Mama's Starting Over

Thank you to Yahoo! Mail for sponsoring this post about staying connected. I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever Girls Collective , which endorses Blog With Integrity , as I do. I was racking my brain to come up with my last post for Yahoo! when I got the best email EVER from a client! Let me give you a little bit of back info.  I work for a client who is TOUGH.  No matter what I do, he never makes me feel like it is enough.  I grew their Facebook fan # from 10,000 to over 300,000 in just 6 months.  The 200,00 fan mark was huge as we beat another brand within the same company.  I was so excited and when I called with the news not only did he not say "Good Job" he actually said, "Next goal 250,000.  Go get'em!" I just had to laugh.  It is like a parental relationship......an A- in Spanish isn't good enough....."Why didn't you get an A?"  It kills me.  It happens all the time though so I am now use to it and just roll my...

Thank you to Yahoo! Mail for sponsoring this post about staying connected. I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever Girls Collective , which endorses Blog With Integrity , as I do. Do you remember the first time you ever sent an email?  I actually don't remember the first email I sent but I can remember vividly some of the most important emails of my life. An email sent to friends and family to let them know that we would be having a baby..... Husband and I are so excited to let you all know that we are expecting a little bundle of joy.  Baby Freitas will be joining our family in March and we are so excited! Love, Lia and Husband There was the email I sent a few days after LG was born.... Two weeks early but as perfect as you can be.....we are happy to announce the arrival of LG who weighed in at 6.4lbs and 19 inches! We are all doing well and hope to see you all soon. Love, Husband, Lia and LG  The email I sent to family with a photo video to celebrat...

I have been dreaming of the future a lot lately.  This is odd because I am not sleeping well at all so most of my dreaming is happening during the day.  I used to spend a TON of time thinking about the future...what kind of house we would own, how I would decorate it, when I would take Ashley to France for the first time.  My divorce brought those dreams to a screeching halt.  My dreams were replaced with nightmares of how to pay the bills, when I would land a job and how I would survive my broken heart. Can you see why I am happy to be dreaming again? Mostly my dreams are of having a house again with a garden in the back.  A place to plant flowers and call our own. I may never be able to own a house here, and that is OK, but I do miss having a house.  That being said, I am not quite ready for yet.  I LOVE having our little handyman in our complex who can come fix anything at the drop of a hat.  The pool is the best thing EVER.  I feel to...