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BLOG GIFT DAY 138 :: 30 days of love: i love a good sneeze

18 May

It’s DAY 8 over here of the 30 Days of Love. We’ve already had two yummy recipes and a week-long Giveaway.And, my love of today is this: 
A big sneeze. 

I have been sneezing all afternoon. My nose is running its own marathon over here. I think it’s the pollen, Mother Nature’s funny way of shouting, “Ahem! Spring is here people!”

Flowers are popping up everywhere. Which I love.
But….

I cannot stop sneezing. 

Don’t get me wrong, I love a good sneeze. Just not a constant Kleenex chase.

It’s kind of gross, and makes me feel like a snotty nosed litte kid all over again. The kind of kid who would giggle at gross photos of a still frame sneeze: things that make you go ew!

And, for the adult in me, and my love to share of the day, here are 10 natural remedies and tips for allergies. 

Sipping tea.
Aaaaah chooo!

More tomorrow, 

Lovemore (fearless),
Jamie
{Got a home remedy to share?}

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BLOG – GIFT DAY 134 :: 30 days of love: get michelle obama arms

14 May

It’s DAY 4 over here of the 30 Days of Love.

We’ve already had two yummy recipes and a Giveaway underway!

And, my love of today is this: A Serious Summer Arm Workout. Why?
Tis the season to sport some Michelle Obama arms!

Check out this article on how to get some serious summer arms from iVillage – just in time for T-Shirt season!

Speaking of… Have you registered for your chance to win a Lovemore+Fearless Tee this week? You have 4 more chances this week! One a day. So register now sweet pea.

And flex some muscle!

More tomorrow,

Lovemore (fearless),
Jamie
{What are you waiting for?
Is it your chance to win?}

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GIFT DAY 131 :: 30 days of love: start with mothers day

11 May

I begin again tonight. Starting with LOVE.

Instead of my promise to do a Gift A Day, I am experimenting with a new twist on it — I am giving away some good old fashioned L.O.V.E. every day for 30 days.Let’s see what happens!

To start, in honor of Mother’s Day, I thought it fitting to share this: Mama Sling’s recipe for some serious treats.Here’s the thing — I don’t eat this way anymore but boy does it bring back good finger licking memories.


PHOTO FROM:   http://lilluna.com/gooey-butter-bars/
(go check it out and give her some link love!)If you’ve never tried a Gooey Butter Bar, well…. brace yourself. The sugar rush alone will send you to Mars and back.

So today, my LOVE of the day, is sharing my mom’s recipe with you.

It’s so good I once caught my dog, PUP, standing on his hind feet, paws on top of the counter, eating the middle out of a fresh batch of Gooey Butter Bars — right before we were supposed to take them to picnic.

(TRUE CONFESSION: I just cut the ends out of the pan and took them to the picnic.)

Anyhoo….. here’s the recipe!

Mama Sling’s Gooey Butter Bars
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1 stick Butter 
1 egg 
1 package yellow cake mix 
1 tsp vanilla 
8 ounce cream cheese 
2 eggs 
2 cups powdered sugar 
Nuts (optional) 

Mix butter, egg and cake. Pat into bottom of 9×13 inch pan. Mix cream cheese eggs powdered sugar and vanilla. Pour onto cake mixture in pan. Bake in 350 degree oven for 30 minutes, dust with powdered sugar. 
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And tomorrow, I wil share a recipe for the kind of treats I can eat these days – Gluten Free Oatmeal Cookies.  

I’m convinced in thirty years there will be a generation of adults walking around this world reminiscing about all the odd food their parents made them eat — like green smoothies, kale chips, and gluten free oatmeal cookies. 

More tomorrow,
Lovemore (fearless),
Jamie

{What was your fave dish your mom made you?
Share in the comments section below.}

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BLOG – GIFT DAY 130 :: i hate quitting

10 May

I hate quitting.

