That's MY Nitty Gritty Truth....

Oh Man, I totally forgot to publish this!!! Written Feb of 2013! There are so many thoughts running through my head right now. As I sit here and think about what to write about all I can think of is how sad my heart is right now. Nothing in life is guaranteed, days that we are blessed with, are just that... a BLESSING! Last night Violet and I had an opportunity to have "OUR" time. You see, Bill took Preston to a basketball game, the twins were in bed, and I had a NICE, MUCH NEEDED special time with MY Violet girl. We were sitting at the dinner table talking and I just felt like we were having a very adult conversation. We had many topics to talk about, but the one that we seemed to be focused on, was the BLESSING of LIFE. We prayed for many friends of ours. Mostly for our friends who just lost their sweet baby during labor. I don't know the details so I am not going to expand more on it. All I know, is that friends of ours are hurting. Which makes my heart hurt. So ...

Today I was re-reading some of my earlier Blogs and realized that I have not had an opportunity to write in a while. I have plenty of notes to myself on what I want to write about and many topics of conversations that I have on the brain but this one topic that I am thinking is weighing on me. It is one of those topics that I feel very strongly about in my own world. A conversation that is not always easy to have with someone, because as soon as one stars to talk, most people get very defensive. I was having a conversation with a friend of mine about raising a Child to RESPECT AUTHORITY. We started to talk about this and I realized at that point, that I had a lot to say and little time to say it. At that time I didn't really think about everything that is in my heart now. A lot of thoughts came to the surface when I had an opportunity to reflect on our conversation. Preston 4 - hanging with Mama at the Beach   Here's MY Nitty Gritty Truth on DEMANDING vs COMMANDING RE...