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Nascar, Family, God, and Country

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Sometimes, all of the pieces fall into place.  It's rare, but when it happens,  it's a beautiful thing.  And it happened yesterday.  Here's how it went.... Now, as most people know...ok, everyone knows because I don't hide my feelings well... Anyway,  I love my Punkins (well, all my Family), I love Nascar, I'm extremely patriotic, and I love my Lord.  And that's not in order of importance by the way.  Yesterday as everyone knows, due to your newsfeeds being blown up by my pictures and posts, I had all of those important aspects of my life happening!     We got to Richmond Raceway at 7AM, and got front row parking.  We set up our tailgating area, cranked up the music (a playlist created by input from all of us, so every genre accounted for), had breakfast, and tried to stay warm...it was in the 30s!  It warmed up through the morning,  and we explored all that the fan area had to offer.  An interesting area we enjoyed was the "Who's Your Drive

Happiness is Personal

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As I sit to write this, I have been motivated by some things that have happened recently in my life. I try not to air "dirty laundry" on social media, and I won't air it here in my blog either.  But sometimes, things happen in life that change your way of thinking and reacting to life.  I have let "things" worry me, stress me, and change me for way too long now.  So I had a long chat with myself, and "we" (me, myself, and I) decided to rethink our approach to life.  I have so many reasons to be happy.  I am blessed with good health, parents who are still vibrant and mostly healthy at the age of 89, two wonderful sons, six incredible grandchildren, and a husband who cooks for me, and makes my coffee every morning.  But my life is not perfect.  Far from it.  There are problems.  And as I said earlier, I will not air them here.  But like anyone else, there are problems.  We all have them. So in rethinking my approach to life, I have decided to look dee