Smart alecks, don’t you love them? A child moment.

This week I found out that my daughter has became like her father. My husband, bless his soul, is and always will be a smart-aleck. He is always saying silly things to what I ask just to make me laugh and sometimes feel stupid. Like when I ask him to close the light. He would come back with I have to open it up first to close it. My husband has been gone now, taking up the job of being a truck driver, which means I am not a truck driver’s wife. This means that he is gone for long periods of time, which meant, or so I thought, I would not have to endure his smart-aleck attitude all the time.
Well guess what? My daughter has taken upon herself to take up that chore of being a smart-aleck in the house. I was, as usual, telling her what to do. She had taken some dishes upstairs to her room and I was telling her to clean her room. I told her that any dishes she had upstairs had to come down stair and I directed her to “put the dishes on the counter.” I was washing the dishes in the sink so clearly I did not wish for dirty dishes placed in with the clean ones. Well as always she did not listen to the instructions (I could have predicted that) and placed her dirty dishes in with the clean. So I asked her what part of ‘put the dishes on the counter’ that she did not understand (she is in grade two so these words were ones she understood fully). I asked, “was it the PUT, the THE, the DISHES, the ON, the THE, or the COUNTER, that you did not understand?” thinking that it would shock her, I was not expecting a response from her. Well how wrong I was. She answered, “it was the THE I did not get.” As much as that was annoying, to have to redo the dishes again, I could not help but smile. That was a piece of my husband shining through and those who know him, know what I mean.

Feeling alone?

Is there anyone who thinks they are alone? That you feel you have no place to go, out in the cold and without a home. Is there anyone who sees this world as lonesome and friendless place to be in? That you feel you lost all hope, all trust. Do you feel like you could shed all your tears without the care from anyone around you?

There is a point in everyone’s life when we think we are alone, to face all our pains and struggles, our sadness and despair. I have been there. But I do know that even when you feel alone and that no one cares that you feel that no one sees you, there is someone out there does care. He is not of the earth, not of our flesh, but he is there for us. No matter what we have done, no matter how we have acted, he remains there. There for us to lean on in the tough times. There when we need a shoulder to cry on. To hold our burdens and pains for us, all you need to do is let go, let go everything to him.

Sometimes we feel like we are that fallen baby bird that falls from the highest tree. The baby bird does not know where to go, it feels alone. However, the mama bird is not too far from them. Just like that baby bird, our father in heaven stays near us and watches over us. He is there, always there.

Where do you stand?

I was having a hard time figuring out what my first post would be about. Nothing much has changed with my family and nothing much has happened around me. After hours of thinking, I decided to take a break and tackle my school assignments. Something caught my eye, and I began reading some posts people had up in my school forum, which is a place where all students can discuss any topic.

I was reading a couple of posts about marriage. I have to say that certain things that were said seemed dreadful to me. I am all for freedom of speech and all for everyone has rights, but what happened to the rights of someone who is thought of as “not progressive”? Am I really not progressive if I up hold my personal beliefs? Should I be put down because of my beliefs? I am a person who likes to take everything into account and research and learn everything before making a decision on something I believe in. I do not take what anyone says as what is true. But as I read these posts, some pro same sex marriages, some against, there was one thing someone said that truly hit me hard, “Marriage is seen as disposable and meaningless in today's society.”

Is this true? Is this what our world, our country has become? Do we see marriages as something that does not matter, no matter in what circumstance it is in? For a woman who has been married for over ten years, I take this statement seriously. Marriage is supposed to be something special, something that you share with only a single other person. It is the finding of your soul mate, your lover, and your best friend. I would never see my marriage as “disposable or meaningless”. Those words should not even be attached to the word marriage.

I think the problem here is not that marriage is “disposable or meaningless”, but that people stopped getting to know the person they are about to marry and people have stopped trying to work things out. 100 years ago, women could not divorce as easily, so working on their relationship became important. Now we have forgotten the working on part and have settled on the quitting part. A marriage is not easy, it needs work. This is something that people tend to forget. For me, divorce is not even in my vocabulary because I know that any problems or issues I may have in my relationship can be solved. And this is something that I will stand by. To I refuse to accept that marriages are “disposable or meaningless”.

Where do you stand?

A new start

I am starting a blog about things that I have learned, things that happen around me, and about the things I write, even about some quotes of life that I wish to share and topics that are interesting. For those who wish to keep an update on my family, for those who want to listen to what I have to say, to those who want to learn or be comforted, to those who wish to laugh at funny things or cry at sad things or just wishing to be inspired, to those who wish to enjoy the ride of life, come and read, I am sure I will not disappoint you.

This is my start on a new thing.