New Year, New Me!

Hello Friends,

In 2010 I decided to focus on finding fulfillment. What I learned, fufillment and your passions come hand in hand. My passions; friends, family, scrapbooking, running and photography. Over the past year I made time to go to lunch and dinner with the "Girls", do activities with the family that would become traditions and create memories, I started selling my homemade cards and crafts at local fairs, ran two 10k's and a half marathon, and I focused on my photography and took a TON of beautiful pictures. During all this I discovered more about myself, who I am and who I want to be. I decided to stop letting the word "cant" hold me back. Once "can" came into my vocabulary I decided to venture out of my little box. I went skydiving and on day hiking trips by myself. We create our own fulfillment. Over the past year I've learned that the word fulfillment can not be pinned down to one certain meaning or term, it is constantly evolving within us. Welcome 2011 and look out because I am ringing in the new year with my arms wide open and look forward to all the new adventures ahead of me!

With X's & O's

Jenni

373 and counting...

Hello Friends,

Today I realized that I am on a count down. There are three hundred seventy three days until I turn 30. It's not that 30 is a horrible age, and something that I should dread (in which, I don't!). You see when I was a little girl I always looked forward to growing up and turning 30...40...50 and so on. I dreamt that I would have a wonderful family, a beautiful house, a great job and I would be fulfilled. In many respects I have all of the above. It's the fulfillment one that I seem to be struggling with, what is fulfillment? When you look up the word fulfillment in the dictionary, the definition given is; the state or quilty of being fulfilled; completion; realxation. There always seems to be so much emphasise put on this word. What is it about this word that has so many people talking about it? I want to be able to look back on life and feel this fulliment that others talk about and be able to say with confidence that I would not change a thing. As 30, my third "milestone" birthday (18 and 21 being first and second) quickly approaches I've realized that fulliment won't find me, I have to make a point to set out on a journey to find it. Wish me luck!

With X's & O's,

Jenni