This weekend marks the beginning of summer for our state. Schools are out (or soon will be) for the season and vacations have begun.
Summer camps are starting for many different groups, from boy/girl scouts, football, cheerleading and many church groups. It is a time for making new friends and renewing last years friendships. New ideas will develop at just a hint of suggestion from a new found friend or someone you admire.
Whether you are vacationing with family and friends or camping with your favorite group use good judgment.
- Don't be fooled by the actions and talk of someone new just because they look and sound cool
- Don't let someone talk you into to doing anything that you know is wrong
- Be friendly
- Remember who your friends are
- Trust your family and friends rather than a stranger
- Remember your manners
- Remember your safety rules
But most of all - HAVE FUN this summer and please all you guys - STAY SAFE!
Belle
Puberty is . . .
- realizing you smell sweaty and not so good anymore
- wishing your hair looked different
- not understanding why Dad no longer makes sense
- feeling funky and not knowing why
- looking at girls/boys in a way you never did before
- changing your interest
- finding hair under your arms and on your legs
- wanting to be alone sometimes, just to think
- finding out your brother/sister is silly and gets on your nerves
- your body feels funny
- realizing your Mom doesn't know you
- wanting to be with your friends more than you want to be with your family
- wanting to dress different
- wanting to be more like your friends, instead of just being you
- feeling scared because you don't know you anymore
Oh and what about
- zits
- dirty fingernails (didn't matter before)
Why is growing up so hard to do?
Celebrate today in honor of your Mother. Yes, she can make you mad. Yes, she can be unreasonable. Yes, she gave birth to you. Yes, she provides food and clothing and a warm hug when you are feeling down. Yes, she keeps you safe. Yes, she makes you bathe. Yes, she makes you clean your room. Yes, she spends time with you instead of her friends. Yes, she tells you no. Yes, she helps you learn.
She does all of those things because she loves you.
Do you look for all the good things your Mother means to you or do you only look for the things about your Mother that you don't like? Be fair. Being a Mother is the toughest job on this earth. Just like God molds us into what he wants us to be, so a Mother shapes us.
Be positive. Be understanding. Be loving, but also be loveable.
Happy reading!
Belle
Okay all you cowboys, princesses, baseball players and ballerinas, the question for the day is "What do you do when it is pouring rain outside and you are stuck inside?"
My favorites in their order of preference -
with friends
Scrabble
Monopoly
Trivia
Clue
Yahtzee
alone
Watch a good movie
Solitaire - 3 different forms
Coloring
Writing
Sorry, I wasn't raised in the play station/game boy/ds era. I guess that would be a lot more fun, but the only game I know is Tetris.
