Happy Birthday Honey!
We had a great night celebrating honey’s birthday. I set a special table and prepared the meal of his choosing. Desert was cocunut cream pie. the kids were so excited when they saw the pretty table. He got a good laugh with the watch bought him, which turned out to be the same one he had and wanted to change. Oh well, so he’ll exchange it. After singing the birthday and opening his present and homemade cards, we ate coconut cream pie while watching the muppets. Happy Birthday Babe!
He got a call from our good friends in the middle of dinner and they sang Happy Birthday to him. He got a real kick out of that. We could all hear them through the phone. Thanks Arnold’s for honoring my hubby!
Wine glasses, candles and sparkling cider=Special Memories!
Toasting daddy!
Present Time! I love my man!
In the Kitchen-Luscious Lemon Parfait
After a sweet and much needed outing with my girlfriend at Panera, I came home and made with my little momma these outrageously yummy parfaits. They’re easy and fun to make and the kids loved them. Tastes like lemon pie! Enjoy!
Lucious Lemon Parfait
Ingredients:
- 1 qt. Dannon® Natural Flavors Vanilla lowfat yogurt
- 3/4 cup lemon curd, prepared
- 1 1/2 cup graham crackers, crushed
- 3/4 cup toasted coconut
- Whipped topping
Directions:
- 1. Place six 10-oz. parfait-style glasses on a clean work surface. Into each parfait layer:
- 1/3 cup yogurt
- 2 Tbsp. lemon curd
- 2 Tbsp. crushed graham crackers
- 1 Tbsp. coconut
- Repeat process and serve.
Jesus with Skin on!
I am blessed. I have a loving husband and thoughtful children that have encouraged me and helped me get through these past months since Papi went home with the Lord. I have friends that have shown me incredible love and support. They have been Jesus with skin on.
I have not sent out thank you notes yet. Everything is so emotional lately. I’m sure that is a task that will fill me with peace but take a lot of me. so I avoid it. But, I must share with how they have comforted me.
I have had many thoughts of what I want to say to those who became Jesus with skin on for me:
I received countless calls and encouragement from Fanett G., my dear mother in law, Tammy K., Ruthie R., Korey P., Bellekys K., Dafnee C., Cathy R., Laura R. and there are many more. I just want everyone to know how grateful I am. I hope I haven’t overlooked someone.
April A., my sweet neighbor took me out for yard sale shopping and Panera! I love it that my girlfriends give me space when I need it and whisk me away and fill my cup a day out
Caroline W. and Cindy D. thank for the precious cards.
Miriam and her husband visited us at home and gave us a generous monetary gift. Thanks you for being with us on both days. I have taken to heart all your wise and kind words.
Elaine, thanks for being with us all week and for watching over my mom.
Thank you Tio Ernesto for the beautiful flowers. I hope you enjoy reading this blog. I wish you could’ve been there to hear Papi’s friends from cuba speak so well of your brother.
Pepe G and Roberto T., your presence there and your loving and honoring words and even tears for my father I will treasure always.
PPEA, thank you for the gift.
Noah, My girlfriend’s son, bought me not one but two bouquets of flowers and a homemade card. He is such a cutie and intuitive boy. Dawn G. His mom, sent me an email filled with bible verses just at the right time. She has a knack for knowing when I need to be rescued. Just a couple of weeks ago she called me for a “girls day out” and her invite began with “I’m not taking no for answer!” I love the way she loves so faithfully and passionately. Thank you my dear friends, I love you!
My friend Mary A. has spoken life giving words to me at least once a week. She has kept her promise to not forget where I’m at. I just saw what she posted on her blog. She was out of town at a retreat when my world came down on me.
“This year was bittersweet as my precious friend Monica’s daddy went home to be with Jesus while I was gone. Scotty called me and I was able to talk with her, but I was so sad that I wasn’t local to hug her. (((Monica))) There is a picture below of my chair on the dock. That was where I went to pray for her and sat crying as I felt her pain. Thinking of her even tonight as I post this entry.”
