🍂As we begin this holiday week, for those of us who don’t celebrate with family, DO NOT feel ashamed or guilty!! 🍂Everybody doesn’t have a hallmark family, and you ARE NOT obligated to put yourself through hell for a piece of dry turkey😝 🍂I am genuinely happy for those of you who get together andContinue reading “Protect Your Peace This Holiday Season 🦃”
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Are You Ready For The Holidays 🎄 🎁
▪️As we approach the holiday season, that sense of “overwhelm” rings as loud as the Salvation Army bells.🛎 For some of us, the holiday season represents stress, pressure, expectations, guilt, disappointment, pain, loneliness, exhaustion and the list goes on… And it doesn’t have to be that way!🤷🏽♀️ ✔️We can choose who we spend time with.Continue reading “Are You Ready For The Holidays 🎄 🎁”
Six tips to help those in recovery avoid alcohol during the holidays | New York Amsterdam News: The new Black view
The holidays are a time for family and friends to gather and share laughs, memories and perhaps a drink or two. But for people recovering from an addiction, all that alcohol often present at special events can be worrisome. — Read on m.amsterdamnews.com/news/2018/nov/29/six-steps-recovery-acohol/ Great read, love the one about creating new traditions! My church willContinue reading “Six tips to help those in recovery avoid alcohol during the holidays | New York Amsterdam News: The new Black view”
What Is Your Dream Gift 🎁
🎄So the holidays are just around the corner and we all will be giving out gifts 🎁 fulfilling the dreams of our little ones or friends/family, but if you had just one dream gift 🎁 What Would It Be? I would love to know, maybe Santa 🎅 is listening and does Social Media ☺️👇🏾 OliviaContinue reading “What Is Your Dream Gift 🎁”
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Well I Made it Through the Week!!
Happy Holidays ya’ll, it’s Saturday and I haven’t gotten any shopping done for the rest of my friends and family. I have decided to just shop online and be done with it. My anxiety is too much for the crowds out there in the malls, but everybody looks so happy to be spending all theirContinue reading “Well I Made it Through the Week!!”
Hello December 👋🏽😊
Well the last month of the year is upon us, and I’m ready to end this year with a bang!!! I get to celebrate my grand baby’s first Christmas. During this time I also adopt two elderly people to give gifts to, if only to put a little smile on their faces. Even when IContinue reading “Hello December 👋🏽😊”
Christmas Is Gone!
Hello world, I’m back up at my desk after a great Christmas with my boys. We slept most of the day because I am still feeling bad and I tried to fight it, but this cold has taking over my body. It feels like the flu but not sure since I haven’t gone to doctors.Continue reading “Christmas Is Gone!”
🎄Kinda in the Christmas Spirit 🎄
Look at that face…wouldn’t you be?? He took this at the groomers on yesterday, I bet he was really angry! 😂 So I had a great day today, I got some shopping done and actually enjoyed it. I got to spend time with my son like we usually do. Breakfast, shopping, laughing it couldn’t haveContinue reading “🎄Kinda in the Christmas Spirit 🎄”
Boy The Year Is Flying By!!!
It’s mid-day and I’m soooo sleepy, I need a quick nap. On another note, it’s damn December already and I just feel like I’m being rushed to finish so many things on my list. I hope this is a good month for me and my family, no more surprises or bad ass news. Just goingContinue reading “Boy The Year Is Flying By!!!”
Olivia B. Shepherd 