Graduation Celebration

Dear Blair:

    I want to tell you how proud we are of you. We love you very much. It has been a hard road.

   

-  I have been tough on you sometimes and spoiled you in other ways.  No matter

what, Mom loves Blair. You always have a place to come home to be loved and hugged.

    Let me share some ideas just in case you forget things I tried to lead with example:

 -Never be afraid to start something difficult or long range. Write a plan. Work the tools take steps every day towards your goal, work the hardest first and even on Saturdays.

When there is failure –enjoy the process. The trip ups along the way teach their own lessons.

-Go to College for the adventure of learning. Find things you love to study. Never stop learning something new every day. You will work at a job all your life,          

 so adventure outside of comfort zones. You have the freedom to expand your mind in college, listen to others politics, do some performance art, kiss a math major, and try kick boxing.

-When you start working I pray you will find something you have passion to pursue. Be kind to co-workers they are team members in the trenches and you will find good and evil people but look for the great ones and connect, avoid gossip, ask for a raise all the time, be on time, and execute what you promise.

-Your word is all you have. Avoid saying harsh words. Don’t promise things you don’t plan to deliver.

-Save money. You are the only person who can take care of yourself. Save more than you think you will need. Save 15% of everything you take in.

-Find good friends. Keep in touch with them. Good girlfriends get you through tough times around the corner.

-You are the smartest person I know. You have the ability to be anything you want to become.

-Trust your kind heart. Don’t let anyone put you down. You deserve all that is delicious in this life. Be great.

-When you find that special person, be certain they support and respect you.

They should have the same goals as you hold or you will find life a struggle.

- Pray and be close to God. He is always listening to your creative and beautiful self.

-Your brother cares for you and looks up to you. Guide each other, laugh together often.

      Congratulations on Your Graduation Blair!  

You are a wonderful woman, a great daughter and special sister.

With all our hearts,

Momma and Carson

O.C. Sherriff gets the bad guys

ORANGE COUNTY SHERRIFF DOESN’T MESS AROUND

Lady in a Million dollar San Clemente single family home returns home for lunch to find two “guys” loading everything small and valuable into her best pillowcase

HERE IS ONE OF THE GENTLEMEN :   

HIS CAR (assuming it’s not stolen too) after he tried to

get away and hide in a busy Costco parking lot with shoppers on

Crown Valley Parkway about fifteen minutes after his well

planned heist:

No one was hurt, both robbers are in custody in 

nice Orange County suits.

Last night I was picking up dinner. A Sherriff was trying to enjoy the tied Lakers game and wolf down his dinner. He got a call to back up another officer and tossed his whole burrito (only one bite eaten) in the trash. I wish I had wrapped it up and brought it to him. These brave men and women don’t make big money but they keep us from coming home very often to find wierdos in our house.

P.S. GO Lakers!

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Cherries Make it All Better

Last night my son, 13 lost his LNLL TOC Championship Majors game. Earlier in the day he learned after running an all out - up until one A.M. - poster making and marketing campaign for ASB that he lost (came in second). In the morning we learned that SOC Patriots don’t have enough boys signed up for football this season which he loved (parents can’t meet cost reasons) but he’s fine with playing Lacrosse instead. 

   On the way home in the car at ten P.M. we thought we might go to Yogurt Land to drown his sorrows, however they were closed. He didn’t opt to stop anywhere else, it’s Orange County and restaurants close early. He did not complain. I felt like a pity cry. No, I bucked up because that might make it worse.

   When we got home this bowl of cherries was on the counter and we relaxed on the sofa together as I rubbed his feet and he picked out the perfectly deep chocolate rouge ones until his teeth were stained. He smiled with those straight teeth and said, “Mom it’s funny how cherries can make a day just fine.”

  Attitude brings us up early today. It might be foggy wet and I can’t see the ocean because of the blanket over the sky but life’s a bowl of cherries. I am a lucky woman. I am having coffee at six A.M. in the most beautiful place in the world. So get out there my friends and think and organize and work your tails off- it’s cherry season.