Five Minute Friday: Remember

Sometimes it's nice to just sit down and wrote a note without planning it out, thinking it through, feverishly editing and re-editing. I love the Five Minute Friday link-up at Lisa-Jo's blog. It's free'ing to just write about something, anything and then look back and see what you've came up with. You should try it sometime.

Today's topic is REMEMBER. Check out my five minutes below and then take the opportunity to check out some of the other bloggers/writers at LisaJoBaker.com.

Remember the "good'ole days?"  The days before responsibilities, before husbands/wives, before kids.  When you got paid and had no idea what to do with ALL THAT MONEY! (Minimum wage was $4.25 and I'm pretty sure my checks were a total of $100.00)  

Daddy Goose & Brother-In-Law Goose - just a year ago!  I love this memory!

Lake Tahoe...too many years ago!

My 30th surprise birthday party

Like, remember the time when....we would sit at the park and eat lunch during our 42 minutes lunch break from high school.  Or...remember our Bass Lake trips?  Or...that time when we walked 3 miles in the middle of the night because your truck broke down and the Sheriff picked us up because it was waaaay to foggy for us to be walking down a country road.  What about Jaws, the movie...whoa, that one put our household on high alert!

Look how young we look!  2005

I remember these times like they were yesterday.  And yet...there are so many memories that have faded.  I wish they hadn't, I wish I could remember them all.  The good news is I still have many of these friends and we remember those times together.  The even better news is that we are continuing to make memories.  The best news is that we have been able to remain friends all of this time and we get to REMEMBER our good'ole times and that our friendships will remain.

This picture was from last Sunday...remember?

What do you remember?

Always ~ Momma Goose

P.S.  Please don't get me wrong I SUPER LOVE my life now. THESE ARE THE NEW GOOD DAYS!!!  With responsibilities, a hot husband and the cutest goslings on the block!

Five Minute Friday: Wonder

It's been a while since I just sat down and wrote a note without planning it out, thinking it through, feverishly editing and re-editing.  I love the Five Minute Friday link-up at Lisa-Jo's blog.  It's free'ing to just write about something, anything and then look back and see what you've came up with.  You should try it sometime.

Today's topic is wonder.  Check out my five minutes below and then take the opportunity to check out some of the other bloggers/writers at LisaJoBaker.com.

Five Minutes to Wonder

I wonder some days what my future will be like.  I wonder whether I will  be able to keep my goslings happy and safe, whether Daddy Goose and I will be able to do all of the things we want to do in life, how long we will have my parents and in-laws around to enjoy, whether we are on the path that God has set for us or whether we have strayed with our own agendas.

Wondering can sometimes gets your mind in trouble.  You begin to think about the what ifs, the should haves or could haves or how much differently your life would be.  It makes it hard to remember that your life is how you make it, not how you wonder it.

I like to think that I live for the now.  The today.  The present.  Keeping my goslings and Daddy Goose happy TODAY, not wondering whether they will get asked to their first school dance (thank you Parenthood for the "wonder") or get a great job after college.  Or whether Daddy Goose and I will be able to travel the world after he retires. (which, by the way, is only 13 years away!)

This rainy, cold, "wonder"ful, fall day is whats most important...AND how good my spaghetti dinner will be tonight!

What are you wondering about today?

Always ~ Momma Goose

Five Minute Friday: Grasp

On Fridays a group of people who love to throw caution to the wind and just write gather to share what five minutes buys them.  Just five minutes.  Unscripted.  Unedited.  Real.  Check out mine below, and then see others at  Five Minute Friday on Lisa Jo's site.

This week's topic is: Grasp

This week I had the opportunity to communicate with some of my friends from my "old" life.  My life as a working woman.  (Wow, that doesn't sound right...working woman...hee-hee..I meant, human resources consultant).  One sent me a birthday card, one emailed me about an old business issue and one sent me a birthday email.  It made me think of the old days and how much I enjoyed working with those people and how much I enjoyed working in human resources and as a legal secretary.

I am in an even better job now.  I'm a stay at home mom!  I am blessed to be in this position.  I grasp that concept of how important it is to be here for my children every minute.  I wonder, though, do my children grasp how important it is, what an impact it has on their lives, what it would be like if momma wasn't around 24-7, that momma used to be a great human resources consultant (if I do say so myself :)), what life would be like if I did still work outside the home?

I hope they do or will someday.  I now understand and am thankful for my mom choosing the three us over working full-time.

I wonder if I really grasp the concept of what it would be like if I still worked as a human resource consultant.  I can't really even imagine what it would be like to not be here 24-7.

Can you grasp what it would be like if your life was different?

Always ~ Momma Goose

Five Minute Friday: Join

On Fridays a group of people who love to throw caution to the wind and just write gather to share what five minutes buys them.  Just five minutes.  Unscripted.  Unedited.  Real.  Check out mine below, and then see others at  Five Minute Friday.