I know hate is a strong word. The word is so intense and so EXTREME. 

But I really hate quitting . . . anything.
I’m a STICK TO IT kind of gal.

Sure, sometimes I procrastinate. Or take a long pause. Who doesn’t?

So today, I am firing up my promise this year to explore abundance and give a gift away a day.

Except, I’m going to morph it a bit.
(I’m not quitting, mind you, just tweaking!) 

You see, I’ve realized that I just can’t get over the word GIFT. It’s highly loaded for the Perfectionista inside of me.

GIFTS feel really BIG.
Gifts carry an intensity that feels, well…. overwhelming sometimes.

(I know there’s a lesson in there for me too.)

So, I’ve dug deep for the past week and tried to figure this out. Why does it feel so HARD to give a gift a day — everyday?

I think I’ve figured a piece of it out.
It comes down to LOVE.

For the next 30 days I am going to morph my gift of the day into a LOVE OF THE DAY. 

I will share my LOVE. Randomly and happily.  

It feels more personal, more meaningful, and more special to me. I can’t really explain it (and I know I’m not explaining it well here) but I FEEL it. 

And, I’m learning that our FEELINGS are the best guidance system we have access to. 

So, I’m going with it. 
Cause, I’m a lover, not a hater.  

More tomorrow,
Lovemore (fearless),
Jamie
{What feels stronger to you, LOVE or GIFT?}

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GIFT DAY 094 30-day gratitude challenge: day 18 – lean in to courage

4 Apr

Day 18 over here….of the 30-Day Gratitude Challenge.

What are you grateful for today?

My new hobby is tracking my pH balance. Yesterday I was dark yellow. Today I am closer to green. Green is good! The pH has gone up past 7.0 according to my pH sticks which is more alkaline. And that’s good — the lemons in my water must be doing their job.

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Lovemore Fearless!
That’s my mantra. And today, well… I cried my eyes out with a lot of fear and then love and then fear and then some more love.

I showed up for my thyroid ultrasound early, after mustering up all the courage my bright smile could handle.

(Did I tell you I was once voted Most Likely To Be Happy In A Nuclear Holocaust? True story. I was in college. And, today, I felt so very not myself.)

While laying on the radiology table I sent consistent messages of love and joy to every fiber of my body. I joked around with the radiologist. We plotted a plan for the hospital to offer foot massages and salt scrubs…. and then…

I sat in the nurse’s chair to have my blood drawn. As soon as she pulled out the fist full of viles my stomach turned.

There were more than ten plastic viles sitting on the table below. Before the needle even appeared my eyes began watering.

“Are you okay?” The nurse asked me.
“I might pass out,” I tried to joke but I couldn’t stop the tears.
“Do you want to lay down?” She asked.
“It’s not physical,” I tried to explain. “It’s emotional.”

The procedure began. The needle poked. The nurse stopped.

“Are you holding your breath?” she asked me.
“Maybe?” I answered, not sure if I was still breathing.
“Don’t hold your breath, or you will pass out.” She smiled.

I sat there with streams running down my face, wondering, “Why am I crying.”
And that’s when the answer hit me. “I’m scared.”

That’s the funky, funny, not so ironic thing about f*Ing fear. It usually sneaks up from behind, catches you off-guard when you least expect it. In public no less. With a needle jammed up your arm and ten plastic viles being filled red.

So what did I do?
I let the tears fall. Facing my fear, in living color, crying out loud, on the spot.

And I prefer to call it courage.

So, today I am grateful for:

1) Making lemons into pH lemonade
2) Tears
3) Courage

What are you grateful for?

More tomorrow.
Lovemore (fearless),
Jamie

{Your turn! Share what you’re grateful for in the comments section below. Courage.}

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GIFT DAY 091: 30-day gratitude challenge: day 15, are you telling the truth?

1 Apr

Day 15 of the 30-Day Gratitude Challenge over here.

We are half-way there.

