{ 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:)