Celebrating Something Everyday!: A Day

Monday, February 25, 2013

A Day

Exchange: When looking at the state of my kitchen and remembering my mental to-do list late in the day.
Me-"I haven't done anything today!!!"
Xela-"Yeah, and it's p.m."
(Thanks for the reinforcement...wait, she remembered the school lesson I taught a month ago!!)

Comment: While playing a card game with the family, out of the blue she said,
Anne-"Mom, the Never Ending Story ends!"
(You're 3. I don't think I got that until adulthood, haha)

Declaration: She was full from breakfast and wanted to get up and play.
Me-"You can finish your oatmeal now, or you can save it for later."
Charlotte-"I don't want to eat it later. It will be all crunchy and wunchy!"
(I am a lover of made up words and Charly comes up with a lot of them)

Living Dream: I asked him if he could do something for me.
Joe-"As you wish"
:))

Delight: Picking her up after every naptime
Claira- *giggles* smiles *squeals*

Mirror Thought: After washing my hair for the first time in 3 weeks.
Jenni- My hair looks awesome!
(I've transitioned to "no-poo" (no shampoo, just the baking powder and acv rinse) and I never knew my hair could be so awesome all on it's own.) #imabeliever

1 comment:

Josie and Wayne said...: Ok Jenni, I have been intrigued by the no poo thing for so long. If you really say it works, please send me a link or some instructions or something. I need to do something about my hair!
P.s. I love reading your posts. You should update more often! Just if you want to ;); February 25, 2013 at 3:22 PM

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Thomas S. Monson

Professor Harold Hill, in Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, cautioned, “You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you’ve collected a lot of empty yesterdays.”

There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.

I remember reading the account of a man who, just after the passing of his wife, opened her dresser drawer and found there an item of clothing she had purchased when they visited the eastern part of the United States nine years earlier. She had not worn it but was saving it for a special occasion. Now, of course, that occasion would never come.

In relating the experience to a friend, the husband of the deceased wife said, “Don’t save something only for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion.”

That friend later said those words changed her life. They helped her cease putting off the things most important to her. Said she: “Now I spend more time with my family. I use crystal glasses every day. I’ll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket if I feel like it. The words ‘someday’ and ‘one day’ are fading from my vocabulary. Now I take the time to call my relatives and closest friends. I’ve called old friends to make peace over past quarrels. I tell my family members how much I love them. I try not to delay or postpone anything that could bring laughter and joy into our lives. And each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special day. Each day, each hour, each minute is special.”

-Thomas S. Monson, April 2008, Ensign Magazine