{Me thinks...}

I am so glad this past week is over if  only for the fact that D was gone the whole week to Florida and Utah for business meetings actually the kids were great and did awesome, until Saturday when they decided "No" was the word of the day so I was ready for D to get home! Always good when Dad gets home.

While D was gone the hot water heater stopped working, the furnace went out again {actually it didn't really M just figured out how to hit the button that turns it off and I'm to dense to figure out that's what he did lol!} Oh and then the power was out Saturday morn for over an hour.. and K got food poisoning {school pizza day he had come home and said it was disgusting and had to much cheese so that's all I could think that it would be cause it come up so fast {no pun intended lol} that or something weird and random puked four times went to bed and woke up just fine..not sure....fun times.}

But its all good makes us stronger right and makes me appreciate that I usually have a handy man around to help me with the fix its!

 I also got a new calling too I'm excited to work with the Young Women again this time as the personal progress assistant. I'm excited to get to know the girls and to help them accomplish  their goals! 

So if anybody has some fun ideas or websites they'd like to pass along feel free. 

SO over the week I tried a few fun things this weekend too a new cookie recipe these Lemon Gems are deadly and totally addicting thanks holly.... {for the extra pounds this weekend!!}  

go here for it and lots of other yummy recipes...

Also did a project we have needed Coasters forever in our house and have never found any I liked so I found a tutorial here and whipped up some coasters after a quick trip to Home depot and a few quiet hours

They turned out pretty good  I surprised D with my mad skills project lol! He was proud of me so thats all that matters and now we have coasters yeah!! I did 7 of them because I need the new pics of K2 to do one of him too!! I Love modge podge.... Its fun to try new things!

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ME THINKS

 Holly got me thinking she had a great post last week on this, I thought I'd share a part of the talk she used too given by Patrica T. Holland you can read the rest here 

its so relevant for each and every one of us in this world we live in...

..."Surely there has not been another time in history when women have questioned their self-worth as harshly and critically as in the second half of the twentieth century. Many women are searching, almost frantically, as never before, for a sense of personal purpose and meaning; and many LDS women are searching, too, for eternal insight and meaning.

If I were Satan and wanted to destroy a society, I think I would stage a full-blown blitz on women. I would keep them so distraught and distracted that they would never find the calming strength and serenity for which we have always been known for.

Satan has effectively done that, catching us in the crunch of trying to be superhuman instead of striving to reach our unique, God-given potential within such diversity.

He tauntingly teases us that if we don’t have it all—fame, fortune, families, and fun, and have it all the time—we have been short-changed and are second-class citizens in the race of life.

As a sex we are struggling, our families are struggling, and our society is struggling. Drugs, teenage pregnancies, divorce, family violence, and suicide are some of the ever-increasing side effects of our collective life in the express lane.

Too many of us are struggling and suffering, too many are running faster than they have strength, expecting too much of themselves.

 (Newsweek, Oct. 27, 1986, p. 105.)

We must have the courage to be imperfect while striving for perfection.

We must not allow our own guilt, the feminist books, the talk-show hosts, or the whole media culture to sell us a bill of goods—or rather a bill of no goods. We can become so sidetracked in our compulsive search for identity and self-esteem that we really believe it can be found in having perfect figures or academic degrees or professional status or even absolute motherly success. Yet, in so searching externally, we can be torn from our true internal, eternal selves. We often worry so much about pleasing and performing for others that we lose our uniqueness—that full and relaxed acceptance of one’s self as a person of worth and individuality. We become so frightened and insecure that we cannot be generous toward the diversity and individuality, and yes, problems, of our neighbors. Too many women with these anxieties watch helplessly as their lives unravel from the very core that centers and sustains them. Too many are like a ship at sea without sail or rudder, “tossed to and fro,” as the Apostle Paul said (see Eph. 4:14), until more and more of us are genuinely, rail-grabbingly seasick.

I believe we can find our steady footing and stilling of the soul by turning away from physical preoccupations, superwoman accomplishments, and endless popularity contests, and returning instead to the wholeness of our soul, that unity in our very being that balances the demanding and inevitable diversity of life.".....

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And a song for those that are wondering and struggling with this you won't be disappointed...

Thankful for the Promise..ALL of them.

check it out here...

and have a great week...

Make it count

{ ps. excuse the blog I updated to the newest blogger and it has quite a few different/new  features and I  have to get used to it. 
so how do I get a cute header I am photoshop/picasa illiterate so ...? and how would I do the post divider thing? 
My blog needs a makeover just not sure how to do it!any suggestions??}