Ending in 5.4.3.2.1

GOOD LORD!!!!! THESE BOYS DROVE ME TO LAUGHTER…. UMMMMM irritation……softness…compassion….much laghter AGAIN …joy….and love! They are indeed AWESOME kids!

However… I am TIRED and ready to go home… remember boys if we are hanging EVERYDAY ALL DAY until Sunday…yall better high five each other and LET ME GO HOME! LOL  ( NO FOR REAL – LET ME GET HOME TO BED ) By the time we were in pursuit of not just walking to the car… but also TRYING TO LOCATE the car but I was so tired and sleepy and worn out… I forgot where we had even parked.. So I said let’s take pics to help me wake up.. THEY SCREAMED NO!! LOL

My son laughed and hugged me REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY tight and said Mom you rock and even though I get on your nerves sometimes, I know you love me… UGGHHH so sweet!! LOL Thank you for the love but okay hug me as we walk and find the car in this parking lot!! LOL Yes, I was STILL tired even after the I love you and thank you mom speech……

Okay, love you Nick, see you TOMORROW-  I had fun bye!!!! Here comes my friend Melissa, which is Nick’s mom and she started taking pictures with her camera of the boys and me and her and the kids almost lost it!!! No more pictures you guys! SOO – SOO FUNNY!

Love you sis but I will cal you tomorrow…… the boys try to SNEAK IN THE HOUSE and they kept saying that they needed to ask each other a question in private but did not want to talk in front of us so they NEEDED to go into the house! Not so, love you Melissa..bye Nickky – Pooh! Good night…. Nonetheless… we got some great pics in one day!  It feels great to be a good mom to my amazing son and it feels just as amazing for him to have a nice best friend and a mother to match!

JESUS- FAMILY -FRIENDS AND THE MALL! LOL

 

 

Mentoring

There are many types of mentoring relationships, and it is essential to understand the differences and nuances prior to cultivating and entering into a mentoring agreement. What characteristics do you seek—formal or informal, mandatory or optional, short term or long term?

One of the most important distinctions is whether the mentoring relationship is considered formal or informal. Most mentoring relationships sit somewhere on a continuum between these two extremes. Formal mentoring relationships are often mandatory—leadership assigns mentors to new hires or promising candidates for promotion.

The meetings are scheduled, tracked, documented, and evaluated based on clearly articulated goals and milestones. Informal mentoring relationships are more spontaneous and based on loosely defined results. In fact, many mentoring relationships, while fulfilling the PD needs of the participants, are not acknowledged as such.

Often the mentee enters an informal mentoring relationship because of an intrinsically motivated need to do better. Whereas formal mentoring relationships tend to be more hierarchical, with seniority, status, and even age defining the mentor/protégé relationship, informal mentoring is more likely based on trust or admiration.

Another important thing to remember is that being a Mentor to someone is a blessing and a great opportunity to pour into someone a wealth of knowledge. Event though you are the Mentor, it is also just as important that you learn a variety of things from the people who are your mentees!

Quality Friendships

These are the qualities that each one of us needs if our friendships are going to last. Charity, Humility, Reverence, Inspiration, Sacrifice and Toleration – these enable the real friends to be sifted from the false. If you take the first letter of each one of these qualities and arrange them in order they will form one word:

 C from Charity  H from humility  R from reverence  I from intelligence  S from sacrifice   T from toleration

spell and form the word Christ. In bringing these qualities into your own life you put on Christ. And when you become so Christ-like, then you have the warmth and affection that will cause you to lay down your life for a friend and it will inspire your friends to be willing to lay down their lives for you.

For a friendship to survive each must try to learn and understand the workings of the minds of others. Friendships are not proven by the sounding of words, of the moving of lips. It is achieved through the workings of one’s mind trying to procure the best thoughts, the best motives, the best ideals, for the one whom he wishes to call his friends. This intelligent appreciation of each others mind, produces a greatness that is above jealousies and pettiness. It accounts for the peace and happiness that true friends experience when in each others company.

Sacrifice is always a must in any quality relationship. This simply means giving yourself to others till it hurts and forgiving those who have trespassed against you. A complete emptying of your own personality so that it adds luster to the one who receives it. Sacrifice is the true test of friendship. Only when it is in use can the friendship hope to survive. Christ said, “Greater love than this no one has than he who lays down his life for a friend.”

Tolerating their faults, suffering with their failures. Toleration brings with it a unity of spirit, develops a marriage between hearts and strengthens each one in the desire to be virtuous. Without toleration no friendship can be cultivated. No friendship can ever hope to survive. Because of what you must give to a friend and what he must give to you, it is impossible to have many friends in your life.