She has faithfully prayed for me. She prayed for me from this spot on the lake and in this chair pictured below. What intimacy to have a friend talk about you with Almighty God.
Without my “Miami Crew”, Mari, Dafnee, Ines, Millie, Theresa, and Bellekys, I would’ve been lost. The years we’ve invested in each other are priceless. Thank you all for being there for
My precious Mari M. gently pointed me to spend time with my dad last year when he was in the hospital. She is one of my oldest and dearest friends from highschool. Thanks to facebook we have reconnected. She jumped in her car when she heard me cry as I left my dad in Miami last October and met me in a Sedano’s parking lot. Because of her I spent the last year of Papi’s life talking to him every week. I took lots of pictures over our last holidays together. I will post those soon.
(left to right: Tree, Millie, Me, Mari, Ines, Dafnee had already left and Bellekys was back home)
Millie P., my faithful sister. She came the day after and took me to return my rental car, to make the funeral arrangements and to eat. I did not have to explain or talk to her about my thoughts or feelings. Her two year old princess went home with Jesus a few years ago and I walked alongside her through that season. How precious are the moments of fun and laughter I’ve shared with my friends but I cherish even more the times or grief, sorrow, and trouble. In htat regard I am blessed to have had a few close friends that words are not necessary. She too had our family over for a meal and the kdis enjoyed playing.
Ines H., my sweet and considerate Nessie! She loved me in a very wise and practical way. We could not afford any special flower arrangements. She insisted on providing that for us. She knew that it would’ve made me sad not to have them there. I didn’t htink it mattered until I got to the funeral home and saw them there. She showed me such love and honored my father with those flowers. I will never forget how her tears just fell drop after drop on my arms as I knelt at my father casket holding his hands. She felt my sorrow and she has blessed me beyond measure. I have preserved some of those flowers. Those were the biggest and most beautiful roses I had ever seen. The blooms were the size of my fist. My pictures don’t do them justice. Thank you for such a precious gift. “Te quiero y me quedo en chors”
And finally, Theresa B., my dearest and oldest friend, not only spoke to me in a way only she could to get my overwhlemed butt down to Miami just two hours before my father passed away. He seemed to be waiting for me. I was the last person he saw, he held my hand tightly and nodded as I spoke to him the last words I would ever speak to him. My precious Tree was constantly calling me, when funeral arrangements got to be too much she had us over for ba-b-que. Her home has always been a retreat, a place of rest and safety in a storm for our family. I call it the resort. She not only fed us at her house but blessed us with a meal to feed all our family after the funeral. We are foodies so she was speaking my language! I could not have gotten through the viewing, and interment without her. I love you crazy woman!
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From my Kitchen-chocolate chip/banana muffins!
A yummy, healthy and filling breakfast I know they will all eat!
Bread Becker’s Basic Muffiin Recipe
2 1/4 C whole wheat flour (I usually grind my own wheat but I used King Arthurs Whole Wheat Flour)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 C of buttermilk (if I’m out I just use plain milk with 1 TB of apple cider vinegar)
1 egg
1/2 C olive oil
1/2 C honey ( I prefer raw honey but I only had ”bad for you” refined sugar. Oh well. still yummy)
Mix dry ingredients. Add the wet ingredients and whatever flavors you like. I used white and semi sweet choc. chips with 2 mashed bananas. I love experimenting with froz blueberries, peaches, apples, etc. Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes. Test with a toothpick for doneness. Enjoy!
Happy Baking!
Pizza and a Movie!
FAMILY FUN FUN FUN! It was so much FUN making pizza together and singing “Figaro” as dad rolled out hte dough. We all talked like italiens and have manytopping ideas for our next pizza night. It was so yummy and inexpensive. The best part was the memories we created. Now go make some memories!
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Home Grown Kids Park Day
We had a great time catching up again with friends at a newly revamped park. It is the nicest park I’ve ever seen (aside from Disney of course;)
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My Strength’s Defined!
The Clifton Strengths Finder Test, a web based assessment measuring an individual’s top five “signature themes.” The online quiz can only be accessed with the purchase of Strength’s Finder 2.0 book.
