More Holiness Give Me: AND SO IT BEGINS...

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

AND SO IT BEGINS...

I am not sure what is up with this trend of taking pictures of yourself while pouting but it seems to be the new thing. I find these pictures of Kassidy all the time. They crack me up.

Kassidy started a cute blog called "Kassidy's life". I had to smile at her last post which was :

" I started drivers ed yesterday!!!!! I am so excited!!!!! And tomorrow I start driving a car!! A real life car! And it is only the second drivers ed class!!! I can't wait till I start driving it is going to be so cool, so much fun, so scary, and crazy, and......... nerve racking!!!"

Cute, huh?

Then yesterday as I was driving her to her hip hop dance class (smiley face, she has to do a headstand!) I hear this:

"Mom, your doing it wrong...

Before you drive walk around the back to make sure no toys, children, or anything behind you

lock your door

Adjust your seat

Put your steering wheel down so you're wrist is hang over the steering wheel

Keep your thumbs to the side so the air bag doesn't blow them off (really?)

You didn't look both ways

Do you have your seat belt on?

Hold the steering wheel at 3 and 9

No crossovers (don't cross your hands while your turning)

Your windshield needs to be clean

Speed limit! Mom

Hold you key between your middle finger and your index finger to injure car thiefs "(as she puts the keys in position for me)

WOW! Not so cute anymore. Suddenly she's the instructor!

5 comments:

Terri Porter said...: Cute blog Susan.....It's funny when the kids "think" they know more than the parent....You are now entering our life...The stage of raising kids and not just producing them. FUN isn't it? Well...isn't it?; October 16, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Susan said...: well, i do don't i?! :)
kassidy; October 16, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Emily said...: Yeah, Nate gives me driving tips all the time: "Don't go 52 in a 35!" He almost pulled me over the other day, then he realized it was his wife speeding! Embarrassing!; October 16, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Unknown said...: When I took drives ed it was put your hands at 10 and 2, I guess things have changed in the last 16 years! I only have a couple of years and my oldest can start drivers ed, I am so not looking forward to it. He is 11 1/2 and things he knows everything.; October 17, 2009 at 12:32 PM
Kassidy Akkula said...: He he he he. Iyam a shmartie pantsh.; October 17, 2009 at 3:52 PM

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I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time. The women of God know this. --Neal A. Maxwell

I know it is long but it is life altering!

C.S. Lewis- Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning...It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. But it is immortals who we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption, and our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

"Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are course; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fotune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." Margaret D. Naduald

" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Nelson Mandela-

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

AND SO IT BEGINS...

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