Goes Without Saying...: A few thoughts.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

A few thoughts.

When I started this blog I just thought it would be a fun place to collect and share my favorite things. As I blogged for a few months the allure wore off, and I got lazy, and stuck to just recording a few thoughts, and some family memories.

Then I started to get a little self-conscious, thinking...what if I am misunderstood, or sound whinny, or sugar coat things.

But hey, so what! I just write the things that I want to remember and think that one day my family will enjoy looking back on. The day to day things that otherwise would have been forgotten. Writing also helps me put things into perspective, and I think opening up is good for my soul :) I love this time of life and don't want to forget a moment of it, even the less than perfect moments. I don't know why I am saying all this, but that is the beauty of it...I can say whatever my little heart desires and I shouldn't worry what other people think.

I came across this post and thought I would share... Just some interesting thoughts. Common sense really, but she puts it so well. I love the line at the end where she says:

"U be U. I'll be me."

I have thought those same things about others blogs before...that they "have it all" but there is no such thing. We all have "issues" big or small, or small that may turn into big, or big that will get better and turn into small...but they are there....always. Just gotta love where we are at, right at this moment.

4 comments:

ChristinaJune 08, 2011
Steph, I love your blog and I think you do a wonderful job expressing yourself. You are a great mother, wife and friend. Thank you for sharing your everyday life experiences with all of us. I know I have learned so much from your great example.
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Erin MJune 12, 2011
I love reading your thoughts and you inspire me as I watch you determination. Your a great example.
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NicoleJune 14, 2011
Oh Steph, let me just say how I love your sincerity. Seriously. I love how you express yourself in complete honesty, no matter how simple or daunting the topic is. I, too, get self-conscious at times about what I post, but just putting it out there - writing it down, usually seems to do the trick. What a wonderful bonus it is to have such great people that are willing to assist us through life's journeys. Your willingness to open up not only helps you, but strengthens others. Thanks. *
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Matt and JessJune 17, 2011
I always love reading your blog because you express yourself so well and you either make me laugh, or inspire me:)
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood
-Covey

More important than speaking is listening.
-Jeffery R. Holland

If we wish away the moments they will be gone. The things that we wanted to leave-the mess, the noise, the obligations- will be gone, but so will the children! This is true with every moment of life. If we do not see its joys, if we do not make the most of it, it will pass- and so will it's opportunities.
-Jaroldeen Edwards

Sometimes weaknesses challenge weaknesses. Maybe the child who needs patience the most has the trick of exasperating you almost past endurance. Maybe the child with a flaring temper that needs control, repeatedly kindles your own temper. Whether at peace or at loggerheads, the two of you are joined together... You have lesson's to teach each other, and once you've weathered the process, you will each be more of what your Heavenly Father knows you are capable of being.
-Beppie Harrison

Do not find fault with every trifling error that you may see, for this will discourage your family, and they will begin to think that it is impossible to please you: and, after a while, they will become indifferent as to wether they please you or not. How unhappy and extremely wretched is that family where nothing pleases- where scolding has become almost as natural as breathing.
-Orson Pratt

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Obedience brings forth blessings. Exact Obedience brings forth miracles!
-Unknown

I know in who I have trusted.
-Stephen E. Robinson

Your Father in Heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him...Seek to comprehend the significance of these doctrines.
-Jeffrey R. Holland

I hope for you the very best that life has to offer, but I hope even more for a few simple things- things that come of the heart, things that come of the spirit, things that come of the divine within each of us.

When all is said and done, when you have lived your life and grown old as I am, you will recognize that it is the simple virtues that count, that make the great difference in our lives...

When all is said and done, our success in life will not be spelled out in the money we make, in the honor we attain, in the plaudits of men, but in those virtues which become the essence of that which is greatest within each of us.
-Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley

Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with friends and family.
-Pres. Thomas S. Monson

Simplification goes way beyond organization. It is not having "it" so you don't have to organize "it". It's not buying "it", looking for "it", subscribing to "it", insuring "it", building "it", or worrying about "it" in the first place.

Striking the proper balance is one of the keenest tests of our agency. Therefore, we need to ask regularly for inspiration in the use of our time and in the making of our daily decisions. So often our hardest choices are between competing desirable alternatives (each with righteous consequences), when there is not time to do both at once. Indeed, it is at the mortal intersections- where time and talent and opportunities meet- that priorities, like traffic lights, are sorely needed. Quiet, sustained goodness, is the order of heaven, not conspicuousness but episodic busyness."
-Elder Neal A. Maxwell

Have no doubt in your mind when you turn your light off at night, that you did your best that day. Then, proceed to count your blessings. Be grateful for what you have, not wishful for what you don't have.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

A few thoughts.

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