Rainbows

When I started this blog, I asked myself in what order should I write my blog regarding my life experiences? So I decided to treat this blog writing the same way I do my song writing. I pray and I wait for God to lead me and guide me on what, when and how he wants me to share my life with you! When I was getting ready to start my Senior year in High School I found out that I was 3 months pregnant. Back then, they did not let girls that were pregnant attend school. They had an in home program called Home Bound, where the teacher comes to your home.
After learning that I was going to be a mommy we began quickly planning a wedding in two weeks! Robby ended up coming a month early! After he was born, the next week I turned 18 yrs old. He was a beautiful child. People would stop us all the time to tell us how beautiful he was. A year in a half later I would be faced with going through a divorce!
On Memorial Day of 1983 I was suppose to work at market that day but I was sick with a virus. The night before we had made plans to go with a friend to see the movie Flash Dance. She had unexpected company and had to cancel. That night Robby and I headed to our home and I laid down with him in his bed. I read him a book and we said our prayers. I fell asleep in his bed. I had a dream. The dream was that I had gone on to the movie and left him at the house. Upon returning home when I turned the corner on my street my house was ingulfed in flames. It was at that moment that I woke up and started throwing up.
I called my mom to come and get him and she did. I remember he was in the den eating his cereal and he was hollering for me to turn the ceiling fan off! My mom came and got him. Several hours later she called and asked me if Robby could go to my ex inlaws home until his Dad would come and pick him up. Every Monday his Dad would come and get him and keep him over night. I called and his Grandmother said that would be fine. He had been there about an hour when I got the call from her neighbor that there had been an accident and they needed to come and get me. I decided I wanted to get to the hospital faster so I called my friend down the street. When we got to the hospital they were still working on him. After a while they decided to transfer him to a children's hospital downtown. They transferred him by ambulance. By Wed. things started to spiral downhill. Around Thurs they transferred us to another hospital and they wanted to run test to see if there were any brain waves. On Fri. morning they would tell us there were no brain waves and we were faced we having to disconnect life support. When the Dr.'s disconnected the machine he passed away and while that was taking place we watched the life slowly leave his body. At that moment there was a loud burst of thunder and all the lights in the hospital went out! We left in darkness! It was chaos at the hospital because the ICU nurses were running in the halls making sure the back up systems were working! At one point I thought The Lord was returning!
Once we were in the car and heading home, one side of the sky was light, the other dark and there were two complete rainbows in the sky with two white doves in the center of the Rainbows. At the funeral we shared our story and when we were at the graveside one of my friends brought me a piece of paper that she had written a poem on. This poem came to her around the same time that Robby died. She later cross stitched the poem and it is in my den today!
This wasn't the only time in my life that God would send me Rainbows. But because he speaks to me by sending me Rainbows, I have a very close and intimate relationship with him! Have you ever asked him to send you a sign?
God's plan we do not always see
With the human eye
It's hard to find the reason
When a little boy must die.
He is familiar with your grief
The hurt, the loss, the stun.
You see "For God so loved the world
He sent his only son.
He's promised us a better life
For those that will believe
Eternal life and happiness
Await us when we leave
He gave a promise long ago
And to show that he'd be true
He sent a sign, a rainbow
For the world, for me, for you
And when I heard that he had died
I looked up to the sky
And I thought, " God how can that be?
Then something caught my eye
A Rainbow for Robby
Today Febuary 24 the would be Robby's 35th birthday!

Guys-Now that Valentines Day is Over, Did you Fail?

I was talking to one of my clients this week who is a male! He and his wife are clients and have been dear friends for a long time! He is the ultimate example of a romantic husband and I have begged them to do seminars! I love what he said and he gave me permission to share it! Men have 5 Chances for failure each year! These are the 5- 1. Valentines Day 2. Birthday 3. Mothers Day 4. Anniversary 5. Christmas
Don't believe your wife when she says, "Honey, you don't need to buy me anything for Valentines Day!" Or " Don't worry Honey we really don't have the money! How many of us have said this to our husbands? But deep down in your heart when there is no gift there you have a little bit of disappointment! I know that for myself, it doesn't take much to make me happy! I think about when we were younger and we would go to the mall and I would say, " Oh I love that! " then my birthday would be coming and my husband would say, " What do you want for your birthday? " and I would have just shown him 3 items at the mall that I would love to have!
One time Ronnie came in with a single rose and I loved that! It was so special! Trust me you don't have to spend a fortune! But what I am saying is do something! When Ronnie does things that I'm not happy with for instance burping, I say to him, " If I was your girlfriend would you be doing that?" Lol Just because your wife is not your mother doesn't mean you don't get have to get her a gift! Remember we grew up watching fairy tales, and women love it when our man comes up with a special surprise on his own, whether it's diamonds, candy whatever it is! Try not to fail the rest of this year and see what happens to spice up your romance in your relationship! If you do not have the money to even buy a single rose then fix her a bubble bath and give her a massage! It's still special attention on a special day! You just do it and see what happens!

