{just another day....}

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Any given day you find us....

 right here where we belong! The everyday may be mundane sometimes but thats what provides stability and love and that we have! love these munchkins!! Happy is right now doing what we do everyday....

if you put it off you miss it and its gone....

 take the opportunities to get on your knees with them, to get dirty and to really listen we may not think its a big deal but I've been told it is and makes all the difference later on 

so thats what I'm working on trying to do better!!

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 let me tell you about one of my friends.... 

she's amazing.... she is really really

talented!! My kids love her ...she has brought us dinners and desserts that my kids can't get enough of. She's made me cry with her thoughtfulness, she made K2 a beautiful quilt made me cry again  and just for Christmas the cutest apron. She does so much for everybody! 

She also just had a baby a few weeks ago and still keeps up!

She also does amazing parties for her boys and the take home goodies provide a lot more entertainment at home then she probably knows for all of us lol! We laughed pretty hard for a long time on Saturday with these glasses{to bad they didn't fit D's face but it was pretty fun to watch the kids!} M loves his cape and thinks he really is a superhero.... 

I kind of think the real super hero is her she is a great mom wife and friend thanks whit!

Fun times....

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ME THINKS

Sunday we headed north a couple of hours away and went to a baby blessing for D's sisters Katelyn's new baby Rylan  it was a great Sunday.

I was once again reminded that family is the most important part of this life and all the things that bring us together. 

Lately I've read a few derogatory slams on us stay at home moms {bloggers} and as church or as a Mormon and as a people. Or those of  us who stay home with our kids whether we work a little or not, whether we craft, sew, build, cook,  whatever we choose to do with our time....what we blog about- our lives, sharing what works for us what doesn't has been viewed sometimes 

that we live this perfect Happy sheltered leave it to beaver June cleaver type of life....

Well here's my thoughts and to each his own but this is mine....

I am a not so perfect 35 year old girl married almost 14 not so perfect {but close} years mother to four not so perfect but working on it children who all came to us through LDS family services.....

yeah that means my so called perfect life didn't start out the way I planned or dreamed it would we had another road that worked in our lives and thats what we took. The good the bad the hard the happy all of it.

I don't profess or blog that I  have a perfect life, perfect kids or perfect anything that is for sure! 

I can't sew. I can make food but I'm not a chef.

I get mad and impatient sometimes, 

my house is rarely messy ha ha,  

I am on the pta for my third year because I care about what my kids are learning and doing each day, I'm a room mom to 2 of them, I'm on the town soccer board and I'm primary president in my ward that pretty much makes a full time job. It keeps me busy, it keeps me thinking and gets me involved with my kids and my community...It makes up my life as a contributing member to my family and secondly to society right...and because I choose to 

and want to.

But what makes me what and who I am goes much deeper ....

and I couldn't

 be more blessed call it what you want then to be a member of  

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints....

Yes, I am a Mormon .... 

there is nothing that makes me happier it is my life it is who I am...

I was born one 

my father is a first generation member 

my mother comes from a long line on her dad's sidebefore her....

I have a strong testimony, 

I've had experiences and answer to questions that are undeniable part of what makes me who I am because of and what I've been through and learned. We all have different lives, we go through and have and had different experiences to get us where we are today...

I gained a testimony and found out for myself , nobody brainwashed me, told me how to feel or what to do.

I KNOW for myself. I've felt it.

I've read the Book of Mormon many times I know its true I'm found many answers to my life in them.

I know that what we learn and are taught... make sense and what doesn't will one day. Thats fine for me.

we are here for a far greater purpose then we know

if having standards, values and guidelines to life that only help better our lives what is so wrong with that

if taking care of our bodies

by not smoking drinking or doing drugs is call for mockery from the world around us................. well look around...

nothing good comes from any of it....basically the problems of the world .... to much of society is associated with these exact things....

believe it or not I haven't ever touched any of it...I know *gasp* right well...

better for everyone around us but most especially ourselves than....

they are just perfect guidelines to better our lives and anyones lives for that matter....

We believe in not having premarital sex 

{what a healthy concept eh...makes complete sense....} 

A church based on serving others, reaching out and learning daily what is important..... helping the needy, the sick, those that need a lift a help a kind word a meal...  a church that teaches these things and helps us be better people what is wrong with that?? How can you find something wrong with helping others and putting others first??? 

We only grow inside from helping and serving others.

and No matter what happens in this world the doctrine is the same it DOES NOT change because the world does.

A gospel centered on the family that is consisting of a  Husband & Wife and children.... the way God intended it to be it doesn't change because the world thinks it should.

A gospel that teaches repentance, forgiveness we all make mistakes thats a given and we are all trying to make it through this life and back to our Heavenly Father in one piece hopefully with every member of our families whether you chose to believe that or not we do.... 

Having an eternal prospective seeing beyond just today, if we could only remember why we came here..... to be tested, to grow, to gain knowledge to be the Children of God we were born to be, to be examples to a decaying world around us. 

Is it so wrong to have standards and values and actually live them?

I don't think so.

{{In the recent byu basketball controversy with Brandon Davies looks to me like most things have been positive and that what the world needs is a lot more standards, values, accountability and discipline.}}

The highs and the lows throughout my life... center around family with a lot more highs than lows learning from the lows is what its all about. Helping others in there trials and journey...and

Having the strength to stand up, keep walking and know why I'm here and what I'm working towards. Nothing wrong with that. 

and this to me is what its all about....

its more than just a feeling.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

-Napoleon Hill

time to stand up.

Have a great week!!

the perfect quote thanks Rhonda

  "None of us is perfect. I know of no one who would profess to be so. And yet for some reason, despite our own imperfections, we have a tendency to point out those of others. We make judgments concerning their actions or inactions. There is really no way we can know the heart, the intentions, or the circumstances of someone who might say or do something we find reason to criticize.
Thus the commandment: 'Judge not.'"
- Thomas S. Monson"