Love in the Home-Poem

Love in the Home

If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everthing in its place, but have not love, I am a housekeeper--not a homemaker.

If I have time for waxing, polishing, and decorative achievements, but have not love, my children learn cleanliness--not godliness.

Love leaves the dust in search of a child's laugh. Love smiles at the tiny fingerprints on a newly cleaned window.

Love wipes away the tears before it wipes up the spilled milk. Love picks up the child before it picks up the toys.

Love is present through the trials. Love reprimands, reproves, and is responsive. Love crawls with the baby, walks with the toddler, runs with the child, then stands aside to let the youth walk into adulthood.

Love is the key that opens salvation's message to a child's heart.

Before I became a mother I took glory in my house of perfection. Now I glory in God's perfection of my child. As a mother, there is much I must teach my child, but the greatest of all is love.

~Author Unknown~

Getting Old-Poem

THEN

~ Author Unknown ~

When I was in my younger days,

I weighed a few pounds less,

I needn't hold my tummy in

To wear a belted dress.

But now that I am older,

I've set my body free;

There's comfort of elastic

Where once my waist would be.

Inventor of those high-heeled shoes

My feet have not forgiven;

I have to wear a nine now,

But used to wear a seven.

And how about those pantyhose--

They're sized by weight, you see,

So how come when I put them on,

The crotch is at my knee?

I need to wear these glasses

As the prints been getting smaller,

And it wasn't very long ago,

I know that I was taller!

Though my hair has turned to gray

And my skin no longer fits,

On the inside, I'm the same old me

It's the outside that's changed a bit.....

Work In Progress

 

It has been a while since I have posted on this blog, and I have been neglecting the other one as well. Things have been very busy around here for me lately. I have been caring for Skylar, who did finally agree to go to the doctor about the pressure sore on the bottom of his foot. I will talk more about this later but for now I would like to talk about my desire to lose weight. I am only kidding myself when I say I have decided to lose weight strictly for myself, and not someone else's perception of what I should look like. I guess I really should stop obsessing about what other people think. However, it's not that easy, when the "other people" obsessing about it is your family.... I realize my current weight and health have been preventing me from doing some of the things that I enjoy and I have to admit that I don't like my "fat" self, which is one of many reasons that has finally pushed me into the "good health" zone. But honestly, my looks improving is only one of many improvements I want to see from losing weight and working out. I want health, I want to lose weight to have more energy and feel better. I want to be able to walk 3-4 miles without getting out of breath, although some of shortness of breath is due to having smoked for over 30 years.....I am so thankful I was able to quit. I want to be able to stop taking my high blood pressure medication and stop being a "borderline" diabetic (pre-diabetes). I would also enjoy going to bed and not having my legs ache, which I said I would not complain about because at least I have the use of my legs and the ability to feel the pain in them that Skylar doesn't.  I guess you could say I am a work in progress.....and it is my hope to get to the point that I can look at myself and say I'm not perfect and that's OK.

Antique Little Girl