Okwumabua Olympics 2012?

  So I hope we all had a fruitful weekend and are now ready and rested to take on the new work week.  We are in the process of doing some mild renovations so I'll tell you that I am not that rested, but my weekend was fruitful.  I accomplished almost all that I set out to do.

Today I will do more running around and if possible try catching some more of the Olympics.  I love the Olympics!  In high school athletics was my jam and I dreamed of representing Canada...  Oh well...

Something about the Olympics does fascinate me.   Countries from all over coming together... Watching the opening ceremonies and seeing all the contestants in their native wears...  All the volunteer dancers and bodies moving in unison for my entertainment... Whoo! I love it!

The mere fact that they only happen once a year can only speak to the fact that the Olympics are no joke.   Four years needed to draw up plans, four years to practice routines, four years to hone your skill, not to talk of the money spent...

I am part of a wedding in less than two weeks and although we didn't have four years to plan it, it will be great!  All the painting and the buying of 'stuff', the Costco lists and the sleeping-arrangement-layouts are not for nothing, and on the 5th when my family starts to arrive, our wedding games will begin and just like the Olympics, will be over before we know it.

FYI: Canada is on the medal board with one bronze so far...

Peace

Secret Weapon...

I had a great weekend!  I went to Top Gun in the Park, a birthday party, a shower, and an anniversary dinner!  It was busy and intensely fun.  It got me to thinking about how fortunate I am to be in the family I'm in and to come from the family I come from.  The Idonije's and the Okwumabua's have combined to make 'us'.  Last week was my four-year wedding anniversary and with the ladies up and coming, it hit me that I am at the grass-roots stage of growing 'us'.

My husband and I come from families that believe that family is first.  Family is the most important because they are all you really have.  I know that no matter what, I have them in my corner, and something about that fact gives me confidence for days...

Family support is the secret weapon to success, in my eyes, and it is the only reason I am where I am and why I am the way that I am.  The fact that no matter how many awesome (and by awesome I actually mean stupid) mistakes I have and am going to make, we can always work things out.  I may not always agree with the way that my family might deal with things and I may not always like their advice or opinions but they are the family I have and I will honor them forever because I know that they will and are always there for me.  I can only hope that I can give my ladies the same secret weapon I have...  I'm working on it...hard.

Peace