Woohoo!!!!

Middle child started gymnastics in Oct of 2008. She was just invited to join the pre-team last night! She is so excited. So after a trip to Mimi and Papa's, she'll be on pre-team. She has wanted to get onto team from the time she started going to gymnastics. This means next year she will begin competing.

A big thankyou to my Dad for helping support her (especially financially) so she was able to obtain this goal. Thanks Dad!!!

Just Because

I know I haven't been blogging like I have wanted. I have ideas of things I would like to blog, but I just don't seem to get around to it. So I decided to cheat and just post an LDS nugget, which I know some of you already get in your e-mails. I decided I would start trying to post just something until I get a chance to actually get pictures up and post what I have planned.

"Daily simple, sincere, and mighty prayers lift our lives to a higher spiritual altitude. In our prayers we praise God, give thanks to Him, confess weaknesses, petition needs, and express deep devotion to our Heavenly Father. As we make this spiritual effort in the name of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, we are endowed with increased inspiration, revelation, and righteousness, which bring the brightness of heaven into our lives."

--Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "Prayer and the Blue Horizon", Liahona, Jun 2009, 2–5

Long Time, No Blog

There has been just a few people checking out the site here. I get the updates about people checking out the site and I think, even I haven't been by to check out my site.  It has been so low on my priority list that it got lost for awhile.  There is a lot I need to blog.  

Since I haven't been checking out my site, that means I haven't checked out other's blogs either and I have missed catching up what is going on.  

Hopefully I will be able to catch up a little.  I feel that way with so many things in my life, hopefully I'll be able to catch up with so many things.

I have loved the fact that summer is here and I am looking forward to an amazing summer!

Proud to be a Mom!

Hubby and I were watching the celebrity apprentice and they were supposed to make a viral video for All Small and Mighty. As the contestant are asking the executives from All who they were wanting to market. One of the contestants asked if Moms was who they were trying to reach, the female All executive said, "NO, not Moms, just women with children." She was very adamant that Moms were not her focus, only women with children.

WHAT THE *&@# !!!!

I don't usually get offended by much I see on TV, this pushed me over my limit. How is a woman with children not a Mom? I think she was trying to focus on someone who had a profession of some kind as well as had children. How has the value of motherhood dropped so greatly? Isn't it the most amazing thing in the world? Yes, it is often the most difficult too. Doesn't every child need to know that their Mom thinks of them as their Mom, not a woman who happened to have a child. Every child deserves to have a Mom that cherishes every moment with their child and treasures the wonderful gift of motherhood.

I do understand that there are Moms that work, but I do not believe that devalues their motherhood. They are just as much a Mom.

I can't imagine there being a time in my life that I don't feel that I'm a Mom, that I was a woman, that just happened to have children.

I was very tempted to go upstairs and take my brand new bottle of All Small and Mighty I happened to buy before the show and return it to the store. I still might.

Learning

I came across this a few years ago when I was first starting to officially call the learning in my house home schooling. I didn't find who wrote it back then, so I am just claiming it as unknown. Whenever the girls and I read this, it seems to jump start their desire to put a little more effort in their work. I know I have mentioned sharing this with some of you. Enjoy!

It Is My Responsibility to Learn

My parents are responsible for teaching me how to learn.
It is my responsibility to learn.
My parents can provide me with opportunities to learn.
It is my responsibility to learn.
My parent’s instruction will guide me towards learning.
It is my responsibility to learn.
Knowledge is power and learning is freedom.
It is my responsibility to learn.
Stupid is as stupid does.
It is my responsibility to learn.
An excellent education is at my grasp.
It is my responsibility to learn.
I will embrace and take hold of my future for...
It is my responsibility to learn

Sharing

Hubby took from my facebook to blog. I figured I would use his blog to blog myself. He blogged about our kitchen remodel.

Carpe diem

The other day my oldest child and I were talking and she started telling me of how sad she was that she was getting older. (She is turning 10 soon--I know, so OLD!). She was concerned, because she is over half of the way of being an adult. She said she has really loved being a kid and would rather stay young and be a kid, than get older. She was very upset that she had less years being a child left. She was so upset from it, she was actually crying. It just tore at my heartstrings. First of all, I was amazed, because most of the time, kids just want to get older and older to whatever the next stage is. The second thing is that she is growing up and I know it happens so fast. She is right, there are a lot less of these child carefree days in front of us. She reminded me to not take each for granted, enjoy this time together as much as we can. Something that seems to continuously come back as a theme, but I know it's easy to get caught up in daily life and forget the goodness and awesomeness all around, especially to remember all the greatness of our children.

I am very thankful that God has given me another day and I hope to live it to my fullest potential, enjoying my family, friends and this beautiful world. I hope to carry that through each day that I am blessed with.