Tuesday, February 2, 2010

A Mother's Job Is To Teach ....

"My job as a Mother is to teach you how to be happy" quote by Mindy. Oh, how I wish I had that thought when I had a house full of kids, I wasn't trying to be mean I was trying to teach them how to be happy". No one can be happy when they hurt someone else (I guess unless he is a psychopath) so when a mother stops that behavior she is trying to teach that to be happy we need to treat others with kindness. "Live isn't fair" - and I am so thankful that life isn't fair - I know people who their whole lives have lived with pain and if life was fair wouldn't that mean I would have to live with pain all of the time? What about being homeless - for it to be fair wouldn't that mean that I would need to be homeless also? I think we should celebrate the fact that life isn't fair - I'll keep my own problems, thank you. "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" our Constitution. I read where the founding fathers meant that every individual would have equal opportunity to obtain life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Everyone has the opportunity to go to school and get an education and if one works hard enough they can have others pay for their college - it is what one does with the opportunities they are given that will determine the outcome. "You reap what you sow" like the above quote this is so very true and sometimes it will be years later that you reap the tears or laughter. If I am a miserable person today than years from now I could end up with no one wanting to be around me, even if misery loves company. I would rather be with a person who celebrates life then complaining how close death is. "you need to not only believe in Christ but believe what Christ has said" (author is Roberts, I believe). There is such a difference in believing in Christ and believe what he has said. In Alma 36:3 it says ". . . ; for I do know that whosoever shall put their trust in God shall be supported in their trials, and their troubles, and their afflictions, and shall be lifted up at the last day." Do we believe that Christ will support us? Do we believe in his tender mercies? Do we believe our prayers are answered? Do we believe he really knows me? "Life is not a bowl full of cherries" life at times just sucks! No apparent reason, even when we keep the commandments, do everything in our power, at times life will give out stress, heart burn, headaches, bad health and bad breath. "It is not what happens to us that matters but how we respond that matters". Attitude is everything, nobody lives a perfect life but a person can have a perfect attitude. Well, I hope you liked the quotes but best of all a Mother's job is to teach happiness. Love to all of you!

Saturday, January 2, 2010

And Your Thoughts Were?

A few days ago I was reading in Mosiah (4:30) which states; "But this much I can tell you, that if ye do not watch yourselves and your thoughts, and your words, and your deeds, and observe the commandments of God, and continue in the faith of what ye have heard concerning the coming of our Lord, even unto the end of your lives, ye must perish. And now, O man, remember, and perish not." Then today I read another quote about thoughts by Napoleon Hill (American author of personal success literature); "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches." I bring this up because I have been very lax about my thoughts and have let negativity creep in some areas that have become frustrating to me, so it was a blessing that I came across these two wonderful quotes to remind me that where my thoughts are so goes my day, my week, month, year and also eternity. So my question to you is, how go your thoughts?

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Halloween Stories

Halloween was fun, we had about 300 toddlers, kids, teenagers, and adults show up this year. Someone asked me if I stood and counted how many came to the door (yea, like I don't have a life and have nothing else to do). I told them no, it is just that we had three bags of candy that had approximately 120 pieces in each bag which was a total of 360 pieces of candy and I know I did not eat that much candy. So onto the stories. Two little (about 4 years old) African-American boys came and the one just looked at me and said "So do you have any candy?"
Ken opened the door and a little girl asked if she could have Faye's dog instead of candy. Ken told her she would have to fight it out with Faye.
One woman reported that a whole family came to her door - the whole family included the children, parents, and grandparents and all of them had their own bags for the candy. I know we are in a recession but I didn't realize how bad until I heard this as a way to get a year supply of snacks. Well, OK, maybe they have something about a family that trick or treats together stays together or an evil person might say that everyone in that family is really selfish and they won't share their candy so it is everyone for themselves. A friends teenage son dressed up really scary and was having fun making little kids cry (I don't know this for sure) and scarring everyone but when it came to the candy he was giving out fist fulls until his mother caught him. She took over the job of handing out the candy and let him continue scarring people. Heck, I think this is one missed guided mother. Let the kid hand out the candy in fist fulls, who cares, I'd rather dress up as a witch and run after kids just to hear them holler. Well, my time is up, I hope all of you had a good Halloween and are ready for that ugly bird we all enjoy eating. Until next time, try not to behave yourself.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

