Recipe for life

What a beautiful world we live in!  

Today the sun is shining and the grass is almost green! woot!

The sky on my left is periwinkle blue and on my right there are beautiful clouds, reminders of heaven.

You know, this year I have been really good at being sad.  Choosing to let trials get me down. 

 

How lame is that?  God didn't send us down to earth to be sad.  

"Adam fell that men might be, and men are that they might have joy."

Today, I am choosing joy :)

I went to a beautiful funeral on saturday for the sweetest woman named Anne (with an e.)  

I felt like she lived her life with the motto of "You are as happy as you want to be." 

 That is my new motto.

  Along with her Recipe for Life

Ingredients:

• 1 cup good thoughts
• 1 cup consideration for others
• 1 cup kind deeds
• 3 cups forgiveness
• 2 cups well beaten faults
• Tears of joy, sorrow and sympathy
• 4 cup prayer and faith

Directions:

Mix good thoughts, consideration, kind deeds, forgiveness and well beaten faults. Add tears of joy, sorrow and sympathy for others. Fold in prayer and faith to lighten other ingredients and raise the texture to great heights of Christian living. Pour all into your family life. Bake well with the heat of human kindness. Serve with a smile.

People are Nice!

My parents took off for Mexico with all my Mom's Siblings. 

How fun for them?  right?

Even more fun, is the fact that I get to be at home with my amazing and wonderful brothers!

I was supposed to be commuting down to school yesterday and today, but this morning, Owen woke up feeling like he was going to throw up.  

So I know I just can't get up and leave a throwing up boy to fend for himself for like 3 or 4 hours, so I sent my biology assignments via email and then called my music professor seeing if I could take our test next week. 

He said yes.

People are nice.

working on the life :)

Today I was reading  dr. mercola's blog, and I came across a million amazing articles, but this one really stood out to me.  I think I need to be working on making my life more stress-free and more of an overall positive experience.

1. Turn off your cell phone.

2. Process email only twice a day.

3. Go to bed early.

4. Get rid of (or at least reduce) commitments that you do out of obligation.

5. Create a weekly meal plan.

6. Automate your finances.

7. Purge as much unneeded clutter as possible.

8. Keep your paper shredder on top of your recycling bin.

9. Add items you want to a wish list as you think of them.

10. Get a label maker or write labels out by hand.

11. Set your clothes out for the next day the night before.

12. Make your lunch for the next day the night before.

13. Make time to catch up with an old friend.

14. Just say no.

15. Ask for experiences not things for your birthday and Christmas this year.

16. Tell the truth.

17. Keep your list of addresses and phone numbers up to date.

18. Consolidate debt.

19. Create an organizing system that works for you.

20. Keep a bag for garbage in your car.

21. Cary a notebook and pen with you where ever you go.

22. Unsubscribe from emails, newsletters or RSS feeds that don’t provide value anymore.

23. Apologize immediately when you realize you’ve done wrong.

24. Enjoy the present moment as much as you can.

25. Take time to really see the little things in life.

26. Reduce the amount of TV you watch.

27. Get outside.

28. Create morning, daytime, and evening routines.

29. Ask for help.

30. Do things at home as much as possible (eat, date nights, entertain etc.).

31. Don’t get caught up in other people’s drama.

32. Let go of the self-imposed need to be perfect.

33. Focus on a simple, but healthy, eating plan.

34.  Share responsibilities.

35. Reduce your wardrobe to a few versatile items.

36. Be positive.

37. Start a gratitude journal.

38. Finish old tasks before taking on new ones.

39. For every new item that enters your home set two free.

40. Want what you have not what you don’t.

41. Revisit what you carry with you in your purse or wallet.

42. Focus on one thing at a time.

43. Store new garbage bags at the bottom of your garbage can.