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Dancing in the rain

Roodlyne — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:01:58 +0000

Good Morning friends!

Dancing in the rain! what does that mean?
You know that God is trying to tell you something when everywhere you go you keep hearing the same message.
Yesterday was the start of our annual campmeeting at church, and the preacher use the story of a famous violin player who in the middle of a very important recital one string of his violin pop, then 2, then 3 so he is left with one string on the violin but he never miss a beat. He kept on playing. He also read in Habakkuk 3:17-18

Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.

As my life took a turn for the crappy, at time I feel like just curl up in the hole and not come out. Have a pity party bash and cry my eyes out until something good come up, but it’s not just about weathering the storm.
It’s about how you weather the storm.
It’s about learning to keep on playing when all your string pop out and you only have one left.It’s about dancing in the rain.
It’s about praising God even when it’s all bad, not in a religious kinda way but in confidence! Knowing that I’m a child of the King.
A King who promised good to me.
A King who watch over his words to perform it.
A King who does not lie.
A King who loves me.

When you know that, it’s not hard at all to dance in the rain.

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Can waking up in the morning be fun?

Roodlyne — Wed, 02 May 2012 06:16:32 +0000

I have never been a morning person, I remember my mom dragging me out of bed every morning for school… ugh I hated life at least until it was 11 in the morning.
30 years later, I’m still in the same boat. I hate mornings, I don’t like to wake up, it’s almost like the bed feel much better once the clock get around 5am. I’ve been challenging myself to wake up a few minutes early to spend some time with God, meditate on the word and get my mind right for the day. So far it’s been a hit or miss, more misses than hits actually.
a few hours ago, ~~more like yesterday~~ I was on a twitter chat with a few ladies discussing ways to wake up in the morning.
some if the tips were : loud alarm, get a dog LOL, getting to know sleep cycles and so forth.
The things is, for me it’s not about waking up at all, its about getting out of bed. I wake up minutes before my alarm goes off, I’m ready to switch it off at first ring. Sometimes I’ll go back to sleep sometimes I just lay there idle unable to push the covers off and and put my feet on the ground. One of the ladies shared that she was the same way but will bounce outta bed if she had something exciting to do…ME TOO!
So the issue is not waking up at all! It’s lack of excitement about the day… now how do I make my days exciting to the point I’d wanna get outta bed early to start the day?
I don’t know! Any ideas? Chime in!

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Monday are good days too

Roodlyne — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:37:54 +0000

I came accross a study that suggest that the frontal lobe of our brain is voice activated. As you begin to say something, the brain is set in motion to make it happen.
EXAMPLE: I say I’m tired, the brain start getting the body ready for rest… since most of the time we still have to go through the work day and our activities we ended up sleepy, dragging and… well tired.

Remind me of Proverbs 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.”

WOW! I can turn my day around by speaking and believing the right stuff.

In the light of this awesome revelation, I’m taking on the challenge of making my Mondays better.
My Mondays are always hard and gloomy, it’s hard to wake up, I miss the weekends, I miss my kids. Since there is nothing I can do about my Mondays I can change the way I respond to my Mondays and every other day.

1. Today is the day that the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in it
2. Everyday is a good day to give thanks unto the Lord
3. Being grateful result in happiness
4. Count your blessings, name them one by one And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

Counting my blessings

I get to do this on a week day after work - not too shabby

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True Friends

Roodlyne — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:39:03 +0000

Howdy Super Women!
I’m going to save you guys the “I’ve been gone so long speech and blah blah…”
What can I say, supermom is battling nasty kryptonites but never fear I SHALL prevail.

While I’m on the subject of Friends… All my follower friends are gone with Google friend connect! Thanks Google
I’m not sure how many of you are left… you can now subscribe by email, follow me on twitter and facebook
Ok so what about “True Friends“? Who are they?

Are they the people that you know for a long time?
Are they the people you talk to on the phone?
Are they the people who call you when THEY need you?

I can pile up a nice list of requirements for True friends but you guys get the idea.
In my recent experience I have discover several kind of FRIENDS in my repertoire.

