{Me thinks monday}

M  e   t  h  i  n  k  s: 

Week Recap.

 

1|| Recipe win  found here.....kids loved it and so did we.....

Crockpot Hawaiian BBQ Chicken .... three ingredients

2|| Beautiful winter Sunsets.

3|| I went to a really beautiful Relief Society Conference this weekend... inspiring. Then came home to a perfectly clean house and D had taken ALL the kids swimming:) So it was A perfect day complete with a night out together and dinner with the adults in D's family.

4|| This is working awesome with my kids in the morning LOVE IT! Found here

We started a couple of weeks ago and love that its fast and that it teaches them to look up the scriptures and reading practice and something to think about each day. Try it its fast, efficient and fulfilling and sends them out the door with more to think about...

5|| Didn't watch the super bowl but watched a few of the commercials after they were posted my favorite one...

here .... Happy to be married to a hard working rancher:)

6|| Wednesday was no school we had the best day made breakfast together, played games, built things, taught L how to make biscuts they loved it so did I. 

Seriously when you have days like that it makes you feel like a good mom...... before technology took over our lives eh!! Makes me evaluate how much more wisely we could be spending our time..

 SO PUT IT DOWN AND GET INVOLVED 

in their little lives give them all of you:) they love it! You will too!!

M e T h i n k s

Been thinking a lot about our place in life and where we fit in sometimes in this big race of life. I  went to a motherhood class at our Stakes R.S womens conference this past week end it was given by an amazing mother herself....But I couldn't put it out of my mind how much we think we have to be perfect to live up to some standard we set for ourselves or compare with others lives .....that isn't entirely aattainable for us, how we are all different but yet we all compare ourselves to this person or that and can't find the peace that we are ENOUGH that we can find peace if we realize what potential we have what we can do and be.

 Here's part of a talk 

  I thought I'd share  given by Patrica T. Holland you can read the rest here that puts it perfectly...

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.

 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.".....

 I hope each one of you know how awesome you all are because we aren't all the same 
we need to find our own individuality, our own strength, our own self worth and ultimately we can and will find peace in that, that it is ENOUGH..

CrEaTe BaLaNcE
Be happy
Be calm 
Have a great week:)