The book explains how to discover your God-given talents to inspire your community. In it, it describes the difference between strengths, talents, knowledge, and skill, in which a strength (the ability to provide consistent, near perfect performance in a given activity) is made up of talents, knowledge, and skill.
While knowledge is “what you know through education or training,” skills are “the basic ability to move through the fundamental steps of a task.” Talents are “naturally reoccurring patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied.” Signature Themes are the five categories in which your talents are the greatest.
The book lists 34 possible “Signature Themes.” Of them, your “‘top five’ are unique to you.” In fact, one’s strengths are so unique that the book boldly states that “your chances of meeting someone with your same Signature Themes, regardless of order, are less than 1 in 275,000. And, incredible as it may seem, there is only 1 in 33 million chance that you will meet someone whose Signature Themes match yours and are in the same order.”
Below, I’ve included a list of the 34 possible themes.
My “top five” themes follow afterwards with a short description of each.
34 Themes:
Achiever, Activator, Adaptability, Analytical, Arranger, Belief, Command, Communication, Competition, Connectedness, Consistency, Context, Deliberative, Developer, Discipline, Empathy, Focus, Futuristic, Harmony, Ideation, Includer, Individualization, Input, Intellection, Learner, Maximizer, Positivity, Relator, Responsibility, Restorative, Self-Assurance, Significance, Strategic, Woo
My Top Five (in order):
Connectedness-People who are especiallytalented in the Connectedness theme have faith in the links between all things. They believe there are few coincidences and that almost every event has a reason
Empathy-People who are especially talented in the Empathy theme can sense the feelings of other people by imagining themselves in others’ lives or others’ situations.
Positivity-People who are especially talented in the Positivity theme have an enthusiasm that is contagious. They are upbeat and can get others excited about what they are going to do.
Input-People who are especially talented in the Input theme have a craving to know more. Often they like to collect and archive all kinds of information.
Futuristic-People who are especially talented in the Futuristic theme are inspired by the future and what could be. They inspire others with their visions of the future.
I look forward to having my family take these tests and we learn how we complement each other and how to better understand one another. I will post about it when we all have it done.
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Happy Birthday Papi
WE ROCKED!
1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a dance war
A dance or die
5, 6, 7, 8, now we’re gonna celebrate
D-Dance or D-D-Die
Night of Joy came and went and I’m still feeling the effects of ”shaking like an earthquake”! I am filled to overflowing with joy after spending this special event with my hubby and kids and good friends. Dancing, jumping and headbanging alongside my kids was priceless.
I laughed hard, sang loud, cheered and screamed until my voice was almost gone. Mike’s in the process of putting together a video of the entire experience. I will post it as soon as it is ready. Meanwhile take a journey in pictures with “63 Seconds” and their groupies.
Mikael designed t-shirts for our group also.
On The Tram
Entering the Gates to Rockin' Disney Magic
63 Seconds and their groupies inside the gates!Star Tours, riding before the concerts begin
We Won!
I Surrender
I have been less sad lately. I thought. Then an hour later as I wipe down the dining room table a wave of sorrow hits. It overcomes me and threatens to swallow up any plans I had for my day. I try to fight it fearing I may never be normal again, but my love for daddy always wins out.
I surrender to the tears and hide my face in a pillow to muffle the cries. It is maddening to KNOW that papi is heaven, I will see him again, heaven is a better place, and he is in complete bliss with our savior. I can’t imagine how those without faith survivie seasons like these because in spite of this precious TRUTH I feel no comfort. I embrace this priceless sorrow and surrender to what the Lord has ordained for me today. I surrender all Lord, your will not mine.
I miss you Papi.
Psa 31:9
Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble; My eye wastes away with grief, [Yes], my soul and my body!
Psa 23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You [are] with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Ecc 1:18
For in much wisdom [is] much grief, And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Psa 119:76
Let, I pray, Your merciful kindness be for my comfort, According to Your word to Your servant.
Need Washing?
