I am a Princess!

My hubby has been very into a speaker named Bob Proctor lately and in one of the videos he talks about not listening to people who are not where you want to be. That has really stayed with me since I heard it. How true is that! Why would I want to listen to people tell me about my own life when they are not in a place that I want to be now or in the future? It then reminded me of the book You Are Special by Max Lucado. Punchinello was listening to people who were not where he wanted to be. They would give him gray dots and laugh at him when he was trying to do something or be better than he was. Yes, there were those who had stars but can those people really give you a true idea of who you can become? So we must ask ourselves, where do we want to go? Who do we want to become? For me the answers are I want to become an heir in my Heavenly Fathers kingdom. I want to inherit all that my father hath.

A lot of the time we say to ourselves, "I wish I was born rich so that I could do....." Guess what! You were!! You are a son or daughter of someone who has EVERYTHING! How much as parents do we want to give our children everything that they want...granted we don't but we want to. If we as earthly beings want to give our children everything we can how much greater is that desire to a Heavenly parent. If we start thinking of ourselves as a prince or princess and having that knowledge that we have a father who has everything how much would your life change? If everyday you told yourself "I am a princess!" and you believed it would you have more confidence in yourself? Would you walk taller? Go for things you wouldn't normally do because you knew your worth? I would and I am starting to!


I am a princess! I am a daughter of a loving Heavenly Father who is willing and wants to give me all that he has. Yes, I need to do the things necessary to receive those things but with him all things are possible!

Go out today and tell the world and yourself that you are his child and believe it! Your life can only get better if you do!

MOMents

So I started a book called MOMents. It is to help moms find Christ in the everyday moments of life. The first chapter is about aligning our thoughts with Christ because as Isaiah says "For my thoughts are not your thoughts". The author talks about how along those lines we need to look at ourselves how Christ would see us. Christ doesn't look at us mom's as a person who has bags under her eyes from waking up at 2:30 am and not going back to sleep. He doesn't see that my closet is mostly t-shirts and jeans. He doesn't see that my house is a mess not 5 minutes after vacuuming it. What he does see and what I feel his thoughts are when he looks at me is a mom who despite her own wants and needs puts those aside to comfort his children when they have a bad dream. He sees someone who is trying teach her kids about who Heavenly Father is and what they can become through him. He sees a woman who shows unconditional love to those around her.
My stripping away what I think of myself and what others think of me and just focusing on aligning my thoughts with those of Christ I am hoping that the spirit can be more in our home!

Who am I?

I have been thinking a lot about finding yourself this past week and what that really means. I came to the conclusion that you must know who you are to find yourself so I made a list and this is what I came up with.....

I am a daughter of an extremely loving Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother. I know they love me so much and although the allow the struggles in my life to happen they are their cheering me on and giving me the support I need.

I am a daughter of extremely loving earthly parents. My mom is truly an example of endurance and patience. While growing up my dad worked away from home many times and she wouldn't get to see him very often. She survived and is stronger for it and so will I! My father is a rock and an example of what I feel like a worthy preisthood holder is. Any time I needed a blessing or someone to talk to he has been there.

I am a wife. To me being a wife means that you give your husband the support that he needs to follow the dreams that he has but also giving him councel. I also feel like it means providing unconditional love to him. Sometimes he hurts my feelings unknowingly and I get angry, but I feel that it is in those times of anger or frustration that I am being given the opportunity to show that unconditional love. Just because I am hurt doesn't mean that I have the right to yell at him or speak unkind words to him, that will not help the situation it will only make things worse. Most of the time I don't speak at all until I can find the words to say that won't hurt him but will express the hurt I feel at the situation. 

I am a mother. It is still weird to me to think that I am a mom and have been for almost 2 years. Over 2 years ago we made the decision to start adding to our family. After finding out that I was pregnant Drew gave me a blessing. I don't remember much about that blessing but I do remember the feeling of love that spread over me as I thought about that little child that was coming into our family. Together and apart we prayed for that little one. Praying for things like good health and for it to be strong willed (that was Drew). But I knew that little one was special and had a special purpose on this earth. Even now as I think about him and his sweet spirit I am so amazed that Heavenly Father blessed my life by letting me be his mom. About 6 months after he was born Drew and I got the feeling that there was another little sprit waiting to come into our family and that it was time to try for a second baby. A month after trying we got pregnant. I was hesitant to tell people at first becaus they were so close together and I felt that many people would let me know their opinion on the subject but I knew and Drew knew that the Lord had told us that it was time for her to come to us so it made the comments easier to deal with. Drew gave me a blessing again when we found out I was pregnant again and again we prayed for her, this time I don't remember praying for her to be strong willed so hopefully she won't like the word NO as much as her brother. I new from a young age I was meant to be a mom, just ask my brothers and sister. Knowing this doesn't make it any easier though. 

                                        (My little family)

These are the core of me. Knowing these things is what keeps me going and helps me through the tough times. Now I have the core I need to keep building right?

Finding Yourself

Recently I have been feeling very lonely. Drew has been working from 6 am to about 8 or 9 pm and we only have one car. I had been wondering what I could do to interact with others that are above the age of 2 and I figured all I really needed to do was get my thoughts out of my head so a blog it is! Like I said before I have been feeling very lonely as a stay at home mommy and it made me think of all the other stay at home mommies out there. The ones whose lives consist of loads of dishes and laundry each day while trying to keep the kids happy and yourself, in fact just yesterday I saw a post on facebook from one of my other stay at home mommy friends about that. How do you maintain yourself while trying to provide the best for your kiddos? That is something I haven't quite figured out yet. Maybe as I get my thoughts out in this blog I will finally figure that out. Well the kids are arising...time to get up