Truth be told, they really don’t! I love my weekends ~ which are usually spent with my family taking some sort of adventure or tackling a project together! Monday is always sort of dreaded as the day the weekend ended… making me sigh as I crawl out of bed on Monday morning! Wanting to be true to my hearts desire to Seize My Days, I decided I will think of Mondays as Motivation days. Monday is the start of a fresh new week, a week in which I can seize opportunities to love, laugh, teach, learn, tackle, enjoy, bless and be blessed… seizing moments one day at a time!
In my first post I talked about two of Carolyn Arends songs… what can I say? … her lyrics inspire me … the song New Years day is about every day being New Years Day… every day is a chance to start a resolution… to Seize the Day! I like it! Every day IS new years day! (I have never like new ‘years’ resolutions because they intimidate me!) Anyway, a gal called into Spirit 105.3 (our local Christian radio station) saying she was going to skip a New Years Resolution and set one resolution a month instead. Brilliant! After hearing her idea, I thought, hey… I can do that on my blog!??? That is what gave me the final nudge to get this blog up and running! This weekend my wonderful techy husband helped me open a Word Press blog page and the rest of my spare time this weekend was spent realizing I have SO much to learn about setting up a blog! 😉 So I am rethinking my 12 months of resolutions… perhaps I will attempt to make weekly goals to tackle my real hearts desire ~ to Seize My Day! This weeks goal will be focused on learning to build my blog into a welcoming site! Yesterday – after some frustrating moments – my faithful husband helped me post a button for you to take if you wish and he helped me learn how to link other bloggers to my site! Slowly, I am browsing other bloggers sites and beginning to steal use great ideas I have found. I hope that is acceptable blogging practices!! Advise is always welcome! Please join me in my journey!~ Grab my button and let me know you visited! I hope my rambling words gave you something to think about how you view Mondays!
Hello bloggers! My name is Jenn – I am looking forward to this wild world of blogging! I decided my first blog will share why I am naming my blog ‘Seizing My Day’ … For the last decade this catch phrase sort of sums up my hope for each of my days… with the help of a loving God (I can not claim to do this on my own strength!) each day I attempt to seize opportunities to love, laugh, enjoy, embrace, teach, learn, encourage, listen, explore and so so much more – the possibilities are endless! Successfully seizing even moments in my day gives my heart and mind contentment and peace in this crazy world we live in. Carolyn Arends sings a song called Seize the Day …. a song that has often inspired me to Seize My Day 😉 She has a beautiful voice and the Lyrics speak straight to my heart… “life slips away just like hourglass sand….pray for grace from God’s hand that nothing will stand in your way….seize the day” …Too often I allow my day to slip away without seizing opportunities… with my husband, my kids, my family, my friends…. On the same album Carolyn Arends sings another song called New Years Day….. the lyrics saying… “Everyday is New Years Day”… which also speaks right to my heart & my mind set! Every day is a new day… every day is a chance to Seize My Day… to choose to live life to its fullest. Since I am beginning this blogging journey in January of a brand new decade… I am choosing to call it ‘Seizing My Day’ to give myself daily inspiration. My desire is to seize daily opportunities to be a great mommy, a loving wife, a better housekeeper!, a wonderful friend, a good neighbor, a faithful child of God, an encourager…and so much more! Too often I get caught up in my busy life and I overlook opportunities to seize precious moments – moments that could otherwise become precious memories or moments which could build character in myself and those around me.
Wow I am feeling a little intimidated to click enter and allow my thoughts to become public! So here I am seizing the chance to blog with you today! Thank you for being patient with me as I figure out how to spill my thoughts publicly and as I figure out how to navigate my way through setting up my own page – as well as linking myself into the bloggers world! Thanks for visiting me today! I am hoping to link Carolyn Arends song on my page with this post… wish me luck!