Don't forget to VOTE

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled,
public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and
controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed
lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of
living on public assistance."

Cicero , 55 BC

Bigger than you

Waves crash endlessly upon the shore. The heat of summer is relieved by the cool winds of autumn, then winter, then spring and summer again and again in an ever-repeating cycle.
The forces that make it all happen and keep it all going are truly awesome. Though they can be explained and understood to a degree, they are impossible to fully comprehend.

In this life there is much that you can influence, much that you can do, and much that you can accomplish. Even so, there are many other things about which you can do nothing but accept, experience and stand in awe.

Sometimes the best thing to do with life is allow yourself to feel its wonder and beauty. Sometimes it is helpful and even comforting to remember that there are things you can never change.

For by acknowledging what you cannot do, you more fully appreciate and utilize those things you can do. By accepting and valuing that life is bigger than you, your own perspective is greatly enhanced.

Life is rich and varied and awesome beyond anything you can ever imagine. So go ahead and accomplish all you can imagine, for when you're done there's always room for more.

-- Ralph Marston

Saying Good By

I turned over all of my girls camp stuff to the stake leaders today. (I was released due to my new calling last week) This was very difficult. I didn't think it would be that hard.
I had been working on camp only scents June. I know that sounds like along time, but camp isn't until next June.
Anyway, I cried. I didn't want to. I thought I would be fine. I had already cried so I was sure I that I was done. Whatever. They asked a little about how I came to the theme for camp, and there came the waterworks.
I guess it was just going to happen. I want so much for the young women to go to camp and come away knowing for sure that their Father in Heaven loves them. I want them to see the potential they have to become great women. I want them to bloom into the amazing people I know they are. I know girls camp is a great place to teach them.
I know I will still be there with our ward. However, there is something to seeing girls camp for the perspective of a stake leader you don't get anywhere else. Kris said the something about being a ward leader. I think we are both right.
So now it is in the very capable hand of the stake leaders. I know they will do a great job. I sure they wont change to many of my ideas.(I know where they live JK) They are such great leaders. They only have the girls best interest in mind. They will follow the promptings of the Lord and seek him often in pray for guidance.
I will miss so much serving with them and want to say thank you to all of them for their great example and their love while I was with them.
You all are the best.

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The best Living Will

I,__________, being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means. Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of pinhead politicians who couldn't pass ninth-grade biology if their lives depended on it, or lawyers/doctors interested in simply running up the bills. If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to ask for at least one of the following:

Diet Coke

Chocolate

Pasta

French Fries
Chocolate
Chicken Fried Steak

Mexican Food

Diet Coke
Chocolate
Cream Gravy
Chocolate
Pizza
Ice cream
Chocolate
Chocolate
Chocolate

It should be presumed that I won't ever get better. When such a determination is reached, I hereby instruct my appointed person and attending physicians to pull the plug, reel in the tubes, let the 'fat lady sing,' and call it a day!

Really, do you want to keep going if there is no chocolate to look forward to?

They Grow To Fast

Last night it happened. Nader(5) lost his first tooth.
There is something to a first like this. It is marking the beginning of the end. How could this be possible. How could he be growing so fast. First Kindergarten now his first tooth gone. Next thing you know he will be off on his mission then getting married.
They truly grow to fast. It hurt the heart a little. They get bigger. They start making their own choices. Then they leave you.
Do I sound like I am feeling sorry for myself? Maybe just a little. Its hard to watch them grow so fast. And of course he is my last. So this is my last First tooth.
I think all of these last, firsts are going to get to me. No way to set the clock back and hold the little baby one more time?

Its OK to laugh

If it weren't so funny I might cry. How could it be I have two kids with broken bones. You may get a laugh out of this. I had a hard time believing it.
Bobo was at school on Monday and got knocked down during gym. He knew has hand hurt but didn't want to worry anyone. So he didn't tell his coach. He didn't let the office know what was going on. He didn't come and tell me, and I was at the school helping out.
No, he waited until he got home. His hand was so swollen. And yep the Dr said his finger was broken right at the base of his hand.
He doesn't get a full cast so he thought that he could take of the splint to play in the water, shower, whatever. "I don't think so." Those would be the doctors words not mine. It does make for a funny too watch him play his violin. You would laugh to, and it would be ok.

So what have I learned. Don't tell the lord you have had enough changes going on. He will just give you more to let you know He know better.

Nuker Got her cast.

Bobo is a splint holding his two fingers together.

So cute together. One more broken bone and I might pull my hair out