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Writers Workshop

This weeks for the Writers Workshop I decided to combine the first to prompts because I can fit both of them.  Here are the first 2 prompts: 1.) A list of things you no longer have in common with your single/childless friends…and why you love them anyways, 2.) A list of things you no longer have in common with your married/child bearing friends…and why you love them anyways.  I fit into both of them because yes I have had a child so I understand what it feels like to have a child and the love you feel for that child but I also placed her for adoption so I don’t know what the sleepless night feel like or what parenting is like.  I know what not having kids feels like as well so I feel like I don’t fit in either group anymore.  I fit the best when I find other girls that have placed a baby for adoption and know the feelings that go along with it.  I still love all of my friends but I am starting to wish that I had more friends that had placed their children for adoption.  I just am finding that a have a few things in common with both groups but I also have enough different from them that I don’t really fit in with either group.  I hate being in the group I am in but I know I am here because I made the best choice I could make for her. This weeks post is short but I feel as if I covered everything I need to!

Writers Workshop

This week I picked topic number  3.) “It was as if an invisible thread hooked her to her boy. The thread could go taut or slack but it could never come undone, it could never reach the end of its spool because there was no end; it bound them forever.” What does unconditional love mean to you?

I picked this one because it is easy for me to write about.  I placed my daughter for adoption when I was 20 so I think I definitely have a view on what unconditional love is. Unconditional love is doing something for someone else even if it is going to hurt you.  I think most parents have this for their children.  Even when children mess up and do something wrong.  They may be mad and disappointed but in the end they still love you.  I say most parents because I don’t believe that my own mother loves me unconditionally but that is another post.

Anyway back to the subject at hand.  I love my daughter so much that I was willing to let her go and go to her family.  It hurts but to this day I still love her.  I can’t wait for when she is older and wanted to get to know me.  It will feel so good to know that she can see that I made the best choice for her.  I love her unconditional and nothing she could do would change that.
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Day 16- Something or Someone I Could Live Without & Writers Workshop

This week I chose #1 which is Dear Mommy and/or Daddy…(write a letter to yourself from one of your children).  Since I don’t have human kids I am going to write a letter to myself from my girls(cats).  Enjoy!  Let me know what you think of it!

Dear Mom,

Sylvia and I have a few demands that must be met or we are going to raise up and have a rebellion.  First we need more catnip!  We are not getting enough of it a day and it is a total joke that you expect us to share it!  You should know by now that cats DO NOT SHARE ANYTHING!!!!!!  Hell we can’t even share the bed at night let alone our weed!  Secondly we need you to sleep somewhere else so that we can properly stretch out on the bed at night.  There is no need for you sleep in that bed.  So it would be greatly appreciated if you would relocate to a different spot at night.  Lastly we also need you to not wake us up when you get back from where ever you are all day.  We need our 20 hours of beauty rest and we don’t get that if you wake us up when you get home!

We would like you fix these problems ASAP!

Love
Elinore & Sylvia
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This topic is easy!  I can sum it up with one name Josh my husband!!!!

Writers Workshop & Day 10 – Someone I Need To Let Go, Or Wish I Didn’t Know

These are the prompts for this weeks Writers Workshop.
1.) Lou Holtz (don’t ask me who that is) once said, “life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
Do you believe this? Describe a time when you feel like you could have responded a different way and produced a different outcome.
2.) I miss the friend you used to be. (The Myth Of You And Me)
3.) The most unbelievable blue eyes you’ve ever seen…
4.) The craziest reason I ever got in trouble as a child.
5.) What would you ask forgiveness for?

I am going to write about #1.

I totally believe this.  How you react to situations is much more of life then what happens.  Like when I had my daughter it is more about what I did when I was pregnant and what I did after I had her then the act of getting pregnant.  Life is all about how you react to situations.  There are many ways I could have reacted when I found out I was pregnant and each way would have lead to a different outcome in the end.  I chose the path that I thought would be easiest for me in the long run.  Everyone reacts differently to situations and they do what they believe is best for them at the time.

