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For me ? I am 32 years old. I feel like an ? old soul? sometimes. I've been through a lot in my life. I am so blessed and thankful to be where I am today Cheap Air Max 720 , with a loving husband and beautiful, precious children. I am able to pursue my dreams and am growing and learning each year as I continue to strive to be the woman I am destined, and created to be.
As I do this, I can't help but reflect on my lifestyle and how it has affected me and continues to affect my family and me. As I have done this, I am starting to shift priorities?
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I used to think being a good mom meant being at every party, function, field trip and activity. Now I know that my presence is important and valued. But I am learning to start prioritizing because with 3 children in our home, I can't make it all. If I do, I end up grumpy Cheap Air Max 270 , irritable, and stressed.
I am learning. I am learning that simplicity is more meaningful. It brings more memories because you have the time to enjoy things and relish the moment. It brings rest, joy, laughter, and sometimes lessons.
I continue to battle this world that thinks I need to have the latest, greatest things; the world that tells me I need to be the best mom Cheap Nike Air Max 97 , the most successful businesswoman, and the most passionate wife (all while staying beautiful and thin in the process!) Those demands are impossible! So I strive to simply be the best 'me.? I may be really good at some things and lousy at others ? but hey ? that's me! I'm learning to relax my standards upon myself.
I long for a more relaxing household. One where people come to seek out a haven from the world and not get more of the hustle and bustle inside my four walls. Genuine hearts. Honest souls. Forgiveness. That to me is simplicity.
It's going to be a fight ? me against the world ? to stop striving so hard to be and have all that I am told I need. But I know in the end the only thing I really need is love'the simplest and purest gift of all.
Volkswagen Breaks Ground For Tennessee Factory Autos Articles | May 19, 2009 A new auto assembly plant is being built in Chattanooga, Tennessee by Volkswagen. A mid-size model will be produced at that site which expects to roll out its first model in 2011.
Volkswagen AG, the German automaker who is on a quest to become the world's largest car company, recently broke ground on its first American assembly plant in thirty years. Located near Chattanooga Cheap Air Max 97 , Tennessee, the new plant will produce as many as 150,000 mid-size cars annually when production begins in 2011 signaling the company's renewed commitment to the US market. Volkswagen had previously operated a plant in Pennsylvania, a facility the company closed in the late 1980s.
Erecting The First Wall
Volkswagen marked the occasion not by digging up dirt, rather by erecting a wall which symbolizes the automakers commitment to the area, and the start of construction for the assembly plant. Located on 1580 acres Cheap Nike Air Max TN , the assembly plant will be joined by a paint shop, body shop and business offices.
The automaker says that it will invest $1 billion in the plant and employ 2,000 people directly. As a result of its investment, an independent study estimated the overall impact of the plant will generate an additional $12 billion in income growth and more than 9,500 indirect jobs over the life of the project. This is good news for Chattanooga which has experienced its own share of recession woes over the past year.