What is this Blog about?

You Probably think this Blog is about you...and it might be...

Hello world! This is Beckee from Ah...Life...(My personal family blog--Where the Beautiful People come), Ah...Deals...Beckee's Deals (Where the Beautiful People come to score a deal), Ah...Books! Beckee's Book Club (Where the beautiful people come to find a good book, and now this Blog: You Probably think this Blog is About You. It kind-of bucks the trend in that it is not named after me, but that makes sense since it is not going to be much about me. Well, a little, but mainly, it will be about YOU! The beautiful people that I love and adore-the people that have made my life a little better just by being you!

Why, you ask, do I want to write a blog about YOU?! Well, let me tell you how this all came to be...

I moved away from my "Homaha" (as the kids called out Home in Omaha) last June. I live in Scottsdale, AZ, and I only live here for one short year. In a few months I will be moving to Washington state. This is not our first move. Since getting married in 2001, my husband, Wes and I (with our growing family) have moved from Utah to Nebraska to Spokane, Washington, took a 6 week pit stop in SLC, Utah, moved back to Nebraska, and now are living in Arizona (getting ready to move to Aberdeen, Washington). Our families live in Utah (mostly), and we move a lot. We meet LOTS of friends at each stop and I feel like I am leaving family as we leave each home.

It sucks to leave family behind for the unknown. BUT it is also really, really awesome to have friends all over that I know I can still talk to via the fabulous advances in technology that have happened over the past 20 years or so! THANK YOU email, THANK YOU Facebook, THANK YOU Skype for helping me to stay in touch with my people!

I got off track a little (not uncommon for me)...OK, so you get that I know lots of people all over the country-well, even world. It occurred to me a few months ago, that there are a number of people in my life that do small things that make a big difference in my life, but they have no clue! I thought, MAN, I never make a difference in anyones day-ever. When I told my husband how I felt, he said something like "I am sure you do, but you just don't realize it because no one mentions it." That was the beginning of this blog-ideas began to form in my mind-WE SHOULD TELL EACH OTHER HOW AWESOME THE LITTLE THINGS ARE!

What do I mean by little things? Well, thanks for liking my FB post! Thanks for sending me a little email or text! Thanks for remembering my birthday! Thanks for just caring!

I was not sure how to tell people how awesome they made my day or how much easier my life is because of them. I hate emotional interactions-really I do, but I like to tell people how much I like them without having to have a mushy, uncomfortable moment. So, this way I can tall you how awesome you are, if you need to cry a little or if I need to as I type, we can do it on our own and you can send me cyber hugs and we will give real hugs when we see each other in person next time.

Now-to get very serious (and a little emotional-I am crying already as I type this), I think of doing stuff like this often, but never do it. It took a HUGE, tragic push to make me do this. On December 14th, 2012 I was in Disneyland with my family. We were in a bubble of happiness and fun. No cell phones, no news, nothing outside Mickey and his friends. Then we walked out to our car and turned on the radio-and turned it off quickly as the news of the devastating shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT was scaring our children. I grabbed my smart phone with it's dead battery and plugged it in and joined the rest of the world as I watched in disbelief and horror at the news coming out of CT. I have a 6-year-old, a First Grader, and this tragedy has devastated me and scared me in ways I could never have expected (I wrote a blog post more about this here if you want to read it-I will not go further into my thoughts here).

Quickly people started to try DOING something #26Acts, Showing Kindness, Love Wins...to me, the overwhelming theme was SHOWING LOVE to Others-to friends and strangers-making people feel love and know they are loved, needed, noticed and appreciated.

Today I read an article about Daniel Barden's parents. Daniel is one of the children killed in Sandy Hook Elementary School with 19 of his classmates and 6 adults. This is the part of the article I want to point out:

"Something good has to come out of this," said Jackie Barden. "And that's a little comforting to know."
The Bardens said they want their son's memory to live by encouraging people to do little gestures for other...s.
"A little gesture like that goes a long way," said Mark Barden."I think if more people realized that you don't have to do great big things, just little things, it would make a big difference. You can do a lot of good with a little gesture."

So, Here is my small gesture. It is a little thing, but hopefully, I can make sure some of the people that have made me feel loved, needed, noticed, and appreciated can at least get a shout out and a thank you! I Guess Hopefully this blog will be Where the Beautiful People Come to Feel the Love! :)