It's been a long time...

I never left though...I just apparently forgot that I love to blog!  I am seriously not quite sure where to begin...a whole year got lost!  Guess I had better just pick up with the present!

Presently..we are closing on house #2 this week!  Yea!  I was slightly nostalgic about the FIRST house...but then again, who isn't?  New house or The White House, as I have affectionately been calling it, is going to be fantastic.  Yes, it is white.  No, I do not think I am presidential.  This house has what people call "character," I believe this means that it is not a cookie cutter house and it has personality!  First House was totally cookie cutter but I loved it!  I am hoping with a fresh paint job and some fabulous window treatments, whipped up by yours truly, that The White House will be home in no time!

We made the great trek into the Midtown area of Memphis. It has been a treat.  It was not our original preference but when we got here and really saw the difference between the two areas we were looking in, this just seemed to fit!  We are fifteen minutes in any given direction from any where we could want to go.  Memphis seems to have great migrations, currently the migration is from the suburbs and into town.  I am SO excited to be a part of the renewal that seems to be going on IN the city.  There are new restaurants left and right (why of course I will blog some reviews for you!) and shops and people actually know their neighbors!  We didn't know our neighbors out in the 'burbs, I find that odd, but true.

In the midst of moving and closing and painting, I am also still running my Mary Kay business!  I just can't get over how much Mary Kay has done for me this past year and how much it will do!  I have gotten prizes and $$$ and been blessed to get to meet and build relationships with some truly spectacular women.

This business has also taught me a lot about fear.  Fear of change, of acceptance, of failure, of succeeding, who knew fear could be found in so many places??  It is sort of ironic as I have been cussed up one side and down the other by teenagers at the 'ol day job...you would think I don't have a fear bone in my body!  WRONG!  The thing about fear is, it can paralyze you or it can stretch you to a new place you never thought you could achieve.  Really, fear is like being comfortable...sometimes if you are too comfortable you miss out on opportunities because you aren't looking for them or you don't grow because in your comfort you aren't being stretched.  Same principle with fear...you are so scared to make a move you miss the boat or your are so scared  you never push yourself to be more!

Ha, that took a turn from an update to a speech!  Either way, I am back and have grand plans for keeping up with this like I did in the past!  

I hope you are all having a marvelous Monday!!

~B