Talking. Spring.

I've been staying at the McOmber's home with the 4 kids while Amy and Howard are away on a 2 week vacation to my dream trip: Australia and New Zealand (Jerks). I sleep over, get the kids up for school, make lunches and complain to myself about what slobs they are. Then be there for them when they get home from school, make dinner, etc. I'm playing mom. They get back Friday. It's Tuesday night right now.

Last night I had a dream that Gregory(15) started to speak. He did it while they were gone and I was here. In the dream he was developmentally talking at about the age of 3 or 4 year old with out autism (didn't sound like a robot or echolalia) I told Justin (12) and Heather (8) about it that morning. Justin said he'd had dreams like that too. After the first one you realize it's not real (Guess he's had more than one). Justin then said that he likes his brother the way he is because he can't get annoyed at him. It's good to like things the way they are. I still wish he would start talking though. It would be such a blessing. He'd have a long way to catch up if my dream came true. I've known teenage boys that were educationally little boys and they can get annoying, so maybe it is a blessing.

It's spring now, and while I was tired of the rain and snow, the warm weather always brings feelings of.... How do I put this..... Well, it feels something like this: The weather is great but I have no one to share it with. No one to be with in the sun. No one to go to the lake with, to sit outside on the lawn and talk. There will be days and evenings when I'll wish for a friend, a special friend to share it all with. I don't and it will ache and frustrate the you know what out of me. I'll also wish that I could replace this lack of a special friend with just a good girl friend, but that won't happen either. So I'll suffer through with out and alone.

How to get through?
Hope and Keep Busy.

Echolalia: the uncontrollable and immediate repetition of words spoken by another person.

I Did It Again!

I created another blog!
This one is strictly quotes.
You can find it at:
http://inspirationfromthepen.blogspot.com

I'm a self-knowing, reinventing, believer

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm a
Self-Knowing Reinventing Believer

Writing Your Own Psalm

The dictionary says psalm means this:
noun
1. a sacred song or hymn. (Becky's favorite)
2. any of the songs, hymns, or prayers contained in the Book of Psalms.
3. a metric version or paraphrase of any of these.
4. a poem of a similar nature.

We all know about King David's psalm in the Bible and those who read The Book of Mormon know about Nephi's psalm in 2 Nephi ch 4: 16-35. But what about writing your own psalm?
Last Wednesday at our single adult institute or religion class we had the opportunity to do that. What a superb idea! Sister Bateman gave us the outline:
v.16-19 Negative feelings about self
v. 20-23 Know that the Lord will help
v.27 Why do I sin?
v. 28-30 Encourage self
v.31-33 Pray for help
v.34-35 Trust in the Lord- I can do it!

She gave us some time to get down some ideas, sentences, etc and let us share. One person who shared their psalm was almost poetic. I got specific in my list of negative feelings and sins, which I didn't share. I haven't yet put it down in poem format. I wish I could. My patriarchal blessing talks about poetry. I wrote a poem on my mission that is very good(not sure where that is, need to find it), and when I was teaching poetry in H.S. words would come to me, but I was driving in the car. I didn't get it down on paper.

I wanted to share this beautiful idea with you. Maybe you'll write one, maybe you won't, maybe you'll just see Nephi's psalm differently and that is good in and of itself. If you do write one and you feel like you can share, please do.

a NEW/OLD post

Writen over a month ago. Read it now. It's about abortion.

Sunday Afternoon @ the Perkins

The weekend of March 7 and 8th I went down to Vancouver WA to see my sister Sarah and her family. They have 5 kids: Emily is 12, Ryan is 9, Spencer is 6, Caleb is 4 and Grace is 2. They also have 2 Basset Hounds named Maggie and Cloe. Sat I bathed both of the dogs and we took them to the dog park for the first time. It's just down the street! We forgot it was day light savings time and woke thinking it was 7:30, but it was really 8:30! Church was at 9am and so we had a lot of time in the afternoon.

This is Spencer with fort #2 after mom found out they were making a fort in her room!

This is Ryan and Caleb taking advantage of the bedroom fort while it lasts.
This is Emily practicing her violin. What a good girl!

This is Sarah and Blake spending some quality time on the internet together.

This is cute, sweet, funny Grace in the morning.

This is me with the whole crew. I love their guts!

Being A Woman Means:

I'm a blog reader. I bounce around to open blogs from links on my friends blogs and found an entry from a woman who was asked to tell the Mia Maids and Laurels (14-18 year old young women) what it means to be a woman. She sat down and started to list from birth to now, what that means. I copied and pasted it all and it came to 3 full pages, singles spaced! Wow! While I haven't experiences all of the ones she wrote about(marriage, babies), or agreed with all of them(the positive effect of Disney movies), there were some I liked and even that made me laugh. I'm sharing the ones I liked and if you want the whole list, let me know and I'll email it to you.


Being a woman means that, as a baby, I can be blessed in a beautiful white dress
Being a woman means my mom gets to glue cute bows on top of my bald head so that no one thinks I’m a boy
Being a woman means I get to wear cute frilly dresses
Being a woman means that I can hold tea parties with my friends & teddy bears
Being a woman means that I can attend Young Women's camp every year…which is WAY more fun than scout camp
Being a woman means that I can use makeup to cover up all my zits & use one of God’s greatest creations…mascara!
Being a woman means that I can develop my own testimony of the gospel, instead of relying on others’
Being a woman means I want to serve others, so that I know what Christ like love feels like
Being a woman means that I can learn all that I can about the gospel by attending church & seminary
Being a woman means that I can wear modest clothing & still looking smokin’ hot
Being a woman means figuring out for myself what my divine potential can be
Being a woman means I can accessorize, accessorize, accessorize!
Being a woman means deciding whether or not I want to serve a mission
Being a woman means realizing that, even if I don’t serve a mission, I am a missionary everyday of my life
Being a woman means I can support my husband & be his soft place to fall
Being a woman means I am the first one to see the result on the pregnancy test
Being a woman means knowing my life will never be the same the second I see that new baby
Being a woman means I am the CEO of my family
Being a woman means that I am the one my boys come to when they are hurt or sad
Being a woman means that I am the first teacher & main influence in my children’s lives
Being a woman means realizing that through influencing my children, I influence the next generation of leaders
Being a woman means being a leader in Heavenly Father’s church & realizing that I really can have an influence on others
Being a woman means realizing that I can be an “angel” in someone else’s life
Being a woman means having lots of other women to look up to as role models
Being a woman means that I am one of God’s greatest creations (remember, a woman was God's final creation...after He had worked out all the kinks on the man)
Being a woman means REALLY realizing what it means to be a daughter of God & ACTING LIKE IT!

"I want you to be proud you are a woman. I want you to feel the reality of what that means, to know who you truly are. You are literally a spirit daughter of heavenly parents with a divine nature and an eternal destiny. That surpassing truth should be fixed deep in your soul and be fundamental to every decision you make as you grow into mature womanhood. There could never be a greater authentication of you dignity, your worth, your privileges, and your promise. Your Father in Heaven knows your name and knows you circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him. Because of this divine heritage you, along with all your spiritual sisters and brothers, have full equality in His sight and are empowered through obedience to become a rightful heir in His eternal kingdom, an heir of God, and joint-heir with Christ." Elder Holland

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