"There is a place like no place on earth. A land full of wonder, mystery and danger...

...Some say to survive, you need to be as mad as a hatter.  Which luckily I am."

I'm home!  And this wonderful mystery land is most definitely my parents' house in Texas.  Or even Texas itself!  Yes, everyone from Texas loves Texas and we do all believe that it's the greatest place on earth and definitely the best state.  That is just how proud we are!

I have to say Christmas at home is my favorite time of year.  My mother is amazingly creative and decorates trees all over the house.  This year there are 12 and they are gorgeous!  The walls are covered in golds, blues, greens and silver!  There are nutcrackers, santas, snowmen and yes, nativities all over the place!  My brothers and I joke every year that when we go to sleep the nutcrackers and the santas actually wage war because there are that many.  And although it sound like it could be a cluttered mess, anyone who has seen my pictures from past years knows it's definitely not.  My Mom creates art with decorations.

The best part about this wondrous land is the time I get to spend with my family.  Although there is the danger of our butting heads, I love seeing my brothers again.  Now that two of them are married, I get two sisters to be with as well as a nephew that is the BEST!  Plus it's the only time I get to watch football with my Dad!  The house is so full of people and Christmas that it really is enough to drive a person insane.  Lucky for me, I'm already quite bonkers!

So to all of you, thank you for taking the time to catch up with me again this week!  I hope you have a wonderful holiday season with your family and loved ones.  I hope that God showers you with countless blessings.  And don't worry there will be plenty of pictures posted to facebook this week for you to see the madness that I call home.  Until next week...

Merry Christmas!   

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lessen from day to day.

Well there's less than a week before I go home for Christmas and this week is shaping up to be a very difficult one.  I'll be very honest with you that this post is later than usual because my thoughts and words are very calculated right now.  That being said, I blog to get things out instead of keeping them in so here goes.

The past is a difficult thing to process.  They say hindsight is 20/20 and that's mostly true.  Learning from the past is easy except that sometimes we really don't.  We learn lessons and make mistakes in the past that we hope will not haunt us in the future but they do.  They almost always do.  And on top of that, we think that we learn from the mistakes we make and decide to never hurt the people we love like we may have done in the past but it never fails that we do it again from habit and don't realize it until it's too late.

I'm not a perfect person.  I never have claimed to be and never would.  I love God and follow Jesus but I'm still human.  I try to live my life in a justified way but I make a lot of mistakes.  And I pray to God when I make those mistakes that I can be forgiven and forgive myself and move on.  And even though I learn my lessons of the past, I'm only human when I make mistakes again because the situations look different but at the core are the same.

I really don't know what to say without saying too much other than the past is the past.  And I'm deciding today to let it go.  In the style of Elsa, I am letting it go because I have to.  I am ridding myself of my negative past and starting fresh with a new, positive outlook.  I am forgiving those who have wronged me whether they forgive me or not.  I am letting go of my pride and choosing instead to love because happiness is the ultimate importance.  I can't speak for everyone but I can make this choice for myself.

So I am deciding today to learn from the lessons of my past and not let them lessen from day to day.  Otherwise, what am I really doing instead of going around in a circle that leads to no where but unhappiness.  

See you next week!
Love, Kimberly

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

I love that you can see something or in this instance read something over and over again then one day it jumps out at you like it's completely new.  That's what this quote did to me today...as they most always do when I go to write.

As I've said before, I'm a slightly impatient person so the idea of waiting for something to happen instead of when I'm ready for it to happen is soooooo frustrating to me.  But I'm getting better, I hope!  So I've spent this morning writing emails and planning stuff for Beachwood Drive.  By now you know that is the film that my friend and I will be campaigning for in February, then filming around May.  But we are still in the development stage and all I can think is how I wish this was all done and we were filming.  It would be so much more fun to be on set, acting and creating instead of sending out emails and trying to build my team.

But you can't just jump into the middle of anything, now can you?  Not if you ever want to be successful.  Plus everything is a lesson.  So if I'm to learn how to do this and be successful at it, I have to start at the beginning and work my way through the grunt work so I can get to the fun part later.  

Of course once I get there, I won't be stopping.  It will only push me to do it again and that's the ultimate goal for me.  If I can make films on my own for the rest of my life, I'd be so happy.  

I just love it when a lesson like that smacks you in the face.  So the next time you're feeling like something isn't progressing the way you want, or that you're overwhelmed because road ahead of you seems so long, remember that you always have to start at the beginning before you can get to the end.  

Enjoy the journeys because that is where we learn the lessons!

Love you!

Kimberly

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense..."

If I had a world of my own, every day would be Christmas time! Yes, I’m one of those people.  I’m so happy that it’s finally December.  I love this time of year when the weather gets cold, there’s pumpkin spice everything and all of the streets are decorated for the holidays!  Obviously my world would make no sense because you can’t have snowmen year round…or can you??  

I just really love the Christmas season and not just because we get to give each other presents, or everyone runs themselves further in to debt, myself included.  I love it because it’s a time for friends and family.  It’s the time of year where you can relax and enjoy those around you and not worry about all the stress of life that the year has put on you. 

I looooooove the decorations too.  It’s so amazing to see people put their heart and soul into creating beautiful art that they don’t get to make the rest of the year.  I am most definitely my mother’s daughter because I go all out for Christmas!  It’s so nostalgic for me to be surrounded by Christmas decorations during this month and I love it!  I wish I could have it year round!  In fact we have discussed having a Christmas house and a non-Christmas house all year round so we could move back and forth between the two whenever we wanted :)  “We” being my mom and I!  But of course that would be silly…or amazing.   And I’m sure eventually I would appreciate the season a lot less if it were around all year. 

But let’s not forget what we’re really celebrating.  God’s son, our Savior Jesus Christ was born on Christmas so that we could be forgiven of our sins.  I can’t even imagine the amount of love that would have to be felt to send your only son as a savior.  So remember to be thankful for the blessings you have, even if they’re not the blessings you want.  Love each other this season, and by each other I mean everyone, even people you don’t know.  I read a great quote that said “always be kind because every man is fighting a battle that you know nothing about.”  Let’s think less of ourselves this season, stop worrying about what you are entitled to and think about how you can be a blessing to others.  It feels a lot better to give to others than it does to receive.

Merry Christmas!