A's Happiness Blogs

This is my first blog of the new year and a lot of things is on my heart and in my mind to blog about, but where do I begin in the year 2021. As I sit here, trying to figure out what I want to write for my blog a lot of things come to mind. Should I talk about my day? Should I give them a story time? Or should I start out with how the first few days of 2021 has been hard for me? What is it that I need to blog about that would make it interesting for my readers to read about? But then I realized the reason I started this blog in the first place. I want to be a blessing to others. For the longest time I know that there was a calling on my life. I ran from it for so long because I did not understand what it was that I was actually called to do. But then God showed me what He had for me to do. He wanted me to be an inspiration to others. I always wanted to be one of the people that God uses to help the children of God.   I want to encourage people who may not have someone in their li...

           This past week has been difficult. I have seen too many tears than I like to count come from people that I love and I felt hopeless. I felt like I needed to protect them from the pain that they was feeling. I tried my best to keep a brave face but found myself broken. Its hard to try to help people when you feel down and out your self. I did not know how to handle it. I found my self angry. It is hard to do anything when you get to that point. I wanted to hurt the individuals hurting my loves ones and no matter what people was telling me, I wanted to lash out. I wanted to be as ugly and as nasty as they was being. I did not care if I stepped out of who I was just for a brief period in time, because I wanted them to feel the hurt and the pain that they was dishing out to people around me. In my mind, that would have made me feel better, but in reality it would not. I would have probably felt worse about the situation. But we have a God t...

               They say "Amanda, you talk a lot about dreams that  you have and the things that you are wanting to do in your life. Why is that so important for you to talk to others about their dreams? Dreams are not real, and they are just a waste of peoples time." And honestly, I had to think about that. Is what they saying true? Is it a waste of time? Why is it so important to me to tell others about perusing their dreams and to tell them little  about mine?      Well the answer is simple. I have always had dreams. I have been a "dreamer" for as long as I can remember. There have been so many things that I could see my self doing for so long and the list is impressive. But even though I have had these dreams for myself   and I have always kept my dreams in the back of my head. I never really shared my dreams with others, for fear of them judging me.  For years, I hid my dreams away like a ...

      Have you ever had a bad day in your life? I mean this day was a day that you could not wait for it be over. This is a day where it seemed like if there was anything that could go wrong, went wrong. We have all had one or two bad days where we just felt like giving up.       I woke up one morning like any other morning, or so I thought. I got up, made my lunch and was getting ready for the day. I got out my cloths only to realize that they were wrinkled. So I ironed them, and looked at the clock. 6:47am. Oh no I am going to be late! I get in my car and go to work. I clocked in 10 minutes late,  so I just put my things in my locker and I went to see my assignment. You are the only tech here Amanda. Oh no!!!  I new what that meant. It was going to be a interesting day. I did the best I could but my day went from bad to worse. By 5:00pm, I was in tears and I could not take it anymore!!!! I did not want anyone to see me upset so I went to ...

    For the past few months, everybody had been going through this pandemic together. But no one truly knows the struggle that each of us has faced in our personal lives. From being quarantined, to slowly but surely opening things back up, to the election soon to come, even to the country being torn apart by the color of ones skin. We are all facing a difficult trail in the world today. But how do we move on from all the madness? How do we hold each other up through this tough time?     Lets began with what we should not do. We should not tear each other down just because people make it seem right. Everybody has their own opinion, true, but just because we do not agree on the same things doesn't mean I should hate you, or you should hate me. We should not turn our backs on our neighbors just because others are doing the same. And we defiantly should not be disliking one another because of the color of their skin. We should not be following people who ar...

Hi everyone. My name is Amanda and I am new to blogging. I decided to blog because I have a lot of things that I love to talk about. I am a mom of three boys ages 11, 5, and 2. I love being a mom. I have a hard time keeping up with my boys, but I love being a mom to them. They have so much energy, and I am only one mom. They keep me on my toes and so many ways. Where I have one in school ( well home schooled for now until school starts back up) I have a five year old that I am trying to get ready for school. He is eager to learn and I love teaching him. Now that fifth grader of mine, lets just say google.com is my best friend when it comes to me helping him with his math work. I have been married to my husband for almost 13 years. We met almost 16 years ago, and we have been together since then. I love my husband he is also a minister. It is difficult being a wife of a minister, because sometimes people look at you like you are stuck up and snobby. I am not that person though. A...