AngelMarvel

I am just wondering what the point of this post is. Is it to make us get off our butt and exercise? Is it to make us feel like we could look like her? I just don't see a point. Now... if you were showing us a picture of you because you have worked really hard to get into shape and tone up and all that... and you were trying to help us get it in gear and motivate us...then maybe I could understand what the post is about. But, to point out this stranger (yes I know you are a stranger to me..but we are part of this forum) the post seems meaningless to me. I have dealt with my weight since I turned 50 years old... I am now 60. So for the last 10 years my weight and body structure has haunted me no matter how many times I tried a diet. FINALLY... I was led by the spirit and was able to slowly lose 36 lbs. It took me 1 full year to do that! Does my body look like this lady's body? Heck NO! Never did and never will. But... I can show you a picture of me BEFORE I lost the weight and show you the same picture photo shopped and show you how I too can look all thin and wrinklie free. So... what is the OP about? No offense...but, I did find it an odd post. No pot shots at me for this post please. I won't respond to them.

Welcome to the forum Mark.

My sister-in-law is married to a non-member. They will be married 40 years this April. He doesn't go to Church at all and for most of their marriage he hasn't gone. She told me that it's been really hard without having a Priesthood holder in the home...but, she has adjusted over the years. They have 3 grown children. All have been baptized but they only go to Church once in a great while. My SIL goes all the time by herself and has always had a recommend. She continues to pray that one day her husband will join...anything is possible with prayer. Amen

My husband and I were married when we were 17 years old. We divorced when we were 21 years old. WHY? Because we were both so immature, naive, wanted to still play around, party, drugs, etc were involved. We were not going to Church. It wasn't that we didn't love each other... we did! But, all the above over took what we had together. When we divorced, we went our separate ways. Neither one knew where the other went. I actually looked for him over the years and he looked for me...but, couldn't find each other. One day when I was working on my family genealogy I put his name in but found nothing on him. I decided to check Facebook...found nothing on him. But, I did find his sisters. I made contact with them...they told him I had made contact. He made contact with me and we talked on the phone...then met in person. You can imagine how seeing each other again after 34 years was. (We were 21 years old the last time we saw each other and 55 when we met again... AMAZING! We got together again and married and sealed in the Manti Temple in 2011. The Lord is so good. How different things are when you grow up physically...but, mostly when you grow up spiritually.

I totally agree that it wouldn't be simple to just throw away a relationship...but, also feel that if the other person is 100% set on NOT wanting children, then that would be a big stepping stone in the way. Not that it maybe couldn't be worked out... but...

I think it would depend on how determined he/she is about having a child. I am thinking about my son...who cannot have children, married a woman who already had one child, but wanted another child. (She knew he couldn't have children) The desire for her was so strong of being pregnant, that she ended up divorcing him and marrying someone else and became pregnant right away. So... I would carefully think about the persons desire before I would jump into the relationship. In my son's situation... she knew he couldn't have children and was okay with it. But, as time went along and her other child started getting a little older, she longed so much for a baby (not adopted, surrogate, etc) and there was nothing he could do to change her mind.

Happy Birthday!

I have been doing really bad with my exercise program...but, I did lose 36 lbs last year! Going for another 24 lbs this year. :.bullhorn:Best get my exercise going!

I guess I can take a shot at this because anatess is one of the posts I will look for when there are discussions of interest to me going on in the forum. I am not saying I always agree with what anatess has to say...but, I can tell from her posts that she thinks about what she is going to say and is knowledgeable in the Church. I appreciate most of your posts anatess...even the ones I don't agree with.

It is 53 F right now at 5:44PM. Was beautiful today... a cloudy, but nice. We had the front door opened for a while.

Happy Birthday PC..hope it's a good one.

Robocop... saw it twice. First time my husband fell asleep through the whole thing so he wanted to go see it again. LOL It was good enough that I didn't mind going back.

