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Attitude of Gratitude

Daughter's artwork- 5th grade

I have already had several conflicts rise up for this weekend, work vs. family.  I am going to have to stand by my kids no matter what, but I am glad.

I am glad for the business, of course. but honestly…if work comes up against family, family wins.  I am glad to share that fact with my clients because if they don’t understand that, then we aren’t really a good match.

I also need my clients to help with weekends like this…my daughters’ have a dance competition.  You may wonder how a customer or client could help with  a dance competition.  Well, quite honestly, I need to work to pay the entry fees for said dance.

So the attitude of gratitude is not a platitude, but rather a latitude of thankfulness that my clients understand what my children need best.

That moment of Dr. Seuss was brought to you by the letter Y.  Y? Because we like you!

Yes, I understand how many youthful commercial memorical metaphors I just mixed.

OK…back to gratitude.

My daughters are so talented.  They are amazing performers and dancers and I am so excited to share a love for dance and the stage with them.  They take the dance world experience to new levels for me…my eldest with her gorgeous voice and vocal solos and my youngest with her tumbling.  I never did either on a stage and am so proud of their fearless nature and gifts.

They are gifted in so many other ways, too.  They both dance, they both sing and they are both so smart.  The eldest is also showing amazing artistic talents.  She has been published as a poet and her art is the featured picture in this story.  We go to Mass MoCA every year and I swear this could be on display there!

My gratitude doesn’t end there, although I thank God every day for two healthy, talented, smart and capable daughters.

I am also grateful for a man who loves me so well.  I don’t want to make my readers nauseous, but today is a special day…the third anniversary of the best first date ever.  I met my boyfriend, Morriss, on Twitter over three years ago.  He turned my world upside down and taught me so many things.  As for all of you it isn’t always easy, but let me tell you…I wouldn’t want it any other way.  Morriss is an amazingly talented man.  He is musical, thoughtful, dedicated and sweet.  Take a look at this video from our five monthaversary:

In closing I am grateful for so many things, including the career that allows me to help other families with their dreams at the same time as I help mine.  What a wonderful life!  Being a real estate agent in Western Massachusetts allows me to provide for my family and to help others with their dreams.  Thank you for choosing to work with me.

Thank you to my children (Sean, Shaun and Ry) and Morriss for putting up with my crazy schedule…that is not the smallest gratitude!

For a life filled with arts, family, love, houses, fun, excitement, adventure, support and GRATITUDE…I thank all of you.

 

Save Money and the Planet with the World Wildlife Foundation Tips

The World Wildlife Foundation, the world’s leading conservation organization has been working for the last 50 years to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature.

On their site they host a series of conservation tips that are good for both the environment and your wallet.

The money saving tips from the WWF include:

Screensavers don’t use less energy. “Sleep mode” reduces a computer’s energy consumption by 60 to 70%. At the end of the day, power it off completely.

The refrigerator is the single biggest energy-consuming kitchen appliance. Opening the door accounts for between $30 and $60 of a typical family’s electricity  bill each year.

U.S. consumers spend up to 10,000 times more per gallon for bottled water than for tap water.

Energy saving tips included:

Using cold water can save up to 80% of the energy required to wash clothes.

Use a microwave instead of the stove to save energy. Microwave ovens use around 50% less energy than conventional ovens do.

The average U.S. office worker goes through 10,000 sheets of copy paper per year. Print on both sides and in draft mode whenever feasible.

These are only a handful of the very helpful and energy efficient tips hosted on this important site.  Be sure to visit WWF to read many more wonderful ideas.

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Five Reasons Why I work so hard as a REALTOR

Family
Family is the most important thing to me and I know it is for my customers and clients in Western MA real estate, too.

A day like yesterday, Easter Sunday, reminds me why I work so hard as a REALTOR.

I thought I would take a quick moment to share the top 5 reasons (besides the five in the photo above):

1- finding the right home as a home buyer in Western MA is such a personal and important decision.  This will be the home that you celebrate holidays in.

2-  selling your Western MA home to move onto the next chapter of your life is intensely emotional and I want to help ease the transition.

My sweet peeps

3- the future of your entire family rest in these decisions and I never take the level of importance, or my role in it lightly.

4- it matters to me to get things done right.  I worry about my clients and customers as if they were MY family.

5- it allows me the ability to provide well for my family.  Not in a strictly financial sense, but in a flexibility of schedule that I wouldn’t have in another field.

The girls

I very much enjoyed my holiday with my family this weekend and I hope you did with yours, as well!  When considering who to hire for your Western MA real estate needs, why not choose Lesley Lambert of Park Square Realty…the realtor who puts your family first to help her family, too!

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Jazz Workshop in Northampton with Tap Dance!

Lesley Lambert: Tap dancing REALTOR
Lesley Lambert: Tap dancing REALTOR (Photo credit: LesleyLambert)

This tap dancing REALTOR had a really amazing time on Tuesday night.  There is an awesome Jazz Workshop every Tuesday at Page’s Loft in Northampton and this week it was a tap dance jam, too!

Morriss and I had gone to the workshop a few weeks ago and while signing an email form I mentioned to the organizer that I wished there was a wood floor because their music made me want to sit in as a tap dancer.  I was so excited when he told me that there was a tap workshop coming up.

This Tuesday Morriss and I excitedly arrived at the venue in time to see most of the headliners, Tap and Tray and the Fool (their performance name) made up of two tappers from Germany, Kurt Albert and Klaus Bleis and Josh Hilberman of Boston.  They were fantastic, smooth and fun and oh so cool in their complicated rhythms.  Here they are performing “Buck and Wing”:

After their performance the workshop jam began and the floor was opened to other performers. I was really intimidated and scared to tap, but I also knew that I would really regret it if I didn’t. I was chatting with Sharon Arslanian and she brought me to the floor and next thing I knew I was performing!

It has been a very very long time since I danced in public, much less performing improv, but what a rush! I shared the song with Stefanie Weber (my maiden name!) and we took turns sharing our renditions. She is an amazing performer and has some really cool projects going on.

We didn’t get any video of me dancing on Tuesday, but here is a short video I posted awhile ago:

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On Family, Friends, Love and Legacy in Western MA

This weekend was a  friend’s 40th birthday party.  Her close knit crowd flew her “home” to Southwick, MA and held a surprise party. I was happy to be invited and even happier to attend.  Even better yet, my sister came “home” with my nephew for the party, too!

I have shared before that I grew up in Southwick, MA.  In retrospect it was a great childhood with wonderful friends and a safe, old fashioned, country surrounding.  Even so, I distinctly remember saying several times in my teen years, “Get me out of here. Anywhere but here.”

I now know that that is a totally normal thing for teenagers and that most of us felt the same, regardless of where we grew up.  I never went very far, but now I am so glad that I didn’t.  Gathering with friends from Southwick makes me so happy.  We have connections and understandings of each other because of our experience in a small town that we would never have shared in another place.

Being there with my friend on her special occasion and all of our friends and especially my sister made me so glad that I am still here in Western MA. We may not all still live in Southwick, MA, but we share a history that creates a legacy that cannot be replicated.

Life in a small town like Southwick, MA may not be as glamorous or cosmopolitan as we thought we wanted, but it does foster a lifetime of support and a legacy of love.

 

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