Quote of the day by my friend Heather...

Our lives are a series of rooms and the people we're in them with. Every step we take shifts our future a little to the left. We are at the mercy of ourselves and every morning that we wake up, we have another chance to make things right. Who you are is not who you are destined to be. Never feel like you're at a dead in. There are no dead ends in the game of life.

I will always...

I forgot where I found this at...but I really like it!

I WILL ALWAYS promise to give you the best of myself... and to ask you no more than you can give.

I WILL ALWAYS accept you the way you are... I fell in love with you for the qualities, abilities, and the outlook on life that you have, and I won't try to reshape you in a different image.

I WILL ALWAYS respect you as a person with your own interests, desires, and needs, and to realize that those are sometimes different... but no less important than my own.

I WILL ALWAYS share with you... my time, my close attention, and to bring joy and strength and imagination to our relationship.

I WILL ALWAYS pledge to keep myself open to you... to let you see through the window of my personal world, into my innermost fears and feelings, secrets and dreams.

I WILL ALWAYS promise to grow along with you... to be willing to face change in order to keep our relationship alive and exciting.

I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU In good times and in bad, with all I have to give and with all I feel inside... in the only way I know how, completely and forever.

Breastfeeding or formula feeding...regardless of which BE PROUD!

I started out pumping when Miracle was born, because at 27 weeks, taking anything by mouth was impossible, so my supply never came in fully. Eventually I had to switch to formula but I kept letting Miracle "comfort suck"...which basically means I was letting her use my boobs as a pacifer and that built my supply up fully. I thought it "magically" came in until I researched that comfort sucking is actually a method of relactation. I started exclusively breastfeeding Miracle when she was 6 1/2 -7 months old. Miracle is 23 months old and I am still breastfeeding her.

Breastfeeding has been a long road for me and I hate when people make it seem like formula feeding is poison and breastfeeding is the only way to go. Formula is good too, because not everyone can breastfeed and not everyone wants to breastfeed. I did everything at first to breastfeed and nothing helped and I use to cry and just get so angry at myself, because I felt like my body failed and I had to have Miracle at 27 weeks and now I am failing at breastfeeding too. It was alot of emotional pain and strain from it, so I am glad that I had supportive people that helped me cope. After that I embraced formula for feeding my child when my own body couldn't feed her. At that time, I couldnt provide breast milk, but I was DAMN proud that I could provide formula to feed my child! I want formula feeders to feel proud that they can provide formula for their child too. Regardless of how you feed your child, just be proud that you are able to feed your child! BE PROUD MOTHERS!

Sometimes it's just best to cry...

Sometimes it's just best to sit down and have a very good cry. Just let the tears fall down your face freely.

Tears of an angel...

Tears of an angel are never seen

 or heard, it's often felt by

a truly caring and loving soul,

one that wants to ease the pain,

and gently kiss the tears away.

The eyes of an angel shall

never be made to shed tears.

Harder they come

Well they tell me there's a pie up in the sky
Waiting for me when I die
But between the day you're born and when you die
No one ever seems to hear you cry

So as sure as the sun will shine
I'm gonna get my share now of what's mine
And then the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all

The oppressors are trying to keep me down
Making me feel like a clown
And they think they have me on the run
I say forgive them Lord, they know not what they've done

I try to do the things that I want,
Cause when you're dead, you know that you can't.
Yes I rather be a free man in my grave
Than living as a puppet or a slave.

So as sure as the sun will shine
I'm gonna get my share right now of what's mine
And then the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all...

Do not let others write YOUR script in life...

-What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what. *some people call it karma, I call it common sense*

-You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

-Whatever someone did to you in the past, has no power over the present. Only you can give it power.

-When people show you who they are, BELIEVE THEM THE FIRST TIME.

-Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

-What you believe has more power than what you dream, wish, or hope for. You become what you believe.

-If the only prayer you ever say is "thank you", then that will be enough.

-The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

-Failure is a signpost to turn in another direction.

-If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will NOT fall apart.