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Life gets sticky, wash your hands.

My children are reverse for typical traits of the sexes. My daughter has never been bothered in the least by textures, messes, etc. My son on the other hand has a malfunction if anything spills or gets on him. Last week he came to me in near tears because his hands were sticky. As I helped him wash them clean and took in his truly grateful thanks for making it all better, I couldn’t help but think about how much better life is when you wash off the sticky stuff. Maybe as adults our sticky stuff isn’t as easy to detect as sugar residue on our hands, but I’m willing to bet there are a few of us who may have stepped into something sticky in our lives. Maybe it’s time to wash it off?

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Last week I was trying to catch up on a few of the household chores. I came downstairs and found this:

Now this may not look like much to the untrained eye, but let me explain. This is a display of my 4 year old’s problem solving skills. This was the prized motivation in the center of the kitchen island and the reason he went after the step stool which is as big as he is.

I couldn’t help but chuckle. I also couldn’t help myself from thinking how there’s a lesson in this simple act. How often do we find solutions to our own personal roadblocks? Today I’m working on defining a few of my own candy dishes and solutions. Thanks again little buddy for being the teacher. *wink*

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Holly took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test! “Wants to make a favorable impression and be reward…” Click here to read the rest of the results.

Thanks for the challenge Mert! It nailed a few things about me too!

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Are there any secrets? Well statistically speaking there must be because the number of people happily married for more than a few weeks these days seems to vastly outweigh those who have enjoyed many a happy year together. And so when I was recently asked what the secret was to being happy for so long with one man in my life I began reflecting to find answers.
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I really like a lot of Google’s tools. I’ve been converted to Gmail for well over a year now and really have good things to say about it. But I noticed, quite on accident last week, that some e-mails that weren’t spam found their way to my spam folder. I always delete all spam messages on a regular basis and I’ve been doing it without looking for a long time. But after seeing a few that shouldn’t have been there pop up I’ve been double checking my spam folder and continually finding a few that shouldn’t be there. What’s really weird is that some are from the same source like my voicemail service - two messages on the same day and one went to the spam folder and one went to my inbox. But I had been under the assumption that once an e-mail address had been responded to by you and/or was in your contact list it wouldn’t go to spam, yet I found a few of those that were there too. This morning I also noticed that one that I marked as not spam several times kept going back to spam until it finally stuck on the 4th or 5th attempt.

It could be a simple glitch as they test some new configurations or a million other things, but if I’ve missed responding to an e-mail lately it might be because it snuck into my spam folder and I didn’t see it. And if you use Gmail you might want to double check. I told my hubby and he checked his last night and found one or two that shouldn’t have been there too. So it’s worth a double check if you use Google. ;o)

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I’ve been spoiled in my marriage and I’ll be the first to admit it. I get flowers on more than one day a year. One of my favorite surprises came on a Tuesday - no particular one, just a Tuesday with a note that read “Tuesdays are better with flowers.” He’s awful good to me.
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…the love remains. I wish I could put into words how reassuring this concept is. Every day you watch your kids have skirmishes - maybe even all out wars with each other. You worry that there is nothing but animosity between siblings and you chastise yourself for reacting to it with less control than you’d like.

Last week, I found this in my daughter’s pile of papers done at school:

“I will make my New Year the best ever by making a New Years resolution to stop being mean to my brother. To accomplish my goal I am going to do my best to not be mean to my brother and I love him so I want do that ine [even] more and I no [know] he loves me to [too] and I promis [promise] to take care of my brother and wach [watch] over him and be by his side and help wif [with] evrey [everything] I can wif [with] his homework help him wif [with] his biek [bike] and fix stuff for him and read him a store [story] and tuck him in his bed.”

The run on sentence and spelling errors tell me that she did this completely on her own. And the neatness of her writing tells me that she worked really hard and for a long time on it. I felt a pang of pride as the tears built up, what it lacked in perfection with grammar it made up for with a perfect spirit of love - when it’s all said and done she recognizes that she loves her brother and that he loves her too. How awesome is that?

It made me look at New Year’s resolutions in a new and better light - more simple and yet more profound.

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I try not to murmur. Really I do. Some days I do better than others. I’m trying not to murmur right now knowing I’ve got another three days and two nights to deal with being a single parent while my husband travels for work - never fun. But I got a much needed boost yesterday with a great lesson that is worthy of sharing.
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