Global Entries Online For Equestrian Sporting Events

Show season is coming up. I have a hard time keeping track of what types of shows are where and when. I figured I had better start to figure this stuff out because I think my 12-year-old daughter is going to want to start showing. Her horse died unexpectedly a few months ago and I wondered if that would take the heart out of horses for her but after a month, she got back up on one of the stable’s lesson horses. With her recent start in jumping lessons, it is going to be sooner rather than later. All of her stable friends show their horses so it’s pretty apparent she will follow when she is ready.

I came across a site that shows efficiently schedules equestrian events. At Global Entries Online, you can find shows in disciplines such as campdrafting (popular Australian sport), coaching, endurance, eventing, equitation, dressage, gymkhana, harness, horse racing, show jumping, reining, showing, vaulting, and rodeo.

If you are not of the horse loving variety and/or just prefer other sports, it’s not just a site for equestrian sports. It also includes sports such as dance, tennis, gymnastics, motorcycling, auto racing, boat racing, and more.

If you are an organizer and want to get started, they offer an Organizers Manual to get you started. Get your event scheduled so the masses have easy access to the information.

Whether my daughter decides to show or not, horses are her love. Rex, her horse that passed away, gave her such confidence and joy. She’ll continue on with horses one way or another.

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Banned PETA Commercial: Go Veggie!

Have you seen the banned PETA commercial? Women playing with vegetables...*eyeroll*

This blog has been rated PG (so far) so I won't post the link here. Go to YouTube and do a search for: Peta banned ad for veggie love. Unbelievable.

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409 Visitors So Far Today!

Wow! This blog had 409 visitors so far today! Woot!

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Tequila & Bree

This is the latest picture of my daughter getting to know Tequila, the horse our trainer is letting Bree love on after she lost her horse, Rex, in August. She has awesome ground manners.

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Hope You Like My New Template

I've spent odd moments over the last couple of days designing a new header for this blog to use with a new template that I found. Yesterday, I loaded it up.

I like this new layout better than the previous one that I had. I hope you do too!

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Being A Strong Woman

Part of "cowgirl up" is to be strong and take responsibility for yourself. That can mean different things to different people.

For some women, it means getting out of a bad relationship knowing you deserve better. For others, it means finding somebody to talk to (friend, pastor, therapist) when you are feeling down and need an ear and somebody with a clear head. Part of taking responsibility for yourself also means taking care of yourself so your body and mind is healthy.

I've been that woman in all three of those situations at one point or another in my life.

I've been in an abusive relationship. I never thought I deserved it. I naively thought if I could get him to stop drinking, it'd be OK because he was a mean drunk. Once I realized "I" couldn't get him to stop drinking and he wasn't what I wanted in a husband or to raise children with, I left him before I ended up more badly hurt than all the "c" words spewed at me, shaking that left bruised collar bones, and bashing my head into the car window when I finally stood up to him and had enough. Nobody treats me like that or should expect me to just put up with it like his mother did. No way. I was not giving any future children that legacy of abuse.

I go see a therapist when it feels like things get to be too much. I went after I moved away from home to deal with the fallout from a dysfunctional family. I've gone to deal with being in a really crappy step situation with no control over any of it that had me on the verge of either walking away from my marriage or losing my sanity (being a stepmother is the hardest thing I've ever done). I love my husband; I hate the "difficult ex" baggage that came with him (four years and four months left...thank the gods!). It helps just to have somebody to talk to. I don't want to ever get to the point where stress cripples my life. I get clarity and healthy ways to deal with the stress in a couple months' time and get myself into a healthy place again (how to cope with my husband's ex, how to handle a stepchild's anger towards our kids, etc.).

I think it is important that I stay in a healthy state of mind for my kids, for my husband, and for myself. What good am I to them if I don't? I never want to put my kids into a situation where mom becomes a mental case. It's too heavy a load to put on a child's shoulders. I don't want to scar my children by continuing family dysfunction that I grew up with. That cycle, for my family, stopped at me. It won't continue through my kids.

Finally, there is taking care of my health. I recently started a new blog so that I have a daily reminder to think about myself and my health. It's only a few days old but it's a start so I don't fall back in the rut of doing things a lot of moms do - forget about taking care of themselves while they take care of everybody else. I want to do at least one thing for myself a day that helps my health. I keep track of that on the blog. In the winter, this is especially hard for me because my horse is a great stress reliever. However, in the very cold winter months, I just can't do a whole lot with her. So my new blog was born as a daily reminder that my own health is important and I better start taking better care of it.

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Sugar High & Scritches

I just got back from seeing my girl at the stable. She tried to eat my coat buttons...again. She got one once last winter...chewed it into little pieces and left it on the ground. I fed her a couple sugar cubes, gave her scritches, and then came home to warm my fingers and toes. It's cold out there!

I can't wait for it to warm up so we can get going at the stable with the horses again. This "winter" thing can just go away!

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Posting Pics of Your Horse

If you are looking for a place to post your horse pictures for free or like to look at other people's photos, check out My Horse. This was advertised in Perfect Horse magazine.

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