Today is an interesting day being April Fool’s Day.
All I can think about is the truth.

Part of me wants to tell you something absurdly funny today. Part of me wants to fool you, to make you laugh, to make you smile, or maybe, to shock your socks off.

I had all sorts of wild ideas of what I could write.

You would have loved it!
But it came down to this — it would not have been the truth.

And I want this place to be so near and dear to my heart that it is always the truth — as much of the truth that I am clear about in the moment.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a good joke.

Grandpa Sligar, jamie eslinger, the promise daily

I can easily play the fool. I come from a long line of pranksters. My grandfather, God bless him, was a PREACHER and a PRANKSTER all wrapped into one big bear-hug of a man.

He would tease us with candy cigarettes, pretending they were real just to see how we would react when he offered one our way.

In his heyday he was known to have more than a few jokes up his sleeve. I inherited his wide angle on enlightenment and an appreciation for the funny bone too.

So today, it’s not easy for me to hold back. I SO want to unleash some funny! But, I never want to fool you.

It’s just not what this promise is about.

Let me stick to what I know I am grateful for:
1) Memories of my Grandpa – such a funny man!
2) April showers that will bring May flowers
3) Your trust

And that’s the truth.

More tomorrow.
Lovemore (fearless),
Jamie

{The truth? You don’ t have to share… but it feels so good when you do! Share what you’re grateful for in the comments section below.}

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BLOG – GIFT DAY 086 30-day gratitude challenge: day 10, lovemore fearless

27 Mar

Day 10 of the 30-Day Gratitude Challenge over here.

What are you grateful for today? 
What floats your boat? 
What has you singing the praises of fairy-godmothers and fabulous friends today?

Today I am grateful for: 

1) Sunshine so bright I had to wear shades.
2) Computers!
3) LOVE.

And, when I say LOVE I don’t meant the fairytale, bring me flowers and chocolates, fall head over heels LOVE.

I don’t mean the unconditional protect my tribe at all costs sort of parental LOVE.

I don’t even mean that hormonal attraction that makes your heart skip a beat brand of LOVE.

What I mean is this….
I am grateful that I have discovered LOVE.

The kind of LOVE that is the opposite of fear.
The kind of LOVE that is the glue between you and me.
The kind of LOVE that connects us all.

The LOVE that allows me to open my eyes and see things differently, as if you were me, or I were you.

The kind of LOVE that reminds me that we are all the same.
Same journey, different paths.

I am grateful to LOVE.
The kind that has been bestowed upon me.
And the kind that has been taken away from me too.

LOVE is a LESSON.
And it’s here for us to learn as we give it a go, take a leap, extend our hand and help each other along the way.LOVE is a lesson that will persistently pop up over and over again until we get it right. 

For that, I am grateful to LOVE.
And, what’s not to LOVE about that?


You can pin the above image by clicking here.

More tomorrow.
Lovemore (fearless),
Jamie

{What’s your attitude of gratitude today? Share in the comments section below.}

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GIFT DAY 063: do you love your scars?

4 Mar

I have an abundance of scars.

Like the scar that runs down the center of my belly and the scars on both of my knees. There are scars on my hand and calf too.

They each have a story.
All lessons in courage, strength and faith.

The scar on my belly came from a cancer diagnosis. It taught me abut healing and gave me faith in life. I used to pull my shirt up and share my belly scar with strangers. I was so proud of it, as if it were bragging rights.

The scars on my knees came from a sand volleyball court. They remind me to go after my dreams and take a leap even if it means digging in deep.

The scars on my hands taught me all about puppy love. And, the scar on my calf, well …it taught me about how to avoid the kind of dogs who bite.

Justin is working on a new scar.
scars, justin, jamie eslinger, thepromisedaily.com, thepromise365.com

The initial wound came from an unfortunate bounce from that pink buoy that washed ashore the other day. It bounced right up and hit him in the eye.

