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You can’t beat free!

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Music is such an important part of my life. I listen to music all throughout my day and different types with how I’m feeling. It used to be that we’d have to go to the store to buy our music, but with this wonderful internet that we now how in our lives we can easily go and download whatever it is that we want. However, there’s certain ways that you can go about this. You can either do it legally by purchasing the music you download, or illegally.

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Family Home Evening – Love at Home

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Last week I talked about Family Home Evening and how important it is to Mormons and even Non-Mormons. It’s so important for the foundation of your family to have a set day every week that is focused on togetherness. To read in more detail about what Family Home Evening is please CLICK HERE.

This week for FHE we will be doing a lesson on Love at Home. I went and looked at this lesson and it’s going to be sooooo much fun!!! I went and bought a poster board to do it on and afterwards we’re going to eat yummy ice cream sundaes!!

Here is something that a reader sent to me about my post last week that really touched my heart! I actually got chills…

Stitchin’ Girl said: “Thank you for your kind comment on my blog. I have been reading yours and it is truly inspirational. We are not Mormon, but what you wrote about family really hit home. Tonight we will be starting our Family Home Evening together. I can’t wait!” If you go read her blog she talks about how her first FHE went and it will just show you what it can do to your family. I hope she continues on with her Family Home Evening, because it is so needed in every home in our world.

My Home Makeover

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We recently bought a couch. We had owned our couches for 7 years before our recent purchase. I love furniture. I think that furniture screams who you are, what you like, and what your personality is like. My old couches represented who I used to be, but we’ve changed. Life has gotten better for us and we now have a couch that fits our new life.

In the process of upgrading our new furniture I’ve come across a GREAT website that has beautiful furniture. Since we’ve already completed our living room we’re moving on now to our bedroom furniture. They have BEAUTIFUL bed sets that I have completely fallen in love with. I’d love to be able to have some zebra chairs in my room too! The prices are pretty competitive as well.

After we finish our bedroom and make it into our sanctuary we will be moving on to my office. I work from home and in now way have the furniture that I need to have everything organized the way I need it. The home office furniture that they have on their website would work out perfect for me!! I can’t wait to get started on the rest of my home makeover.

A step in a positive direction…. I hope

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I think it’s time for me to soften my heart a little and reach out to one of my sisters from my father. Yesterday my cousin who I’m very close to showed up with her baby and had my sister Alyssa (15) with her. I wasn’t sure how I felt about it. I’d made a decision that I really didn’t want to get involved with my dad, and she’s a part of him.

She sat in my living room and talked of how she’s going through some things in her life and I felt bad. Here I have a girl that wants a part of my life, of my kids life and I’m backing away into a dark and lonely corner. She’s never done anything to me. If anything, she kindof (KINDOF) had it like me. She didn’t have the luxury of having my father in her life all the time. However, she did have him. Her mom made sure of it. She has a relationship with him where she actually feels love for him in her heart. I wonder how that feels. I wonder how it feels to have a dad to rely on.

I think I should take baby steps with this and start out by taking her to get our toes done together. It’s not her fault. She’s actually a really enjoyable girl, and I need to do this. I need to stop alienating myself from them all. Baby steps. My goal of the week is to call her and plan a time for us to do something together.

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I’ve been so concerned about reaching out to my fellow bloggers about joining up with SocialSpark.com to make money blogging, that I completely forgot to reach out to those who have something they really want advertised.

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Going to the holy land

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I think that we’ve made a decision after much thought and consideration. Our bishop goes to Israel 2x/year. It is supposed to be the most amazing tour of the country ever and it looks like my husband is going to join him.

Gino has shown so much interest in the church and something has been holding him back from baptism. When I casually mentioned to him that the Bishop was going to Israel later this year he looked at me and said, “I want to go.” To be honest I kinda laughed at first. I can’t picture Gino going on a trip with the Bishop, but he was dead serious.

I prayed about it and I’ve never once received one bad feeling. Something inside of me keeps telling me that this is “it”. This is going to be the maker or the breaker in Gino’s decision to join this church. From what I’ve heard the tour is supposed to be so amazing that he’ll come home begging to be baptized.

