Savor and Share week 3: Sisters!!!

Last week was about savoring and sharing the everyday moments we share with girlfriends. The week before that it was about savoring and sharing the everyday moments we share with our family. This week? Savoring and sharing the everyday moments we share with sisters!!! This is pretty awesome for me, seeing as how I have 3 sisters (no brothers!).

I am the second oldest. We are all 21 months apart from each other and have spent a lifetime laughing at the most ridiculous things, scaring our wonderful mother by putting anything closely resembling a snake in her bed, arguing over who gets to sit in the front seat and giving each other much needed words of advice (though not always asked for, we always gave it).

Circa 1989, Left to Right: Katie, Ali, Me, Leslie and Dad

I am so lucky to have all of my sisters within 1.5 hours of me and we visit frequently. They are so special to me, my best friends. I can't imagine my life without a single one of them! This week I am most definitely going to put forth the extra effort to appreciate the little things, the smaller moments.

What about you? Do you have a sister or sisters?
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Savor and Share week 2

Last Monday I talked about an advertisement that I decided I should take literally. You can read about it here. This week is all about savoring and sharing the moments with your girlfriends. This is something I am looking forward to. My dearest girlfriends don't live nearby,  but I do have some good friends (who happen to be girls) close and I'd really like to try and form better relationships with them. It's hard! It's hard to make time for friendships when you've got little ones at home. It's hard to take the energy to form bonds with people outside of your home/family when you spend so much energy making sure the people in your home/family are happy, content, clean and healthy. So, this is a good excuse for me to reach out, go out, speak out, whatever. As long as it's out =)

There was an article I read that I keep thinking about whenever I think about connecting with girlfriends. The title of the article is "Queens of the Road" and it's about a group of "freewheeling women" who were itching for a little adventure so they took to the highway and set off to find some. It started with a group of sisters and now has nearly 2,000 members across the United States. Some of the women have pretty awesome trailers which they have decorated in "kitschy Western themes" with names like "Rhinestone Cowgirl," "Roam Sweet Home and Belle on Wheels." They have one rule: No husbands or children allowed. They have this awesome website SistersOnTheFly.Com where you can register for fly-fishing workshops, excursions and many more gatherings. You should check it out, and who knows, maybe someday I'll actually do it!!

So I'm going to focus on building friendships this week and staying extra-connected to my already dear ones. Will you join me?

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Savor and share week 1

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The inspiration from this post comes from a Starbucks advertisement in a magazine I've been reading. It's a silly advertisement, but obviously not so silly if I'm writing a post about it.....

The ad? It's about savoring and sharing every moment. Maybe you've seen it? If not, I'll tell you a bit about it. It's supposed to be advertising for a new Starbucks product, something called Natural Fusions coffee. It lists 5 weeks and a different thing you should practice savoring and sharing for that week. Week 1 is all about taking the time to connect with your family.

I read this and I thought it would be a great thing to focus on, savoring the everyday moments we share with our family. This is something we should be doing everyday anyway, but I personally know how easy it is to forget to enjoy the little everyday things...

So, this week, I'm going to focus on savoring all the little things that happen in my everyday life. Like sitting in the backyard listening to my {almost} 3 year old ask me "mom, should I go to the left?" and watching my 1 year old walk around in a swim diaper {LOVE his chubby little legs!} with tennis shoes on {no socks of course} enjoying his curiosity. Or laughing with the hubs when he shares with me a ridiculously silly thought. Or getting to meet my newest niece tomorrow {so excited!}....there is so much to savor and enjoy. So many things that can go unnoticed.

Which is why I'm choosing to take a little inspiration from Starbucks this week to focus on savoring my family.

Next week I'll be moving on to the next suggestion, which is taking the time to connect with my girlfriends, you guys should join me!

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Believe you can do anything

While reading "O, The Oprah Magazine" (thanks to my best friend in the whole wide world for giving me a subscription to it for my 29th birthday! oh yeah!) there was an advertisement for Champion sportswear that I came across. This ad had a picture of some random women jumping with a beautiful sunset in the background. Some very important words were written over this picture:

Believe you can do anything at least once a day.

I read that and I had to stop for a minute. Literally stopped, held still, quieted my mind, and just stopped. How many times do we doubt ourselves in a day? How many times do we talk bad to ourselves in a day? I know for me, it's a lot more than I'd like to admit (so I'm not going to.......)

What if we could believe we could do anything? And what if we told ourselves that at LEAST once a day? How awesome would our daily lives be if we could believe in ourselves that much? It.would.be.awesome.

So, believe you can do anything at least once a day.

I bet you'll notice a difference.

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