Liv A Full Life's Holiday Hiatus

So it's been awhile since I've posted. Half because we have no internet ( we just moved apartments again) and half because well....I haven't felt like it.

But I feel a new wind blowing into Syracuse and with it I hope will come my desire to get back to blogging.

So to assist with this change I've decided to re-design the blog over our Holiday back home in Kansas City!

The blog needs it and I need it and I can think of no better time to do it than when I'm sitting in my mom's living room drinking coffee and....well nothing else!

So be patient dear blog readers and I promise to come back better than ever in January.

Wordy Wednesday

It's been a week or two since my last blog post but have no fear I am alive and well.

I came across this amazing quote from one of the blogs I frequent and just had to use it today.

Enjoy

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again." -Stephen Grellet

The "art" of Complaining

So my wordy Wednesday is coming to you on Thursday this week but better than not at all right? I am finding it increasingly hard to get computer time at our house now that my sweet husband is constantly studying. I see a new MAC in our future..hopefully our checkbook does too.With that said I have lots of time for thinking which often translates to things I want to blog about. That brings me to my word for Wednesday, that's right this week there is no real quote or saying but a word, a word I think it would be great for everyone to stop and think about........COMPLAINING! Yes that easily acquired habit of being unsatisfied with any number of things in your life. I often think it's a trait we don't even realize we have picked up, it is so acceptable in our culture to always be wanting more. Always wanting to be someone else, look like someone else, have someone else's car, house, money...whatever! It's something I have to admit I've been doing a lot of since we moved to Syracuse. Starting a new life has been exciting and seeing my husband studying at his desk causes me great joy but it has also been difficult. More difficult than I even imagined, which is probably good because I might not have come if I had known the adjustment. Tim and I had a great life in Kansas City. Looking back now that we live on one small salary we realize just how much money we made. We had a beautiful house, went out to eat all the time, shopped, had amazing friends and were close to our families, often seeing them everyday! Now we live in a very small apartment, about 700 sq feet in a noisy building, we live on one salary, don't really know too many people, no family around, and don't have all of the free time to spend together as we used too.Now before moving I considered myself a pretty positive person and also felt very content in the life I had. But since moving I realized how easy and fast that state of mind can change. For several months now I have found myself grumbling, wishing, hoping, complaining about any number of things about our life that our now different. At first it feels good, honest almost to be free enough to let your partner or friends know just how bad your life really has become. But, after awhile I have started to hear myself, to step outside myself and realize just how yucky my words and mindset had become and I started to feel really bad. So it got me thinking about complaining and thinking about so many people who have a life so much harder than mine I couldn't bear it probably for more than a day. Or how people centuries ago lived and how easy I have it and how often I take the simplest things for granted. It really hit me when I read this list (how can I complain) from one of my favorite blogs about this very idea of complaining. I challenge all my readers to make your own "how can I complain" list.

With the Fall season bringing us cooler weather and Thanksgiving on the horizon, think about all you have to be thankful for and how even the slightest change in our thinking can have profound effects on how we see our world and the effect we have on others.

“Do everything without complaining or arguing.”

Philippians 2:14

Oops It's Wordy Wednesday

Here I sit in front of the laptop and realize I've all but missed my wordy Wednesday! What was I thinking?

So in light of all of the political hubub swirling around us I'm doing two things today. 1 am endorsing Barack the man Obama on my little blog. Secondly I'm leaving you all with an amazing quote from the man himself. A quote about change, real change from the man who actually coined the phrase as much as Mr. McCain would like to think otherwise.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

Wordy Wednesday

In light of October being the Eat Local Challenge month ( I will be posting about this I promise) today's quote focuses on what else...food!

If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn't organic produce just be called "produce" and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective? ~Ymber Delecto