Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Summer Rules




Summer Rules
                            IT’S COMING
Are OUR kids ready??..Are WE ready? Or…. is Johnny, Sherry, Phillip and Ayesha planning to play VIDEO GAMES ALL DAY EVERY DAY!!!


Back in the day, kids weren’t board AND tired and they sure weren’t OVERWEIGHT!.. Give the kids some stuff to do and then make them realize there is more to life than GAMING!  
GIVE EM SOME RULES!...THEY DIDN’T HURT YOU!
Help your kids and let’s stop letting the TELEVISION, RAPERS WITH THREE CHAINS AND THE VIDEO GAME PRODUCERS OWN OUR CHILDREN’S BRAINS! 




Here are GRANDMA’S RULES FOR A PRODUCTIVE SUMMER:  
You, MOM & DAD, UNPLUG the ELECTRONICS and Plaster these rules on the wall in your children’s room so when they open their eyes they know where to start!                                                                  


                                             
 CHILD THIS IS ESPECIALLY FOR YOU
GET YOUR DAY STARTED BY:
  • THANKING GOD FOR ALLOWING YOU TO WAKE UP THIS MORNING?
  • MAKE YOUR BED AND SHOW YOUR SMALLER SIBLING HOW TO MAKE THEIRS AND CLEAN UP THAT BEDROOM! 
  • WASH YOUR FACE & YOUR BODY
  • BRUSH YOUR TEETH 
  • BRUSH YOUR HAIR 
  • GET DRESSED
  • EAT A HEALTHY BREAKFAST




         BRAIN STIMULATION FIRST!!

  • 30 MINUTES READING 
  • Kids 10 and under 20 MINUTES WRITING/COLORING
  • NOW!  EVERYBODY GO OUTSIDE AND GET DIRTY!!!
  • RIDE A BIKE OR A SKATEBOARD – Wear a Helmet PLEASE!
  • PLAY BASKETBALL Play BASEBALL
  • GO HIKING
  • TAKE THE TRASH OUT FOR THE SENIOR CITIZEN NEIGHBOR AND TAKE IT OUT AT YOUR OWN HOUSE
  • ASK A NEIGHBOR IF THEY NEED THEIR LAWN WATERED?
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ITS EVENING TIME NOW SO SIT DOWN WITH YOUR MOM AND DAD AND FIND OUT WHAT KIND OF DAY THEY HAD AND TELL THEM HOW FILLED YOUR’S WAS!






Just remember that some of our best memories made come from great summers filled with wholesome activities.  
Let’s teach our kids to appreciate family, friends and good neighbors and Let them know that FUN and WORK each have their place and if WE 
teach them to balance the two…….HEY!

 THESE KIDS ARE ON THEIR WAY TO BECOMING GREAT ADULTS     








Wednesday, May 22, 2019

FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS!!!!



FOCUS, what does that mean? We hear it when we’re in school, we hear it when we’re competing, when we’re driving when we’re in a relationship. But when we analyze the word, what does it mean?

Webster’s Dictionary defines it these ways:
Focus is the center of interest or activity, the state or quality of having or producing clear visual definition or adapt to the prevailing level of light and become able to see clearly.



All of these definitions point to one thing “STAYING ON TRACK”, not leaning to the right or to the left and to hone in on your target no matter what the obstacle’s and keep moving toward it until you can see your destination “CLEARLY”. Whewwww!  The question is, can you do it? Can you focus on what you love, are talented at or aspire to be despite adversity?  



Think back, when we were small children we played with our friends and pretended that we were doctors, lawyers, painters, astronauts, store owners, hair stylist, dancers, chefs you get my drift. The point is, when we are kids pretending, we’re not inhibited when we’re dreaming. In fact, we can see it as big as life itself, we see ourselves fulfilling our dreams.  You remember when you used spoons for microphones, pots and pans to beat drums and you made mud pies and pretended they were gourmet meals. Maybe your parents from a distance watched while you were pretending, or they even saw the potential in you for one skill or the other and they began grooming you from just a toddler to perfect that skill.  



You’ve seen and heard it, “Johnny is going to be this, or Sarah is going to be that” and those parents ate, slept and drank what Johnny or Sarah’s life goals would be.  Or maybe your upbringing was completely the opposite and your parents were of the mindset that they wanted you to explore and try many different things.  No matter which scenario is you, once you figured out who you were and where you wanted to go it was time to focus right? But, you woke up to “ADULTHOOD”!



Now, we’re talking about real life.  No dress rehearsal, the real deal, bills, relationships, if you’re a single parent there’s the kids, if you’re a two-parent household there’s the kids and everyone’s just plain old trying to make it! I GET IT!!!!!  But, yes there is always a but. If you give up on you, how can you help hold any of those other things together?


Let’s just FOCUS on the single parent. The one who may very well, have put his or her dreams on hold because the kids were small and you had to hump it to do the preschool and the day care, you had to work, try and sleep and get up the next day and do it all over again (And you still didn’t get that “GLASS OF WINE” right!).  

