Shopping Adventure! :) Football time! :) my 7th Anniversary here on DS :)

FOOTBALL TIME!!! :) TOUCHDOWN!!! :) Happy saturday! :) it's a football weekend, with the divisional round playoffs! :) the Seahawks vs Saints game just began, and tonight, it's Patriots vs Colts! :) 2 more games tomorrow too! :) We're enjoying a great day! :) my mom, dad, and i went out to shop at the dollar store :) i bought some game day snacks! : )wheat crackers, green olives :) i've got my football snacks tray all set up here on my table :) at the dollars store, i also bought a cool green bin/holder to put stuff in, and 2 nice ink pads for my stampers :) i got a red, and green one :) the red one will be perfect when i create happy Valentine's day cards to mail in February :) The dollar store is loaded!!! with lots of nice items, including some items for the upcoming seasonal holidays :) wow! :) They have tons of stuff! :) i bought a cool spiderman puzzle for little Mikey, to give to him during baking friday next week :) he's gonna be very happy and excited! :) it's a nice day, enjoying some shopping ,and also so very excited about the football games :) it's rainy, and windy here in our area. definitely a good day to watch some football :) i've been writing some cards, and a letters :) i'm really excited about these nice writings :) i'm continuing to do really well with my healthy eating goals, i've gotten back in control of my cravings, making some really nice choices for my snacks :) i'm feeling really excited about this, and continuing to do well with my new years goals :) Thank you all for your wonderful support, guidance, and encouragement :) Everyone who is watching the football, we hope everyone enjoys the games :) next sunday is championship sunday!!! :) i'm having some snacks, iced water, and gonna watch some more football tonight, and tomorrow :) it's Superbowl Season!!! :) Today marks my 7th anniversary here on ds :) CHEERS!!! to the wonderful friendships we share :)
my family and i hope everyone is enjoying a great day! :) it sure is a great day to enjoy some football! : )We got 4 classic games on this weekend, and next sunday, is the championship sunday :) this is superbowl sunday! :) i've got lots to share in my journal today, including a goals update, sharing about some wonderful treasures we recieved, plus sharing about our shopping adventure today :) i first want to begin by mentioning, about how today is my 7th Anniversary here on Daily Strength :) wow! 7 years already! it seems like yesterday, when it was 2007, January 11th, and i signed up :) a new journey in my life, that has lead to many new, and exciting paths for me, a path of wonderful happiness, peace, and excitement, a path paved by my family and my friends, you all are wonderful, and i am so very happy and excited, for the very special friendships we share, and all of the amazing progress we have achieved together over the years :) my family and i appreciate and enjoy your beautiful friendships, and are very happy, and excited to have you all in our lives :) We love you :) You all brighten our days :) Thank you! : )CHEERS!!! to another year shared, here on DS, and cheers to many more! :) i couldn't imagine a better way to celebrate this day! :) family, friends, and a sweet adventure shopping :)
We're enjoying a great day! : )This afternoon, my mom, dad, and i had a nice shopping adventure at the dollar store :) Wow! :) they have put some awesome seasonal items out, including their Valentine's day items, lots of treats, gifts, and treasures :) It's a really nice day :) We got some football games this weekend :) Right next to me here, i've got my football snack tray, all set up, with some healthy snacks, and just put the Seahawks vs Saints game on, and tonight, it's Patriots vs Colts :) Tomorrow, we got the 49ers vs Panthers, and Broncos vs Chargers :) These games are classic playoffs games, it's superbowl season, and after next sunday, we will know the matchup, for Superbowl 48 :)my dad and i have been talking about the games, and put the WEEI (Boston sports radio on earlier this afternoon) :) it's game time! :) wooot! :) football!!! :) i love it! :)
This morning, we had a nice new day, rising and shining :) i enjoyed some nice time here on ds, writing to friends, and also enjoyed an early morning nature walk :) it's really warmed up outside here, and is raining today, and getting windy too. i love to feed our nature animal friends :) i brought out a big bowl of goodies this morning :) they were very excited :) i knew we'd be going shopping today, for a little while, at the dollar store :) i wanted to buy some ink pads, for my stampers collection :) i want to use my stampers more often this year :) around late morning, my mom, dad, and i were getting ready to go shopping :) Kayla and Taylynn went to Alyssa's and Aj's place today :) we drove them there, and then drove over to the dollar store :)
