My Anguilla Experience!

Hi everyone

Well it certainly has been a busy 2013 for me. I have been working on a few new projects, one of which I am excited to reveal today.  First let me say thanks for reading this blog. I love sharing my thoughts with you.

In fact, my blog post ‘Why I am never bored in Anguilla’ is the most popular blog I have written. In that blog I mentioned that I wanted to start a new blog about why I love Anguilla. Well I did. Today I officially launched myanguillaexperience.com. I am very excited about this blog so check it out and follow me. Please also follow me on twitter @ShelleciaB.

I thought that it would be really cool to put a local voice and face to the Anguillian experience. I am going to be getting out there and truly exploring Anguilla and what it has to offer and I hope that you will join me on this journey. This journey will be quite diverse and will cover areas such as exploring our beaches, trying new restaurants and visiting attractions to my attempts to cook local recipes like conky dumplings and pea soup (all my friends are laughing now) and will even include my Anguilla wedding and honeymoon.

I look forward to your suggestions on what I should do.

I encourage you to go and visit myanguillaexperience.com right now and follow me on twitter.

For all the readers of say-yes-to-today.blogspot.com, I will still be writing this blog and I look forward to your continued support of both blogs in 2013.

Remember, with vision and determination, all your dreams, hopes and goals can come true. Say Yes to Success and raise your glasses to love, health and happiness today! Cheers!

Remembering 2012 and seriously getting excited about 2013

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

I am excited. Personally 2012 was a spectacular year. So many wonderful things happened during the year and I give infinite thanks.

Highlights of my year included celebrating another birth year, getting engaged (see photo below), home ownership, watching my sister graduate, fantastic vacations, teaching the Personal and Professional Development course at the Comprehensive Learning Centre to fabulous students, Presidency of the Optimist Club of Anguilla which was a great learning and growing experience and so much more.

When I asked Nash what the highlights of his year were his answer made me smile. He said they were the simple moments like 'seeing me smile, talking to his brother, waking up each day... this is why I love this man.

Photo credit - Signature7602 Studios

 

But I digress ... if you know me at all, you will know that I also get excited about something, anything big or small at least twice a day. You might hear me say

‘I am so excited to eat lunch’ or I am excited for a friend starting something new in his or her life or I am excited just because my love dropped by the office. I don’t ever want to lose my child like enthusiasm for what most would consider the mundane things in life.

So yes, even though 2012 was so spectacular, I don’t mind saying goodbye to it because I am excited about what lies ahead in 2013. If it is God’s will, I will celebrate my 30^th in 2013 (woo hoo – can we say 30 and fabulousJ. I will also marry the love of my life -I am so excited! Can anyone tell how many times I said excited or some version of this word in this blog?

How about you? What makes you excited? It is the season to be jolly so don’t be a scrooge. Get excited! Get happy. I certainly am. Say Yes to getting excited today.

Let me take this opportunity to say a very WARM THANK YOU to those who have subscribed to or read my blog. I hope this blog has inspired you in some way or at the very least made you chuckle :).  To my readers in North, South and Central America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and of course Anguilla please do continue to read  and share in 2013 and look out for a new blog coming soon!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year or Season Greetings from 'Say Yes to Today!'

2012 - A year of Joy, Hope, Thanks!

Hi everyone!

So I can hardly believe that there are only 22 more days remaining in 2012. I can still vividly remember ringing in the new year with Patricia ‘the classy host of the evening’ and my other equally classy colleagues and friends.  Join us this New Year on Monday 31^st December 2012. Further details will be provided later.

2012 held a lot of promise on that night and I will say that the year did not disappoint! So far I have been so incredibly blessed and so many amazingly wonderful things have happened this year. Indeed, to God be the glory great things he has done. Whether or not, things had fallen perfectly in place, I do hope that I would still have been singing praises to God for his work in my life. I can’t say with certainty that I would have but I am certainly working on giving God praise through the good times and the bad times.

This season has been one of joy and good fortune for me but I know of many who had many challenges this year. These challenges included the sting and heartbreak of death of a loved one, health issues and financial issues.  Through it all though, I have been inspired by the strength, inner beauty and peace of those around me who have faced challenges, trials and tests and remained strong and full of joy! They have definitely been good models that I can emulate!

As my faith deepens and my personal inner joy of gaining a deeper understanding of the Word increases I think that I am certainly on the right track.  I am far from perfect but thankfully perfection is not what is required of me.

I don’t know what your joys or struggles were this year but whether you were on the top of the mountain for most of the year or somewhere in the valley or maybe in a storm or flood I trust that you never stopped giving praise and saying thank you. In fact, if you are reading this you are still here.  Say with me, to God be the glory, great things he has done.

Drop me a line and let me know the highlights or low moments of your year and whether or not you remembered to give praise through it all.

I hope to be in touch with you a few more times before we ring in 2013.
Cheers!

Pic (Dec 31st 2012 rocking a dress from Hottest Selections)