A little girl had been shopping with her Mom in Target. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful red haired, freckle faced image of innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes over the top of rain gutters, so much in a hurry to hit the earth it has no time to flow down the spout. We all stood there under the awning and just inside the door of the Target.
We waited, some patiently, others irritated because nature messed up their hurried day. I am always mesmerized by rainfall. I got lost in the sound and sight of the heavens washing away the dirt and dust of the world. Memories of running, splashing so carefree as a child came pouring in as a welcome reprieve from the worries of my day.
The little voice was so sweet as it broke the hypnotic trance we were all caught in “Mom let’s run through the rain,” she said. “What?” Mom asked.
“Lets run through the rain!” She repeated.
“No, honey. We’ll wait until it slows down a bit,” Mom replied.
This young child waited about another minute and repeated: “Mom, let’s run through the rain,”
“We’ll get soaked if we do,” Mom said.”No, we won’t, Mom.. That’s not what you said this morning,” the young girl said as she tugged at her Mom’s arm.
This morning? When did I say we could run through the rain and not get wet?
“Don’t you remember? When you were talking to Daddy about his cancer, you said, ‘If God can get us through this, he can get us through anything!”
The entire crowd stopped dead silent. I swear you couldn’t hear anything but the rain. We all stood silently. No one came or left in the next few minutes. Mom paused and thought for a moment about what she would say. Now some would laugh it off and scold her for being silly. Some might even ignore what was said. But this was a moment of affirmation in a young child’s life. A time when innocent trust can be nurtured so that it will bloom into faith.
“Honey, you are absolutely right. Let’s run through the rain. If GOD let’s us get wet, well maybe we just needed washing,” Mom said.
Then off they ran. We all stood watching, smiling and laughing as they darted past the cars and yes, through the puddles. They held their shopping bags over their heads just in case. They got soaked. But they were followed by a few who screamed and laughed like children all the way to their cars.
And yes, I did. I ran I got wet. I needed washing.
Circumstances or people can take away your material possessions, they can take away your money, and they can take away your health. But no one can ever take away your precious memories…So, don’t forget to make time and take the opportunities to make memories everyday. To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.
I HOPE YOU STILL TAKE THE TIME TO RUN THROUGH THE RAIN.
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i’M A PROUD MOMMA!
He was a cutie
Was he a cutie or what? I call my dad Papi Lindo because to me he was most handsome. Even as a child he was a cutie. I don’t how papi was in this picture but he looks two or three. My grandparents were very proud of their little sailor. He was a very dedicated son. I don’t know the whole story but my grandfather, Gerardo and my grandmother Inocencia (which means innocence) were seperated in my dads teens years. My grandmother had cancer and my dad took care of her and his little brother, Ernesto. My dad left with still many stories to tell. I hope to discover some as I write and remember.
Don’t wait to share your story to your kids. If you still can record your parents and grandparents stories. Old stories bring much joy once your loved one is gone.
Here are some resources to help you begin:
The Story of a Lifetime: A Keepsake of Personal Memoirs
Legacy : A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Personal History
To Our Children’s Children: Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come
In Cuba your middle name was the saint of the day. my dad’s middle name is Froilan. He got stiffed in my opinion but that is what people called him because he had his father’s name. But when it came to baseball his name was Ningo.
As much as my dad loved my mom and I, he had a mistress that followed him from Cuba to the US. Her name was baseball. His favorite was The Yankees. Morning, noon and night baseball was on his mind and part of his conversations. ESPN was his best friend.
Happy Birthday Mami!
Sarah y Oneri
A long time ago a brave young girl left her country, Dominican Republic, and boarded a plane to New York City in search of a better life for herself and her family. She had hard times and was lonely but, she worked very hard in sewing factories to be able to provide for herself and send money to her family back home. Soon, she found the one true love of her life and he never left her side. As the song goes, “if you can make it there you can make it anywhere…” She made it! This awesome woman is my mother, Sarah!
Hoy, te celebro con este poema.
Tú me diste el regalo de la vida.
Y por amor me dejaste libre,
te agradezco por tu tierno cuidado.
