"I'm glad your my Mom."

That is what my youngest daughter said to me as I was driving her to her first Homecoming dance as a freshman and representative of our school's Student Council.

I actually did this.....


and the finished result...mind you we only bought this dress two weeks ago and the shoes four hours before the event. For once having size 10 feet came in handy because they were the only shoes that fit and they were "good"!





Now to what really gives me motivation sometimes...

Deut 4:9

"Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons"


I did not give heed to anything Saturday night but to create a balance in my daughter's life that would bring her confidence and reassurance in her natural beauty. She had a wonderful time!

Sunday we enjoyed, my two girls and I, a little talk of why I do the things I do.

I don't want them to make the mistakes I made.
(That's why I check her grades on the computer.)

That's why I try to go the extra mile and blab on and on about the things that hurt me when I was younger.

We also talked of the mistakes I have made, and their right to comment and store up what they would do differently when they have children of their own.
(my eldest reminded me of her 9th grade hairdo that was not so "hip", "funky" or whatever they say now-it was more akin to a Texas beauty pagent...hey...I admitted I make mistakes)

My girls know I smoked pot, went to my first bar at the age of 15, was a binge eater then a starvation fool. When my mother died my senior year of cancer, I hurt so deeply inside I began hurting myself. I once told someone that in MY case, I do not regret the pain I went through and the mistakes I made because I turned something wrong from my early life into something wonderful!


Thanking God we reconnected these past several years before it was too late!

Thank you Jesus...because of you I really was made anew!
(yet a little of the daring comes out from time to time-Thank you Holy Spirit!!!!)

I do not mask much any more...I don't take chances any more!

God gave me four wonderful things to die for:
two beautiful young women,
a loving husband,

and life eternal!!!!!!!