I have the kind who deserted me when I needed them most (I call those mercenaries)
I have the kind who are more interested in the juicy details of my mess than ME (I call those spectators they are just need a juicy conversation starter)
I have the kind who take advantage of your situation to their own benefits. (I call those oportunist, they are roaring lion in search of a prey)
I have the self rightous kind, who are quick to “preach” to me and tell how my situation is from what I did or didn’t do

I started to question myself on the choice of people I surround myself with… Is it my fault? Am I a magnet for heartless jerks?
Right then I find that

I also have the kind who put their arms around me and whisper an encouraging word and without drilling for juicy details they pray for you.
I find that I also have the kind who said I’ll stand and fight with you…

So my answer to my own question is no it’s not my fault, I’m not a magnet for heartless jerks! they are just there for a purpose, and that purpose is to teach me a lesson.
A clean up lesson, prune away the useless weeds from my life so the beautiful flowers can bloom!
Spring is coming and I’m excited!
How many people in your life can you actually call friend?

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My Yoga Discovery

Roodlyne — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:00:10 +0000

Ok. a whole week of different aerobic classes and crazy stretching no more knee pain,
I still don’t know why I started having knee pain in the first place but all that matter is that it stopped

So I discover yoga… Ok I know yoga has been popular for a long time but I never tried it mainly because of a crazy rumor story that was going on around my school when I was in junior high that kinda keep me away from yoga.

So last Tuesday I went to the Gym it was already 8pm and the only class they had at this time was a yoga class.
I didn’t go with hubby (the hubs usually coach me on what to do) and I’m completely Gym stupid, and don’t care enough to learn.
I need to have an instructor telling me what to do… so I march on into the yoga class.

To my surprise… it was amazing! there was no hummm or nothing like that it was almost like my Pilate plus class only harder.
I really like the stretching, the movement and everything.

Until I went back on Thursday and it was a different instructor she was sooooooooooooo slowwwwwwwwwww
she was like all
“grab the ball of energy” ,
“center your energy” ,
“hold the ball of energy over your head…”

All I could think at the time is how much I want a baconator from wendy’s.

at some point I just wanted to leave but I was almost to the front of the class, I didn’t wanna disturb the others.
I got so annoyed in the class, I was thinking if she mention that ball of energy one more time I’m gonna grab that hypothetical ball of energy and throw it at her. LOL

Then that wouldn’t be very christian of me so I kept my thoughts on the baconator. LOL

The Jury is still out on whether or not I’ll try yoga again…
Do you guys do yoga?
How do you like it?
Any pointers?

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Say what? I got knee pain :)

Roodlyne — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:00:03 +0000

Last week was another “Back to the Gym” week for me. I do that every once in a while, I go for a whole week, I start to feel good, I make pretty strong conviction that I’m gonna keep going but never do .

Usually the previous scenario happen when I see someone that look like that.

my mamavation

Well… as strong as this mamavation was, it doesn’t last.

You know how they say “you gotta do this for yourself” having those abs would have totally been for me, but for some reason I just can not stick to my workout discipline.

Things is I don’t actually have those abs… but if it is like before lunch and I suck my stomach in really hard and don’t breathe I totally have “abs”! so who cares if don’t actually have them all the time?

2 weeks ago, I started having this crazy knee pain.

SAY WHAT?

Yeppers! knee pain along with it’s sister back pain. OH NO! I’m turning into a grandma!
I love my heels, and lately I even started to wear them to work, I love how sassy they make me feel and the clickity clank sound they make when I walk, I mean I love my heels… and now I got knee pain? SERIOUSLY? knee pain?

That was my perfect motivation to go back the gym
Last week I did 2 yoga classes for the first time, 1 step plus abs class, and 1 body works. (I take whatever class is on when I go. no preferences)

What is your motivation to work out?
losing weight?
staying fit?
or do you just like working out?

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Oh the fruit of thine labor

Roodlyne — Tue, 31 May 2011 16:04:13 +0000

How sweet and tasty it is?

Something about seeing the results of my efforts make me oh so happy.
I’m happy when I see my 3 year old put on her pajamas by herself, brush her teeth… I’m happy when I see my 2 year old attempt to apply lotion on herself, even if she’s only covering a place spot on her tummy, it make me happy that she can.

to think that just (or seems to be)a few months ago, I had a little squirmy wormy kicking out of her swaddle, now she can walk, talk, and do things on her own, makes me wanna sit back and marveled.

This morning I was pleasantly surprise when I walk out of the house and compulsively check on my plants like I always do and I notice I had a nice plum green pepper hanging on my little pepper tree.

it’s been a year since I planted those seeds! a whole year! I made my gardening start up announcement here.

