True beauty

Time Tested Beauty Tips

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.

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Thankful

Things I am thankful for today:
A great time at lunch with my Bible Study Fellowship ladies, sharing about what God is doing in their lives.
Dottie, my teaching leader in BSF, an example of perseverance, taught for 35 years, without pay or fame.
My children’s great attitudes and behaviors, I love being with them.
My husband’s hard work, he always does what I ask him to do without complaint.
My friend who emailed today and said she is praying for me, without me asking.
My heavenly Father, who gives me all the above to give me encouragement.

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Funny memory

Here’s something else I remember from my childhood.

When I was in 4th grade, I was next to my friend Melissa Sargent. As she was talking, she turned to point at something and stuck her finger into my nostril!

Yeah, I remember stuff like that…I wonder what happened to all my childhood friends and teachers…Linda…

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Milestones

Elliot passed his driver’s license test yesterday.

So many milestones for him this year – driver’s license…going to college…

Looking back, I do not now consider those as significant events in my life. At the time they probably were, but I don’t remember details at all. Did I fail a couple of times before passing the driver’s test? Was I excited when I received my college acceptance letter?

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Thankfulness

Amy has bookfair at school this week. She wanted to buy this and buy that.
K: “How much money do you have?”
A: “How much money can you give me?”
K: “Prioritize what you want, and let me see what you really want.”

She wanted a paperback, the story of a mouse who is a…

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Letting go

In short, any student that goes off to college will be presented with situations where they will be called upon to make responsible moral choices. There comes a point in every parent’s life when they must trust that they have raised their child to make the right choices.

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Bittersweet

Elliot received an acceptance on Wednesday into the USC Resident Honors Program. USC selects 30 high school juniors to start as college freshmen without finishing high school. I am very proud of him! But…

Am I ready to let go??? If he decides to go, I have 6 months to prepare him. Academically, emotionally, physically…

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