Monday July 18th ~

Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep

 with your dreams or wake up and chase them...

A brand new week is here upon us again.  Sniff and 

Arvid starting out bright and early with a little maintenance 

around the house.  First on the list is to change a lightbulb. 

 Sniff takes an active role in all things Arvid does 😂 

Another very hot week is in store for us.  Really missing 

the ocean right now.  Just being next to it is invigorating, and

 refreshing.  One of these days hopefully this winter we aim to

 be back home in Florida.  A goal is always a good thing.

Good morning to all. May your coffee be strong and 

your Mondays be short. Let's get this week started.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single

 moment before starting to improve the world...

~Nadiya~

Monday Morning...

If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big...

Have been looking forward to this week for a whole year now.  We go to Puerto Rico

for Kimsy's high school graduation and I could not be more excited.

This is sure going to be a very short work week for Arvid and I, so we have to cram as much as we 

can into the day to make it count and to take care of all that needs to be done before we go.

Having 4 nephews and 5 nieces makes it a lot of graduations (among other things), that we

will be going to.  Hopefully we can go to all of the high school graduations.  A whole

new world awaits each and everyone of them once they finish high school.

In Puerto Rico EVERYTHING is done in a big way.  Graduation is in a very fancy hotel

in Condado.  Dress code is almost as close to being black tie.  Arvid will definitely not
be going black tie, but we managed a little compromise.  I'm happy with that.

Yesterday my niece Reshma arrived in Puerto Rico.  Her very first solo trip in an airplane.
Her journey began with a bus ride from her home to Boston's Logan International Airport.
 She insisted n doing the almost 3 hour bus ride.  Her mom was nervous, but
confident Reshma will do good.  She did not disappoint. On my part,
 I made sure she texted every part of the journey ad she did.

Reshma had quite the reception when she arrived.
Next stop, Puerto Rico!  Finally the day is almost here.  So excited.  Can't wait.

For now good morning to all of you.  May your Monday be the beginning
of a new and exciting week to come.  Let us all make it a good one.

It's time to get the show on.
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on

~Nadiya~

A New Week Begins...

Start the day with a smile and finish it with Champagne...

Our weekend was ridiculously amazing if I may say so.  We did not do anything out

of this world, but whatever we did we sure enjoyed ourselves so much so that 

we found ourselves having a little sangria every night.  Just sips for me,

but even so it was delicious and me savored it to the last drop.

We did just about a little of everything including the movies.  Would like to go

 again this weekend, but I'm sure that will be too much for Arvid.  All I can 

do is try nothing to lose.   All he can say is nope, not this week.

We have been spending the last 3 weekends with one of our friends.  Quite a lot of fun

he is and when I did not want to go and listen to music Arvid had company.  It's 

not as if I did not want to go, but I know that the two of them stay out much

 later than I would want so it worked out really good for all of us. 

 I drove them to the location and they came back with a taxi.

Yesterday we all went looking at cars.  Together the two of them are car crazy.

Me I have a good time checking the cars out and taking pictures of everything

 in sight.  One never knows when that great picture might be taken.

Most of our day was spent with cars.  Afterwards Arvid and I had our alone time.

Very important to have our Sundays by ourselves as he says.  Of course sometimes it 

isnot possible, but then we are also flexible.  When we have it which is most Sundays we 

make it special.  By special I mean we make it last and we relax somewhere by the water

 just watching the boats as we have our meal.  Peaceful and quiet.  No unnecessary chit chat.

Monday here already.  Too bad the weekend went by so fast, but time to get busy again,

 be productive so we can celebrate when the weekend gets here or a little before.

Busy week ahead of us, but that is probably the same with most of you.

Makes life fun, interesting and always a challenge to see what we

 can accomplish once we set our minds on a goal. So let's do it!!

Good morning world.  Let's get this week started with a good attitude.

Start everyday with new hope, leave bad memories behind,

and have faith for a better tomorrow.  Happy Monday to all...

~Nadiya~