I have a problem that I need to think through, or when I'm really really angry. I am just not disciplined about writing, I can't think of things to write about, or I tell myself I don't have time to write.

So Im off to the races. This is day 1. I'll keep you updated here.

Oh,  and one last thing, this is really just for me, not sure anyone reads these blogger posts anymore, and I'm not gonna promote it.