Memorial Day Beginning

Okay…. ready – set – go! it is Saturday and it is super hot outside… Nontheless – I just arrived at the destination where my son will be for 4 days and I am so ready to leave him behind “”with a smile”" on my face! LOL

I cannot understand why the GOOD LORD above would see fit to allow the temperature to reach 91 degrees today! Actually the whole weekend is supposed to reach the high 90′s all weekend!  My plan was to drop my son off and then RUN to the car screaming IM FREE!!…..IM FREE!! IM FREE!!! LOL

My son’s birthday is next weekend and although I was VERY excited to get rid of him for the whole weekend until Monday – I still found a way to stay with him when I dropped him off at his best friend’s house! LOL Funny right….. can’t wait to get AWAY from him but also hung out for an hour or two as well! However, this is supposed to be the beginning of his birthday celebration and maybe he deserves it and maybe he does not! LOL I think that I am doing this more so for me to get a break being totally honest!

LOL, I need a plan to get away! My son DOES want me to leave but his best friend, older sister and his mom wants me to stay!! YIKES.. NO!!!  ( I am serious though! ) LOL

So I ended up staying for 2 hours and I actually did have a blast hanging out BUT…… It is time to go and be alone and do me because my girl pals are waiting! LOL

 

A Weight – Losss Idea!

It would be soooo  nice if this could happen!! These last 10 pounds just WON’T leave my hips!

Excitement – 101

Umm…. Maybe I should NOT be so excited that my son is going to be GONE after his band recital tonight? Well that is all apart of Excitement 101′s FIRST STEP! We must EMBRACE IT so that we can effectively enjoy it! LOL

It is Memorial Day weekend and I seem to FORGET about it every year… silly I know but my son’s bday is the following weekend and we always go away and do something lazy, fun and exciting so that is what connects my mind with the month of May.

I will be FREE IN JESUS - LOL Having a good ole’ time……………….  my personal little party will end on Sunday afternoon because he has of course.. ANOTHER baseball game! Lord knows…the Heavens know… even the little flies that irritate me as I am driving knows that  I love my baby DEARLY….  to the point it can be indeed sickening sometimes…

But!!! and thank God for the but… he has been driving me BONKERS over the past month and a half! So yeah.. see ya bye! He will be at cook outs… swimming parties… birthday parties.. movies…amusement parks.. and I will be NO WHERE to be found!

EXCITEMENT 101- embrace what has made you excited and enjoy it to the fullest!!

Drum Roll PLEASE!!   >>>>>>>FOR A CHANGE………….

I can JUST be a woman and not a mommy or SUPER  WOMAN for a few days! WHOO – HOO!!

Dear Women

Unfortunately Very TRUE

Digusting 101

Via the news today, this Tennessee man shown above has fathered 30 children and has the NERVE to ask the courts for a break on child support. Desmond Hatchett, is ONLY 33 years of age and SADLY has children with 11 different women. The state already takes half his paycheck and divides it up, which doesn’t amount to much when Hatchett is making only minimum wage. Some of the moms receive as little as $1.49 a month. The oldest child is 14 years old.

He had four kids in the same year, twice!!!!  Back in 2009 when Hatchett was in court to answer charges that many of the mothers were not receiving child support, he had 21 children. At the time, he said he was not going to father any more kids, but he ended up having nine more in the past three years.

The state cannot order Hatchett to stop making babies. He hasn’t broken any laws, according to the report! I am so shocked that legislation has NOT been put in place for this type of foolishness. I mean in China, they do have the 1 child law!! It is situations like these that may have American Lawmakers think twice about changing a few laws here and there!

However, but once the government gets involved in this type of magnitude – who knows what can of worms that could be opening up! So with that being said – maybe we should NOT bother Pandora’s Crepy – Negative and Unstable Box!

Back to square one………

CRAZY RIGHT! ( shame – shame – shame )

Women and Politics

 I am finding more organizations who are promoting women in politics. It should be imperative for women of all ages, colors and classes to increase the  awareness of  women in the political process and  support women for  election to  public office.  Political Party Affiliation does not matter as well….  Regardless of party affiliation, congressional women deliver more federal projects to their home districts and sponsor and co-sponsor more legislation than their male colleagues. In a study that was recently published in The American Journal of Political Science, researchers from Stanford University and the University of Chicago attributed women’s political success not to some innate political instinct but to the fact that it’s really hard for us to get elected (there are currently 360 men and 75 women in the House; 83 men and 17 women in the Senate). They theorize that women feel immense pressure to measure up, so instead of meeting expectations, we surpass them.

Since 1848 Women have struggled for equal rights in the political arena  beginning with the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New  York. Two days later 68 women and 32 men signed the Declaration of  Sentiments outlining grievances setting the agenda for the women’s  rights movement! ( NOT FEMINIST ) There is indeed a DIFFERENCE between Women’s Rights and Feminists Rights! The average woman does not want to be discriminated against via pay and elevation in career goals and educational objectives because of her sex. However, Feminist want all rights period – if she can lift 10 cars and dig 10 ditches like a man she want to “run against him” for the same job.

Now some may say that is equality…. but I say NOT SO!!! That is equality – with a spin! That is something that in today’s market the media would call spinning….. Women’s Rights / Women’s Movement does not need to be stretched… We want to be LADIES and respected as women in power positions regardless what they are. However, we do not desire to fit into a man’s role and become aggressive “just for the cause of it”…….