Author: Victoria Hawkins

Flying Under the Radar

Sometimes I think people are surprised that I am so private.  When they meet me they see the external me.  They see that I can talk to truly anyone.  I can inject my personality into all sorts of situations and feel comfortable, but I really love my privacy.  It even seems funny to me as […]

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D- is for “Did you count your blessings?”

The letter D is for: decisions, directness, “Double Whammies” that lead to a new direction, ditching old ideas and practices, dumbfounded moments, “dunderheads” that deal us profound wisdom, double portions, dancing, dandelion fluff on the air, drinking the beauty of a new dawn, drastic measures, delirious joy from simple pleasures, and did I say dancing??… […]

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Anew

As we end a year, we begin a new.  I say it again, but slightly different way.  As we end a year, we begin anew.  Did you catch the change? Recently I was given this truth- “We begin each day Anew”.  It is the philosophy of many people and cultures; ancestors and ancients.  We begin […]

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“C” is for Contagious

This day I am thankful for carrots, the canopies of tree-lined streets, canary yellow and cauliflower smothered with sharp cheddar cheese. Cantaloupes, Catapulting into the unknown, Crazy thoughts, Catastrophic events (they really change you if you let them), change-change-and more change. I am categorically grateful for cantatas, careful planning and then leaving it all up […]

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Yippee for Pleather!!!

As I look over while typing an article, I see my 8-year old reading his new magazine and casually and absent-mindedly drawing in blue ink pen on the new off-white pleather couch…Oh, who knew the benefits of pleather. Truly the fabric for “boy moms” everywhere!!!

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“B” Grateful

This morning I am grateful for – bunk beds, brownies, bumbling through life, fresh baked bread, Blistec, brown eyes, bounce houses, Big Changes, big bags, bunches of begonias picked by bitty hands, broccoli, and being blessed.

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They are not us!

So I promised to tell you about How are babies are not our own.  Well, let me see if I can explain this the way I received it… A mentor of mine once said to me “your children come through you, but they are not you.”  This was a concept that I had not heard […]

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Unexpected Love

Unexpected love comes in many forms… find your flesh and blood representations of Unconditional Love in your life today.

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I am so grateful!

Today I am grateful for apples, avocados, adversaries, angels messages, antics of a child, artful movement, a beautiful moment, another day, aptitude in things I couldn’t have imagined, avalanches of opportunities, and of course the advantages of being optimistic!!!!!!!! 🙂

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This Is Not What I Planned

THIS IS A LITTLE PIECE I WROTE IN THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.  TRULY, I HAVE KIDS JUST LIKE YOU, WITH CHALLENGING DAYS JUST LIKE YOU, AND TRULY I DO HAVE THE OUTLOOK THAT WHAT WILL BE WILL BE.  ALMOST ALWAYS FOR ALL OF US, OUR LIVES DO NOT TURN OUT AS WE PLANNED, […]

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