I THINK I CAN...... I THINK I CAN..... I THOUGHT I COULD.... I THOUGHT I COULD!

     Talk about one of  many wonderful stories that has so much of what life is ALL about.  The Little Engine That Could!!!!!!  Really tells it all.

     I am sure that you all know the story very well about the Engine that broke down and after asking so many for HELP, to get the toys and treats over the mountain, he was turned down time and time again.  Then of course along comes the smallest of the engines and sure enough the only one who would help.  So as the story goes, The Little Engine That Could sets out to climb the HUGE hill to the next town.  You might be asking how does this relate to LIFE.....

     How many of us each day just need that someone to come along to help us out?  Or maybe we are lucky enough to be like The Little Engine That Could, the one and only one to HELP someone else out!  Or perhaps like so many, we just can't sit still and NOT make things happen, sort of like when you feel  you are just spinning those wheels, boy do I hate those days!!!!!!

     Well just like in the book as the Little Engine starts up that hard climb, he only thinks he can.  What does that mean?  Well he just doesn't want to sit and spin those wheels or really he just doesn't want give up.  He is determined and that's the part I LOVE SO SO MUCH!!!!!!  He is determined to succeed!  Now that's what life is really all about.  NEVER , EVER giving up, even when you feel like you are going backwards its about being determined to succeed and YEP..... Like so so many of us time and time again,  WE FINALLY REACH THE TOP!!!!!  WOW DO I LOVE THE TOP..... Those moments are when you smile and  say I THOUGHT I COULD, I THOUGHT I COULD.........  

     Only to fully realize just like the Little Engine That Could, as he reached his destination......  THAT ON THE POSITIVE SIDE OF LIFE......

                                  WE..................DID................IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                                                    xoxoxoxoxo

WHAT IT MEANS TO CHILD PROOF YOUR HOME!

     How many times in a day do children hear the word "NO"? How many times do they hear the words, "DON'T TOUCH"?  I know as a parent I really hated using those words over and over again in my home.  I decided very early in my life to make it so I didn't have to use those words so often.  Want to know how?  Pretty simple......  I CHILD PROOFED MY HOME, no not in the way you think  by stopping them from touching or breaking items.  But I fixed my house WITH CHOICES THAT THEY COULD MAKE.  I put items within their reach that I didn't care if they handled or played with.  I arranged my cupboards with things that if they opened the cupboards they could touch and handle, No they weren't all baby toys, but they were common items around the house.  Children get to a point where they like to think BIG and be BIG.  I got old phones and channel changers and things that they all like to play with and try and make them work.  I am here to tell you IT WORKED!!!!!!!!
     I felt better not using those dreaded words over and over and they loved the feeling of being SO SO BIG!!!!
     ON THE POSITIVE SIDE OF LIFE....... Don't we want to give our children choices to make while they are little so that when they are older and wiser, then they will know how to make wise choices then!!!!!!!!!

                                              xoxoxoxoxoxoxox

LOVING YOUR GRANDKIDS IS EASY AS 123....

     I sure hope you all didn't think I had disappeared lol.  If so, well good news, I am back.  So this week I am having the time of my life.  I thought it was amazing to be the mom of SEVEN, beautiful children but little did I know that from each of them come the amazing blessing of GRANDCHILDREN, and well that makes it worth being a parent.
     I have had so much fun, just doing nothing but hanging out with my grandson Andrew Tyler.  He is extremely, handsome, smart and a very active 3 and 1/2 year old.  He totally amazes me each day.  He knows the in and outs of all electronic equipment and well has to set me straight more than once a day.
     He is so full of life and full of questions of the how? and what? and why? category.  We are having the time of our lives, reading and memorizing tons of favorite stories and Nursery Rhymes and singing and well just make believing.
     I would have to say that the best part about the whole deal is ALL the millions of HUGS and HOLDING HANDS that he so freely gives.  I mean come on don't we ALL need someone to do just that in our lives?
     I hope that WE ALL take all the chances we can get to be apart of a child's life.  To truly stop and actually take the time to put away our distractions and just relax long enough to ENJOY the moment is TRULY MAGIC and of course on the POSITIVE SIDE OF LIFE..... Wouldn't we all enjoy a TRULY MAGIC MOMENT in our lives!!!!! xoxoxo- Especially to my Grandson Andrew and  his parents.