LOVE IS...

This is a sweet reminder of my early marriage days. We left little love notes everywhere and sent each other cards in the mail. I hope you will come join Marydon and Sherry and I for this Monday fun meme. The shy artist Kim Grove use to leave little notes for her future hubby Roberto Casali and he kept every single one of them but he thought there was something more too them. He showed them to a person in the syndication business who agreed that they should be  made public and that is how the Love is...phenomenon was born.
I shared this with you today because in the store earlier today I told Sweets to make sure he sent me a Valentine. Our local King Soopers grocery store has a mail box in each front range store and they collect your addressed and stamped Valentine's and then they are mailed from Loveland, Colorado. Each year thousands of folks send their Valentine's to Loveland so they will have the special postmark. They have volunteers who hand stamp these Valentine's and there is always a special poem on the stamped cards. Send your cards too. They are www.withlovefromloveland.com/.

PRAYERTIME

I wanted to have a light hearted post today. I just love the Family Circus and when looking for images to share it is very sad how much garbage is out there and how someone can take such a precious comic like this and turn it into some horrible self gratifying disgusting pleasure! Ugh! I hope you will enjoy these two I chose and the fact that the sweet little ones were praying is just a delight to me.

If you enjoy this post I hope you will come over and join us at  Spiritual Sunday. Charlotte and Ginger do an  amazing job each week coordinating all this for everyone to enjoy.

I hope 2011 makes you smile as much as Dolly and Jeffy make me smile.

"In his heart a man plans his course but the Lord directs his steps." Proverbs 16:9

A THOUGHTFUL POST FOR 2011

HANDBOOK 2011
Health:

1. Drink plenty of water.

2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.

3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants..

4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy

5. Make time to pray.

6. Play more games

7. Read more books than you did in 2010 .

8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day

9. Sleep for 7 hours.

10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:

11. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

12. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

13.. Don't over do. Keep your limits.

14. Don't take yourself so seriously.. No one else does.

15. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip..

16. Dream more while you are awake

17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need..

18. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with His/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.

19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.

20. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.

21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

23. Smile and laugh more.

24. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree...

Society:

25. Call your family often.

26. Each day give something good to others.

27.. Forgive everyone for everything..

28.. Spend time w/ people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.

29. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

30. What other people think of you is none of your business.

31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:

32. Do the right thing!

33. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

34. GOD heals everything..

35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change...

36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

37.. The best is yet to come...

38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.

39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

 Last but not the least:

40. Please Forward this to everyone you care about, I just did

My friend Lyn sent this to me in an email. My friend Marydon told me to put this on my blog. So thanks ladies for this wonderful piece and the good advice to share it with more folks than are in my email address book! I think we all can follow these simple guidelines and enjoy a wonderful 2011. May goodness and kindness follow you everywhere you go!

PRETTY PINK SATURDAY 4 YOU!

Hi and welcome to the Saturday edition of the fun pink meme, Pink Saturday. This is hosted by our favorite lady Beverly and she is always working hard to make sure we make everything come together. I am still having some issues with posting my photos, some days they work, others they don't so I am going to recreate my original post for Pink Saturday now. Thank you goole images.

Family Circus has been a favorite Sunday cartoon of mine for ages. I think we have a few VHS tapes from the kids childhood still boxed up here. I love the sweetness of this family and "Grandma" is wearing her favorite pink dress. I just enjoy cherishing these memories and sharing them with you. Stop by Beverly's blog http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/ and visit her and then visit a pinkie. Today I suggest a stopover at http://somewouldevensayitglows.blogspot.com/ You will enjoy visitng this sweet lady. Tell her I sent you over and enjoy her blog. Happy Pink Saturday to everyone!

HEY SCOOBY DOO!

It is Thursday and I am finally getting around to posting a pic of Smokey and Jeremy. On Christmas Day our goofy son said he wanted to pose with Smokey like Scooby Doo! So Scooby Doo where are you? This is my contribution to Angela's Tuesday's Show and Tail! Blogger has been giving me a fit! So please try to link with Angela at http://wvtreasures.blogspot.com/

PRAYERS AND SOME GOOD NEWS

I am trying to get into the swing of the new year. We were swamped at work today and our Audiologist was out. Family emergency. Dr. T's hubby Patrick was taken to the emergency room with a blinding headache. He was sent home. A while later he was unresponsive and the good doctor and her family called an ambulance. He had a blood clot and was transferred to a "trauma I" hospital where he had emergency surgery and is currently stable. I ask that you all pray for this wonderful family. Dr. T. or Koko as she prefers is a sweet and wonderful gal who is my co worker. Her hubby Patrick and his mom  and Koko and Patrick's two kiddos Kira and Kevin are a wonderful family. Please pray that Patrick has a swift recovery and is back on his feet in no time.
In the meantime my niece Holly had a lumpy bumpy on her breast. She is mom to cuties Sean and Sarah and wife to Steve. She was scared and had a biopsy two days after Christmas. She found out today that that darn lumpy bumpy was not breast cancer. Thank goodness and Praise God! Rather something in her thyroid meds that needs to be adjusted. Thanks for all the prayers you put out for her.
My Sweets spent the morning with his brother at the surgery's office. More back surgery in his future. It has been a very difficult road for us with him here. My Sweets loves his brother but his presence has taken a toll on our phamily. He will get the surgery as soon as the doctor can schedule him and get the insurance approval. Then my Sweets told the doctor he needs to go into rehab to recover. We work, our kids work and go to  to school full time so we do not have the means to be a full time care provider here. Please pray. We need to accept this I know and I hate to sound uncaring but it has been very difficult for the six of us and Phil who stays with us. Everyone is always trying to avoid him and he over medicates himself and we have no clue where he hides the meds he was getting from his family doctor and previous surgery. It is a real battle for us as we are all a bunch of plain janes at our house. We don't do anything to harm ourselves and it is difficult to watch someone slowing going down the drain. I just ask for prayer.
On a happier note I seem to be linking into some strange survey and got a nice tutorial from Jenny to help me resolve the problem. This blogging business is puzzling sometime.
I appreciate each and everyone of you and wish you all well in the new year. Thanks for always listening and come back often.

Images by google.

Love is...

This is Sweets and I. Not a huge amount of snow for the New Year but enough frigid temps to keep you safely inside. I pray for all those who have no home,no where to go. I just heard a news report that in Denver all the shelters are booked to capacity. Let's all pray that everyone can come in from the cold and stay safe and warm.
I hope each one of you are enjoying the New Year and settling in from the Christmas holidays. Let's all join together in this new year and pray for the homeless, the unloved and the millions of displaced Americans.
I hope you will come to join us in this new year with Love is...it is such a sweet and simple reminder that love is the ultimate gift.
Marydon at http://blushingrosetoo.blogspot.com/ and Sherry and I wish you all much love in this new year 2011.