Familial Research and Development

My favorite sister went to the Temple this past week. The Manti Temple. The same one that Uncle Vic and Aunt Piney went to. The same one Janele and her hubby were married/sealed in. I don't know if she realizes how special that Temple is to us. My sis has been through some very ugly things in life. Oh, she was never beat or belittled by her husband. She doesn't have one. She was never ridiculed for her mothering skills by other 'more adept' mothers. She never had or raised children. She never won 'yard of the week' from any community because she doesn't own a home. She does own a trailer house, but it's on borrowed property. She's had health/medical challenges. Plenty of them. And due to some things from her childhood, she's had developmental issues as well. A doctor once said of her when she was nearing 21, "She's 21 going on 14." In other words, developmentally she's more like a 14 year old. No wonder it's taken her over 3...

It's time to go to work America--at taking our country back with all of it's heretofore attitudes of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps-not letting the government buy you high-end tennies and put processed foods in your mouth. IF Obama is re-elected, then we deserve what we get. All of us . The entitled (for obvious reasons-they like the free handouts and having been living with the ‘poor-me’ attitude for so long-I also call it the Satan-“Let me take care of you” attitude) and the conservatives/tea party peoples alike. Why the conservatives? Because too many of us have gotten so soft in saying, “Maybe we should let the government do more for the less fortunate-it seems to be what ‘they’ (the illusive ‘they’) want.” Wake up people. God is watching us. He is over all. If He is so perfect-why hasn’t He done it all for us? Check the scriptures. Nowhere has He done this. The closest it came was the 40 years in the wilderness when He fed His children manna and quail. That was an e...

For the past 38 years I've tried to sort out a few things about my relationship with this man I've married. I love and adore him about 97% of the time. Well, maybe more like 98% of the time. But every once in a while... Well, if you've been married for very long, you probably understand that one pretty well. So the one thing that I really am saddest about is a behavior I see him use every time he is stressed/stretched to his limit and trying to deal with children. The same behavior/responses I've seen his parents use with his younger siblings. So I suppose that he learned the action/response/behavior from them. What's saddest for me is that it doesn't seem to bother him--or at least not enough to change it, so he keeps using the behavior. For a LONG time I have worked at not behaving and reacting the way I remember my parents having disciplined me. In fact, people who have first met my parents and then met me can't believe I'm from the same family. I tak...

The older I get the younger they look. So I was looking around today and had a goofy thought come to me. (I know, I know. That's always a dangerous thing to have happen.) They may look at me and think, "Ugh! Old!" Whereas I look at them and think, "One of these days, you may count yourself as lucky to be 'old'!" Perspective. That's what constitutes old or young. When in yourself, looking through your eyes at the mirror when do you first see 'old'. As long as you're looking only at your pupils, you may not even notice that you have become old. Is it that first gray hair? When you are 18 and wanting to be mature, hating being considered so young, looking for wisdom, light and truth and finding a gray hair what's your thought? Dye it? No, it's more, 'bring it on!' Is old bad? Again the answer is perspective. If old is being no longer pliable or believing you have all the answers and all the truth, then yes, old is bad. If old...