The Bountiful Gal - Standing For Truth

About two years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with a book idea.  It was the craziest idea!  I don't write!  English was my hardest subject in school.  And yet, the topics were flowing so easily in my mind.  For the next year I began researching and writing on these topics.  I've enjoyed writing more than I thought I would.  It's been very therapeutic and enlightening at the same time.  Here and there I share bits and pieces with my children.  I would love to put it into book form for when they are older and struggling.   As time continues, I keep feeling this need to share it.  Honestly, it terrifies me!  I have no clue where to start or what to do.  I have this word document that just sits on my computer because I don't know how to share it. The other day I had a thought to begin sharing bits and pieces here on my blog and seeing what people thought of it.   I think it may be time to do just tha...

 I'm 40 years old today 😱!  It seems surreal.  I'm not that old or at least my mind doesn't feel that old.  It's just another day of life.   Birthdays have always been a day for spotlight for me.  How many people will remember and acknowledge me.  Honestly, it's always been a little bit of a selfish day.  I felt I deserved that.  But today, my thoughts are changing and I hope my actions will too. Do your birthdays ever make you ponder your life?  Where you've come, what you've accomplished, maybe what you wish you would have done?  That's what it is doing for me today and it's making me want to celebrate!!  I am not celebrating in the bragging sense, but in the grateful sense! I've alluded in prior posts that I have suffered from depression.  It hasn't been my whole life.  Just the past 10 years.  Depression is not something that I imaged would be my trial in life.  I'm naturally happy.  So much t...