Por los abrazos profundamente
cálidos y por estar ahí.
Espero que cuando pienses
en mí una parte de
mí veras en ti…
Today, I celebrate you with this poem.
You gave the gift of life to me
And then with love you set me free.
I thank you for your tender care,
For deep warm hugs and being there.
I hope that when you think of me
A part of you you’ll always see
Today we are three that are blessed to call her Mami. My mom helped raise my cousin and sister Johanna. Marvin is the baby brother. She made us a family. My dad didn’t have but one brother here is the U.S. Mami’s family became his family. I thank her for giving me strong family values and modeling her conviction and dedication as a stay at home mom as I am today.
- Las Princesas
Thank you mom for loving me and the fun times. It wasn’t perfect but we are a finishing well.
Thank you so very deeply fo being such an awesome, incredible fun loving abuela!
Thank you for the godly heritage you passed on to me. Your sharing of Christ has made it possible for papi to receive Christ as his Lord and savior. With that knowledge and faith I am comforted that we will be a forever family for heaven is our true home. I guess it’s true what the Bible says “Her children rise up and call her blessed” Proverbs 31:28 (Sus hijos se levantan y la felicitan Proverbios 31:28). I am rising and blessing you dear mother! I love you!
Las dos gordas
Papi Lindo como te extrano!
It’s been a month since you went home with the Lord and I still catch myself asking mami how you’re doing. Will I ever have a day go by when I do not think of you? I miss you so so much. This blog is to honor you. A place where I can remember you and share with the world, the beautiful, sweet love of a father and his little girl. Thank you for being such a good dad.
Te quiero papi lindo!
La Beba
On My Heart
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says:
“ Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light.”
15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Ephesians 5:8-17
He has chosen me, equiped me, and walks with me in His calling on my life as wife and mother and homemaker. Yet, this is the area where I need the most refining. I was in darkness but now the light makes all the dust ad cobwebs in my thinking as well as around my house visible. Asleep…for too long. I’ve been sleeping in, going to bed late, napping too long. sometimes I’m just disconnected through busyness, phone or computer.
But, my God is patient and faithful. I am waking to the warm glow of Jesus’ shining His truth on my ways. I forsake all the foolishness and will seek to make the most of my time; morning, noon and night . May the lifetime he has given me bring glory to Him and peace to my Heart and Home.
He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children. PRAISE THE LORD!
Psalm 113:9
To be barren is to be fruitless. I want to bear fruit within my family life and as I serve Him outside the home. My prayer is that He show me what is hindering my joyfulness and productivity.I am surrendered to His will and trust he will lead me gently to His truth for my life. I will focus on the fruit of the spirit which is:
16So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 17For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
19The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
Galatians 5:16-25
love
joy
peace
patience
kindness
goodness
faithfulness
gentleness
self-control
Homeschooling is good for America and our family!
The amount of time it took us to drive there and back is the time that it took us to do our school work at home. the younger ones had te benefit of never stepping in a classroom. We love to be together. It has made my kids best friends. We talk around the dinner table. We volunteer together. WE encounter many people from the grocery store to piano lessons and baseball to the museum docent. They behave appropriately and learn while having fun as a family. They are growing into mature and responsible adults. They do not live by a peer driven standard. They are normal people that have to deal with peer pressure too. The difference is that we deal with issues as a family and they are not esposed to things before they have a strong foundation in our christian belief system. It is our responsability not the gov’t or teachers to teach my child.
Zelda Catnap
I awoke yesterday to find Lexie sleeping in the living room snuggled with Zelda. She had a look on her face that said she was biding her time to escape. Seth tried to gently release her without waking Lexie but she moved and Zelda got away. At least from Lexie but not from Seth. We just love her and she can never escape that.
Family Guestbook
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers,
for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. Hebrews 13:2
My hope is to have everyone that stops by our home and stays a while to sign their name and leave a short (or long) message in our guest book. What a priceless possession this will be to open those pages in ten or twenty years and see the handwriting of grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors, missionaries, our children’s playmates and cousins.
