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Children of God

What a great lesson we had on Martin Luther King day for FHE. We talked about how everyone is a child of God. Hannah said bad guys were not children of God and Austin said he would kick the bad guys. I had to tell them that I am still their mom even if they decide to disobey or hurt their siblings. Their choices are THEIR'S, not mine and it doesn't change the fact I am still their mom. It makes me sad to see them disobey. I think they finally understood that even bad guys are children of God. Then I decided to show them a picture of mixed races of children. I asked Austin " Is she a child of God? Is he a child of God?" and sadly he said only the white kids where children of God. It really surprised me because I am FAR from racist. I always thought I would marry someone who was Hispanic. I am not sure why I thought that but I had met some really hot guys and always got a rise out of people when I said I could see myself with them. Anyways back to the reason I am writing this, I had to explain to Austin that it didn't matter what color of skin we had that we are ALL Children of God. I have some friends who are African American and I told him about this girl I talk to on here. He wasn't being rude about the skin color he just kept shaking his head "no". I sat for about five minutes explaining that God loves ALL Of us. I then asked again, " Is he a child of God? IS she a child of God?" and finally he said yes to all of them. It really made me think how many children think that? Where do they get it from? IT made my heart sink when he thought that way. I have been watching the tv and seeing people of all races excited for history in the making. Whether or not you agree on Obama, it is a day that will be in history books!! I am glad that even simple FHE lessons can teach our children the right way, when for some odd reason they thought differently. IT reminded me of Oprah. She had an experiment to ask African American's what doll was pretty: A white doll, or a black doll. They all said a white doll was the pretty one. How sad is that?? For Hannah's birthday she picked out a black little baby doll and loves it. She named her "Snow White" You guys should ask your children the same thing and see what they do. If your child answers the same way mine did, please know your not a bad parent or racist. That is why we are parents to "Teach me all that I must do, to live with him someday." Hannah used to sing it this way " I am a child of God, and he has sent me here. Has given me an earthly home with PARENTS KIND OF DEAR" instead of Kind and dear. LOL

No Fear...

The last couple of days I have had a gloomy feeling. I hate feeling worried, stressed, or afraid. I guess you can say the world has me down. Worry and stress of problems that I can't fix. I need to have my house a haven and not let the worries of the world seep in. I am worried about the economy to people being killed from abroad. Today I was in a little shop and saw a quote about how we shouldn't be afraid. The path ahead is paved and to not be discouraged but to exercise faith. I think that sign was for me. There is so much we can all worry about, but when the day is done we will only look back in regret instead of making the best of what we have. Trent and I were talking and he told me that if we were able to see the trials we would endure in this life, (like the book we read did)that I am sure we would still have jumped to come here to make it back. Even the people who have been through torture through the Holocaust and so on, I wonder if we did see little clips of our lives. It's the unimaginable to have to go through, but what I think would be even harder is to see the ones we love go through any type of pain. It hurts to go through hardships ourselves, but to see another is heartbreaking. I like to look at this life as if we are at war spiritually. How many of us will jump in the trenches to help another wounded brother or sister? Get in the hardship of helping another and not just worrying about ourselves? Today was so nice to take a break and just go do something for me. I went window shopping by myself and saw a some wall sayings. I love wall sayings! I want to put one in my room above the bed and paint the back wall and put a mirror up. However, the only saying they had was "Simple pleasures make life's treasures." Yeah that won't work for my bedroom.

Wow these months have gone by so fast! Faith is already five months old!!! I couldn't wait for it to be August last year because I was so sick, once August came around it flew by!! I have had a wonderful last couple months with watching Faith grow up way too fast, enjoying friends, and becoming more social now that I feel better!! I sometimes think I wished away my pregnancy, but I remind myself if I was that sick now I would have done the same thing exactly the way I did. Anyways, we have had a busy time in our lives. Faith loves to make this screaming noise when I put her down, she is getting spoiled. We went to the aquarium with my family. The kids loved it and kept saying the clown fish was Nemo. Faith just watched the fish and couldn't keep her eyes off of them. There was one fish that would follow your finger and Austin loved that!! I scared the pants off of Erin as she reached in to touch the sting ray. It was pretty cool to see and the kids enjoyed it! On new years we had a get together at our house and played games like Mafia. It was really fun. I have new callings in my ward: Enrichment, Activities, and one more thing but I haven't been announced to it yet so I will tell you later. If you have any cool ideas for those let me know. That is my life in a nutshell

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Austin-
Today he has made me laugh a couple times. First during preschool he was playing a game with my 11 year old brother Ryan. They were putting rhyming pictures together. Ryan put the picture of a Car next to a picture of a Star. Austin kept getting mad at him for not putting the star next to the moon. He then out of frustration *And to my surprise* told Ryan he was stupid and didn't know what he was doing! I shouldn't laugh but Ryan kept laughing and it made me laugh. Then about ten minutes ago Austin was sitting here singing "Mama Mia" (I guess he watched it down with his Nana because both he and Hannah have been singing it non stop!) HE was singing it to Faith and she was just laughing away. I told Austin he has "beautiful Eyes" and he kept saying "No I don't I have cool eyes" Austin is sitting here wanting to play "batman, with a rope with 20 bad guys and fire" Oh dear.

