"You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."
-- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
"Man imposes his own limitations, don't set any."
-- Anthony Baily
"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."
-- Tony Robbins
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Quotes of the Week
"Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself."
-- Brian Tracy
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
-- Wilma Rudolph
-- Brian Tracy
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
-- Wilma Rudolph
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
College Kids Come and Now They've Gone
It was nice having Ben around during the holidays. His roommate, Benjamin Pingel, stayed with us a lot during that time.
With both Benjamins here, it made it convenient for the Dall sisters, Ginger and Jess, to come and visit. They were staying most of the time with their cousins in Farmington, so they were pretty close.
Rebecca wanted in on all the game playing. Dallas was working that day.
This was the BYU bowl game day where we were having a party in honor of that "special" occasion. It was the day we had to wait for hours for Glen to get done with all his gall bladder testing at the hospital.
Then, let the eating of the wings begin!
I already posted a picture of Glen eating some hot wings with the kids that day.
Here he is a couple of days after surgery tempting fate once again by eating some popcorn to test his stomach to see if he can tolerate his favorite snack any better now.
Fortunately, he had self control and didn't eat much and did fine on the small amount he ate.
Glen had come up from the basement to bid our son farewell. Ben was packing up the car to be off and on his way to BYU for another semester of school.
Farewell, son and friends.
It was great to have youth and vitality here while taking care of my invalid husband.
With both Benjamins here, it made it convenient for the Dall sisters, Ginger and Jess, to come and visit. They were staying most of the time with their cousins in Farmington, so they were pretty close.
Rebecca wanted in on all the game playing. Dallas was working that day.
This was the BYU bowl game day where we were having a party in honor of that "special" occasion. It was the day we had to wait for hours for Glen to get done with all his gall bladder testing at the hospital.
Then, let the eating of the wings begin!
I already posted a picture of Glen eating some hot wings with the kids that day.
Here he is a couple of days after surgery tempting fate once again by eating some popcorn to test his stomach to see if he can tolerate his favorite snack any better now.
Fortunately, he had self control and didn't eat much and did fine on the small amount he ate.
Glen had come up from the basement to bid our son farewell. Ben was packing up the car to be off and on his way to BYU for another semester of school.
Farewell, son and friends.
It was great to have youth and vitality here while taking care of my invalid husband.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
The Day After Christmas
Dallas and Rebecca decided to take advantage of Dallas having the day after Christmas off work to have me watch their kids so they could celebrate their anniversary. It was definitely a good day for it because the weather was cooperative--unlike the day after Christmas 8 years ago when they got married and it was the snowstorm to beat all snowstorms.
It made me happy when the girls arrived with some of their new Christmas toys. Between church and visiting three sets of grandparents on Christmas, there wasn't very much time for them to play with their new toys. Brooke had been begging her parents to take her home the night before so she could play with her kitchen set.
The girls love picking out the perfect cookie cutter to use to cut a shape of ham for them to eat for their lunch. As much as ham makes me want to gag--especially a slice of ham that was nearly an inch thick--I played the good grandma and cut several shapes of that nasty stuff for both of the girls.
Spencer didn't get a slab of ham, but I did feed him yummy baby food.
Brooke got the idea that she could use her new kitchen set dishes with real food. Hence, more cookie cutter ham slabs needed to be made.
The girls love to play with beanie babies. Brooke demonstrates how a bird sits on a person's arm.
Then they played hide Caroline in the beanie babies.
I realize now that I didn't even get a picture of the anniversary couple. This couple will have to do instead.
It was so cute watching Dallas and Caroline sitting together using their electronic devices.
Glen is not in any of the pictures because he spent the entire day down in his recliner feeling horribly rotten all day long. It was that day he decided he'd go ahead and call the doctor first thing the next morning to get scheduled for an ultrasound of his gall bladder.
He had talked with the doctor the week before at his physical about how he's been feeling a lot of discomfort after he eats and the doctor told him to pay attention to what he eats and how he feels after eating certain things and suggested he may have a gall bladder problem.
Things had definitely gone downhill since that doctor visit.
It made me happy when the girls arrived with some of their new Christmas toys. Between church and visiting three sets of grandparents on Christmas, there wasn't very much time for them to play with their new toys. Brooke had been begging her parents to take her home the night before so she could play with her kitchen set.
The girls love picking out the perfect cookie cutter to use to cut a shape of ham for them to eat for their lunch. As much as ham makes me want to gag--especially a slice of ham that was nearly an inch thick--I played the good grandma and cut several shapes of that nasty stuff for both of the girls.
Spencer didn't get a slab of ham, but I did feed him yummy baby food.
Brooke got the idea that she could use her new kitchen set dishes with real food. Hence, more cookie cutter ham slabs needed to be made.
The girls love to play with beanie babies. Brooke demonstrates how a bird sits on a person's arm.
Then they played hide Caroline in the beanie babies.
I realize now that I didn't even get a picture of the anniversary couple. This couple will have to do instead.
It was so cute watching Dallas and Caroline sitting together using their electronic devices.
Glen is not in any of the pictures because he spent the entire day down in his recliner feeling horribly rotten all day long. It was that day he decided he'd go ahead and call the doctor first thing the next morning to get scheduled for an ultrasound of his gall bladder.
He had talked with the doctor the week before at his physical about how he's been feeling a lot of discomfort after he eats and the doctor told him to pay attention to what he eats and how he feels after eating certain things and suggested he may have a gall bladder problem.
Things had definitely gone downhill since that doctor visit.
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