Changing My Everything

First of all, I should apologize to my friends for being so late with this post, but sometimes life gets in the way.  Now as promised a discussion about my face or rather the battle to keep my face from looking my age. Recently I went on a cosmetics shopping spree.  I needed a few things and I'd brought a list.  I was looking for who had the best gift sets to go with the purchases.  Along the way I got a lot of attention from a "beauty consultant" at the Estee Lauder counter.  And this wasn't my first visit.  But I can honestly say I  outdid myself this time. By this point I've got eye creams, anti-aging serums, cleaners, toners moisturizers, lip creams and firming lotions.  And that doesn't even include the makeup.  Primers, foundations, bronzers, liners for eyes and lips, glosses and colors.  All to be coordinated.  It's amazing how much there is to buy out there. I hear there's something out there known as a "vampire faci...

This week I've been thinking a lot about gratitude and forgiveness.  Last June when my soon to be ex-husband began to come clean about his desire to leave our 27 year marriage I had all the usual emotions.  I got to experience the five stages of grief in a very real way.  It was like someone had died.  After the initial shock and devastation, I got around to being very anger with him and myself.  I probably stayed there for some months but I did move on.  But now I have begun to actively do something to address those feelings. At the time they just faded into the background.  I recently remembered something a friend once told me,"People come into your life in three ways, for a reason, a season or a lifetime".  She may have been right about that.  Because at this point I have come to believe that he was in my life for a very important reason.  Without him I would not have two incredible children that I completely adore.  That's a pre...