An all over the place sort of blog! :)

First off I changed the name of my blog, this seems more fitting since this is a lot of our happenings, and what journies we go on! This last week I turned 33, and it feels good! I am in good shape, my kids are thriving, I am finally beginning to find friends within my church, other mom's who can relate to me and vice versa and we are about to embark on our first Florida summer so that should be interesting! My hair already is in hideous afro mode, curly, and well simply out of control but oh well-I am embracing it and rockin' it! There is a lot planned for this summer, in 2 weeks I am headed to California to see my baby sister graduate high school and then she will be off to UCLA in the fall-yes I am beyond proud. My other baby sister is graduating Respitory Therapy school in June and is engaged to an amazing man, finally my baby brother will be a senior in the fall---TIME SLOW DOWN! Then in June my best friend of 13 years is coming to visit us in Florida, Tiffany...She has never met her neices and nephew but I am so excited! She will be here for several days and we are going to head to New Orleans for a day and catch up with another old friend Robb. Then in August my entire family, siblings and all--we are all headed to Walt Disney world for 2 weeks and that is going to be so much fun! I cannot wait-the heat and humidity will be intense but my kids will rock it anyhow! Jason will be back in town next week from his senior leadership school which will make our lives so much easier again, the single parent gig I have down to a science but extra help is always a plus and nice to get a mommy break every now and again. The kids started open gym/gymnastics and they love it! It is cheap, and I tell you what, it totally wears them out which is a win-win for this mommy! I would like to get them to do it 2 times a week, and I hope that will happen, but it totally depends on the job situation for me, which I am no longer stressing about. I have put it in God's hands and refuse to stress over it anymore, the right job will come about and when it does I will know it, feel it. Putting yourself out there to make friends is not always easy but it is something I have had to get better at and now I have a small network of wonderful ladies and that is what the power of prayer and putting yourself out there, flaws and all--and now I am starting to see those blessings, this past Sunday I was a church greeter first service and second service I sat with an old military friend I had not seen in 10 years-It was nice catching up with him! The military world is a small one and you will meet and make life long friends/family. This week, the last few days I learned a lot about myself, some good and some not so good-never easy to realize somethings but I believe this information will help me grow and grow into a better person, isn't that what life is about? Growing, making positive impacts? At least in Sarah's opinion. With the summer coming up I decided to make a list of the things I wanted to start doing for me, I have always been really good at water sports and so I want to try Paddle Boarding, do some wake-boarding, and long-board surfing if possible. I have always been a strong swimmer and a water lover, growing up on the West Coast I remember our summers where at times spent on the lake with my counsins and Aunt/Uncle and family-what awesome memories and I cannot wait to make new ones here, the kids LOVE the water and as they get older we will do swimming lessons, and things like that but the beach is cheap entertainment and for now with them we will settle for that! Win-win! I was blessed with a few beautiful birthday gifts for my birthday and one of them being an awesome camera, mine has been out of commission for months and months and so this one that I have is high quality, and will allow me to take very good pictures of my family, my kids, my life here in Florida and our life in general. As I get used to it I will get better at it...There are many things I want to do and for now I will just take each day as it comes, realize that life may bring people in and out of our lives for a reason, that there is always a reason for everything-I may not understand those reasons now but someday they will be put close, front and center to my face so that I can understand more. I look back over the last 15 years and I have changed into this strong-willed(more than I normally was!HA!) and I have grown from a young woman to a mom to 3 kids who are the light of my life, have traveled the world, served my country very proudly and still would be but sadly I had to put that to rest, I am a PROUD AMERICAN who supports those in and out of the uniform and I love MY COUNTRY. I have made many friendships and lost many, I have graduated with my Bachelor's because I wanted to-did it for me and it took a little longer than expected I did it, I made many mistakes, and will continue to do so but may I always learn from them and pass that down to my kids-although I know they will not listen because I remember my parents telling me this or that and guess what? They were RIGHT! Haha! I started blogging in 2009-because I saw my cousins blog and thought it looked fun and it turned into my outlet, I may not get any comments and who knows if anyone really reads them BUT they are for ME and ME alone. I find peace in putting my words down, Just like I find peace listening to Pandora radio nearly all day every day because there is so much music out there that speaks to me...I am also reading at least 3 books at a time, my Masters degree pursuits are on hold until I can define what it is that I want to do but I came across a note today from highschool and found it funny, in this letter to my other best friend Vanessa whom I have known for gosh well over 26 years I would say and in the letter I said I wanted to be a 1st grade teacher, a Nurse, a Dr, and to own a bar. All very lofty goals in my opinion and I laughed for a good 20 minutes thinking gosh I was all over the place! That is me-always moving at the speed of light it would seem and I like that about me! There are times where I can let things and people get me down, but I refuse to let it or them and it is as simple as that. I want to show my trio that you can remain true to yourself no matter what, despite hiccups along the way remain true to your path and purpose-even if you have 50 different purposes! Like I said-this blog is all over the place...This weekend is Mothers day and I am blessed every day with the best 3 gifts God could ever give me, they teach me patience, love, dedication, and above all else faith. Faith that we all can learn many great things from kids, through a child's eyes because those things are simple...I will close this blog-and YES it is indeed all over the darn place! Blessings to anyone who may read or comment! This is for me <3 ~S