Grilled Corn Salsa

So I decided to lighten up my blog a bit after those two last posts! Haha! If you remember I love to cook AND eat!! So here is a recipe I came up with one night to put on our grilled tilapia, and my hubby LOVES it! It really is so easy and tasty! Enjoy!!

Ingredients

2 ears of corn

Small red onion

Red pepper

Olive oil

Salt/Pepper

Apple Cider Vinegar

Dash of Sugar

Grill
1.) Take 2 ears of corn (remove husks and clean) and drizzle olive oil over them.

2.) Then salt and pepper them all over and throw them on a medium heat grill and shut the lid.

3. While those grill for about 15-20 mins you can chop up a small red onion, and 1 red pepper,

4.) When the corn is done you let cool and then shave corn off of ear into bowl.

5.) In bowl with corn you add onion and pepper, then give a good coat of olive oil and 1/2 cup of apple cider vinegar, then a shake of salt, pepper, and sugar.

*If you like a good kick then add a pinch of red pepper flakes, or even a small hot pepper.

6.) Mix together and then cover and put in fridge to marinate for at least 4 hrs- 24 hrs. Mixing here and there til needed.

A lesson learned...

Thank you everyone for all your praises on this blog! It still is pretty scary for me to open up like this publicly but I am, as I said in the first blog, working on overcoming my insecurities.  Isn’t it so funny how life can really put you in a spot? I mean a spot that is so uncomfortable and is the last place you want to be but a place that you NEED to be.  The irony of life can be quite comical sometimes huh?

    Yesterday we found out about the passing of a parent to someone who is in our lives almost daily. Unfortunately this person has really brought on some very upsetting situations and LOTS of negative energy on my family this past year. Please know that I am not here to name names or bring up private and personal information of others. I am just here to express my thoughts on this situation. With that being said, remember in my last post I stated (even swore!) that I was going to work on my pride getting in the way of certain life situations? Well finding out about this death is really putting this to test! 

 Here’s a little background on how my pride can at times really run my mind, heart, and soul.  Having the amount of pride that I do makes me very protective of my family, even sometimes makes it hard for me to forgive and especially forget.  Do you know how much those ill feelings I hold in me really just eat up my soul? But how can I forgive someone who has done and said some really despiteful things to people I love and myself? Hmmm…can you sense my mind and heart’s battle?  There have been times I have been told that I just need to swallow my pride for the sake of peace. Okay, for me to swallow this lump of pride it makes me feel like when you are swimming and you accidently swallow a bunch of pool water and it goes down the wrong tube! That instant feeling of no air along with the water burning in your throat and stomach! Man I hate that feeling!  BUT… what happens right after you swallow that water? You cough (ok maybe HACK!) a few times, spit some water out, then voila! All better!! No death or trip to the hospital or anything like that right? So maybe I need to take that approach and apply it to my situation.

Losing a parent is a total and utter heartbreaking event in one’s life. I am SO blessed that I have both my parents alive, in my life, and healthy! I just love them so much and can’t even think of the day they are not here.  So when I heard of this person’s loss it hit home to me. With all my anger, hurt, frustration, and (yep you know it) my pride I felt towards this person why was I feeling all this sadness for them?  Okay well I am human and I am really a kind person who cares about others. So I tried to write it off last night at just that.  Why then did I wake up early this morning thinking about this person with worry on how they are feeling? I think my heart was telling my mind something and it was something important…swallow your pride and reach out with an open heart.

  And that is exactly what I did.  I swallowed my pride. Even though I knew it would hurt for a moment and feel suffocating I just told myself that with a few coughs and hacks I can and will get through it. Obviously I made it and do not deserve any praise for it because that was what had to be done.  I can walk away with this life lesson though:

·         Sometimes life just doesn’t revolve around me and I may need to swallow that silly pride and reach out with an open, sincere heart. (Wow! What a great lesson I needed to learn!)

 My thoughts and prayers are with this person in their time of sorrow and I would like to thank God for my parents, their health, and my time with them.  Until next time…

XOXO,

Sarah

Birthday Resolutions

Welcome to my blog! It is a little scary for me to put myself out there because I never wanted to be in a position to be judged. My whole life I always wanted to be a part of many clubs and even some sports but my insecurities always stopped me from even just trying.  I remember a time when I was about 11 and I talked my mom into signing me up for tennis lessons. Man was I so excited! I can’t remember if I was more excited just for the cute outfits that came with these lessons or if the excitement was for the sport itself.  Truthfully I think it was more for the outfits then the lessons but hey at least I was willing to put myself out there, right?! Well that was until I met the “mean girl”. Surprisingly I don’t remember her name, but I actually don’t even think I had a chance to even get her name before she targeted her bully eyes on me. Well that was the last of those lessons and yes I waved the white flag and quit.

                After turning 33 a few days ago I decided no more waving white flags. This is the year that I am going to own who I am and try to work on my negatives and uplift my positive qualities (maybe even add few more of those positives!) and what a better way to do all this then REALLY put myself out there with this blog, right? Haha! So I have a lot of emotional baggage that I have to sort through and put away to help me overcome my negatives that really inhibit me from living a simple and peaceful life.  I am on my way there and the journey hasn’t been that easy.  There were even some negatives that I didn’t realize I even had until they were pointed out. But during this hard and sometimes sad journey I have caught a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel, and boy is it beautiful!  I was given one life to live, did you hear me?! ONE LIFE!!  Okay it may have taken me 33 years to really get that but at least I got it and I plan to embrace it to my best ability.

                As I was thinking about my new way of life I thought that the best way to work through things is by making a list of all things that need improvement (maybe even a few that just need to disappear completely!) and the things that I am proud of.  Boy this project ended up being harder than I thought! I mean you have to give me a little break, I am Irish and very prideful so to list my negatives is like admitting I am wrong, not something I like to do or be!!  Wait! There’s something I CAN put on my list: 

1.)    I tend to let my pride get in the way of many things!

Ok see that’s a beginning right? It is starting to occur to me this list might take me a bit longer but I figured that I would start working on what I have down already.  So on to my pride.  Truthfully I am afraid this might be the hardest and take me the longest but nothing good comes easy, right?

Well I decided to include a new item of my list on each blog otherwise this one post would probably go down in history as the longest post ever!  And until my next post I do solemnly swear to work on my superabundance of pride to my best ability! Until then just remember that you were given the gift of life, one life, and live it to your fullest!

XOXO,

Sarah