Living life one incredible day at a time...

Living life one incredible day at a time...
DECORATE * RENOVATE * CREATE * APPRECIATE

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Greetings Friends, Family, Fellow Blogging Community!! I'm a 30-something year old music teacher and enthusiastic self-taught decorator, who loves to spend time with my tremendously talented and handsome one-of-a-kind husband, Jon, our two amazing children, Clara and Carson, and my wonderful loving family and friends!! I love all things creative and artsy, including design, music, dance, art, scrapbooking, you name it!! I decided to commence this blog in order to create a fun and creative on-line journal showcasing the exciting adventurous journey of the Botbyl family, and in order to keep in touch with and hopefully inspire other individuals, like myself who love to share a wonderful life's design consisting of love of family, friends, and creative living!! Please leave me a message/comment if you decide to visit my blog, or add yourself to my list of "followers" so that I can visit your awesome blog or Facebook!! Look extremely forward to hearing from you!! Have an incredibly amazing day!!

Friday, February 14, 2014

Good Afternoon!!
I’ve made the important decision, among the chaos of benchmark grading, selecting choir music, staying current with weather forcasts, strategically planning dinner, salvaging enough energy to physically entertain Clara and her best friend the Cat (more on that later), not to mention dealing with a horrible stomach ache from eating too many amazing strips of  bacon for breakfast, to blog! I’ve been slightly neglectful of my beloved blog space, which is extremely important to me, and I feel that I need this creative outlet, from time to time, to keep from going completely crazy – Blogging definitely lowers my stress level and allows me to artistically exist in space, while pulling me away from all these roles I play on a daily basis and letting me take off my hats, for just a moment, even if a mere moment is all I have to compose a sentence or two…and that feels wonderful, and strong, and evident of commitment towards keeping my blog going no matter how incredibly busy, confusing, or demanding life becomes.

Now on to my blog post, Happy Valentines Day everyone! I feel like Valentines day has definitely crept up on us this year, but not without me taking a moment to wish everyone an extra-special Happy Day, filled with gargantuan amounts of love, admiration, and happiness! I’m going to make it a point to be extremely loving, nurturing, and understanding today and over the weekend, and hopefully not stopping there; I normally try really hard to be generous, kind, and accepting, but I need to make a conscious effort to be more appreciative and focus on all the little wonderful things, the small amazing miracles that occur daily, and if something happens that I feel the need to complain or gripe about, squash it immediately. I’ve noticed lately…well, I’ve always noticed, that there are some people out there who always need something to complain or be upset about, and reflects such a scewed, pessimistic, non-productive way of thinking and living our lives. It’s definitely a fact that life brings about multitudes of challenges, some anticipated, some completely unexpected, and we are continuously required to think critically and act upon and/or combat these challenges. Why would we ever want to add more weight by creating more difficult and unpleasant challenges or problems that we are then forced to face? This is something I feel exceedingly passionate about – Thinking positively, spreading optimism and standing up to our problems, and being as happy as much as we possibly can – and something that definitely goes hand in hand with the whole feeling and concept of Valentine’s Day! I feel like I’ve learned more about being truly happy from my 1 year old than I’ve learned from some adults that I’ve observed. However, there are a couple of very positive, enthusiastic, innovative, inspiring individuals that stand out in my mind as exceptional role models, and I attempt to learn as much as I possibly can from optimistic productive people about how to be more efficient, productive, optimistic, awesome, accepting, and loving (I’ve mentioned those words too many time.) With that said, have a wonderful, loving,…truly happy Valentines Day! God Bless!!

Monday, February 3, 2014

Catching up in wonderful 2014!

Good Morning! Can you believe we're having another snow day?! Unbelievable right?! This weather has been absolutely crazy!!

I'd planned on blogging before the Christmas Holiday was over but, as one could've guessed, that definitely didn't happen, and that was over a month ago. Wow! Where has the time gone? So much to catch up on! Life's extreme, yet always creative and thrilling unpredictable-ness strikes daily, as everyone knows from their own lives. A small child sits under my computer chair holding a stuffed squirrel in half a pair of pj's (the child wears the clothes, not the squirrel...yet) 

Let's cut right to the chase : My plan for this post is to highlight the Christmas Season, New Years, January fun in the snow all in one! Speaking of one, Clara also celebrated her 1st birthday which I will post about next! (crap! I just ran over clothes-less squirrel - Way to go Mom!) Let's go back a month and celebrate the Holidays all over again shall we? What a fabulous and inspiring season!
 Clara's 1st picture with Santa at Groff's!
 
New Years Eve in Cape May!
Snow day with mommy and Daddy at Applebees and excitement on the slopes!

All in all, this has definitely been an adventurous winter no doubt! Have a wonderful day!