I have done some amazing things

Ok, if you were to ask me outright what those amazing things were I would have to say I don't remember. I mean so much time has passed that I am sure that I have done a least one amazing thing - maybe it was so amazing it went right over my head and I didn't realize it or I am just in the habit of doing amazing things and just don't realize how amazing I am. Then there is always the argument that every person has a different perspective of what goes on around them - for instance Ken might feel that when he gets home and I am dressed and not on the computer is an amazing thing. I just had my 59th birthday and to some that is amazing to be that old and still walking around. At the rec center that I go to for water aerobics there is a very tall slide, you have to walk up three flights of stairs and last Friday I went down that water slide not once but twice - that is amazing, especially to those women who said they would NOT be going down that slide. I tried to tell them if they were afraid of going down the slide how were they every going to be able to go sky diving next year when I turn 60. One older lady (probably in her 80's) decided that she would go down the slide. She was having a few problems getting back on her feet when she hit the water and I just happened to still be in the pool so after a few seconds I thought it might be a good idea to help her get her head above water so I grabbed her arm, the thing is when I saw her head my first thought was "what happened to all of her hair, she looks bald". After I got her head out of the water I heard someone scream pull her out of the water - it didn't phase me one bit because I was still focused on where had all of her beautiful white hair gone to. Any way, she coughed a little and complained about water in her ears - everyone clapped for her because she did the amazing thing of going down the waterslide. My thoughts on the whole matter is that if you look bald when you have wet white hair - I don't want any part of that, I'll just get me a supply of black hair dye.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Good Thoughts

I was searching in Gospelink for God's promises and came upon these verses and thought I would share them with you. I think they are good to ponder on.
EVEN AS I AM by Neal A. Maxwell
"Gospel gladness is possible even in the midst of affliction, because of the reassuring realities that pertain to our mortal circumstance. The everlastingness of certain things puts the temporariness of other things in perspective. God's promises to us are so rich that even difficult tactical circumstances cannot conceal our causes for genuine cheerfulness: God is in charge; God's plan of happiness is underway; momentary tribulation does not set aside the universal resurrection, which is a reality; individual identity and personality are thereby assured; death has been defeated by Christ's atonement; and Satan and his misery-causing minions will finally be defeated. Each of these (and many more) form the litany of reassuring reality. Thus we should not let the gray mists of the moment obscure the bright promises and prospects of eternity. Gospel gladness is a precious, precious perspective—essential to have, if one is to keep his attitudinal balance while traveling the straight and narrow way. The way is often no more than a path. It inclines sharply, and it is strewn with loose rocks. Indeed, there are points along the way to be traversed only on one's hands and knees." Woman by Marion D. Hanks (pg 109)
" David Grayson, in the book Great Possessions, talked to this intent with a lady and then said to her, "I see now why you have just one rose on your table." "Yes," she responded eagerly, "isn't it a beauty! I spent half an hour this morning looking for the best and most perfect rose in the garden and there it is." We need to look widely, but also to be discriminating. It is also important to be alive to what is around us. From an unknown source comes this testament: "Life is what we are alive to. It is not length but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, moneymaking, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hope, is to be all but dead." The mind is a magnificent instrument that in many of us is scarcely used. It can be fed, exercised, filled, emptied, stretched, and disciplined. It is the seat of content and the source of strength. Samuel Johnson gave it a respectful summation: "The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove."

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Oh no, I understood Isaiah

If someone was to ask me what I spend most of my time on during the day it would be either exercising or my most favorite, studying the scriptures. I can only do so much exercising before my body demands that I stop and at times I fall asleep while soaking in a tub of hot water and apple cider vinegar. Studying the scriptures is a whole different story because I could go hours reading and researching, going from one topic to another and eventually finding the day is almost gone and Ken is due home in a few minutes. Now, don't get me wrong I don't sit without moving, I get up about every 10 minutes to let Sophie (Faye's puppy) out to do her business, or I am getting a drink of water, etc. but my mind is going at the usual speed of 1,000 mph. and I am also taking notes but sometimes I come to a scripture that stops me dead in my tracks and I don't move except for the horror racing through me wondering, "Oh, no do I do (did) that?" It is like one of my earlier posts on murmuring. Well, I have an even better one than that and of all places it is a quote from Isaiah. Now I know I am in trouble because not only did I understand Isaiah I could readily apply it to me - See the horror in this. To share this little tid bit you can find it in 2 Nephi 7:1 "......Behold for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves......" My first thought was; "I have prostituted myself for candy!" If that was my first thought I am not going into the other thoughts that followed (I am afraid you would die of either laughter or horror). My question to you; what have you sold yourself for?

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Weight

The Correct Way to Weigh Yourself I can't believe I was doing it wrong all these years.