Who knew that those things have hard handles that attack?

(Good thing we have a few Keep Calm and Carry On bandages in stock!)

His eye will heal.
But just like my scars, only the story will remain. Which is the best part of a scar anyway — bragging rights!

I love my scars.
But the ones I love the most are the ones I cannot see.

They are the scars on my heart and inside my soul. The ones that healed through an abundance of love, prayer, reflection, time and faith.

The scars we can’t see are the ones we remember most. They are the stuff heroes are made of and the ones worth living for.

And, I think, they are the scars that make us truly beautiful — and alive.
Oh yeah… and those bragging rights too.

More tomorrow.
Lovemore,
Jamie

{Do you have scars your proud of? Do share in the comments section below.}


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GIFT DAY 045: happy valentine’s day :: my gift to you!

14 Feb

It’s V-Day around here. 

To celebrate, Justin and I made a pact to be low-key, and just write each other love letters.

(I love Love Letters!)

So what did I wake up to this morning? Two cards (one from the dogs) and a gift. The gift was the first season of GIRLS which I casually dropped in a conversation months ago.

That man.
I swear he remembers almost everything, and is sweeter than sugar sometimes.

So… now it’s MY TURN to give a GIFT.
And it’s for you!

I’m giving ONE of these away today…

Will it be my favorite heart-shaped rock?

the heart in the palm of your hand, jamie eslinger, the promise 365, thepromisedaily.com

My Puppy Love?

Brady, Pup, jamie eslinger, thepromise365, thepromisedaily.com, lovemore+fearless

My man?

Justin_walking_on_water, jamie eslinger, thepromisedaily.com, thepromise365

Our heart-shaped shell?

heart shell, beach, jamieeslinger, thepromise365, thepromisedaily.com

Or, a Lovemore+Fearless Tee?

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You guessed it!
A Lovemore+Fearless Tee!

It’s yours if you want it. Just be the FIRST person to comment on the blog today and I’ll drop your tee in the mail to you.

One tee to the first person to comment.

Let the games begin!

Happy Valentine’s Day my loves.

More tomorrow.
Lovemore,
Jamie

{Want the Tee? Just be the first person to comment below.}

 

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GIFT DAY 031: it’s so hard to keep my mouth shut

31 Jan

It is the last day of January.

The first month of the year has flown by.

Hard to believe, isn’t it?

How are those New Year Resolutions treating you?

I find that it’s a daily commitment, this goal thing. And, actually, it’s more of a promise for me. Because promises are deeper, more personal, more pressing and most important.

promise, the promise daily, the promise 365, jamie eslinger
So far, I’ve kept my promise to give a gift away each and every day this year.

But it hasn’t been easy. I’ve almost missed some days and had to log-on to the iTunes Store at the eleventh hour just to send a quick gift off to a special friend.

Those gifts are no less important, just rushed.

So far my promise has me questioning, “Just what is a GIFT anyway?”

Some days it’s purely physical, material goods.
Other days it’s my time and attention (which is admittedly hard to focus).

Most days though, my gifts are love.
And those are the best ones.

Today for instance, I met a new friend and couldn’t help but burst at my seams to recommend a book for her to read. Later on, as I sat in my car, I thought, “She must think I’m crazy pushing a book on her.”

But the more I thought about it the more I realized my action came from love. You see, when I KNOW about something that will help someone else, well ….

IT. IS. SO. HARD. TO. KEEP. MY. MOUTH. SHUT.

The problem is (and I know this to be true) all the information and books in the world will not do what one moment of listening will.

I realize that I should have kept my mouth shut.
Which is sometimes the hardest act of will but the biggest act of love.

It’s a gift.

More tomorrow.
Lovemore,
Jamie

P.S. More goodies and giveaways on The Promise Daily.  Sign up here.  Do. It. Smile. Love.

{You don’t have to keep your mouth shut here! Feel free to comment on the blog.}

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