Today...

Today is such a great day! A light of happiness is shining down on me & I am so grateful that today a lot of things that I had on my mind made sense today. Something in my heart just clicked & truth came into the open.
Today was such a good day & that is JUST MY 2 CENTS!


Islandiva

Sorry for being MIA...

Hi everyone,

Sorry for being MIA...my husband just left yesterday morning for training and we have been spending a lot of family time. Having quiet time with the girls, watching movies at home, cooking all their favorite meals, talking, even trying out a new restaurant which we are so in love with...lol

Well, for about a month I will be a single parent and taking care of everything. Right now, come tomorrow I will be driving to go and get the tires change to our winter tires cause the snow is coming like crazy and just today I was driving from my daughter's dental appointment and I swerved and almost went into a ditch. So I am not trusting my driving abilities until I get the winter tires on. Oh, I have all weather tires, but the winter tires makes a difference and I feel better driving with them on.

So I will try and make post everyday and really work on making this a habit and a daily task for me. I hope I can make this a success for myself and with that is JUST MY 2 CENTS!

Saying good-bye!...

The one thing about being in the military is you get to travel the world and meet new people. You meet new people and you create a family atmosphere wherever you are at. But, this duty station here in Alaska, my husband and I found family. We found cousins, uncles, and aunties here and that made being in Alaska even better.

But, every military family knows that you have to say goodbye to them when their time has come to leave and go on to where the military needs you to be at.

So this morning, my cousin and his family left to go to their next duty station and it was such a hard goodbye. I watch my nieces and nephews grow up to be such handsome boys and my niece is growing up to be so beautiful. Now I have to watch them grow up from a far and whenever we can go on vacation or just being in the next duty station again.

I never had a hard goodbye until this morning...I don't think I will ever get use to saying good-bye and that is JUST MY 2 CENTS!

When I think...

Sometimes when it's very quiet in my home my mind tends to wonder about everything. Did I lock the doors? Did I make sure I fed the fishes? Did I forget to do anything today? What is my task for tomorrow? Am I a good wife and mother?

Just random thoughts that passes my mind that makes me think about those kind of things.

What happens when you think? And that's JUST MY 2 CENTS!


Islandiva

Been MIA...

I apologize for not blogging. My daughter has been to the clinic this past couple of weeks. They have found blood in her urine & they are running test on her & waiting to see if we are going to see a kidney specialist. So my days are filled with taking care of her & the rest of the family. It is such a task for me it is getting overwhelming for me. Sometimes I feel alone in this & my husband is such a great support & I love him for that. But I feel like I don't have any friends that understand or even care. I don't know why I feel like this, maybe I am just tired & I just need a break. All in all, I am still here & that is JUST MY 2 CENTS!

Islandiva

I'm I a writer...

I read a blog that ask “Are you a writer?” and that made me think. Am I a writer because I blog now and what do you have to do to have that status to be called a “writer?”


This blog has gotten to me and made me think about that. Since I am starting to blog do I now call myself a writer? I mean every time I am done writing a blog post I hit the button that says PUBLISH! Does that mean or make me a writer?

Well, how would you define “writer?” From Wikipedia it means A writer is anyone who creates a written work, though the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms.

Now with reading that…I guess you can say I am writer, right? I haven’t published anything, besides a poem that was featured in a book of poems. But, I was a teenager at the time and I didn’t get paid for it. Just got published! But, will I call myself a writer? When I was a teenager, I have journals, short stories, and tons of poems. But, when I had kids I stopped and of course my priorities were taking care of my family and kids. So do I still call myself a writer after years not writing?

Now is writing a letter a form of being creative? The reason I ask this, is because I written tons of letters to my husband when he was at Basic Training and AIT, and many emails when he was deployed. Is that being on the creative side of writing? I mean I written and describe details of what our children were doing, especially our youngest who is 2 right now. All the things she was learning and doing. Is being descriptive on details mean or say that I am a “writer?”

Well, regardless if I am a writer or not, in my definition of a writer is being creative and imaginative and I don’t care if I am not publish or a best seller. I know that my letters that I wrote to my husband and my children will live on and kept in our family library and be read by my children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and so on. They will read the love, fear and struggle that their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents had to do so their family will live on the way they do, and with that said “I AM A WRITER” and with that is JUST MY 2 CENTS!

Blog post is out of order...

It seems that my blog post got publish out of order and since I am new to this, I don't know how to fix it! LOL...Oh well I guess it is the way it is and I know it is not a big thing but I learned in blogging you have to be precised or something like that. Oh, well I guess it will have to stay that way until I know how to fix it, but that is fine...it's just me and JUST MY 2 CENTS! HA HA HA!!!

Excercising...a update

Hi everyone, just wanted to post an update on me. Got a terrible cough last Thursday so I took it as a day off for me to rest the body, but I ended up taking 4 days off not happy with that but I am back again. Still have a cough & since I started to do RIU I noticed a pain in the back of my neck, I think it's from the stomach excercise part, I am already tired out by that part that I am struggling to complete it & as stubborn as I am I will do it until it's all over even if my muscles are burning...lol


So today I am going to step back & do SIU for 3 days to kickstart the body again for the 4 days off & work back to RIU...I know it's a step back from where I was but the one thing I learn that you need to listen to your body. Plus, my hubby who does PT everyday (his a soldier) says that even though you are on a program you need to listen to what your body says but always remember to don't quit & drive on...lol

So I am going to continue to push play & reach that bikini body!

Have a great workout everyone!

JUST MY 2 CENTS!........

As days pass my heart is jumping and my stomach hurts, I know the days are getting closer when my hubby will be leaving again :(


To the people who run our country...Listen to your people, they are sad, crying, and hurting. Put the end to this war!

Excercising...

For those who read this knows that I started working out to Slim in 6 workouts and so far it is going good. I have been off for 4 days due to a cough that I caught and to be honest my body was saying "no workout today," so because I love me I didn't workout for 4 days and to be honest I hated it. All that was on my mind was that I needed to workout. It was like I was an addict to working out!

But, I realize that sometimes want we want is not good for our body and you have to stop and listen. Boy was I glad that I did! I was scared for not working out for the 4 days that my body will become weak again and that I would have to start all over, but it wasn't. I did though start all over the workout series, I workout to the first DVD Start It Up for the first 3 days to get my body all warmed up then move back on to Ramp It Up, where I left off.

So that is the plan and I hope that I keep to it and I know from this experience that even though you take a break or a day off, is when you get back up and keep pushing on. See the goal and you will achieve and with that is JUST MY 2 CENTS!

www.beachbodycoach.com/islandiva

My September Challenge...

Well, it seems I didn't get to complete my September Challenge! I am shy of 3 blog post to make it a post everyday, but even though I had my 3 blog post ready. I wasn't feeling good to get up and do the posting. It seems that I am down or caught something and it is draining me. Not to mention all the working out that I am doing, my body is screaming for me to slow down.
Well, I didn't make it, but atleast I made a post almost everyday and still made it a point to blog. Now the question is, can or will I continue to make blog everyday? The answer is yes! I really enjoy blogging and even though I am not blogging about certain items or giving giveaways, I am enjoying blogging. It is like therapy to the soul and it helps to put my mind at ease.
So I will continue to blog for myself and if it gets big then it gets big, either way I enjoy blogging and that is JUST MY 2 CENTS!