Take a moment....

Monday was kind of a weird but thoughtful day for me.

What Im about to type will sound kind of random but it has sort of a moral at the end.


It started out a  normal day....but later that evening when I got home I was cleaning up and Amari was right beside me and she all of a sudden started screaming and crying and couldnt really breathe. So in my haste trying to figure out what was wrong I noticed she kept holding her nose. She had a BEAD stuck inside her nose, and I dont mean a small bead that goes on the end of your hair I mean a big huge crystal bead that went to one my bracelets that broke. So Im trying not to panic and long story short it took me about 10 minutes, but I got the bead out of her nose. I used a crochet neeedle-the hook part and got it out that way. Now it scared the hell out of me because so many what ifs could have happened but anyway.... (Thats my princess  :(

About an hour later I went to go check on my mom. Went In the house, went in her room and her lights were off- called her name, she didnt say anything. I cut the lights on and she was laid on the side of the bed, sweating, shaking, just kind of out of it. So I ran over to her asked her what was wrong, she said she had been throwing up and her feet and hands were shaking, she was hot, dizzy etc. I got her some cold water and made her drink it, put a cool cloth on her forehead, and massaged her feet and hands to get the circulation going. Im in nursing school so I figured she had gone into a diabetic shock. I sat with her til she was feeling better. those 2 incidents really had me feeling like wtf.

About an hour after that one of my guy besties calls and and he told me his father passed away that day. Seems like alot of people close to me have lost family members recently. So when he told me that, and I thought of the 2 scares I had with my daughter and my mom, and some of the things that have happened over the past few months to others.... it made me think.

Its so important to tell the people you care for that you love them.
So I sent texts to my close friends and a few select people I called, just to simply say I love you. I love you holds alot of weight but it has a different feeling to hear someone say it.

 Its nice to hear someones voice and everyone texts now a days but how soon we forget what life was like before texting. I think families were closer, relationships were a little different in a good way. I still have a few people that I talk to on the phone often but literally I've been out to dinner with my girls and everyone at some point has their face stuck in their cell phone. Thats a whole nother story but I'll save that for another blog.

The present is a gift and you have to live each day being thankful for waking up. Thats a blessing in itself but we take it for granted. Everyones so busy with their lives, everyones texting, tweeting, working, partying but the little things we sometimes forget. I vow to never forget or never stop doing the little things.. They can be some of lifes best moments.

So take a little time out of your day and let the special people in your life know you love them. It only takes a minute but it means alot.

Until than......