You can go to town with this. Buy a gorgeous premade guestbook or simple scrapbook and add embellishments and pictures to the pages. I bought a composition notebook. I embellished the cover with varied scrapbbooking supplies. I am going to glue pictures in different places along the book. The pictures and embellishments will add to the fun and give you the visual of that special dinner or birthday party. You may even add cards and postcards that have also visited your family via mail box and bought a smile to your faces. Outline the hands of our new baby nephew. How about a stray cats or lost dog paw print that you took in for a few days. You may even choose to add petals of flowers bought by a friend. The book will become a touch and feel visual feast for you eyes and heart.
I have forgotten to ask some friends to sign our book a few times. Keep it on the coffee table or by your front door or foyer. There is no reason why you can’t write in what they said during their visit, who was visiting and the date. I bought a date stamp. I thought it would give it an old fashioned look. Ask your kids to remind you to give the guests the book and you’ll never forget again. Have family fun with it.
Free Download: Family Guest Book
Now go make some memories!
Here are some ideas for you:
Scrapbook
Composition notebook
Store bought journal
Date stamp
Attach a ribbon with a pen for ease of use
Don’t wait until they are getting in the car
Take pictures
Add thank you cards, birthday cards, postcards or any special note
When your book is full tie a pretty ribbon around it and start another. Have a special dinner and prayer night with your family once a year and REMEMBER and PRAY for your friends and family.
Some beautiful scripture, poetry and quotes to add to your pages:
… there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 18: 24
A friend loves at all times… Proverbs 17: 17
No one has greater love [no one has shown stronger affection] than to lay down (give up) his own life for his friends. John 15: 13
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you
John 15: 15(NKJV)
Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are lavish and deceitful.
Proverbs 27: 6
Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; so does the sweetness of a friend’s counsel that comes from the heart. Proverbs 27: 9
As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. Proverbs 27: 17(NKJV)
“A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) US poet & essayist.
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
Before him I may think aloud.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.”
George Washington (1732 – 1799) US Statesman.
“Should auld aquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min’?”
Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) Scottish poet.
“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.”
Epicurus (341 – 270 BC) Greek philosopher.
“Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.”
Samuel Johnston (1709 – 1784) British lexicographer.
“My friends are my estate.”
Emily Dickinson
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”
Oscar Wilde
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch’d, unfledg’d comrade.”
William Shakespeare
“Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
Mother Teresa
“… no man is useless
while he has a friend.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“A true friend stabs you in the front.”
Oscar Wilde
“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”
Mark Twain
“The best mirror is an old friend.”
George Herbert
“With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.”
Helen Keller
“What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.”
Aristotle
“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”
Saint Jerome
“I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.”
William Shakespeare
“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
Helen Keller
“Ah, how good it feels…the hand of an old friend”
Mary Englebright
” ‘Stay’ is a charming word in a friends vocabulary.”
Louisa Mary Alcott [1832-1888], American writer, reformist
“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”
-William Arthur Ward
“Friendship? Yes Please.”
Charles Dickens
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mi Familia
I am a stay at homeschool mom. I am joyfully married to my highschool sweetheart and we are blessed with four great kids. I am on the leadership board of the PPEA-Pinellas Parent Educators Association, our county’s largest and oldest homeschool support group. We live in Florida. My husband leads the karate ministry, CKC-Calvary Karate Club (see video below), at our church, Calvary Chapel St. Petersburg. Our church also hosts CHoSEN (Calvary HOmeSchool Educational Network). We love sci-fi, fantasy, and musicals. I am very excited to share our family’s journey with you.
Dad:
Alpha Dog
My husband has been teaching karate at our church as a ministry since 2005. They meet twice a week. One day is for families and the other for teens and adults. They get really rough and wrestle. He calls his older group “sick dogs”!
Visit CKC, Calvary Karate Club for more information.
Mom:
Disney Freak
Mikael:
Filmmaking Freak
Seth:
Adventure Freak
Zachary:
Cuddle Cutey
Alexa:
Minnie Me
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