{10 for Today}

 {....like this picture when my camera didn't focus turns out its okay:) }

{{A JANUARY BLUES POST}} 

Well here i am moving along in 2015 and still my best laid out blogging plans aren't happening but thats life gotta roll with it right:)

1| its cold. i have a cold. i'm cold. its gray. and january. still . the christmas bills pour in and the things to look forward to seem a long way off...... and I just need half a million;) to do all the things I'd love to do:)

2| still loving my fit bit flex seriously motivating. like really motivating. makes you very aware of the time you sit and waste that you could be doing so much more. i love it.

3| Finished reading Dean Hughes I loved these books and history. I love a series that pulls you in and makes you feel like part of the family and that you don't want them to end:( So good!




4| I got a call the other day to come to someones house to help her with her decor and an arrangement for her wall.  It was kinda fun and she was super happy and kept saying I never thought of that:) Made me happy to help out I'm no expert but it was fun:)

5| Clearly obsessed with this black & white and gold scheme of things lately
here's a free printable and a
giveaway from one of my favorite talented people in my favoritest patterns:) Super cute!




6| I love this picture. Not sure who its by but I love what it reminds me of and that is that we all need to feel that warm hug, that reminder of love, acceptance and that everything will work out. That everything will be okay even if it doesn't feel like it always..



and for me sometimes seeing the sun rise and set.... reminds me of that warm hug that there is someone who loves us, someone who cares and someone how has given us many things to be thankful for no matter what we are going through.  We just have to look up and find them and remember why were here and where were going.
Life is harder and it seems its only getting harder for all those around us. Hard to watch, hard to feel and hard to see sometimes how things will work out.  But I do know that talking to someone every single day morning and night on my knees helps me remember what is important and that HE loves little old me and you too:)
Here's one from the other night..

7| Love this quote.

"When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all about."

8| 
love these they are so us;) so true some of them are;) Found here


9|  Recipe fun for V day too.. easy peasy....found here



 10| Just get back up and ...
 

So comment away I know there are still people out there;) Give me some new dinner ideas:) or your favorite new song or product:)
Anything ha ha
&
Have a great rest of the week:)

{ Me Thinkin Thoughts }

....Sometimes I have to many thoughts ha ha I had another birthday on the weekend and starting thinking of all the things I've been able to see and do so far in my life and how truly blessed I am to have what I do. 

But I also started thinking how much things have gone downhill 

 The world is crazy and things have swapped where 

good is evil, evil is good 

or anything goes kind of attitude even within our own extended families sometimes. That may be the most heartbreaking of all is seeing this kind of attitude and decline within our own families and friends those close around us.

We see evidence of this every day. I watch the

Today show news every morning and usually am

appalled at what stories media decides to sway or portray or want us to think. No wonder we are such a confused society nobody knows what to think or what is true? Who is lying, twisting reshaping?

I watch someone answer honest questions given and then have that person give their opinion only to be media slammed 

fb, twitter slammed 

all by people hiding behind a screen

all by people who can't stand to see people have values and tradition

like it is old fashioned and out dated...and not needed anymore like its a personal attack on them because they see it differently??

Everybody is afraid to have an opinion of old fashioned values or whatever it may be and when asked an honest question most don't like the honest answer...by the honest, brave few.

I see programs started, freebies and entitlement like no other in our youth and society.....

I see boys and girls who can't make it on their own because mommy and daddy aren't right there giving, paying and cleaning up every mess they make right on behind them......because they have never had to deal with there own consequences....

I see addictions run wild, pornography & sex rampant everywhere you turn....  and nobody really caring like its normal...... then to watch it ruin lives, take lives and change lives and the guilt the distaste of things that are good are seen as evil....... all the while those around them covering it up or brushing it aside...... like its no big deal

that they are just going through a phase kind of attitude....

Somewhere along the line caring became judging? When did loving someone and wanting only the best for them become judging??

I see on so many occasions people getting offended at everything as far as taking gender roles away, prayer away, being politically correct and taking God away and out of everything..... well if anybody would wake up around the world there is the main source of the problems facing the world. 

A Godless society that gets worse everyday.

I see terrorists storming and killing ... {JE SUIS CHARLIE}

BUT I also see disrespect yes there is free speech.... but there is also something called RESPECT for others ....

I see  "things" becoming so much more important than actually communicating or playing .........children have forgotten how to play or use their imagination or love to read sometimes ........all things in moderation...

I see pain in so many faces..... hidden pains, dark eyes, lost souls. 

Its SO sad to watch people lose there way sometimes you wonder how we can make it and I'm sure every "older" person who has lived far longer than me and seen so many things even before Oregon Trail was made;) and wondered the same things...

But I have learned that making our homes a place of refuge, teaching our children the Gospel that there is a GOD that He loves us that he has a plan for us....and that our choices do MATTER.

Teach them,  pray together, eat together, study together and expect them to work for things. 

