Thoughts From a Frazzled Mind

Food  4  Thought   Friday!   A little feast without the calories!!   Please visit  Jodi's blog!   She posts these for us.   Feel free to play along for some yummy fun! She will post a new one each Thursday night. JOIN IN!!!   Food 4 Thought Friday ~ This week's questions: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥       Breakfast  ~  What is something you always look forward to ? Christmas.  I love the music and the anticipation, and of course the feeling of Goodness in the World. Lunch ~ What is your best advice to a newly married couple? Stay friends, have fun together, but don’t smother each other.  You are two people who are joined together in life, but you are still two people who have different attitudes, likes, traditions, and feelings.  Accept them and know that you don’t have to be the same to be together. Dinner ~ What is stressing you out most right now?  A...

Food  4  Thought   Friday!   A little feast without the calories!!   Please visit  Jodi's blog!   She posts these for us.   Feel free to play along for some yummy fun! She will post a new one each Thursday night. JOIN IN!!!   Food 4 Thought Friday ~ This week's questions: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Breakfast  ~  What businesses do you  "keep in business"?    Are there any businesses you avoid or refuse to patronize? I’m pretty sure that I keep Old Grist Mill in business!  I love to go to lunch with my sister, daughter, and all of my friend and for some reason we almost always end up at Old Grist Mill.  I LOVE their sandwiches! I don’t think that I avoid any businesses intentionally. Lunch ~ Have you ever had a home based business or worked at one?  If so, what or where? I have had several home-based businesses.  I was a Home Interior consultant for awhile – surpri...

Food  4  Thought   Friday!   A little feast without the calories!!   Please visit  Jodi's blog!   She posts these for us.   Feel free to play along for some yummy fun! She will post a new one each Thursday night. JOIN IN!!!   Food 4 Thought Friday ~ This week's questions: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Breakfast  ~What’s something simple that makes you smile? A hug from my hubby Lunch ~ What’s something nobody could ever steal from you? My testimony of Jesus Christ, that He loves me so much that He atoned for my sins, my weaknesses, my infirmities, my heartaches, everything, so that I can find JOY. Dinner ~ Happiness is not ______? Exercise.  At this point in my life, exercise is just painful . Midnight Snack ~   A:  What is the most valuable life lesson you learned from a mistake? That holding a grudge is like poison, only hurting me. B:  What’s on...

It seems as though every time we have family pictures it is in the fall or winter.  I'm very glad that I have them, but I decided this year we needed to have pictures taken in my favorite season - SUMMER! One day on my way home from work I stopped at Hobby Lobby in Layton.  I was talking to Tasha on the phone and mentioned that I wanted to have family pictures when she visited.  We were bantering back and forth about who we wanted to take the pictures.  She said that she knew of several photographers that could do a good job, but I told her that I was thinking of asking Kaylie Connolly.  Kaylie's family had recently moved from our ward, but I had seen some of her work on FaceBook and I really liked it.  Tasha agreed, and reminded me that I should hurry up to call Kaylie to make sure she was available (and also because she knew that I hate calling people and thought that I would postpone doing it).  I hung up my phone, walked around the store for lite...

Because they are an online, global university, Western Governor's University holds graduation ceremonies only twice a year.  There was one in February in Orlando, Florida but we didn't feel like we could make that work.  We decided that the Salt Lake graduation would be much more convenient.  So, even though I finished all of my course work and received my diploma almost a year ago, my graduation day finally arrived.  Unfortunately things were crazy and hectic and since I was feeling a little trepidation about attending the ceremony where I literally did not know one person, I made the hard decision to not attend the graduation ceremony.  I did purchase the cap and gown because I knew that I would be wearing them while attending the graduations of all of my students. Since I had all of the gear I elected to have my own celebration.  The Parrishes took Kim and I out to a movie (Mission Impossible - again) and to dinner at Idle Isle.  I then put on my ...

Food  4  Thought   Friday!   A little feast without the calories!!   Please visit  Jodi's blog!   She posts these for us.   Feel free to play along for some yummy fun! She will post a new one each Thursday night. JOIN IN!!!   Food 4 Thought Friday ~ This week's questions: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Breakfast  ~ What is something you take for granted every day? Flush toilets.  As someone who frequents the commode, I often use, but seldom express thanks for flush  toilets .   Lunch   ~  Happiness is a ____________? Fun game with friends and family with tons of laughter. Dinner   ~  What do you need most right now? To quote the Beatles, “All I need is love” (and chocolate, and Dr. Pepper, and laughter, and lots of money, and more time, and family and good friends to share it with) Midnight Snack  ~   (two for one here) a.  What kind of people does...

    Whew!  What a whirlwind, but yet an absolutely fantastic week!  Kim and I took some time off work for some much anticipated and awesome family time.  Tuesday Ashley and Tristan joined us along with Shandra, Kalel, and Jason and his daughter, RaeLynn for a fun, fast trip to Bear Lake.  We stayed in a COVERED WAGON! How fun is that?   Conestoga Ranch  is a new place that features "Glamping"  which is short for glamorous camping.  Visitors can choose whether they want to stay in heated tents or in covered wagons.  Our wagon had four sets of bunk beds.  The Ranch supplies the very comfy beds and linens and well as heaters.  At night an employee will start your campfire and also extinguish it at 11:00 p.m.  There is a fancy restaurant, showers, bathroom and laundry facilities.  It was really fun!  Of course, no trip to Bear Lake is complete without watching Juanito Bandito at the Pickleville Playh...