2025! New year!
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a great New years and is safe and sound. I can not believe we are in the year 2025! Do we all think 2025 will fly by even faster than 2024 did? There is bird flu, stomach flu, and the orbs in the sky.....what a way to start the new year!? I was out of work for almost a week due to getting sick. I had plans to be off for two days and I had my two days planned out and nope! I started to feel out of sorts by the end of the night of New Years. The next morning I was stuck in bed sick! I had a runny nose, voice was horse, body aches, weakness, and a headache. Whatever I came down with took me out till Sunday. Needles to say I have not been sick for a long time. I am so glad that is over! There are a lot of people getting sick.....take care out there.
As I lay in my bed....sick as a pig, I thought what do I write about for my New Years blog. I just knew I could not cover new year resolutions....we have covered that in the last blog. New year resolutions just seem so boring and not fitting for 2025. Then it came to me. Where am I at? Where are you at? 2024 was not a normal year. 2024 was a grueling year. A year of hardships in all areas of our lives. As I got better I began to turn the idea over and started to really ponder...where am I as a person. How has 2024 affected me?
My girls still laying eggs on the dirt.....they have buckets with hay to lay their eggs!
Chicken coop duties.....need more hay for the girl's buckets.....I went ahead and put their eggs in the hay bag.
If there is one thing for certain I feel like 2024 was me taking a couple of steps back. Of course we are moving forward but I took some steps back. I wanted to embrace being alone and being in the quiet. I am almost 40 years old and I have to say I have had to think about being 40 soon and accept the idea. Kind of rediscovering yourself.....you just feel yourself changing and are in a place of really listening to your body. Honestly, I never thought I would get this far in life. Change has come and it is here to stay. I so welcome this new change. It's like seeing with new eyes and we are looking everywhere!
Energy! Save your energy for those who are worthy of it. I have made a new rule for myself....I do not want to socialize with jealous and knowing good and well, people who dislike me or are a friend/ enemy. Life is short and it is going by so fast. I want to spend quality time with the people I love and who care about me. No fake people! Let's pour our energy into people we love. Pour our energy into learning new things. Recently, my chickens eggs are getting so pretty and I wanted to start taking pictures of my girls eggs and post them on Pinterest. Guess what? I did just that!
Taking pictures of my girls eggs.....boots & eggs
Eggs & flowers
2025 should be a year where we think about something and then we should get up and do it! I have to say this and this is the most important advice......do not tell anyone about future plans or dreams. People or especially family will throw that ugly evil eye on your plans and that is all it takes to make your plans become more difficult to achieve. Moving in silence is best to achieve anything. Move big or small and move stealthy. Pursue your small dreams to get to the big dreams. There are people or family that do not want you to succeed and if they have power over you, they will try everything to make things harder for you to achieve your dreams. Move in silence! Just make things happen. Do not hate on other people that move and get their dreams accomplished because you do not want to move or take that step forward. Making dreams come true goes hand in hand with sacrificing. There is no shortcut! Even if someone gives you an opportunity you still have to put the work in. Nothing comes easy. Nothing is given to us.....someone had to put the work in.
Getting out of bed finally from being sick and getting dressed to sit in my lanai.....
Manor and the chickens eggs
Baking and cooking new foods has been something that has been brewing inside of me. When my husband and I first got married I realized how Americanized I was. I am Mexican and I was born and raised here in America. My parents were both born and raised here in America. I have a cousin who is researching our family history and we date back from my great great grandfather coming from Mexico in 1907! We lost so much of our culture! When my husband and I were dating he exposed me to the foods he ate and it was amazing!
Getting the pork shoulder in the crockpot for the tamales to cook all night.
I remember thinking to myself...I have been eating trash! I honestly thought we were eating Mexican food growing up and nope! What we were eating did not touch Mexican in anyway! There are some Mexican foods such as tamales, menudo, or pasole that is pretty complicated food to make. I told my husband recently, with all the information that is easily accessible, we should be able to learn to cook anything. I made cooking and baking new things one of my new steps to move forward for 2025. I do have a huge cooking kitchen and a baking kitchen. What better way to use my kitchens than to make Mexican foods that are hard to make.
The morning of making the tamales......getting ready to make the tamales....drinking coffee to get my self motivated!
My husband and I made tamales for New Years and they were AMAZING! I believe we made about 130 tamales. Out of the 130 tamales, there is 10 left and those are in the freezer. I am totally not bragging...just stating facts!
My husband mixed corn mixture because it's pretty rough to mix together.
Good-looking tamale!
They were AMAZING! I can say next on our cooking adventures we will be making menudo very soon. As a child and teenager I was not fond of menudo. It took me being pregnant with my daughter, who was craving menudo and that was a pregnancy craving that stuck with me liking menudo. I love menudo now. All those years wasted not eating menudo!
The kitchen is a mess!
Warming up the tamales! This is the best way to reward them!
At this age of becoming 40 I have gotten to a place of I do not care two flying donkeys about who dislikes me or does not want to be my friend. I will say this.....when you start achieving your dreams and making things happen you will have family or so called friends that will not want nothing to do with you. Guess what! Let them go! Bye! Who needs that kind of energy around you?! Letting people go is not easy. It hurts to let go of the snakes in your life but sometimes you just have too. Where you or I are going those snakes can not come. You know I have to say this spiritually too. People will say they want you to go to church. So! You go to church as long as you do not get too close to God. If you do get close too God then the church snakes start to come out of the pile of wood. No lie here! The restrictions church people want to put on God just blows my mind! The church snakes want to tell God who he is allowed to call and it better not be the black sheep of the family! I have come to the realization it is better to stay out of reach from people or certain family members. Go silent! It is so sad that kind of energy has infiltrated the church.
Bought some oranges and decided to make orange juice.
Since we are on the subject of church......I want 2025 to be a year I let go of my spiritual paralyzing fear of getting back up for God. I have talked about this in my other blogs but if it is OK I would like to brush on this subject again. In my mind I see people who make a decision to serve God is like picking up a huge sword and running forward facing what comes at us and using the sword to chop off the head of whatever is trying to bring us down. Honestly, I have laid the sword down and been too scared to pick it back up. I have looked up in the sky while tending my chickens and ask God....what are you going to do with me? Where am I God? The battles came and they were hard agonizing battles and I basically used my own sword to cut my own right hand off spiritually so I do not pick up the sword again. Fear has gripped me! What can I do about it? I do not know! One thing is for certain....when I find a church to attend I will not alert the snakes! I will move in silence! No one needs to know anything. Let people think what they want to think. Let people talk about you however and when ever. I have come to a place I simply do not care about people opinions of me. I am beyond everything! Basically, learn to be happy with no one knowing nothing! That is so sad! We have become a society where we can not share good news because of people/family being so jealous. It's just awful and ugly.
As for me, I want to applaude you and yell from the rooftops...move forward and I hope you succeed! I hope mountains become hills for you. I hope fear never grips your heart. Let there be peace in your heart and life. Let 2025 be a silent year that you move forward. Do what your heart desires that line up with God. Do not just read and study the Bible but actually live it. That's is the difference.....live it out in action. Let God use you and let God use other people even if you deem them not usable or they are not up to your standards. Let God be God! God does not need our input. He knows what he is doing. Do not be the reason for someone's demise...... . I hope you will be blessed and I lift you up above my own self and I hope you succeed! Welcome 2025!
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