Winnie G

Hi Style, I have been were you are at many years ago. I was 18 when I joined 1977. Like you I just happen to run across two elders and thought maybe I should give it a 2nd chance? 1984. Now I have a calling as a ward missionary. I will give you the advice I give to all those wanting to give it a go again. Call the elders and ask them to teach you the discursions. This not only builds the good foundation for you but also gives the elders a chance to teach and grow with you. Ask if they can come to your home or the home of a member willing to share their time with you. This is the way to go a fresh start. When my boyfriend /husband investigated the church he took the discursions at a church members house, friends of mine. He felt less presser then if it had been at my apartment. That was the third time I witnessed and participated in this learning opportunity. I learned more the 2nd and third time the first. I understood more and found a stronger faithful commitment fallowed. Make the call, write me if you like, I will answer any questions you might have.

You would think the Ap of all peaple could get it right not just a passing look, it is not like the Church has not put it out there for them to see, One call one visit to the LDS web site and they still do a half #@! job of it. More good will come of this then bad even if Romney failes at his bide for the white house.

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“better behaved at other people's houses” LOL of course they are their kids, Mine did the same thing. The odd thing about me is that when I go over to a friends house who is raising the next generation felons her boys behave better the minute I walk though the door. These kids know what is expected when Im around yet act like serial killers to their parents. I have never watched this children at any time but my youngest son has watched them because none else will. His experience was one of letting them beat the hack out of each other to their surprise. After that they were angle to him.

Amen Heather And Choices, how will they ever learn if not given choices and accept responsibility that comes with them.

I have been a ward missionary for the past 7 years, I dont mind it. Im good at it so I like that calling. I never judge a calling on weather I like it or fear it till I have had it. Ones I loved have been RS, young women pres, sunday school teacher and Seminanry. Ones I have had and hated / fear of getting again are. nursery and Cub leader. I rather pock out my eyes with a stick!

When my children were small I was given the best parenting method and it is the biggest mistake parents don’t use to this day. Act like you have springs on your bum and get up and do something about it! Don’t say your going to do something and not act on it. I learned that counting to three and moving aggressively fast by two made my children stop what they were doing and moving out of my way faster then any useless threat I watched my friends make. To this day at the ages of 30- 22 if I start counting boy do they move! None of my children ever remember me hitting them in any way. I am sure I have done it, that’s what was done in those days but I must have not done it very much if none of can remember me doing it. I did and still do have what my kids call a hicky smacking spoon. (Wooden spoon) They have seen me use it but never on them. If you came in to my home with a hicky whether you were my teenager / adult child you got it! I cornered a friend’s teenage son once in my dinning room for his girlfriends hicky. He later called his mother to complain that I beat him with a wooden spoon, his mother laughed so load he hung up on her. To this day my children tell their friends about their mothers vicious attack’s on their friends. My children have never been so dumb as to give hickys or receive them. I told them it was a matter of respect for the persons involved. So get off you bums and do something!

Ok my first one is put the set down that is a deal braker.

Well done guys your so cool

I joind 1977 when the meetings were nuts through out the week, it was hard. I loved the change, I agree they barly make it through Sacrament meeting as it is.

Its been like a Tomb in here

I have been on this site for years no booggie man has jumped me yet LOL I been Ok sorry I have been OK

whats all the new stuff Im lost were is all old posts it seems like all locked porn posts. we need new fresh posts !

Thank you all very much. I printed off drjme post and gave it to my husband he was touched by the advice. As far as my granddaughters go, they now live with their mother and boyfriend five hours from here. Their father just one day this November called my daughter up and asked if she could afford to keep the girls and told her to keep them. They were visiting at the time. From what I am hearing from my daughter and granddaughters they are very happy. They call me every night to say good night and tell me how much they love Papa (Newfoundland way of saying grandpa) and I. Last night the phone rang and it was my eldest granddaughter (4) her mother showed her how to dial the phone to call me. It was a real treat to hear her voice when I said hello. As far as the boyfriend goes he seems to be doing his best to win us over. He has a long way to do that. My old son-in-law only wrote me when I e-mailed him to ask what was going on?????? and why? He wrote back “leave me alone”. Nothing more nothing less. One of my eldest sons works for the same company he dose and he told me he was asked to reach his brother-in-law to tell him to pick up his final check. (Different departments) He was told he was not fired he just walked off the job. The only thing that makes since is he made a choice over his new girlfriend or his daughters. How sad is that? On a high note we are picking up our granddaughters on Boxing Day and keeping them for a week. My daughter told us that we were welcome to have them any time when we want them. My mother’s lung cancer has reached her brain now so she knows little that it is me on the phone. She has not liked me much, loved yes like never. So after a conversing with my aunt and brother they know I will not be coming until my mothers ashes are buried back in Michigan next summer. My aunt in her wisdom know before I had to say anything, “Don’t come Winnie she will just ask you to leave two days after you arrive”. All my visits have been the same. I don’t have any intention of making any new years resolutions. Last year I chose to read every months Ensign that is and was a good and achievable resolution. But this year I just want to live every day and hope some time this year I can get every thing unpacked, fence up and grass grown. That in its self will be enough. I visited the family doctor today and took all the pills the three doctors have me on and lined them up on his desk and said “OK this is a bit much” ! I’m depressed sick to my stomach and a snail moves faster then me. ??? He cut back on one added another and is weaning me off one pill to add a stronger one. He is also meeting with the other two specialists to coordinate my care. Thank goodness for Canadian heath care and our drug plane. We are spending Christmas with my sons family in Calgary with his in-laws. Their Philipino and love our son as their own. Their wonderful. We have been thinking we are going to be told we will be expecting a new grandchild this year to add to our Christmas. But that might be just our hope. Drjme after I read your post I did as you said and I want you to know I am half way though my granddaughters quilt I started and could not seem to finish. I told you guys I had a new granddaughter didn’t I? She was born when I was in Oregon caring for my sister. I hope to have it ready to bind by tomorrow. Then Ill just have the last coat of varnish to put on the doll houses my husband built for them and Ill have most of what goals I did set done for Christmas done. I have decided to pick one thing a day, one closet one floor and so on. I will try to post each day, I’m sorry I have not done much but I felt I had nothing worth posting. Keep you good advice coming I “WILL” put them in to practice.

