My OPINION

The older I get...
I HOPE the more open minded I become..
I realize My OPINION is only mine,
and there is a whole huge world out there with their own.
Including my beautiful, spunky,
fabulously fiery daughter.
I see her do and say lots of things
that I don't necessarily think
I might say or do...
But, I want her to feel
that she can always talk to me,
and we can just agree to disagree
with no hurt feelings,
or grudges about
who is right or wrong.
As I travel through age
I see that the open-minded ability to
actually talk about anything you want,
and to be able to say anything
that needs to be said
is a much greater treasure
than being RIGHT..

The Rainbow

What a wonderful quote I read today...

I LOVE things

that inspire me

to be a better person

& a better mother.

I could say a million things to go along with this quote....

But some things speak for themselves.

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow;

but, the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.

Patricia Clafford

Some kind of LOVE

There are just no words that I have ever known

to describe the type of LOVE

a mother has for her children.

Brent, was the first person that I ever really

felt loved me for no reason at all.

I have always told him

that he taught me how to be human.

I am heading to Abilene to watch him play baseball tomorrow,

and already I have sparkles just at the thought of seeing his face.

He can light up my heart like to one else in all the world.

I have always had such a hard time realizing

the true LOVE of God.

I was taught to be afraid of how GOD would

punish you when you acted wrong. It kind of always felt

like he was up there with a big marker and tablet writing down

my zillions of screw ups. Then, after Brent came along, I realized! WOW....

If I love my child like this, just image how much God loves me.

I wouldn't dare ever remove my love from my kids when they make mistakes.

Some days along the way have had a few disappointments,

but never once have I thought my children were unworthy of LOVE.

No matter how old you are, it's never too late to be filled up with LOVE.

The kind that never goes away.

Make sure your children know that before they grow up.

It will change their lives forever.

Sometimes you gotta get DIRTY

Looking back to the early days of my "big" kids, I realize so many moments I squelched because I was ruling my life by TIME.

How much time something was going to take to clean up, how much time it was going to take us to reach a destination, how much time homework was going to take, how much time was left in my day to clean or sleep, and most sadly of all how much time until my kids were big enough to clean up their own messes.

WELL..... I can tell you I missed a million minutes while I watched "THE TIME"

Today, however, I didn't. Brady was playing in the front yard in the dirt, and climbed right up in the flower pot. He dug, threw, and sat in the dirt for almost an hour. He groaned, clapped, laughed, and poured dirt all over himself and my porch.

I must say my first thought was "What a mess this is going to make." But I stopped and watched him play. As I sat there I realized how precious TIME can be if you just watch it go by.

That moment could have so easily been missed.

Instead MY own words rang in my ears "to cherish the moments that pass by too quickly."

So, Brady got to play in the dirt, and I took the TIME to watch that precious little miracle be a part of my life.