It's Five Minute Friday .  Lisa-Jo gives us one word each Friday and we get to write on it for five minutes flat.  The word for today is OPPORTUNITY . GO : We are each given the same amount of hours in a day.  What we choose to do with them is up to each one of us. When I think of opportunity, I think of 'where the rubber meets the road'.  It's the time to get to work. Maybe it's a time to get going on the goals we set.  Remember those New Year's resolutions?  Or maybe you choose a One Word for 2013. Just maybe it's your attitud…

One of the easiest ways for me to look back on 2012 is to browse through my photos. Looking back can be a good thing.  Sometimes it can be easy to remember the bad things; the difficulties we endured. But I like to remember the good things, the memories I want to store up in my mind. Working in a school with little children can be so rewarding. Celebrating birthdays with little ones is ...the best!   Another event that loomed large as I look back on 2012 is our move into a very small condo.  When I first set eyes on this place, I have to admit I cried.…

Happy 2013!  I'm one of those people who likes to sit down and write out my goals for the new year.  In the past, I've found that when I do this it helps to focus me.  You see, my popular sanguine personality needs focus or else I become easily distracted. But for the past three years, I've also chosen one word for each year. Gary Morland  is the father of The Nester and Emily of Chatting at the Sky .  He wrote the following about choosing that one word: "That word becomes your goal for your attitude or behavior.  Your word reminds you and…