drjme Thank you for you ideas, I was awakened by my little dog for her early morning run and have decided since reading your post to take this time to stay up in a quite house and do what you suggest. I also did some RX research on like and found out all the pills I take along with the Vitamins are cancelling out each other, that could not have been good all this time, so being up early weather I like it or not only gives me a chance to take the med's and Vitamins at different times but can also give me time to do as you suggested.

did we not just do this? i know I posted it????

I would like to ask those of you that have struggled with tuff times that have left you wondering “is it just a chemical depression due to health issues and life just really sucking”? No not Christmas blues by the way. Have you sunk so low that every day life is a struggle I would like to know what you did to lift your self up and carry on with life? I have not been around much to post mostly because I have had little to post that was not dark. Those of you that know me enough know this year has been a year of struggle. It has been one lost loved ones that left a hole in my hart that seems to fail to heal. To add to that my mother will be gone by the New Year. Little bit by little it seems that the family is shrinking in size and love for each other. For all I know they could be feeling as lousy as I have been. I have also been in the hospital with angina twice and been diagnosed as a diabetic with crohn’s disease. Needless to say I am no longer working that new job I just started in the fall after my sisters passing. To top it off I find it’s funny when I hear people say they can’t wait for their kids to grow up and leave home like their job will be done. Right….. I worry about my grown children now more then I did when they lived at home. At lest at home you had some control over their lives. As adults your kids put you in the bleachers and leave you to watch them bash their way though life. There has been time I just want to yell at them “Your killing me you know that”?! My doctors have me on just about every pill they can give me including anti depressants. I have added mega doses of vitamins hoping it will give me some energy so I get up in the morning. I cant seem to even find the energy to attend church and find little joy in getting ready for Christmas. Reading the scriptures prayer seems useless. So your input would be help.

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I did the talk I posted it if you wan to read it. There is not that much out there on that one point, but I think its one of the best Ive written I am going early to use the photo copier I plan on talking to the bishop I'm packing in cubs.

I live in a small ward maybe 50 family's on a good Sunday. I started a talk but it seems to hold little but the history of the articles them selfs. backing out of this calling seems so selfish and I have never done it before but at this time in my life I need to be selfish or should I? I guess I should also add I been told I have chronic colitis and just started treatment for the chronic pain and the systems that go with it, I also hurt my back caring for my sister last May and have lost the feeling in my toes and are under the care of a therapist to avoid surgery. life seems to hard right now.

Ok heres the deal, I'm tired I'm up to my butt in unpacked boxes I have cubs starting my sister passed on two weeks ago so you could say I am depressed and now I am given a week to give a talk in church on the 6th article of faith. I like to tell the whole world to bug off yes even my bishop who by the way is my home teacher and no he has show little comfort towards the zoo I seem to be living in. I was up crying till 2 AM taking it out on my husband. So my question is how do I graceful say I need time out leave me alone and send the cubs packing.

On September 11th I was working from home when a childhood friend of my daughters MSN me and said “It’s awful what’s happening in NY” I said what’s happening? She told me to turn on the TV. Just as I tuned in the second plane hit. I know life as we know it changed. With in a few moments the phone rang and my husband said “I need you to put my kit (army) on the back porch I won’t have time to talk to you, I love you”. I did what he asked in a fog not watching for him to pick it up. Like every one else I sat in front of the TV until late in the afternoon. I then shut it off and started to make dinner. One of my older sons turned it back on came in to the kitchen and told me to come back in and watch there was something on TV. I told him no he yelled at me that this could change what his father was doing did I not want to watch? I told him I was doing what his father would want me to do make dinner! It was not till that Sunday when I walked in to the chapel and saw two flags on the stand US and Canadian. I felt my knees weaken I spent the meeting under my husbands arm. I wept. I still cant watch news from that day, and planes never looked the same since.

Today I feel like a cat in a fan belt,

You would not believe what happened today, the builder we will call him dumb Al showed up with two vent covers they missed and asked "So is every thing OK"? my hubby just smiled and said Winnie needs to chat with you Ill have her call you she in the tub. I was but he is a chicken, well maybe not a chicken it would have been safer for dumb Al to talk to me and not my hubby he might end up in a cast if he talked to my hubby the way he talked to me. So I called and told him the laundry room witch is a custom request from us to be on the first floor by the way is one foot too small and we now have to buy new. he hung up and said "I'm coming over"! Oh by the way did I fail to say he lives kitty corner across from us? he came over and pulled out his tap memasseurnd memessered "Your right! "Of course I'm right I'm a women appliances are a womens thing." he told me we appovied the planes I looked at him and said really so a master builder cant make a laundry room for standard size appliances? he left and now the lawyer is handling it. being so close to us is not a good thing my grown children are talking already of putting a bannana up his tail pipe every time they visit.

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