Dreams Can Be Goals

So, each night, as I lay in bed, I reflect upon the day. Did I accomplish anything? Did I make any memories? It's usually a 50/50 split. When I am awoken at 5:30 from the 7month old dog, who has to go out, I return to bed and try to force dreams into my head. Dreams of how the day will go. My goals to be accomplished.
Then they are embedded into my subconscience where I pray the goals will stay so I can remember what i want to get done for the day.
What do you do with your day to day dreams/goals?

Summer Dreams

Summertime is great for dreams! In May I create a list of things to do around the house to improve it like painting the front porch, laying brick for a patio, etc... Are these pipe dreams or can I make them reality?
That all depends on the flow of money and mine or my husband's time. The brick for the patio has been done. The paint for the front porch has not. It's too humid to paint down here during the summer and we are waiting for our finances to balance since he just started a full time job after 1 1/2 years of unemployment.
So, what are your summer dreams? Don't let them melt away! Share them!

Who Has Time For Day Dreaming?

    You wake up at an early hour, get up and do your morning patterns (everybodies' schedules are different depending on married, single, kids, or animals). You go to work either half day or full 8-10 hrs. You come home to the evening patterns. You see this blog title and say, "who has the time?" Frankly, everyone does with out knowing it. For me, it's either just before I decide to get up (animals wake me up between 5am and 6am) at 7am or just before I'm falling asleep. Sometimes it's when I'm just riding in the car.
   We drift off and think about how we will make dinner and how the evening will proceed. We think about how the animals will let us sleep in, maybe, till 6:30am. We think about how we will perform our job that day. All day dreams.
    So, tell us, in reality, do you have time to day dream? When do you find yourself thinking about your day or your goal? How about those thoughts before a presentation and how it will astound the boss so much....?

Your Memorial Dreams

  On Memorial Day weekend we are to remember those soldiers, mostly young dreamers, who died fighting for what they believed in which was and still is the freedom that we all share in. We have the freedom to write anywhere, as long is it is not covering important warning signs like "sharp curve ahead" or "Danger : Cliff!"
   In the Civil war many just lied and joined up at 15 or maybe younger. They are young children/adolescents with dreams of life after the fighting is over. They wrote their dreams in the letters to their families or on notes stuffed in their pockets. They are as young as 18 now going into the military.
   Soldiers still write their dreams, here, on the Internet, where they could reach more people to insure that their dreams of their families growing up in a free country will come true.
  We all have memorial dreams that are now memories. Mine are the dreams I had as a child to be grown up, then as an adolescent to teach, then as a teacher to teach better, then as an aunt to make my nephews and nieces have good memories, then as a daughter and sister, to make my family proud of me no matter how much I mess up. Another dream was and is to experience new things. I'm pretty sure owning guineas, chickens, Turkeys and goats counts! Now my dream is to write books so children will have fun learning and traveling in their country. My dream has always been to give children good memories and create good memories.
   What are your Memorial Dreams?

This is a Great Weekend for Dreams

   On this Memorial Day weekend, we try to remember those who have passed before us and their dreams. We talk with family and friends about dreams that were accomplished and dreams to come.
As you fly your kite at the beach, barbecue with the family, play and laugh with loved ones take time to note your dreams. Day dream in the sun and make your dreams become reality.
Have a great weekend!

Without Dreams...

   I was on my chaise lounger, in the shade with a nice breeze blowing all the bugs my way. The birds were singing and fighting. I closed my eyes and  tried to picture the next chapter in my book. Naturally my thoughts wondered.
   When we were young, adults told us to have a dream and strive for it. Then when we would day dream about what we wanted to strive for, we would get yelled at by the teacher and called lazy. However, I digress.
   If you keep focused on that goal, day dream about that goal, it has a better chance of becoming a reality. I, for one, would not be teaching or writing if I didn't day dream about doing it one day.
   What did you day dream about? What do you day dream about now? Where do you think you would be without your dreams?

Is Your Day Quiet Enough for Dreaming?

     Many years ago my father's mother, who I affectionately called Nana, sent me a card to let me know she was thinking about me. It said, "May your days have room enough for new experiences and new friends. May they be busy enough to fill your life with meaning and especially, may they be quiet enough for dreaming."
    I try to make friends all the time and I try stay busy. The past 8 years have all been new experiences for me. Getting married, Moving to NC, heating a home with wood, having various employment challenges, learning how to care for goats, turkeys, chickens, and guinea fowl, and writing. Are my days quiet enough for dreaming? Sometimes, when I'm on my back deck, and hear the birds chirping and the wind chimes...chiming, I start to day dream about my writing....then the turkey gobbles or the guinea fowls start making a racket. But for that moment, it's peaceful and I get a glimpse of what might be.
   Is there a time in the day that is quiet enough for your dreaming????