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Hi everyone! I’m humbly asking for everyone to please share this gofundme for my dear friend Valerie 🙏🏽
The link to donate is also in my bio if you are inclined to help her in any way💜

Hi everyone! I’m humbly asking for everyone to please share this gofundme for my dear friend Valerie 🙏🏽 The link is also in my bio if you are moved to help her in anyway.

Help Valerie with her medical needs, organized by Sofia Saavedra Those of you who are fortunate to know Valerie know that her smile lights up the ro… Sofia Saavedra needs your support for Help Valerie with her medical needs

I am sharing this gofundme for my dear friend Valerie who is at end stage for breast and brain cancer. I know its asking a lot, but any amount donated makes a huge impact and if the link could be shared, it would be so very appreciated 🙏🏽

https://gofund.me/9dba509e

Hi everyone! I’m humbly asking for everyone to please share this gofundme for my dear friend Valerie 🙏🏽

Link to share or donate is in my bio 💜

If you can contribute, any amount donated is gratefully accepted. All I am asking is for you to press share. Her link in is my bio. 🙏🏽

My dear sorority sister is currently in palliative care. This GoFundMe was created to help her and her family with her current and future needs.

My only request is to ask people to share this post. If anyone is able to donate it would be greatly appreciated 🙏🏽

Help Valerie with her medical needs, organized by Sofia Saavedra Those of you who are fortunate to know Valerie know that her smile lights up the ro… Sofia Saavedra needs your support for Help Valerie with her medical needs

I have a favor to ask. My sorority sister needs an immense amount of blessings! If you can donate, and share 🙏🏽💜

Every day I strive to be a better person than I was yesterday!

Build a life you don’t need to escape from 💜

My wish for each of you 💜

When you’re a plus size woman, people like to say "yeah, she's cute in the face", as if being full figured is such a disgrace. Honey, I’m cute in the face, and I’m thick in the waist. I look good whether I’m in cotton, leather, or lace. I’m beautiful, vibrant and above all, smart! And there's more to me than my weight, I also have a heart. Yes my clothes maybe a bigger size, that just means you have access to a bigger prize. We all are not self-conscious about our weight, and I never had a problem getting a date! I’m a hot, sexy, curvy woman with a figure that's full!!

“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other." Randy Pausch

Today marks 18 years since my grandmother earned her wings. While I still can't talk about losing her without tearing up, and getting a lump in my throat, I am very blessed to have had her help raise me. Our relationship was very special and I have so many wonderful memories of her and I wish she was here so she could smother my peanut with her love and kisses. My favorite time was to be with her in the kitchen, she had such a flair for creating such a variety of delicacies - all crafted with love. It was hilarious to watch a show or movie with her. She loved this time of year more than anyone I know and its so bittersweet to celebrate without her. I really miss my other mother....Bendicion Mama!! For I know, its never really goodbye, its until we meet again 💜

Always choose to be kind. A random act of kindness that happened many many years ago is still my driving force today:

To be on the receiving end of a random act of kindness is so humbling and inspiring.

I remember when we moved from Miami to Central Fl, a recession hit and I was the only one working.

At the time we were living with my mom and my sister in law and niece.

Christmas was coming and I was at work speaking with a customer. She asked if we were ready for Christmas.

I explained that times were lean and as long as we were all together, then we had all we needed for Christmas. Besides the kids were small ( Peanut 3, Princess 2) and as long as they had something to open under our tree they would be happy.

Then the next customer in line gifted me $300 in giftcards so that the kids could have a wonderful Christmas and to buy anything we needed.

I had no words, I was so overwhelmed with this feeling of gratitude 🙏 tears streamed down my face as I politely declined his generosity. He insisted so I accepted. To this day I remember his name, his face is hard to remember but our angel Randy definitely rekindled my faith and humbled my heart.

I encourage each of you to perform a random act of kindness if you can. You won't regret it and you will make that person's day. You could be the answer to an unspoken prayer 🙏

I am grateful and give thanks for every Veteran. Some have return to us wounded - physically, spiritually and/or mentally. The bravery and selflessness of our Veterans provided us the freedoms we have today. We owe a debt of gratitude for each Veteran, especially those who paid the ultimate price for our freedom. I will always remember to never take my freedom for granted. As the daughter of a Veteran gone too soon, I honor each Veteran today and always ❤️🤍💙

🤷🏻‍♀️I’ve done a lot of growing in the last few years but I still have my moments when my smart mouth and temper get the best of me 😅

Today I want to remind you all that no matter what the results are from the mid term elections, life will go on. I pray for a peaceful way of life and acceptance of the results, no matter what they are. At the end of the day, whomever the governing bodies are, they are not in control of you and how you treat others. The biggest take back I have had from these past 6 years, is that society can very quickly show a very ugly side of themselves. So much hate, division, unkindness, and it makes me feel sorry for people like that. We were not meant to be on this Earth to hate or hurt one another. With that being said, things like politics are very personal choices, live and let live. Live in light, live and show extra kindness to those whose mouths drip with venemous hate. Those people especially need to be shown kindness. Live your best, be the example of love and light in your homes and pray that each of us doing this every single day can make an impact 💜

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” Ronald Reagan

Today is Dia De Los Mu***os, a day honoring all that have passed from this life to eternal life. I am grateful for being able to love, lose that love, pick up the pieces, and keep loving & living no matter what. It's easy to get lost in the grief of losing those you love, and withdraw from the world. It's hard to find a reason to pick up the pieces, but somehow you find a way to manage. I'm grateful that I've never had to manage alone and despite all the sorrows I can still look at the beauty of this life I have been given, especially since tomorrow is not promised to everyone.