Who am I?

Let me introduce myself to you! My name is Lisa Allred! I was born in a West Texas town called Snyder about one hour from Lubbock! When I was still a baby my parents moved to Grapevine, Texas! Because I am a true blooded Texan I have a very strong Southern Draw and have even been asked if I was from Georgia!
In 2010 I was helping to plan my 30 year high school reunion! I had been trying to lose weight and now we were down to 6 weeks before the reunion was to take place and I had yet to lose the 25 to 30 lbs that I had set in my mind to lose, because I had been stuck on a plateau! I had some friends that were successful with the Slim 4 Life program and so I decided to give that a try! I feel like the only difference in this and what I had been doing was that my protein was increased my carbs were decreased! This change began to make a difference and in exactly 6 weeks, the day of the reunion celebration I was down 30 lbs!
My highest weight was 239! After my reunion I continued to keep losing and at the time got to 156. While planning my reunion I ran into a friend and she had been singing! I had spent years in what I call a season of depression due to a number of reasons. I woke up one day and said " I'm not going to stay here any more! " and I did not! I remember going to the gym and seeing my huge body in the mirrors I was surrounded by saying, " I will never be skinny" eventually that turned into positive what I call cheerleading to myself saying, " if you were on the Biggest Loser Show, you would have to get on that treadmill and do it blood, sweat and tears so get your Advil and get with it girlfriend!  While my kids were growing up I had spent years and years of working! I worked to pay for select baseball teams, trips to tournaments, many private lessons, dance competitions you name it!
After losing this weight I decided I would like to do some things I would like to do! I had done some musical things in my adolescent to jr.  high years but let's face at 15 years old my interest for boys to men quickly became my top priority! So!! We will touch on that part of my life later lol!
My friend kept talking about her vocal coach and I kept asking for his number! One day I got a call from Corley (Desi)! He said, " I understand you are interested in taking some voice lessons!" I said, " Yes I am!" He said, " Let's set up a time for you to come to the studio and let me hear you sing and will go from there!" Now you have to understand and Desi can witness to you that my life consisted of  singing in the car, lol which I still do to this day! I was use to singing along even in an a acapella church which was what I was raised in! So I had never had professional lessons! I could not project my voice! Sing along yes but these were two different exercises! I started lessons with Desi around the end of January in 2011!  I truly to this day feel like God placed Desi into my life at this specific time and what I was about to learn about me, myself and I was more than just learning how to sing! My life was about to have some interesting challenges that I would face! Test in life! And as I went thru this journey I would learn lots of valuable lessons! God had already been working for years and years in my life giving me layer by layer as I was ready planning and preparing me for something! What was it? I had been a hairdresser since 1981 I thought that was it! But no he had even bigger plans for this Texas raised girl named Lisa Gail! Keep following to find out the rest of the story! And feel free to ask questions when you want to!
I hope I can figure out how to upload some photos since this blogging is my new adventure! Lol I've taught myself quite a bit about social media and other new experiences! I'm still learning things all the time and the one thing that always stays in my mind! No matter what age you are in order to succeed in life and gain new wisdom in various things we need to have a teachable spirit. This is important! Let me tell you coming from a person who has had years of rebelling especially against authority lol this will humble you quickly!

Wow! I finally did it! Yay!

Well I was sitting here thinking where do I start? And then it dawned on me well you just did! So there you have it! Yay!
This is just the beginning of yet a new journey of life with Lisa Gail! I have lots of stories to share with you! I hope you will follow my blog because it is here that I will get up close and personal with you in the most intimate way because I have a lot of things that go on in my life!
 I use to say each day is like a new episode of the Lucille Ball show! Lol! One of the things you will learn about me is how much I love people! I promise you cannot shock me with anything! I have lots of experience! So get on board with me and let's take a ride on a magic carpet!
I want to share my life changes that started in 2010 and where I was before those changes took place and where I am today! Still Overcoming all the obstacles that try to sabotage but guess what? I'm still choosing to believe that there are huge things headed my way and you too can believe and  have the opportunity to turn your life into a dream come true!
Happy Valentines Day! How fun to start a blog the very weekend of Valentines Day when you are so full of love to give! Bless someone this weekend if you don't know how or what to do to make that happen just ask?  Love, Lisa Gail