{Me thinks Monday..}

Today is almost over and its been a long crazy day I think there might be a full moon cause my kids were off the wall. I may or may not have been too! Actually we did have a lot of fun today too we didn't have to go anywhere so that was nice! We had a nice quiet weekend did some halloween fun mummy pizza's and homemade Slurpee's {found here} which tasted pretty dang close to the real thing and the kids loved them, then we watched a movie together. We watched bedtime stories it was pretty funny not all appropriate for kids but good {Disney isn't like it used to be u know growing up... Sunday nights 6 pm, popcorn and dishes during the commercials at least that's how we did it!} Anyway here are some pics...My baby is working the legs ahh he's growing up to quick!!This little beauty did an awesome job on her line for the primary presentation sunday she did it perfectly, then did the biggest smile in my direction from the podium everybody laughed cause she was so happy and proud of herself it was so cute. We were so proud of them both the majority of kids didn't have there's memorized but I was very proud that both of mine did.L is loving Kindergarten always comes home with new songs rhymes and stories she wants to read so bad.
She spends alot of time pretending and looking at the pictures she is growing up alot already!!A little happy about his halloween dinner and dress up night he was complaining that we don't' do enough halloween stuff { I admit its not my favorite holiday but whatever....so we got all the old halloween costumes out and they played with those dressing up on everything and anything, then dinner and a movie it was fun night.AND TOTALLY RANDOM}}}a little story this is old red
this truck saw us through our dating years, our early married years, college, university, jobs....
D got it when he got home from his mission,
now its a tinker truck {meaning a Saturday project for a guy..a Loud bombing around town or farm truck..good times with this truck. its a good truck but its time to say goodbye..
so she is for sale $1200..... anybody???
come on..... I know you want it!!
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Me thinks

We need to hug our kids a little tighter
teach them a little more
discipline a a little better
follow through more
do more together as a family
know where are kids are
who they are talking to, "hanging out" with
where they are going
we need to....
get rid of the distractions
we need to be families
do more together, pray more together, eat together
and
make our homes a lot more of a sanctuary, where they want to be.

I learned a few things this week in a couple of meetings I attended that left me sick to my stomach, a little discouraged and disturbed at the attacks on the family and especially on our children starting at very young ages.
It is becoming a increasingly harder task to keep our children and our families wholesome, and protected from whats out there.
Kids thinking they are better then everybody else, the bullying that is going on
just because of the way you look or because you wore the wrong shirt to school because why
you are chubby or have brown eyes or whatever it is
where do they learn these attitudes
at home.
EVERY CHILD IS A CHILD OF GOD and deserves to be treated as just that.
What gives one the right to think they are better than somebody else?? It makes me livid to see other kids mean to each other. It ruins children. It ruins our future.
I think that the abuse of cell phones and texting can ruin our youth some are constantly on the phone talking, spreading gossip and other horrible things we didn't even think about when we were in school.

{not saying everybody or all the time just that its real and it happens daily...an awareness issue mostly}
Do you know who is texting your child? or vice versa?

if your in bed and they have a phone/computer/tv in their room?
doing and hearing and seeing who knows what?
of course not.
I heard some horrible things about this very thing this week that made me never want to let my kids have a cell phone.
I don't even have one probably the only one I know, but I don't need one most of the time sometimes it would come in handy that's for sure.
I don't text. Never have. weird I know.

{ Not saying its evil or bad at all just saying when its used and abused for malicious things and time wasting}
It makes me sad what lies and rumors get started over and through things like texting, facebook etc whether half true or not.... that ruin people. Its horrible. Its mean.
I mean Don't get me wrong there is good and bad to all things. I personally love fb because I have found old roommates, old friends I haven't seen in years and I love catching up.

I kind of feel like its ruining the way things used to be. Using up teens and adults time. Its changing the way youth and people in general think they need it like a drug...all the time.
Things are severely out of control.
Its sickening and horribly sad.
There are not enough parents now these days doing a parents job there are to many "friends"/ parent/ child relationships. We need more old fashioned parenting in my opinion, there are so many problems with the words "oh there just kids" we can't even afford to say that even once cause what it used to mean

is totally different today then it was yesterday....
look around" oh there just kids" ---

"there just kids"--- killed a few friends, somebodies daughter, somebodies son...

--- from driving to fast, from drugs, from drinking....
because there is a lack of discipline or a lack of any consequence these days

.... one thing leads to another....
there is a lack of respect in today's youth it makes me sad to watch.
There are real problems.
Destroying today's youth, today's young adults, today's adults..........
out of control problems and unless
we do our job right, unless we fight for what we know is right

and do what we are supposed to do be the parents...

be the examples of what we want our children to be
how can we expect anything to change??
It's scary. It's hard.
But something needs to change and its starts in the Home.
It starts with us.

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“Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.”
Thomas S. Monson

Have a great week