Foster Puppies!

I just started the Fall Cure at Apartment Therapy, and I am love, love, loving it!

Already we have made great improvements, and the whole family is joining in to help.

In other news, I babysat my nephew, Daniel today. I have to say I wholeheartedly recommend the Baby Einstein series.

Within five minutes of putting on the Mozart video, I was contentedly snoozing on the couch. I am not so sure it is good for babies, but it is great for napping moms.

It was a little scary to watch how mesmerized Daniel was with the images on the screen. It is also scary to think how much money those people are making for waving a hand puppet around.

I awoke from my nap to see the climactic scene in Little House on the Prairie where Adam regains his sight.

I remember as an insecure child watching the episode where Mary and Adam fell in love, and thinking I had found the perfect way to snag a husband: find a blind man who couldn't see what I looked like.

It seemed like the perfect solution, so I remember being distraught when I saw the episode where he regained his sight. My whole husband-catching plan was thwarted.

So it was nice to watch the episode again from the vantage point of actually having a wonderful husband and a beautiful family. And my husband can see! And he still married me!

He has slowly taught me that perhaps I am not as hideous as my elementary schoolmates led me to believe.

Inspiration

“Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.” -Rich Mullins

"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart." - Socrates

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." - Helen Keller

"Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.” - Henri Matisse

"What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts." - Ray Eames

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." - Matthew 6:19-21

"Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein

" I am not afraid... I was born to do this." - Joan of Arc

"People new to Ivey's world see a puzzle missing pieces. But, I am convinced, unwillingly convinced, Ivey is WHOLE. She is all of the things we all should be, minus the things that really are unimportant." - Gwen Sirmans

2 comments:

Anonymous5:39 AM
Hi PB--now who made you feel you were hideous? They weren't very nice children, were they?

I'm glad life has worked out in such a way as to show you your value (smile)! That's important.

Thank you for sharing.
Deanna Heaslet2:05 PM
Children sometimes treat each other very badly at school.

That's another reason why I chose to homeschool. My children had a chance to form their self-images without input from the mean kids.

Now, if someone insults them, they know the problem lies with the other person, not them.

I love seeing them so confident and secure in who they are.

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