Family and Stuff: January 2013

Inspirational Thoughts

Strength is nothing more than how we hide the pain

Every one wants happiness no one wants pain, but in order to see the rainbow, you must go through the rain

Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.

Keep Moving Forward!!!! Walt Disney

And in the end, it is not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln

Learn from Yesterday, Live for today, Hope for Tomorrow

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes the best memories are those you have yet to create

Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life long attempt to acquire it

Fear is the dark room where negatives are developed

You can't do hurdles, if you REFUSE to JUMP!

Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, YOU WILL LAND AMONG THE STARS!!!

THE ONLY THING IN LIFE ACHIEVED WITHOUT EFFORT IS FAILURE!!!

Don't let the negative people have the most IMPACT in your life!

NEVER give up on anyone...Miracles happen EVERYDAY!!!

Sunday, January 20, 2013

The Parental Curse!

My daddy would say that when I grew up he wanted me to have a girl just like me so I could experience the troubles he went through where I was concerned. Well, I might not have had a girl, but I did have children and my boys have shown me they are just like me....

I witnessed this morning that my Daddy's wishes have come true, its hard to admit, but they did...

1) Clothes: I wanted to be fashionable, no hand me downs and wanted name brand items...Well, the name brand items are not my issue with the boys, but they do want fashionable, which my gracious Aunt Gaga and sweet mother-in-law has so pointed out, when the boys will wear what they buy them, but will not wear what I purchase, even tho they get to pick it out, it still something Momma bought, I guess.

2) Chores: "Stop touching me" "You're not doing it right" "I don't want to do it" "It's not fair" "Momma!" "Dad" "You only had children so you don't have to"...Remember these Mom???? I remember always fighting with my sisters growing up regarding chores, especially dishes. We did things out of spite and only to see how much we could get on one another's nerves. This morning the boys were given new chores to complete, as they are now gonna be responsible for cleaning their bathroom (since this a hazardous zone) and the dining room, boy, thought this was a huge mistake, but I remember some scripture about and I am paraphrasing here "give a man a fish, feed him for a day...teach a man to fish and feed him for life..." Well, we are teaching the boys more responsibility and in doing so we are hearing more griping and complaining, does any of this sound familiar?

3) Smart Mouth: So Aaron has developed the "smart mouth" now, ended up calling us lazy because we added these few chores to their list. Hmmmm....Just like his Momma,

4) Suck-up: As these new chores were added and what we call in our house as "Busy Hands", CAM decided that he should go above and beyond the call of duty and double his efforts in sucking up claiming he is the best at what they were told to do and that he was gonna have "busy hands" all day. Well, I think that lasted until lunch as now he is playing his DS so obviously it was just his way of making us feel better about being so "lazy."

Well, seems to me they are well on their way to being just like Momma.

Lessons Learned!

This section will consist of lessons that I have learned throughout the week, that might be trivial to y'all, but are really important for me to keep in mind when doing my mindless activities.
1. When you use your dishwasher as a drying rack, and its time to run it through to get rid of the standing water, DO NOT, and I REPEAT DO NOT use Pinesol as a cleanser for this project.
2. If you are wanting to change your routine, and try to arrange your schedule to wake up earlier, do not try to do this two days before Daylight Savings...SMH, not even worth it.
3. Our family was invited to a get-together for sushi, in which I made a strawberry cheesecake to take. Well, I thought I was being smart and put the strawberry topping on the cheesecake before leaving the house, just so I wouldn’t have to tote two items to this party. So moral is tote that second bowl filled with the topping so you will not have strawberry juices leak all over the floor, car, shoes, shirt, hands, etc.
4. Throwing away toys, when a child can remember that he gave it to you specifically to “fix”, can be damaging to the wallet. Throw away toys when they know nothing about it, at least that way you have the element of deniability on your side.
5. When making coleslaw...always and I mean always measure the salt input...cabbage and salt, not a very tasty, satisfying combination. Add extra salt to fries, pretzels, or even some sort of meat, just not cabbage. SALT, always measure it!!!!!
6. I usually mow the lawn for the family, since its a small yard and doesn't take long to do, but I have put weed eater fluid in the lawn mower and tore up the engine to one mower, this is the second time i have ran over the extension cord while trying to mow, it is so obvious that I am not meant to mow. So I have gone to Lowe's and bought two more extension cords, but for some odd reason my husband will not let me mow the lawn anymore....so i guess my lesson learned this week, is I have learned to get out of work, cost my husband money, and therefore his only option, mow the lawn himself.