Okay, but now, these little people have grown into young folks and here’s the deal do you continue to wait to make your move until they are all the way “GROWN”?  What move you say? The move of pursuing what you know for sure that, with a TON of EFFORT, a TRUCK LOAD of BELIEF IN YOURSELF and the SUPPORT of the rest of your village will be great for you and them if you just do it?

OR, do you sit these young folks down in front of you NOW and have a conversation.  

Should we be afraid to say to our kids:  

“Family, I need to discuss something with you. You know I love you more than life itself and that I would do any and everything to make your life great.  Which is why, I’ve decided to pursue things in this direction because it will be what’s best for us as a family.  Now I’m going to need your help because my pursuits involve hard work, and no one can do it alone, it’s a family effort. To be honest, things could get a little hard while we’re taking this journey but if we stick together, not give up and keep the family’s goal in front of us we will be victorious! Do I have your support”?



A profound YES!, our kids love it when they know they are a part of the families success!




We’re not afraid to tell our children to focus we say it all the time but sometimes, we forget to do it ourselves especially if things get a little rocky.  We give up on ourselves and what’s even worse is, and we’ve all been guilty of it, we let the accomplishments of other folks cloud our thinking and cause us to get side tracked and lose our focus.  

We must trust ourselves enough to know that with God’s help and the help of our village, we can do what we set out to do.  

We can do it. We can write the script and we can actually see the scene play itself out but, it takes courage, humility and strength.  You’ll have to throw fear by the way side, roll up your sleeves and “Adapt to the prevailing level of light to be able to see clearly”!

THAT MEANS YOU MUST FOCUS!!!!

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Wednesday, May 15, 2019

I’m Saying It”



Saying what you ask? I’m saying what I need to say to my folks men and women so, if you fit any of the description in this article this one is for you!

Starters…Why do we continue to put up with boys/girls who PRETEND to be men & women?
·         Who’s waiting for whom to find themselves, the short trip for this is “Look in the mirror”!!!, No lie, every time I looked for me there, ugly as I may look (SOMETIME…Lol) “BAM” …I’m there!!!

·    If he can’t find a belt to hold up his pants how can he hold you up! Listen, whoever told somebody that everybody wants to see a man’s butt cheeks and his draws told a lie and the truth “AIN’T in them ..Lol!




·         If she can’t figure out that lingerie is worn underneath her clothes, I promise you, she’s going to wear “BOOTY SHORTS”, when she goes to 
the family BBQ and show everybody what color “THONG” she’s wearing !







·         How many baby momma’s & daddy’s do we have to be before we see that the order in which we do things has a “HUGE” impact on the baby that the momma and daddy make especially if we all live in the same house but we’ve all got different last names.

 Or do we care?

·         How many times will he say we’re getting married next year before YOU realize 15 years and 2 kids later that you’ve overlooked this bad quality in yourself first, and then in him, and that is….  YOU’RE BOTH LIARS!!!!...He keeps lying to you saying it’s gonna happen and you keep lying to yourself pretending you believe it when you know for sure it won’t.  But now, you’re scared you’ve WASTED too many years so you just keep up the smoke screen….IF YOU DON’T KNOCK IT OFF!!!...Listen, I’m not responding to myself on this one you’re going to have to “TEXT ME BACK” because I’m sure everyone will agree, that this is a whole separate article!!!..
            I know I’m stepping on toes but I’m not exempt! ..Hey some of these scenarios are going on right here in my own neck of the woods.  Where do you think I get the information from???
            But I’m saying, what the heck is wrong with being honest with the people we love, after all, the stuff we’re not saying to each other, folks that don’t care about us are saying, they’re just saying it behind our backs!...You know how that goes, “Girl she needs to… or “Man I wouldn’t put up with….Again, “KNOCK IT OFF”!!!

           The sooner we learn to love God first, and good gracious, “If we STOP leaving ourselves out of the equation”!!!, we’re going to Drop, Unload and Dismiss anything and anybody that “AIN’T”, yes I know, I’ve used the word “AIN’T” more than once in this article but, (sometime no other word fits!) I repeat, we’re going to Drop, Unload and Dismiss anything and anybody that “AIN’T” looking to make you and them better.  
           Difficult as it may be, we have a responsibility to ourselves and to the people we love.  And I know we’re not always ready to hear what we need to hear but  if you’re reading this article you can claim it.  You can profoundly say this is MY article and feel free to pass it on to you’re folks.


          It’s real, it’s life so if you NEED me to say something, “I’M SAYING IT” and….
                             ”You better TEXT ME BACK!!!!!"













Wednesday, April 17, 2019

TRUTH

ARE WE TRUTH?



Is it the TRUTH that there is more HAPPINESS in giving than there is in receiving?
Is it the TRUTH that a Real FRIEND is Loving ALL the TIME?
Is it the TRUTH that LOVE never Fails?
Is it the TRUTH that Apologies are HEALING?   



TRUTH IS
TRUST WORTHY






TRUTH IS
REAL








TRUTH IS
UNSELFISH







TRUTH IS
TIMELESS









TRUTH IS
HUMILITY













LOOK UP!


THE TRUTH IS,
TO RECEIVE TRUTH, WE HAVE TO BE TRUTH