Coleens Business

Last Days of Summer... The Grandkids have started school. The days are beginning to get shorter. The monsoon season has left us with branches fallen from trees, lots of late growing flowers...yes weeds ...and breathtaking sunsets and calm nights. 8:50 a.m. the traffic lines up on the way to school and soccer, preschool, dancing and karate are in full force. Everyone is back from vacations and the pickle ball courts are full as everyone is taking advantage of the perfect morning temperatures. Sometimes I have to pinch myself to realize the reality of the goodness of life. Soon we will be welcoming the holidays and spending time with family again. My anxiety is already increasing a bit with the shortness of the days. This is something that happens every year and I have learned that it passes as I keep busy. Fall semester for me will begin in less than 2 weeks and I think I am really going to have to expand my brain capacity this semester as I am also doing an internship as a requirement ...

 VACATION! I didn't get to blog last week because....yes... you guessed it...Bret and I went on a vacation! Not sure I want to admit this, but in 39 years of marriage we have never spent an entire week together without our children or family. It was a big step for me. Don't get me wrong, I love being with Bret. I just love sharing great times with those I love and everything we experienced I wanted to share with the kiddos. But the reality is that I will have memories to share, and they will have their own experiences on their own and with their children. This is both exciting and difficult to me. Exciting because of all the wonderful and different memories my kids will make and difficult because I can't be a part of each one of them. But not to worry. This is life and this was OUR vacation. We went to upstate New York. Neither of us had ever been there before. It was breath taking! We began with a quick trip to Niagara Falls. We loved it! There was such majesty in the size...

  Peanut Butter Cookies... A friend sent a text the other day asking me for my peanut butter cookie recipe. I took a quick pic and sent it. She returned the text later with a sweet note saying how yummy they turned out. This person is a great cook so to get a complement from her means a lot! I love that she took the initiative to reach out and connect so that she could have what she needed and I felt helpful...It was a Win Win situation. I feel this is usually what happens when you advocate for your needs. When you reach out to someone and ask for help. I am trying to do this as I am having a bit of a problem getting information of how to sign up for the class that goes with my internship. I will keep asking until I get it figured out. It seems at times that no one else can understand what you are feeling and what needs to be happening in your life.  You really need to lead the situation. Not to be self centered or selfish, but to see that you are ready and persistent in getti...