Happy Birthday, My Love

By MAD21

Hi friends. Just wanted you all to know that my hubby turns 45 today! Wish him a happy day will ya? And pray his next year is filled with healthy days, joy, blessings and lots of opportunities to share the many ways that God has blessed him.

I love you hon. I'm glad to have celebrated the last ten of your birthdays together. Praying we get to celebrate many, many more.

What Are Your Values?

By Chuck (Sharing Compassion)

Growing up I was always taught that it would be my values that defined my character. That is, what truly mattered to me, what I held close to my heart would be those things that people remembered me for. 

Back then I think I scoffed at that notion and often chose the quick and easy path. I did what I could to succeed with the easiest amount of effort.  I know I cut corners and did what I needed to in order to be successful. Interestingly enough I grew up through the late seventies to nineties when the economy was booming and the norm was to do "whatever it took".  As a society we wanted the best of everything and held those things loosely.

It has been said that we live in a world that knows
the cost of everything but the value of nothing.

Sadly we would almost rather grab that quick extra value meal as it cheap and easy then to sit down and take the time to prepare something healthy and nutritious. Looking back I think that would be almost the way to describe my values. Why take the time to make a difference? What we had today could be gone tomorrow or at least replaced by something bigger and better.  Grabbing the quick and easy rather than getting something better…….

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One Word At A Time: Patience

By MAD21

Oooohhh, patience. One of those words that qualifies as a "four letter word" because it implies that it's bad or something no one can attain.

I've always admired people who were able to stay level-headed in stressful situations. As a parent I struggle with being patient with my kids more than I expected I would. I've worked with kids most of my life and never really had a problem with taking my time to help them along. Which is saying a lot since most of the time I end up working or playing with the ones who tend to be more of a challenge.

I get really frustrated at myself sometimes. Honestly, I wonder at times if I used up all of my patience with kids from working so much with them before I had my own. But then I remember the words I often heard when telling a parent how much fun we'd had with their kids. "You just wait until you have your own. Then you will truly appreciate what it means to have someone else take care of your kids for awhile."

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Blizzard 2010 Day Three

By MAD21

After two and a half days of shoveling our property and helping our neighbor's, we finally got to get in some play time today.

Unfortunately, the snow is still too powdery to build much of anything. My oldest had decided she wanted to try and build igloos this time, but when we found out the the snow was so dry, we knew that wasn't going to happen. So we settled for building a snow cave, two actually. We decided we should build 'condos' for each of the girls.

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Life Is Funny: Local Forcast

By MAD21

My friend and fellow blogger Wendy at Weight..What? has a fun carnival at her blog called "Life is Funny." Every Monday we talk about something in life that we find funny. Be sure to go visit her blog to read her post along with links to other blogs who are participating.

Update on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 9:41AM by MAD21

They posted another weather update for the storm that is coming today. If it gets categorized as a blizzard we will make history for having two blzzards within one week along the 95 corridor. I can't imbed the video here, but you can go to the LINK and watch it at Accuweather.com.