Faith- She loves it when I undress her to change her diaper. She thinks she is going to either get into the tub or eat and sleep on my bed. She smiles and kicks. Faith loves her fingers she is sitting here playing with them. She sure has made a lot of people love her. I am so blessed to have such noble children. I wish they would obey more, but hey I can't complain.

Hannah- On church on Sunday we got out at 2:00 instead of 6:00. She asked why we were going home because it wasn't dark outside yet! She also said something funny to me earlier and now I can't remember dang it!

Life is Beautiful

I have been thinking that I need to start up a positive post each day (Each time I post, or which ever comes first) The best thing to cheer me up is being able to serve others. I would much rather be doing something for someone else then having someone do something for me. I feel dumb asking for help but I also feel dumb when others feel like they can't ask me for help. Sounds a little backwards, I think when we serve , and when there are times we need help,we should also let others serve us. I have had many wonderful people serve me just by being in there presence and allowing me to feel their welcoming spirit! I know many people think fo me and I hope they know I think of them, even if it has been a while since we have talked. I hold onto my past and the people in it, because it makes me who I am today and so on. I love service when you do it secretly so you can reap the benefits of showing love. When I wake up each day I ask God to let me serve someone so that I can be happy. It's my natrual prozac lol. Today I went to help someone (I don't like to say what I do because then that is my glory and I would much rather the glory be love in my heart, because it allows me to be in a better mood.) needless to say while I was doing the thing I was doing for the first time in a long time I sat there and just enjoyed each moment. I saw Austin just play and really watched him and payed attention to everything he was doing. He loved that I was doing something with him too. I didn't have a care of concern on my mind and I just sat there and enjoyed the peaceful feeling that everything is good. I turn on the tv and hear about the bombings with the Gaza Strip and seeing signs that say "Stop Killing Kids" my heart reaches out and I sometimes worry how evil this sick world is. I don't want to waste my time in regret. I want to do the best I can and be the best I can. I am far from it. The real meaning of this life is to love and be loved. I have felt this most recently with all I come in contact with. If I look for the good in everyone then I do feel that warmth and love of Christ that still exsits here on this earth! I can make my home my haven and a place where we want the spirit to be where anyone who comes feels welcome. I think sometimes getting down and thinking of the horror that is all around us, we need to think of ten things for that one bad thing. Whenever Trent and I are talking and he or I say something not nice of another we always say "now say ten things you like about that..." It really does help. I have had a crazy feeling something is going to happen. Trent likes to say I am a doomsdayer. I think with the holidays over you just get kind of down, but I don't have time to feel that way there is too much to be done in a good way! While I was over today I realized that when I am serving others I truly am happy and I no longer feel tired. I get a renuied feeling of energy. If we were to treat everyone as if it was our last time we would see them, how different would we treat others? What things would we miss if our loved ones would be gone? I would miss being in my husbands arms, he makes everything in the world seem to disapear and makes it better. I would truly miss that the most. I love him so much that everyday if he is late I call to make sure he is ok! AFter seeing a friend lose her husband I fear that one day could easily be me. Everyone would try to comfort, but only the arms of your significant other could truly get you through. I would miss the love from friends and neighbors that come into my life and make it great. The talks, the fun, and just being in the presence of others makes me happy. I feel my soul rejoice when I am near them. How sad life would be without good friends and family. I would miss the sense of humor of my siblings, I am so glad we all get along! I would miss the kisses of my children. The funny things they do and say when I am really listening. Now is the time to change to apprechiate all I have in my wonderful life. Life really is wonderful. WE have choices to make it or make it better. I need to stop worrying about my house and the things that I can't fix. I need to just pay more attention to my kids. They are growing up too fast and times fly by so fast. I look back 7 years ago and how much I have even changed. Each day if we ask ourselves " can I do any good in the world today?" and follow that prompting of who we can help your life will become a happier one. I remember one day I got out to shovel the walks and did so for a neighbor, who probably wasn't home. But the words Do unto others as they would unto you came into my head. I looked out my window the next day and sure enough someone had shoveled my walks. It was a deep snow and I had preschool the next morning. I got my boots on about 6 a.m to go do it and my heart was heavy that someone thought of me. So whoever you are, thank you. A little love goes a long way.

People say you gain weight over the holidays. I think you gain weight AFTER the holidays when you have the Bah Humbug Blues and sugar seems to be the only thing that makes it better. Ergh... I haven't posted for a long time and when I do I don't write everything. I have a lot to catch up on but of course that with a million other things will just have to wait because I am lazy.