See? I had 5 beds of sweet pepper, hot pepper, lettuce, rosemary and parsley.
My parsley was they only thing that came through. My peppers? The first batch I over watered, I had to scrape them and replant in another pot, they were completely drown. The second batch got frozen from that little cold front we had in December, After the freeze there were only 3 frail plants left standing I moved them again into another pot with new dirt…
so today when I got out to see that little pepper I was so happy I was doing cartwheel… in my head at least.
I have turn a seed into a pepper!
That’s my accomplishment for today and I’m so proud of my little pepper guy!
what is your latest proud moment? go ahead and brag

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Bye-Bye Straight hair… Hello Curly

Roodlyne — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:19:57 +0000

My 3 year old daughter saw another little girl with long straight flowing hair,
she said: “mommy she has beautiful hair like you!”
me: “yeah she does. so do you”
3yo: “no” with sad little face

then it hit me, my poor baby have never seen her mommy’s real hair! and thinks that long and straight is the definition of beautiful hair

I try to convince her that mommy’s hair is just like hers, she didn’t believe me. I told her her hair was beautiful, she didn’t believe me. She finally accept my compliment on her hair, and say that her hair was beautiful too. Now I make her look in the mirror after I do her hair, shake it, wave it, touch it so she can learn to love her hair.

So leading by example I decide to stop relaxing my hair, so my little one can see that mommy’s hair is just as curly as hers, and it is BEAUTIFUL! Now five month into it and two hair texture later…
*sigh* little did I know I was in for a journey.

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Eating Dinner at The Table

Roodlyne — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:31:24 +0000

A random nationwide survey by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University found a recent rise in the number of children ages 12 to 17 who said they ate dinner with their families at least five times a week, to 58 percent last year from 47 percent in 1998.
“There’s definitely an awareness that was not there a few years ago,” said Miriam Weinstein, author of “The Surprising Power of Family Meals: How Eating Together Makes Us Smarter, Stronger, Healthier and Happier

Families that do have dinner together often are families whose parents are fully engaged with their kids.
Social scientists have been praising the benefits of family dinners for years. A number of studies show that children who eat dinner with their families regularly are less likely to get involved with drugs and alcohol than those who do not. They also tend to get better grades, exhibit less stress and eat better.

The study by the Columbia center showed that compared with teenagers who have five or more family dinners a week, those who have two or less are three times as likely to try marijuana, two and half times as likely to smoke cigarettes and one and half times as likely to try alcohol.

Growing up we always eat dinner together as a family, not necessarily at the table but we would all eat at the same time. It was fun, for some of us, I said some of us because one of the perks or downside of this togetherness we were all in each others business. When it was your bizwack being laid out it may not be all that fun for you but still a good laugh.

I never forget the first time a boy wrote me a love letter, I tried to hide because I was embarrassed not sure why but I was. Unfortunately one of my cousins found it and right in the middle of dinner with every body he step on a chair and start reading it everybody was going oooh and aaahh! I remember being so mad I took it out of the poor little boy who wrote me and told him it was his fault! part of it sucks but it did create a sense of accountability toward each other. If anyone was thinking about doing something naughty you’d think twice about it cause you already know its going to be dinner talk subject. It also teach us teamwork, if we’d learn that one of us is in trouble we would all pitch in. It is like that in my family till today. So I got to say I kinda of agree with this study, dinner time is happy time, people talk, kids talk, its a great time to bond, share and know what is going on in your spouses/kids life. When you in the know, you are better equipped to guide and assist them.
I say YAY for family dinners!
What’s your family dinners memories? do you think eating dinner or not with your family make you a better person today (or not)? SHARE!

PS: The statistics of the research was published in a NY times article

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Happy #EarthDay y’all

Roodlyne — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:31:49 +0000

To celebrate Earth day today
Kailee and I water the hibiscus, Kaylee couldn’t do it because it seems like just like her daddy she is allergic to pollen. I had to move my 2 hibiscus plant up to the balcony from the patio because both of them started to get real sick, my husband think its the flowers so I moved them just in case.

Anyway, we water all our plant, listen to birds, watch squirrel – later on we going to plant corn in a can!

I use to love doing that when I was a kid. I’ll plant 3 or 4 corn seeds in a can water it everyday and watch it grow. I use to have cans corn, black beans, papaya everything we eat that had a seed I would plant it. Too bad I never let them produce anything cause I would touch them too much, I always accidentally break the stem or drop the can or get bored cause it wasn’t growing fast enough. Hopefully this time around I can teach Kailee to be patient and not be like mommy was.

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