ABCz

Naps have gone so well today I almost feel like I deserve an awesome parent award.
{Like a back scratch} 
I'm also on page 111 of my blog book. We FINALLY got to the part where Mr Smith & I met. Well, we're dating at least. I never recorded in my blog the times we first met. How foolish I was to think they weren't going to be significant! I had no idea what was right around the corner.

I don't want to even begin with putting this blog to book. I write WAY too much. And to think some thoughts I actually keep to myself! Otherwise you might think I'm a horrible person, which there was this one time . . . I might have been. referring to here & here (right at the end) remember those moments!?!? sigh. single life drama.

but discontinuing the past for a second...(a better perspective)

I wanted to share parts of this article from Pres Monson in 2012. 

It was inspiring & I hope I remember these truths every day of my life:

A in my ABCs refers to attitude.

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment. We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.

B is for believe—in yourself, in those around you, and in eternal principles.

Cardinal Wolsey cried:

Had I but served my God with half the zeal

I served my king, He would not in mine age

Have left me naked to mine enemies.

Don’t limit yourself and don’t let others convince you that you are limited in what you can do. Believe in yourself and then live so as to reach your possibilities.

C is for courage. {my fav}

Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.

Said the American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide on, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”⁵

Have the determination to make the effort, the single-mindedness to work toward a worthy goal, and the courage not only to face the challenges that inevitably come but also to make a second effort, should such be required. “Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’

President Monson