This Is Forty

Let's not let life get away from us before we get a chance to live...

[maeinthemorning]

Pieces of my heart ❤️

[blackandwhitewanderlust]

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“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,

Healthy, free, the world before me,

The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,

Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,

Strong and content I travel the open road.”

Walt Whitman

[thepowerwithin]

Tonight before you drift off to sleep, reflect on the goals you accomplished today, and feel a burning ambition and curiosity for those that still await you.

@thepowerwithin ~ Instagram |ThePowerWithin.Co (via thepowerwithin)

What waits for me tomorrow? Maybe a hint of what life will be like in a year from now... I smell something sweet. Goodnight 💤

[maeinthemorning]

Galadriel: Why the Halfling?

Gandalf: Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay... small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? That's because I am afraid and he gives me courage.

I want to ponder this quote while putting my six year old to sleep. It says that small everyday deeds of ordinary folk keep the darkness at bay. It doesn't say 'bigger than life', it says small acts of kindness and love keep us from drifting. Every night I rub my child's back, and comfort him to sleep, however tonight he wanted to rub my back. I could feel his tiny hand on my back, his hands moved in the smallest of strokes. These moments are the small acts of love that I use to fight my demons. I bottle this love, and use it everyday to keep away the darkness. I am afraid and it is he who gives me courage to face the day... I then rubbed his little back, and now I can see that his eyes are closing, and I can hear that his breaths are in rhythm. I love you momma. Goodnight.

[maeinthemorning]

Noah, my son, made me a bowl of finely chopped cucumbers w seasoning. It's the little things in life that make us happy

[kari-shma]

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections.

John Lennon (via kari-shma)

This. I am who I am. I've worked long and hard to become who I am today: I am my own work of art, my own personal creation. Even w all my imperfections and self doubt, I am happy in my skin, and I love my life, and my family.

[deceptivelips]

put in in the tags!

[maeinthemorning]

Good Question. Depends on the day of he week

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Today’s birthday january 3rd 1892 : J.R.R. Tolkien

[alifeoffairytales]

Art by ErikaRaeHeins on etsy

[maeinthemorning]

#wakeup #travel #fortysomething

[deeplifequotes]

I need something different. I don’t know what it is, but I need something new.

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...Like trying on a new hat. I can do this.

[maeinthemorning]

I thought when I turned the dreaded age of forty life would cease, and Everything I felt would stop spinning around endlessly in my head; for a short time it did. Then I decided to write this blog, and make forty look and feel great. I want to experience this age like no other. I want to learn what I’ve always wanted to learn. I want to grow in ways I thought i never would. I want to do more of the things that make me young, and I want you to take this journey w me. Let’s paint. Listen to music. Read books. Exercise. Eat right. Get Healthy. Enjoy new foods. Garden. Rock a Hat. Flea Market Flip. Dream. Do graphics, and PROSPER. Come on, Let’s drink the wine,eat the cheesecake, and buy the shoes. Foremost, I want to take a personal journey: I want to become a better wife, and mother. So, let’s live life to the fullest this year, and see how much we can grow. The catch is i don’t have bundles of extra cash lying around, and when we have extra money it is usually spent on my boy, Noah. So I have to experience life on a budget. So come and be young w me. Let do this!