Linda Rokos Watts

It is such a luxury around here. Living up in the mountains where we do, no one seems to want to deliver anything up here. It's a bit of an adjustment since you have to come up with something to make to eat EVERY night even on the really busy nights. Its not like it's easy to run out and grab a quick bite to eat or have anything delivered, not that we did it that often when we lived in the city but it's nice having that option. Well tonight was Stella's night for piano down in Lyons (there's still no take out there) so I busted a move after I dropped her off at piano and drove the 15 miles to Longmont to pick up some Chinese takeout! It worked out perfectly, just as I pulled into her teachers driveway they were walking out the door at the end of her class. Mission accomplished, we had takeout for dinner. WOOT . I can't tell you the last time we had takeout up here. It's funny the little things you miss every now and then, living up in the mountains. Not th...

After what was a wonderful weekend.....it always takes me a day to get back into the groove of the week! (that's what Mondays are for) This week is a little shorter then most, Stella has Friday off! Woo- hoo ! I'm taking the day off from work as well so we can have a fun day off together before she heads to dads in the afternoon for the weekend. This week seems to be slipping away already... it's Connors birthday on Friday and there is still a lot to get done before the big fiesta! Oh and Thursday to top it all off we have teacher / parent conferences at Stella's school. I just got her report card yesterday and she had straight B's across the board...not bad BUT there's always room for improvement and I look forward to meeting with her teacher about it. Stella has been struggling a bit with reading and I feel like we are stuck in a rut spinning our wheels at this point...I'm hoping that on Thursday Stella's teacher will have some suggestions and or I...

Whew! What a weekend so far...it's on Saturday afternoon and it's already been a fun packed adventure of a weekend. Friday afternoon we got to Connor's house and had to hit the grocery store so we could make the Stella special in the morning. After the grocery store we were off to the bowling alley with Connie, Stella and Adam (Connor's brother ) and I for a little friendly competition. Guess who won the first round....MAMA!!! Stella bowled her best game ever, the girl knows how to hock a ball. After some really BAD bowling alley finger food we headed home for the night. Saturday morning we slept in a little and had a great cup of coffee and the Stella special. After a belly full of food we were off to the Golden Gate National Park. It was such a beautiful day today we had to get outside so we decided to go on a nice long hike with the doggies. After our great adventure we dropped Connie and the doggies off at home and Stella and I headed to Target to pick up a few ne...

This one seemed to take longer then all the others and is probably my least favorite look, but other people seem to like it. I think it looks kind of sloppy but that's the only way to stack moss rock. Either way it's done and on to phase 4. I might just have this wall done by then end of the month! Woo- hoo !

Stella had funky hair day today at school. I went to go wake up Stella for school this morning a few minutes early so we had time to do "the do" and as I go to wake her up she turns around and says let's GO! I have never seen her get out of bed so quickly in the morning, usually it's a struggle to get her to get moving, but not this morning. :) She was sooo excited about doing her hair I wonder if she slept at all... haha . Here's what we came up with..... Our poor dog Rudi didn't know what was going on this morning and once he saw Stella he started barking at her, we all got a good laugh out of it this morning. Wishing everyone a happy day!

This time the dog really was chewing on Stella's homework. Stella was warming up on the piano and had her books on her bed. I walked in to check on her and there's Rudi chewing on the corner of one of her books and listening intently to her play. It was hilarious, he had such a guilty look on his face.

Most people, if you were to strip them of everything they have inside, are merely searching for love and meaning in their lives; but to some, it is a never-ending, self-fulfilling prophecy of dead ends and wrong routes taken. We are always going to be our worst enemy and suppressor in seeking our personal nirvana! If we were our biggest fan, we would clone ourselves and when we stepped up to bat, there would be 50,000 screaming clones of us cheering for our success. We were probably taught by society or learned this ourselves , but certainly, we were not born with this affliction. Have you ever heard that it’s all in your head? Ninety nine percent of our success whether professionally, personally,or athletically comes from inside us and our physical attributes are merely that, tangible aspects of us and that's all. Although, we could live truthfully, confident, secure in ourselves , and show all the beautiful colors that we came into this world with, these colors that have been ...