We recently moved and now live next to a mother and her two children, 8 and 10 years old. We asked this family if they wanted to go to Church with us. The mother said she didn't but the two children wanted to go. The mother said that was okay, but she doesn't want anything to do with the Church or any Church, but didn't mind if her children went with us.So... we took them each Sunday. Every Sunday after Church we have a big BBQ for anyone to come...all five Missionaries usually come over. So...while they were there and the mother and children were there, my husband mentioned to the family if they ever thought about being baptized. Both children said they wanted to be. The missionaries asked the mother if they could give the discussions to the children and she was fine with it...but it had to be done at our home. So for the next month and a half we had the discussion at our home. The mother came to the first three of them...then she didn't come for any more. The children were baptized about 3 weeks ago. Their mother and grandfather came to the baptism and the mother went on Sunday when they were confirmed. She has not been back or to any other times that we have the Missionaries over...they are here at least once a week for a meal or just to visit with this children. The mother has nothing to do with getting them to Church...we take them. And, when we were out of town last week they didn't go because she didn't take them and we were so busy getting things ready for leaving town we didn't think about setting it up for someone to get them there. So... Yes, this can be done. BUT... it's really important to get the Ward involved with children like these two. We will only be here for my husband's work for maybe another 4 months. If the Ward doesn't step up to the plate and assist with getting the children to Church...they will be lost because the mother will not do it. Praying for these children and all children like them that want to go to Church but the family doesn't want to be involved. The picture is of the children just before they were baptized, my husband, and me. We feel so blessed by these little ones.

Walking and talking. LOL Do you still have your little blog going on?

Thanks SD... I feel really important now.:)

Oh I like that I don't have neighbors on one side...then we can set up the stage on that side of the house for my husband to rock it on his guitar while I sing and dance. We are very noisy people!

Awesome! Welcome to the forum.

Thank you Palerider. I love creating! Not to take away from this post....but, if anyone has anything they would like me to create for them with their photos send me a PM and let me know what you would like.

Bini... I use Paint Shop Pro, Poser, DAZ, and a few other programs. I wanted to go with Photoshop...but, it's to expensive or at least compared to PSP it is. Plus all my lessons were create in PSP...would hate to change over now.

I love to bake too...but, right now we are living in our travel trailer because my husband is traveling for work. The oven in the trailer is small and the counter space tiny...so, it just isn't as enjoyable for me to cook as it is when I am home. My favorite to bake is apple pie..although I don't eat sweets myself, I love making them for other people.

I think when we go on date night and we have our popcorn and diet Pepsi (Coke yuck)... I will enjoy more now. I only drink it maybe once a month and just a small one, so I don't think it will hurt my body to much. Other than that little bit of diet Pepsi I consume, I don't eat or drink anything bad. Like.. I don't eat sugars (cake, cookies, pies etc. and never drink any alcohol). My favorite drink is actually carbonated water with lemon... seltzer water but there is only one movie theater that I have found that has that as a drink. Thanks for all of your replies.

My main hobby is... I own a graphics forum where I teach people to create images, draw with their mouse, digitally paint, pixel, and vector draw. That takes up a lot of my time. I created this yesterday. Someone gave me flowers and said do something with them. So...this is what I did. The poser girl is one I created. This is an image that I misted and manipulated using Paint Shop Pro program. It's me at the Manti Temple when my husband and I were sealed. I also enjoy reading. I don't watch television, but do enjoy going to the movies with my husband. I love spending time with family...but, we are all pretty scattered around so it's hard to visit. So...that's part of my life. Angel

I remember years ago... like 42 years ago when I was baptized we used to have dime-a-dip dinners at Church. Someone always made homemade root beer. I was always told we were not allowed to drink cola drinks so that's why we had the root beer. But, the other day when I was reading through some posts in this forum, I noticed someone said something like, "and some people still think we can't drink coke". It wasn't those exact words...but, something like that. (Can't find that post now). Anyway... so for 42 years I always thought cola was a NO NO and we could really only drink root beer or things without caffeine. One day while we were having a Christmas party in RS, the RS President gave her Counselor a Dr. Pepper for a present...they said it was her favorite. I was shocked because I thought Dr. Pepper was a cola drink too. So... my question is, are cola drinks a YES or a NO? And, just so you know... yes, I drink Pepsi once in a while but always felt guilty drinking it. But, it taste delicious when we go to the movies and have popcorn. Root beer just doesn't have the kind of taste with popcorn. Thanks in advance for your responds. Angel

Well... mine says, "I love my husband". That's what it shows in my own graphics forum. But, since I can't upload it here... I still love my husband, but that remains to be seen when this forum gets the new software for uploading graphics.

Here is an exact quote from my son two nights ago: "Are you kidding. Hannah got busted for shop lifting tonight. MOM, stop with the curse. I know how disappointed you were. I am so sorry." Now the funny thing about this is... I have NEVER said those words to my son. I have no idea where he got the idea that I ever told him... "I hope when you have children, they do the same bad things you did". But, that's what he was meaning with his text to me. My response to him was... "Awe son... Life is so full of learning experiences. Isn't it wonderful. LOL" Kids! (He's 42 years old) haha Now the curse in my family for the girls is... You look just like your mother. That was fine until one day I looked in the mirror and saw some sags and bags and what have you.... and I thought, "OH NOOOOOO, I look just like my mother!"