it wasn't busy at the store today, we were browsing around, they got lots of Valentine's day gifts, and treasures, plus we noticed St. Patrick's day, even Easter items in the store! :) WOW! :) we were enjoying shopping, i went on the cards/writing supplies aisle, and found 2 nice ink pads, i found a red one, and a green one :) SWEET!!! :) i also found a cool spiderman themed puzzle for Mikey, and this nice green basket/holder, to put stuff in, here in my computer room :) it's like an organizer :) we were enjoying our shopping experience, it was really nice, i bought a jar of green olives, a box of wheat crackers :) we saw lots of nice items at the dollar store :) We finished up shopping, and checked out :) We checked out our items all together :) it was great! :) we put our stuff into our minivan, and my mom and dad went into the shoprite grocery store :) i stayed in the minivan, and listened to the sports radio :) the rain was really coming down fast, it got very much more rainy as the day went on. After my mom and dad were all set, we went to pick up Kayla and Taylynn who wanted to come back to our house :) we picked them home, and cruised home :) my dad was talking about how domino's pizza will be busy this evening and tonight, with the football games :) he's all set, and ready for the evening and night, with lots of orders for pizza :)
It was great going out to shop today :) i set up my football snacks tray this afternoon, for the games :) i've been writing cards, and a new letter :) i also recieved my new USB cable for my printer, in the mail today, and my check from inboxdollars.com :) cool! :) This evening, my mom, Lisa, and i may go over to mcdonalds to get some treats :) i may get a nice iced coffee to enjoy :) we'd love to take this time, to share with everyone, about some wonderfully heart warming gifts, and treasures we recieved :)
Happy Friendship smiles, sent with lots and lots of love, from Maryland! :) awww! :) This is so very wonderfully heart-felt, and beautifully special :) very special delivery, from our dear, and lovely friend Holly :) awww! :) Holly sent us, a wonderful treasures envelope, for the new year :) this is awesome!!! :) i opened the treasures envelope, while Holly and i were on the phone :)we cherish, and treasure these very special times, and heart-felt moments in life, that brings us lots of joy, happiness, peace, and excitement :) my family and i love sharing these moments, with you and your family's :) Holly sent us, a lovely thank you card, with a wonderful note inside the card :) awww! :) during the holidays, Holly and i had lots of fun watching movies, and she really enjoyed the nice movies we sent her, for Christmas time :) it was awesome fun, watching the movies each saturday night :) many special memories, we'll always cherish, and treasure :) Holly sent us, 2 wonderful Calendar's :) one is a sweet nature picture, that features a calendar on it, and the calendar, also has beautiful nature scenes, that shine wonderfully :) i was looking at the calendar, and picture, it's so nice, peaceful :) i love looking at calendars :) there's many wonderful birds, nature sights, that are so nice, and peaceful :) it's wonderful, the joy that calendar's bring, and being able to enjoy the calendar, all throughout the year :) my mom and i, and our family thanked Holly on the phone :) We love our lovely card, and beautiful calendars :) i'm going to put our calendars around my computer room :) Holly, thank you so very much! :) my family and i deeply appreciate your wonderful kindness, and generousity, with all of our hearts :) Happy friendship smiles, sent with our love, and sunshine across the miles :) This is wonderful! :)
GOALS UPDATE :) Hi angel friends :) i am very happy and excited to share with everyone, about some great progress i've been making with my healthy eating, and exercising too :) over the past 3 nights, i've been able to control my cravings, and making healthier foods/snacks choices, when i need a snack :) i'm really proud of myself :) i was slipping last sunday/monday/tuesday, but 3 nights in a row now, i've been much better, and i'm very thankful about this :) i've been making some good balanced choices, with my healthy eating. :) for snack lately, i've been drizzling a little bit of honey on my grapenuts cereal, and i also been having plenty of water too :) i feel like i'm making some nice progress, with my goal :) it's a rewarding feeling :) it's a journey, eating healthy, and maintaining it, at a good balance :) it's a journey i'm ready for, each day :) i'm excited to share with you all, and to hear about the progress friends are making too :) i've been doing some light exercising too :) i was watching on tv, about how the winter blues can set in at times, during winter season. exercising is one of the activities they mentioned, that can help us feel better :)
