ARE YOU FAST AS A HARE? OR......SLOW AS A TORTISE?

     What does all this mean?  Well the world tries to force all of us to decide which we are.  Fast or Slow!  Let's just say that you decided to be BOTH!  Sound like Fun?  Totally!!!!!! and here is why.

     Whats something you could be fast in doing?  Well how about helping others when being prompted to. How about being fast to respond to your children when they call your name the FIRST time! Most important what about being fast to show your family or a neighbor just how much they mean to you, by doing a secret act of kindness without receiving acknowledgement.  I promise, it will be you that feels the best inside.These are just a few of the millions of ways to be FAST when it comes to life.

     Now lets explore what it means to be slow!  I have found there are times when I really enjoy being slow lol.  One of them is when I say my prayers.  I know that the one FRIEND that I can ALWAYS count on to be there is Heavenly Father.  He is and will always be my very best friend and that's why I am slow when I talk with him and thank him for everything. In fact he is every ones friend and if you haven't already you need to make him your very best friend.  Another area is when my family comes over to visit.  I will take every opportunity to  make them feel loved and warm at my house just so they WILL BE SLOW IN LEAVING AND SAYING GOODBYE.  I am hear to tell you IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     You don't need to follow what the world thinks is right all the time.  You can think and feel for yourself whether you want to be Fast or Slow or like so many of us BOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Besides...........ON THE POSITIVE SIDE OF LIFE, Being BOTH, fast like a Hare and slow like a Tortise, makes life a lot more interesting and fun to say the least, and that's what brings smiles and warms are hearts!!!!!!  xoxoxoxo

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.

Just because of a APPLE!!!!!!!! I wonder.....

      Interesting, but true..... They saying goes, AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY!!!!!  Ha ha, does this work?  You bet.... Time and time again.  But with this famous saying, I had to laugh.  I started to think well if just a simple APPLE works  then I wonder what else might work  Kinda funny thought huh?
     So let's think for a moment.  Well if you eat garlic or fish, then you might avoid an unwanted intruder in your life lol, but then your friends and family might not let you in the house....... Wow, come to think of it my family might like the silence ha ha ha. 
     Better yet maybe if you faked it that you couldn't sing on tune, then you might not have to sing that up coming dreaded solo, but on the other hand, that might be classified as lying and then, you kinda got off the straight and narrow path!!!!!!
     My favorite would be telling my husband that for the next week, I was going to try nothing but new recipes, in hopes that before the week even ended, he would just figure out how much he truly loves EATING OUT, YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     Ok, so what in the world does this all mean.  Well what if.....  You decided to try just once to do something totally, POSITIVELY, different, what might that change?  Have you ever wondered what effect that might have on someone or something?  Best of all what would that actually do for YOU?  This is one of my favorite things to do everyday of my life!!!!!  I love the out come that happens.  The very best ones are the POSITIVE ONES, why?  because there ALWAYS PASSED ALONG!!!!!!! xoxoxoxo

There is Someone just around the CORNER!!!!

    Why is it that when it comes to the dating years everyone seems to think only in the moment?  I honestly believe that there is someone for EVERYONE.  I actually have seen this in my own life.  It's just trying to get others to believe this.  I have taught others or at least tried lol to teach them over and over again, WHEN IT COMES TO FRIENDSHIPS AND DATING..........
     IF SOMETHING DOESN'T WORK OUT WITH SOMEONE, THEN IT JUST MEANS THAT THERE IS SOMEONE BETTER JUST AROUND THE CORNER.......  Time and time again, this statement has turned out exactly that, TRUE......  But the secret is that it might not be when YOU think it is right BUT.... When Heavenly Father KNOWS it is right!!!!!!!  You have to be patient and most important.......JUST HAVE TONS OF FUN UNTIL IT'S TIME AND THAT RIGHT SOMEONE COMES AROUND THE CORNER OR BETTER YET, WHEN YOU TAKE THAT LEAP OF FAITH AND STEP AROUND THAT CORNER, TO SEE FOR YOURSELF!!!!!
     You have to remember that each person that comes into your path, has come for a reason..... So just have fun meeting new people and making new friendships, and finding out what things you really do and don't want in the one you marry someday......
     Besides on the POSITIVE SIDE OF LIFE..... It will make YOU a BETTER PERSON and STRONGER and be WELL WORTH THE WAIT!!! xoxoxoxo

"ROCK N ROLL"

     So are you thinking this is going to be about some great band group?  Well not exactly......  It's about a simple ROCK!!!!! A odd shaped, unique, one of a kind, hard ROCK!!!!!!   Some get picked up and deemed as a PET!! Some get skipped across the water, to see who's will go the farthest and others just get stepped on over and over again.  But SOME are lucky enough to actually get to "ROCK N ROLL."

     So now you are thinking I am totally off my rock, or my head is filled with them at this moment, I think I might have to agree on this one except... I have a point to make!!!!!  Are you ready for the big word?????????? TALENTS...............

     Every single person was given their individual talents.....  My question is how are we each doing on developing them and sharing them with others?  If you compared them to a simple rock then what are you doing with them?  Do you HIDE them or KEEP them to your self ?  Do you PUSH yourself to be better at your talents? Or do you honestly believe that you have NO TALENTS or that others will just make FUN of you if you share them?  It would be my HOPE that we would fully come to understand just how blessed we are with so many TALENTS and just "ROCK N ROLL" with them.

     I am so amazed everyday at the millions and millions of ways that people share their talents.  Some of you don't even realize that you are doing just that.  But I do, and YOU ALL AMAZE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!  The best part is that not only are you making a POSITIVE difference in others lives but you are making a POSITIVE difference in your own life.  I hope the next time you are out and about that you will find one of the millions of rocks laying around and liken it to all the TALENTS that you are blessed with and actually turn it on the POSITIVE SIDE and JUST DO SOMETHING WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!! 

     Because on the POSITIVE SIDE OF LIFE..... WE ARE READY FOR YOU TO "ROCK N ROLL US"!!!!!!!! xoxoxoxo