Welcome 2015!!!

With the morning dew comes a new day.....

Wanted to take this time to say Happy New Year to all my fellow bloggers, friends and family.   As I've scrolled down through Facebook and Twitter and have seen pictures of everyones' celebration and new years resolution posts I've reflected on 2014 and what I've learned.

2014 was full of ups and downs for me..as I am sure for most.  Some  have had more downs than ups. Most use the first day of the new year as a the first page in a new chapter. However our lives are new EVERY morning.  We all choose how to live our new page of life daily.   Some have circumstances in their lives that make being happy or healthy more difficult from time to time.  However, we still have a new "page" every day.  We all have a chance to start a new page every day of the year if we wake up breathing.   Why wait to the new year when we have a new page every day of the year?? That has been an exciting thought for me.  I don't have to wait!  I can start new every day!

I learn things the hard way.  Always......but one thing I've learned in the year 2014 is that I have a chance to make a difference every day that I am alive and breathing.  Another thing is that no one will or can live my life for me...it is truly up to me, to live my life to the fullest.  I must choose happiness over sadness, I must choose to worry about myself and the things I CAN change, not the things I can't.   I must choose love over hate.  I must choose forgiveness over unforgiving.   It's up to ME and no one else to live my life for me.  

Happy 2015 everyone!  May you all have a healthy, happy and prosperous year!  

Love,

Marcy

INKED for the first time!!!

Done!!! I did it! I did it! This butterfly is ready to fly!!!! I've been thinking about getting this tattoo for over a year now and back in December I finally decided to do it!!  FIRST time getting inked!  And it wasn't as bad as I was anticipating!  LOL!   

This tattoo is to signify new beginnings......at the beginning of my divorce process, when I felt like my life was over,  someone dear to me gave me a butterfly bracelet to remind me of the fact that God had something good for me...that He was transforming me..and that my life was not over, that I was that butterfly, waiting for her wings to dry to take flight. Well I wore that bracelet EVERY day it was my daily reminder that I would get through that dark time in my life. That bracelet broke and I couldn't find another one like it......this butterfly won't break or get lost...it is my constant reminder of my transformation and the fact that my life is not over...it is just beginning.    

Ronnie the most awesometastic tattoo artist!!  He told me that this was my first tattoo, but wouldn't be my last.  I can honestly say, I never pictured myself ever having one let alone more than one tattoo.  BUT as I sat there getting inked, there was a butterfly in a horseshoe hanging over the thresh hold of Ronnie's door....and both horses and butterflies have significant meaning to me!  For me they mean second chances,  and new beginnings.....so perhaps there is some hidden meaning behind that.....possibly a horseshoe tattoo in my future??  

NOT as painful as I had anticipated!  LOL 

Do you see that arrow head behind me with the horses.... perhaps another tattoo is in my future.