{hum...}

...I just can't seem to find it or feel it lately 

{like the last 5 months} seriously.... 

enough with the depressing snow and frigid temps eh! 

I can't seem to keep up with my normal 2-3 times blogging a week life became an extra dose of busy lately but hopefully I'll get it back till then wishing I was laying here.....and a few feelings of jealousy of those that jetted off all month to somewhere warm! But I'll get over it...lol

 .....right now I'm loving 

bright colors and these combos probably cause they make me happy just looking at them? I love fresh, clean, bright........... 

I love BECKY HIGGINS display here love the colors 

the wreath, the jug, the lantern.... well all of it! 

I dislike that half of everything in the states doesn't ship to me! {probably a good thing for D} and that I can't find anything I really like here my basement needs to be decorated but its not from the lack of just not getting to it I haven't found what I'm looking for yet {is a song going through your head yet?? okay maybe its just me}} Anyway another pet peeve right now it the fact that giveaways {some of them} are only offered to those living in the US well what if I pay shipping ? 

thats reasonable right if I won? I feel excluded from some good chances oh well thats life I guess lots more important things in life than that!

 Loving the yellow Grey combo too

 the turquoise /aqua colors loving those too!

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 This week D had a convention about four hours away from here and the kids had the week off school, so we thought it would be fun to take them with free hotel pool new surroundings and get away swim do whatever....anyway

 it was fun....no really it was

skeletal boy who we do feed I promise the tall and skinny shine through when your doing a back flip....

 ....my swimming fish who loves water {but um not the salt water effects afterwards on her eyes were killing her! But she loves to swim...

 .....and then theres mr chill K2 who is not a fan of the water so he and I hung out and watched the kids play for hours!

and then comes "mr I hate the big pool but I'll hang in the hot tub" {funny posting this picture close looks like he could be in our bathtub in his life jacket..... oh well he enjoyed it... he only like things to do with water if his feet can touch the ground....

 and the smile of a happy content boy that makes it all worth the work!!

 and of course a little chair spinning cause kids love things like that....simple joys and lots of laughs....

 we sleep watched a movie, shopped and swam the ipad came in very handy keeping M contained while we shopped! and to watch a net flicks movie after we all showered, got our pj's on and snuggled in a warm bed {because it was freezing the whole time!!!} the kids feel asleep pretty fast!

 and a little treehouse time fun times....

 It was actually fun to get away it took a lot of planning to take four kids to breakfast each morning {and pretty much everywhere without a freak show going on but they did great! } and K is such a big helper 

{most of the time}

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 Me Thinks

 Just wanted to share it with you all--- I LOVE IT-- its so true! We need to be these kind of parents in raising our kids maybe we can make a difference in this scary world.  That is only going to get worse what kind of generation are we bringing up and what KIND OF PARENTS ARE WE!

{This was in a newspaper I kept years ago not sure who its by}

The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farm house in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question, 

”Why didn’t we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?”
I replied: ”But I did have a drug problem when I wuz a kid growing up on the farm.” I had a drug problem when I was young: 

I was drug to church on Sunday morning. 

I was drug to church for weddings and funerals. I was drug to family reunions and community socials no matter the weather.
I was drug by my ears when I was disrespectful to adults. I was also drug to the woodshed when I disobeyed my parents, told a lie, brought home a bad report card, did not speak with respect, spoke ill of the teacher or the preacher. Or if I didn’t put forth my best effort in everything that was asked of me. I was drug to the kitchen sink to have my mouth washed out with soap if I uttered a profanity. I was drug out to pull weeds in mom’s garden and flower beds and cockleburs out of dad’s fields.
I was drug to the homes of family, friends, and neighbors to help out some poor soul who had no one to mow the yard, repair the clothesline or chop some fire wood. And if my mother had ever known that I took a single dime as a tip for this kindness, she would have drug me back to the wood shed.
Those drugs are still in my veins; and they affect my behavior in everything I do, say, and think.  

They are stronger than cocaine, crack, or heroin, and

if today’s children had this kind of drug problem, the world might be a better place today.  

God bless the parents who drugged us.

especially mine.
{SO TRUE} 

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along with the above:

Love this quote from President Ezra Taft Benson:

" One great thing the Lord requires of us is to provide a home where a happy, positive influence for good exists. In future years the costliness of home furnishings or the number of bathrooms will not matter much, but what will matter significantly is whether our children felt love and acceptance in the home. It will greatly matter whether there was happiness and laughter, or bickering and contention".

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in our parenting we have the power to change

“Your power to choose the direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.” {our children most of all}

~Stephan Covey

 

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"When we're young, we only think about what we don't have, 

instead of what we do.
We think of all the places we haven't been, 

instead of the places we have.
We think of all the things we want to learn 

instead of what we already know."

I love that--- sometimes we spend to much time wasted, in wishing instead of being grateful for the places we have been, the things we have learned, and all that we've been blessed with. 

My biggest blessings are all right here and I only hope I can be the kind of parent my children need me to be in these times. So in the end we all make it through happy, healthy, grounded, honest, respectful and with a deep and thriving testimony. Close and most of all to know how loved each and every one is. From the start.

What kind of parents are we?

We all need a bit of old fashioned if thats what you want to call it, but something worked a lot better back then.... 

than the society we are facing right now.

Something to think about.

Have a great week!