Another example would be what happened to a family member of one of the people I work with.  Not to get into the whole story the ended up shooting a guy and leaving him paralyzed from the waist down I believe.  Now if he had just called the cops he wouldn’t be in jail waiting to get sentenced to go to prison.  Now a side note to that is I don’t think the guy should be going to prison but that is a whole other issue.  It is always about how you react to situations and not the original situation.  You can make your life however you want it to be!
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Today’s topic is easy.  The person I need to let go of is Pear!  Some of you are wondering who Pear is and I am not going to say because that is part of my life I don’t post on this blog.  If you are really interested leave a comment and I will explain in an e-mail.  As for the husband well I wish I didn’t know him at all.  He has really made me go back to the whole not trusting men and thinking they are all a waste of skin and a big waste of my time!

Day 14-Non-Fictional Book~Writers Workshop

This is the last non-fictional book that I have read all the way through.  I tried to read The Zoo Keepers Wife but I just couldn’t get through it it.  Her writing for me was super hard to get through. I think it was because she spent so much time describing things instead of just telling the story.  The only non-fictional books that I enjoy reading are about the Holocaust.  For some reason that time period has always interested me.  I love to read the stories of the Jews that survived and the ones that didn’t.
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One of this weeks prompts for Mama Kat’s Writers Workshop was to list 50 things that I look for in a man.  Since I am going through a divorce and what not I figure this would be a fun one to do.  Now the question is if I can really make a list of 50 things.  I am going to try but I am not going to make any promises on it.  Oh and they are not in any order.

  1. Respectful
  2. Responsible
  3. Caring
  4. Not scared of the MS
  5. Understanding
  6. Kind
  7. Helpful
  8. Love’s my girls like I do
  9. Treats their mom right
  10. Likes animals
  11. Would be willing to serve in the military if asked to do so or already in the military
  12. Funny
  13. Happy
  14. Willing to work and pay bills
  15. Good credit
  16. Not a cheater
  17. Honest
  18. Willing to help others
  19. Not controlling
  20. Realizes that I have my own brain and that I will use it!
  21. Not scared of a women who speaks her mind
  22. Gets along with my family
  23. Like quiet time some of the time
  24. Doesn’t put his friends before me all of the time.  I understand that at times it is okay but all the time just gets to be too much
  25. Has plans and goals for the future
  26. Respects family
  27. Is okay with me not wanting to have my own kids but I am okay with them having kids already.
  28. Good work ethic

Okay all I could come up with was 28 so that is all you are going to get!!!!

Writers Workshop

These are the prompts for this weeks Workshop.  I haven’t done with in awhile but I am going to try and write one because I need to just write.  It has been a really long time since I have just written on this blog so I am going to do it!
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1.) Write about a time when you laughed at an inappropriate time.

2.) What did you once lose?  Write about your search to find it again.
(inspired by writingfix.com)

3.) What current event do you feel strongly about? Write an opinion post!
(inspired by Jennifer from Momma Made It Look Easy.)

4.) Begin each line of your post with “have you ever”.
(inspired by Vikki from Live. Laugh. Pull Your Hair Out)

5.) Who doesn’t call or write you enough?  Write about that person.
(inspired by writingfix.com)
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I think I am going to write about #3 because there is always something in the world that I feel strongly about.  There are a lot of things I could write about right now but I am going to write about the oil spill.  I don’t think our country is doing enough to stop it and I also don’t think that the company should be off the hook.  They should have to pay for the clean up.  I don’t see how it isn’t their fault.  I mean hell they were the ones drilling and the ones that caused the spill so it should be their responsibility to clean up the mess and pay for the outside people that are trying to clean it up as well.  

I don’t get why they aren’t working harder to try and clean up the mess and stop it.  It seems like the government in our country could care less about it.  I guess it just proves to me what a waste of a President we have.  He is all talk but isn’t really doing anything.  They should have started digging a relief well already because as I can see it that is going to to be the only thing that is going to stop the leak.  It seems like they don’t really want to stop the leak though.  Who knows though.

Those are my thoughts on that situation.  I could go on for days about our President but I will save that for a later date.