Every morning when I dry after my shower and get
dressed I say to myself, "it feels so good to be clean".
I have the same feeling over and over again every day.
I have things that I feel the same about every time
I use them. Not quite as good as feeling clean but
good. Here are a few of them.
My Rolodex. I have started keeping alot of information
in here. I like it when my husband says, "do you remember
the code to the gate at such and such?" or "what is the
password to such and such?"....stuff like that. I have become
very adept at writing any and all information in my Rolodex.
My Hula Hoe. David bought this for me about 3 years ago. It is the best gardening tool if you deal with weeds. It makes quick work of a weeding the garden. You should have one. My neighbor, Deedo, asked me how I kept the weeds down and I showed her the hoe. The next day her husband
bought her one. We all feel like superior gardeners with our hula hoes.
Pumkpins ~ my favorite garden vegetable. I don't eat
them I anticipate them! They are the symbol of fall to me.
This year I am going to have alot of them and I am
pleased. This particular variety is the kind that you buy
at Safeway or Wal-Mart. They are good producers. I do
have some heirloom varieties on the otherside of my
yard. Some are doing better than others.
For years I tried to do my hair and make it stylish. Didn't happen.
About 5-10 years ago my girls started talking about "product".
That is what they would say, "it is 'product', mom....you need
'product'. So I got some!! I just buy this stuff at Wal-Mart....
wait....I have started buying it at Walgreens because they
have two for one sales. The tube of stuff goes on my wet
hair and I blow it dry all spiky and the spray cements the job.
This is my kitchen chopper. I have had two since I
discovered them. I wore the first one out. It literally
fell to pieces. You can't tell but this one is held
together with packing tape. I don't know how much
life is left in it. I chop nuts and onions in it. I think I
should have two...one for nuts and one for onions.
It is tricky to get clean but well forth it.
My shelves of childrens books. I was the Children's Librarian for 11 years at the Public Library. When I left there I started collecting books that I had read to the children. I wanted them to read to my grandchildren. I have a pretty good collection. I have several very special memories of reading to my grandchildren. A couple of my favorites are Cars and Trucks and Things That Go and I Made You. The grandkids love these books. When Tim and Connie were here the last time we had FHE and I read I Made You and their babies just sat on my lap when I read it and I loved that! Then I watched Jill and John's babies and I read it to them one night when they were going to bed and there was the best feeling again. Books....do books.
I read a lot to my children when they were growing up. We went to the Public Library alot. When I wish I would have been a better mom I take comfort in the fact that that was a consistent thing I did with them.
This dates me. I love cordless phones. Our history of phones is similar to all of our other histories.....if it isn't broken it doesn't need to be replaced....or updated. We had a rotary dial phone long enough that Peter's friends who came over didn't know how to call their moms for a ride. (that made us
update our phone before it actually died) By then I dreamed of something like a cordless phone. Until then I bought the longest cord a phone could have and ended up stretching it out several yards further. So when we
got a cordless phone it opened up alot of space for me. I know cell phones are cordless...daaa....but they are so thin that it ends up hurting my neck to
walk around doing stuff and talking on one. So I prefer the cordless land line phone....one of my favorite things.
Shout was on my luxury list years ago. I couldn't always afford it so
when I could I loved using it. Kids stuff just comes clean
with Shout. My mom used it on her car when tar would splatter up
on her bumper. Worked every time.
This is my Book of Mormon. (I know, it is upside down. I tried to turn it around but it kept coming this way and it is my crown jewel of favorite things.)
This year I have been faithfully reading the Old Testament. I know the stories but I have not ever read it from cover to cover. I have learned alot. Interesting people. Ginormous faith. Love that!
Because I have a reading time and then I am off to the races I haven't been reading the Book of Mormon. I realized how much I missed it when we had
our Young Women read the Book of Mormon in 24 hours. So now I try and read from both books....to be fair the the Old Testament.
I think my favorite prophet from the Old Testament (to date) is Moses. He must have been much like Joseph Smith. He knew what he knew so he
never stopped moving his people forward....even when they were hard to deal with. In his case 40 years! And what would it have been like to see the sea part?
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This is one of my favorite scriptures from the Book of Mormon.
Alma 41:14-15
14 Therefore, my son, see that you are merciful unto your brethren; deal justly, judge righteously, and do good continually; and if ye do all these things then shall ye receive your reward; yea, ye shall have mercy restored unto you again; ye shall have justice restored unto you again; ye shall have a righteous judgment restored unto you again; and ye shall have good rewarded unto you again.
15 For that which ye do send out shall return unto you again, and be restored;......
These are a few of my favorite things. :)