i've been doing some nice stretching, and lifting my weight (doing arm curls), to keep myself active, the exercising is helping me :) also knowing that i'm keeping balanced with my healthy eating, is helping me too :) Thank you all for your continued amazing love, care, support, guidance, and encouragement, and for believing in me, and having faith in me :) i'm with you all, all the way! :) i'm looking forward to keeping everyone updated about how i'm doing, and also sending out lots of support, and encouragement to family and friends :) Together, we can definitely continue to achieve progress, and our goals :) lets do this! :) one day at a time, each step, is a positive one :) it's been a good start to the new year, with achieving progress :) i've also continued to do well, with getting organized, organizing my computer room, my bedroom, and keeping things neat and tidy :) CHEERS! to us all, and continued progress :)
We're enjoying a great day! :) my family and i are doing well, and are in good spirits :) Thank you everyone, for your lovely comments on our baking friday journal, and pictures :) We're very happy, and delighted thast everyone enjoyed our adventure :) we had lots of fun baking goodies :) i was feeling a bit down yesterday, i've been worried about some friends who haven't been doing well, and also i tend to get a bit lonely at times. i'm keeping busy, and focused on positives, and healing energy going out to friends who need prayers :) i've got the football game on this early evening, i'm gonna call our dear friend Holly tonight, we're gonna watch videos on youtube for about an hour, and then gonna watch some of the Patriots vs Colts football game :) we love our fun saturday night party nights :) i'm excited also, about getting my printer fully set up, and installed, and will be able to print pictures. :) tomorrow, i want to do some more writing, cards, finishing up a letter, and also gonna have a football party, for the 2 afternoon football games :) DS football party :) my family and i thank you all so very much, for all that you do for us :) You all are so nice, sweet, and wonderfully thoughtful, and generous :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of our hearts :) BIG GROUP FRIENDSHIP HUG :) There's many more great things to look forward too :)
-never lose hope :)
To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we enjoyed a nice time shopping today, i got some cool writing supplies :) enjoying football, and looking forward to sunny nature :) thinking of you, our dear friend :)
my mom says hello :) She says, "i hope everyone is having a good day" :) awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our dear friends :) You all are always with us in spirit during our adventures, and we're with you all in spirit too :) We hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a peaceful saturday :)
Happy friendship smiles, sent with lots and lots of love :) my family and i love our beautiful gifts, and treasures, from our dear, and lovely friend Holly :) She sent us a lovely card, a nice poster calendar, and nature themed calendar :) i'm going to display these nice treasures here in my writing area :) we love these very special gifts, and treasures, and will always love, cherish, and treasure them :) Holly, my family and i thank you so very much! :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of our hearts :)


FOOTBALL TIME!!! :) i've got my football snack tray, football towel, and some nice healthy snacks :) i'm ready for some football! :) It's divisional round games, beginning today :) 2 games today, and 2 games tomorrow :) everyone who is watching the games, we hope everyone is enjoying :) We love football! :)

i bought these nice red and green ink pads at the dollar store today, for my stampers :) i love using my stampers, and i want to use them more often :) i'm very happy i found these nice ink pads at the dollar store :)
i bought a cool spiderman puzzle for Mikey :) he loves spiderman, i gonna give him this puzzle during our baking friday adventure next week :)
at the dollar store, i bought this nice green basket/holder to put stuff in :) i want to put my hair cutter, shaving supplies, and allergy meds/other items into this nice holder :) it's neat, and cool, keeping tidy, and organized :)