Life is an echo

Cherish every single moment you have with your loved ones. One day you will look back and say “I wish I would have had more time for ___” I guarantee you that you won’t fill that blank with work. You will say: pictures, time with loved ones, vacations, playing with your kids, making memories…all the things you can’t get back. Believe me, you will have regrets instead 💔 Grief is sometimes remorse for not stoping to smell the proverbial roses. Tell the people you care about exactly how you feel - you might not have time later 😭
I always think I’ll have “more time” and the universe has shown me time and time again, that this isn’t true.

It's so easy to lose sight of this:

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”

― Mother Teresa

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My Peanut arrived at 2:50pm on 09/23/2005 and my life since then been enriched with a love so pure and profound....Thank you God for this gift, the opportunity to be his mother. I am humbled each day by his wit, intelligence, compassion and even his mischief! He is truly his own person and I am loving every minute of this journey with him! He is definitely my mini me 💜

We will never forget ❤️🤍💙

Just because you want to erase it, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen… #

Vote like everyone’s life depends on it. Red or Blue, just freaking vote!!

Finally got a sunshade for my car! I can almost hear Dorothy saying “Shady Pines Ma!”

It took 8 photos to get this one 😅 First Day of 11th Grade 📚 📚✏️

It’s that time of year where it’s back to school for many! Wishing Admins, Teacher and Students a happy, healthy and safe school year! As for us, we are High School Juniors!! 🎓📚✏️ 💙

What kind of bug is this??? 👀👀👀

Saturday came and went too soon. But I had a wonderful day with My Aunt and Uncle. I learned some tips on how to play pickle ball from my Uncle, went for a dip with my Aunt and then shared a great meal with them. The saddest part was the goodbye at the airport. I am so grateful we were able to see each other and create some memories 😍

I never thought I would wake up one day and be dealing with chronic illnesses that impede my life.

I’m blessed to wake up each day and have the wonderful support of family and friends that reach out to check on me, who share my posts and take time to learn about Scleroderma and Primary Biliary Cirrhosis.

Even though Scleroderma Awareness month closes today, I will still continue to share about these diseases. Without awareness there is no funding for research, which we are clinging to hope that one day - even if it’s not in my lifetime - that a cure will be developed 🙏🏽

If you wish to donate, you can by going to the links below:

https://scleroderma.org/

https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/primary-biliary-cholangitis/

Thanks for reading, sharing and reaching out about my posts, it means so very much to me!

Scleroderma patients should always try to minimize the amount of stress in their life.

Which is super easy to say, and almost impossible to follow through. I am an over thinker, sometimes I will play a scenario in my mind over and over before it actually plays out in real life.

It’s exhausting, to stress before there is anything to even stress about. I’m still a work in progress when it comes to this issue. I’ve been a chronic people pleaser my entire life.

I’m learning to put myself first - despite the initial guilty feeling - and that has brought a lot of happiness into my life. I’ve surrounded myself with an inner circle that cares about my needs, feelings and health.

I want to share a link that helped me and my caretakers to understand how stress can impact me. And as always, you never what someone is going through. Many people battle with things that they never share, choose to be kind 💜

https://sclerodermanews.com/columns/did-chronic-stress-cause-scleroderma/

Thanks for reading, sharing and reaching out about my posts, it means so very much to me!

Today’s post is directed at myself. I’m so used to putting my needs aside to help make sure everyone else’s needs are met, that I forget that you can’t fill anyones cup if yours is empty. I used to say that a day of rest was a wasted day. My perspective has changed dramatically and a day of rest is self care, therefore it is meaningful. If I don’t choose to take care of or listen to my body then I know I will suffer the consequences. Rest is important, it is essential to recharge your body, mind and spirit 💜

Thanks for reading!

Everyone has had moments where they can’t remember something. This happens to me often and sometimes the episode of brain fog is brief but there are times it’s concerning.

At first I thought I was losing my mind. I would walk into another room and know I went there with a purpose and couldn’t remember why. I started to realize that brain fog was costing me chunks of time.

It can be frustrating to you and those around you - especially if they didn’t understand what was happening.

So I started to take notice when the episodes would occur. It happened when I was very tired, overstimulated, under a lot of stress, or in a lot of pain.

To help me to deal with things I started making lists of things I needed to do. Simple tasks and chores, dates bills were due, appointments and important dates written down on a calendar and it helped me tremendously. I still have brain fog episodes but now that I know what I’m dealing with, I feel less out of control and now that my brain and body need a break.

Thanks for reading!

https://sclerodermanews.com/social-clips/9-ways-manage-brain-fog/