{ Live. Laugh. Love. }: {Me thinks....}

This is my continuing goal:)

cause I'm gonna need it:) Between the changes around here and summer;)

..... this is a new familiar site this man heading out:)

We all kinda miss him a lot..

so we keep busy ....

So ask M what he gets when he asks for a pet goldfish;) I amuse myself but it was a fun joke for a few hours last week. I put a couple goldfish in a baggie and brought it to him and told him to say hi to his two pet goldfish should have seen his face it was SO worth it ha ha!!

...Despite the hail rain and flooding our garden is actually producing so exciting...... biggest rhubarb leave eh:)

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Cafe rio meals are a favorite with everyone in our house.....seems like its a good Sunday meal lately and if you run out of costco to cook tortillas the next best thing is the

Our best bites Tortilla Recipe.. HERE

Looking forward to spending a 12 hour drive with D for our {my} yearly retreat... his work seminar:) Shopping, sleeping in, reading whatever I want to do:) Company Appreciation to the wives week;)

Kids are going to aunts houses and Thank you Thank you to them!! Can't wait to head out soon...

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First a little reminder on a topic I can't stop thinking about!

I think one of societies biggest problem right now is Commitment

To Rules, to the constitution, to callings, to Relationships, to Families

To those of us as mothers and fathers

you name it on and on think about those around you ....who are

Giving Up, Caving In, and Quitting....

There isn't a time in history as important as right now to

STAND UP in so many ways....

Most importantly...

ME THINKS

This world needs help and the best place to start is in the home and teaching our children.

We can save our Nation by saving our homes.

From Standing for Something:

10 neglected virtues that will heal our hearts and homes

by Gordon B. Hinckley

From the section on THE FAMILY:

1. Accept responsibility for our role as parents and fulfill our obligations to our children.

Barbara bush said: Your success as a family- our success as a society - depends not on what happens at the White House, but on what happens inside your house."

2. Get married and stay married

Wall Street Journal -"American society would be better off if more people got married and stayed married."

"Marriage is much more than a civil contract, much more than an agreement between two people. It is an institution essential to the purposes of God. Children are entitled to be born within the bonds of matrimony, and to be raised by a father and mother who honor their marital vows with complete fidelity."-GBH

3. Put the father back at the head of the home.

"Far to many families have been denied the leadership and stabilizing influence of a good and devoted father who stands at the side of an able and caring mother in quietly training, gently disciplining, and prayerfully helping the children for whom they are both responsible."-GBH

4. Recognize and value the supreme importance of mothers.

5. Celebrate and treat children as our most priceless treasures.

6. Discipline and train children with love.

"As the twig is bent, so the tree is inclined."

" Children are like trees. When they are young, their lives can be shaped and directed, usually without much difficulty. "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it," {proverbs 22:6}

7. Teach values to children.

"Teach children tolerance."

Teach them respect

Teach them loyalty

Teach them the beauty of freedoms

Teach them obedience to law

Teach them the importance of health

Teach them the quality of charity and the meaning of service.

Teach them that there is a Power greater than their own to appeal for help

Teach them the thrill and joy of learning

Teach them the sanctity of sex

8. Teach children to work.

"An idle mind is the devil's workshop."

Children need to learn to work.

A little hard work breeds a greater respect for personal and public property.

May we show them by example that some of our finest work comes through service to others.

9. Read to and with Children.

"Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and the profanity that spew from TV screens into our home is deplorable. It is a sad commentary on our society." -GBH

10. Pray together.

" I believe that there is no adequate substitute for the practice of kneeling together, morning and evening, as a family in prayer. This , more then fine carpets or the latest in window coverings, will make far better and more beautiful homes." -GBH

We can change the course we are on. We must begin with parents. We must provide, to every man and women, an understanding of the eternal purposes of life, the obligations of marriage, and the responsibilities of parenthood. Then we must teach our youth of all races, languages and cultures that there is a better way than the way so many are now going. It will take patience. It will take persuasion. It will take the counsel of wise fathers and mothers. It will take inspiration and a spiritual guidance that reaches beyond our own wisdom.

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I've been thinking so much about the things that are happening to our world, to our youth, to families, to our society the things we blindly accept. The things that we just let slide by or don't stand up for.

It makes me sad to think how many things have changed since even I was little.

i sometimes wonder if my children will be able to make it through this life to be strong and grounded and untainted by the things in and of the world. Its scary but we can do our part in our homes to help our children be respectable strong adults.

It starts with us.

It's a big job.

But every day we can make a difference.

IN our homes.

Make it work, cherish it, build them up

be strong

don't quit

Reign them in.

Pray.

Be happy.

Keep going.

Something to think about...