Be Creative; Be You

Picking up where we left off last week, continuing the list of 30 Journal Prompts for Self Esteem. The original list can be found at  https://themadmommy.com/journal-prompts-for-self-esteem/ . 11. Talk about your favorite role model as if you are described him/her to a friend that does not know this person. What about this person makes you look up to him/her? My role model is my best friend of many, many years. Her name is Anna Elizabeth Joseph Pyke (but I met her back when she was a Demmon). She would tell you that there's nothing that special about her, and that she makes plenty of bad choices, and that she probably shouldn't be looked up to, but I still do. She knows that time is more valuable than anything. She'd rather make you a present or a cake or a card, than buy one. She's so creative as well. She has made me beautiful cards that I know had to take her an hour or two to make, if not more. And when she bakes! She's not so focused on it being perfect...

Well world, these are some trying times. Across America, and across the globe, people are worried. So I thought something positive would be nice. I found a list of thirty self esteem journal prompts. If you like them and feel like doing it too, you can find it here ( https://themadmommy.com/journal-prompts-for-self-esteem/ ). This will be part one of three, because some of these I've got a lot to say about. 1. What is the best compliment you have been given? How did it make you feel? In the summer time, when it's finally warm enough to wear shorts and dresses, a lot of people compliment my leg tattoos. That's really the only compliments I can think of, right now at least. It does make me feel good though. So many people don't like tattoos or still have this idea that they are super unprofessional. And yes, some tattoos are unprofessional. If you have the F word on your neck for life, you probably won't get hired for top positions in major companies.  Some peo...

It seems crazy that we are already a fourth of the way into 2020. My half birthday was last Saturday, so in six months, I'll be older and hopefully wiser. So here is an update on my year so far, resolution wise. #1 Read or Write an hour every day Success so far! Between audio books for my drives and physical books for my lunch breaks, I always meet that hour goal for reading. I've read 16 out of the 125 books I wanted to read this year. Which is 9 books behind schedule, despite my best efforts. I really need to spend more time reading then watching TV. I have also been spending a fair amount of time writing, working on my longest and first try at a novel. I believe I started it around the middle of 2012, when I was 16 years old. The original draft is 63 pages in MLA format. I added to it until about 2016, when I was 20. Then I became more focused on editing it, wanting what I had to be perfect and making sure it was continuative. Earlier this month I actually started a...

Something that I have always been interested in, ever since I was little, is the idea of adopting a child. All I knew about it then was that some kids don't have parents, and that if you filled out some paperwork and paid some money, you can get a kid. I thought orphans were the only kids that needed adopted. I thought that most orphans were from other countries. Since then I have learned a lot. There are children everywhere that need homes, including inside the U.S. These adoptions, called domestic adoptions, tend to be a lot cheaper than international adoption.  I also have learned that not all these kids have lost parents, they're still out there somewhere, for some of them. Others, older kids, have the memory of being removed from their parents' home for whatever reason and being placed into the foster system. I didn't know much about the foster system either, until I watched a now very popular show, The Fosters, on Freeform (Previously ABC Family). I also lea...