Teach them how to work, to see what needs done, 

teach them to know what its like to save all your hard earned money for something they really want. 

Teach them to talk to others.

Teach them to apologize. 

Teach them to pay the consequences of their actions 

because that is REAL LIFE.

They are entitled to nothing. We are entitled to nothing but the labors of our own hard work and then sometimes that doesn't even shine forth.

But if we continue to be lazy and lax in our parenting and in our lives they will continue to expect you to wipe their noses and clean their messes and supply your bank account for all there not so immediate needs how sad.

Life is hard.

Life is not easy 

but we are honestly 

making it harder and harder for this generation and the ones to come to not know how to survive or function in the real world. 

When we parent to be their BFF's we do such a disservice to them that will come someday when they are grown we hope. But we need to learn to be the best parent for our kids now.  That includes discipline, teaching, molding and shaping for the future. For strong independent, healthy grounded hard workers who know how to lead, guide and respect.

.teach them.

 

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Okay how about some HAPPY THOUGHTS;)

So for my birthday D got me a fitbit flex.... today was the first day I used it but I really like it so far ....gives me something to work towards and its fun to see the numbers climb just what I needed right another addiction ha ha

 

 

Love this quote I can see it happening already;)

This was mine today before noon! So fun:)
(so the calories add up to that from midnight on because our bodies burn just through living and the day to day to keep it pumping so add that onto the rest ...finally made sense I could never figure out how people burned so many calories so early in the morning!)

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I saw UNBROKEN and HUNGER GAMES this past week and loved them both especially unbroken. I read the book and thought the movie was amazing!

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Seriously how did I get so blessed.

Love the YOUTH theme for this year and so excited for all the fun we can have with it... it is a great theme for life in general for moving ahead for embarking .... on life and making it better, stronger & with more purpose.

And those are my thinkin thoughts:)

 

HAVE A BEAUTIFUL WEEK:)

{ 10 in 2015 }

1|| I love this quote.

For so many reasons.

For so many people.

For all of us.

Goes perfectly with my KEEP GOING thoughts for this year.

2|| So first for my keep going theme for 2015:

Begin: again. when I fall.

Learn: to truly study. listen. act.

Help: My children learn through being a better example.

Join: in more enlightening & uplifting conversations and groups

Go: on a couple vacations with and without kids. make memories.

Organize: My pictures. My office. My life.

Teach: through service and more kindness.

Enjoy: the journey more. my kids and D more fully.

Read: study. ponder and pray more deeply.

Practice: what I preach daily

Create: a home of refuge. peace & beauty.

Give: My time. energy and full attention to my kids when they talk.

Prepare: A better food storage.  For the Future.

Inspire: Goodness & those around me.
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What matters most?

3|| Already two of the best things I've done this year was buy this: 

{Thanks to my sister in law for drinking from one and my sister for getting me one;) 

It holds 32 oz of water! I'm a walking water logged girl at 12 cups of water a day so far 3.5 of these a day! I love it! thank you target!

 and this 7 minute workout app I love it!  Kicking it up a notch:) 

Feels good!

4|| Then there's days like these:

 ....and snowy all any of us want to do is hibernate, read & eat and sleep it's about all anybody wants to do around here I think:(  Feel so lazy we all just want to go outside and play run and feel the sun like every winter right;) good thing I have my own gym:) ps. So I'm not a public legging wearing  kinda girl but I have to admit these are the softest comfiest {leggings} pj's;)  I ever had ha ha!

got them off of group dealz

5|| Have you got Chat books yet made from your instagram account its so amazing! I got 17 issues for Christmas and absolutely love them I love how easy they are, I love that they are $6 plus shipping, and they make me feel like a good mom I know thats weird to say but they are so fun for the kids to look at, see and they love seeing all the things we have done and a sense of what a fun family we really do have making memories together...

 

6|| Excited to make some new projects for V day:) 

Some of my favorite pinterest finds:) follow me here

7|| I think my new obsession is gold and black & white for now;) anyway.. things change so much its kinda funny hate gold one year love gold a couple years later because it starts popping up everywhere weird trends:) weird society:)

8|| A new recipe we love especially on cold days and a great alternative to taco soup:) Chicken Enchilada Soup .....I have a few different variations of this recipe another one is here that we love and make a lot too:) 

  

 and if you haven't already seen this these are awesome we've tried quiet a few so easy and good:) found here

9||  Have you seen this? Even if you aren't a TS fan this is amazing!

10|| I turn 39 this week. Kinda makes you reflect on where you've been as any age does but when you get up there.... you start wondering how you got here to this point and where you want to go....

and what does the next 39 years hold? Cause that sounds like a very long time! But I want them to be full of learning, growth, happiness & excitement along with some travel and bucket list filling 

all with the loves of my life:)

"The measure of who we are is what 

we do with what we have."

HAVE A GREAT WEEK