This week's topic is: Join

Is it crazy that I can't find the words to write about join?  I am eager to see what the friends I join up with at Lisa-Jo's Five Minute Friday have come up with.

There are so many ways to express the word, join.  Some are pretty lovey-dovey (like: to join in holy matrimony, to join hearts, union, join hands, join a club) and some are well, ho-hum (like: body joints, the river and sea join at the bottom of the cliff, a seam where fabric joins, or to join the Army) .

When I first saw the topic, join, I thought of the lovey-dovey kind of definition.  Pathetically, above was all I have been able to come up with.

Or maybe...it's just a view into me.  I am lovey-dovey.

When I think of the word join, I think of all the good that can come from two things uniting.  I think of my family joining together for a meal, laughter and making memories.  I think of joining hands with Daddy Goose.  I think of the world joining together to stop all that's wrong with it.

Well...my five-minutes are about up...what do you think about join?

Always ~ Momma Goose

Five Minute Friday: Connect

On Fridays a group of people who love to throw caution to the wind and just write gather to share what five minutes buys them.  Just five minutes.  Unscripted.  Unedited.  Real.  Check out mine below, and then see others at  Five Minute Friday.

Here we go...Connect

After Lil' Miss Goose came along it became clear to me that it could be hard to really connect with Daddy Goose with all that babies and four year olds require.  A couple of months ago I bought a book called, "21 Days to Loving your Man on Purpose."  I bought it on a whim in the grocery store checkout and it has taken me a while to get through the short 100 page book.  It was, however, one of my better book purchases.  It was a great way to get some ideas on how to connect with Daddy Goose in a way that he needs.  In a way that I need.  I haven't done the projects yet, but I definitely intend to.  For now, I am working on ensuring that Daddy Goose and I have quality time together.  Whether its watching a movie he wants to watch or having a cold beer ready for him when he walks through the door after a hot day so we can talk about the craziness of our days.

Photo taken on our honeymoon...February 2006

Daddy Goose is THE MOST important man...no, person...in my life.  Making sure that we connect is my number one priority.  He does so much for our family, the least I can do is ensure I'm doing my part in our relationship.  Besides, I've always told him that we're going to be together until one of us dies...so we might as well make this a meaningful, fun and happy relationship.

I wonder, how we will connect today.  What do you do to connect with your spouse?

Always ~ Momma Goose

Five Minute Friday: Story

On Fridays a group of people who love to throw caution to the wind and just write gather to share what five minutes buys them.  Just five minutes.  Unscripted.  Unedited.  Real.  Check out mine below, and then see others at  Five Minute Friday.

Story

What is my story?  Is it the Disney prince charming one?  Or is it a nightmare on elm street horror type book? From where I sit, it is a combination of both.  I have the prince, I have the fairytale life (minus the millions of dollars), but it has taken a lot of nightmares (well, more like rough roads) to get to this point.  But, who doesn't have tough roads?  Who doesn't have a little nightmare chapter in their story?  If you say you don't, I say...your nightmare chapter just hasn't been written yet.

Its these chapters in life that make the fairytale chapters that much sweeter.  Like the prince that has to fight the dragon to get to his one true love.  She loves him even more because he fought so hard for their love.

The only thing we can hope for in our story is that the fairytale chapters far out weigh the nightmare ones.  And that while living through those nightmares we hold on to the light at the end of the tunnel and know that the fairytale WILL be back.

That's my story...and I'm sticking to it!

Momma Goose

Five Minute Friday: Opportunity

On Fridays a group of people who love to throw caution to the wind and just write gather to share what five minutes buys them.  Just five minutes.  Unscripted.  Unedited.  Real.  Check out mine below, and then see others at  Five Minute Friday.


Opportunity

A very wise man once told me, "Opportunities don't always come at convenient times."  Interesting statement, don't you think?  I was part of a small business at the time and we were working our booties off to make it a bigger and better business.  There were many late nights, early mornings and missed lunches because of those opportunities.  I must tell you, while I didn't enjoy every one of those opportunities, I am truly very thankful for them.  They gave me the chance to grow professionally and personally.  That same wise man told me that if things were easy they wouldn't be worth the effort.  At the time, I'm not sure I was 100% in agreement with him, but looking back I'll admit, he was (and still is) right.  I'd like to think I did those opportunities justice.

I have now been given the opportunity of a lifetime by Daddy Goose.  He has given me the best gift to be able to stay home and take care of our goslings. What a great opportunity, and what a hard job.  But a job that will be so worth it in the end.

What opportunities will I be able to provide for my goslings?  What opportunities have you provided or been provided that were worth the effort?

Momma Goose