This is the website that the Bishop has set up where you can kinda go and see what’s in store for my husband. I’m so excited for him. This is an opportunity of a lifetime no matter what religion you are. The trip is for 10 days and I’m happy that I’ll be able to rely on the members of my church for help while he’s gone, because I have one of the best wards in the world!

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Our economy has just been going downhill. Gas prices are starting to make things hard on everybody in our nation. Who wants to go on a vacation when you have to pay $4.00 per gallon? Heck, I don’t even want to drive to the store or even start my car for how much we’re paying for gas. It’s getting harder and harder and it’s time we start looking for ways to bring in a little extra money that can help us through this crisis. Or maybe you’re making the perfect amount of money every month, but you don’t have any leftover for savings for vacations or college funds. I will testify that what I’m about to tell you about will help you out with these things.

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I’m Getting a Blessing Today

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The missionaries are coming over today to give me a blessing. I feel like this is exactly what I need with all of the hormone issues I have been going through. I’ve prayed and asked for patience and while I have noticed a difference I still believe that there’s a missing piece here, and my last resort until I can get this Mirena out is to get a blessing.

I had such a wonderful at time at church today and it’s amazing what going there can do to my soul. I can be stressed out with a million things on my mind, and the minute I walk through those doors I feel this relief. Then when I walk out of those doors I feel motivated to strive hard at doing the best I can to follow the gospel. I think that’s why it’s so important for us to go to church every week, because it sets the tone for the following week. I miss church sometimes, and it always seems like the following week I have a horrible week. I’m not thinking straight, I don’t feel motivated to read my scriptures, which always make me feel good, or even pray.

I’m realizing that right now in my life I am struggling with something big within me. To feel stress and anxiety due to lack of necessity hormones in my body is wretched feeling. I sometimes lay in bed and cry, because I hate the way I’m acting. I hate the way I’m treating the people that I love and care for the most. My children need a mom with patience, it’s not fair. I know that they, especially Ella can feel my frustrations and I don’t like that.

I hope that this blessing will help me to hang in there until this all gets figured out.

Never go to the bank again

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I don’t know if I’ve talked much about my job, but I work at home. I am an accountant and currently am managing my grandparent’s books for their businesses in Nevada from my home in Oregon. I love it! I love that I am able to stay home my kids and still do the job that I love. There are many downfalls to the system that we have going on here. I would have to say that the most major downfall of our system is the banking. We have checks that are flowing in all throughout the month. The banks for these companies are in Nevada and the income is being sent to me in Oregon. The procedure that we’ve been using is I send deposits off to Nevada. It can sometimes take up to 5 days for the deposits that I send off to clear the accounts. That can be frustrating. Especially when people are calling asking why their checks haven’t cleared.

I came across a solution and I think it is definitely something that can work wonders for us. I had no clue about this, but there has actually been an amazing system online with a company called DepositNow since 2004. What they can do for you is make it so you no longer have to leave your house to go to the bank, or in my case wait up to 5 days for my deposits to clear. You simply scan your checks with one of their check scanners, which they sale for 1/2 off of what they retail for, and they deposit it electronically.

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Where does he get this stuff?

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Gino and Jayden had a father/son day and went to see Iron Man. Whenever they go to the movies Jayden always gets popcorn, soda and candy. Nothing but a bunch of junk, but I don’t argue it’s “their” thing. I’m not one that has ever said anything like, “If you eat junk you’re gonna get fat.” In fact I’ve never even talked to Jayden about stuff like that ever – nor do I talk about that stuff concerning any of us. Basically, there’s no way Jayden has heard what I’m about to tell you in our home.

I asked Jayden if he had anything good to eat and this was his reply, “No, I had popcorn and candy and soda. Just a bunch of junk, huh Mom? I better eat some strawberries so I don’t get fat.”

WOW ~ the stuff he comes up with just blow me away sometimes. Gino and I kinda had a little giggle together about it, because stuff like that just sounds so weird coming out of a 6 year olds mouth.