Parenting

Hello!!
so i'm totally not a parent - but i have great parents who love me and have raised me extremely well :) and i have questions about how OTHER parents raise their children. so here's a "teenager's" take on parenting.

1. why the crap can't they jump in puddles and get muddy and get paint all over their faces? ya, you have to wash them up, and maybe you don't feel like it but for real?!?!?!! kids are messy. and who could tell me to my face that they don't wish they could roll around on the ground in mud and eat bugs and get away w/ it?! maybe that's just me.

2. Why are you always the one cleaning up their crap after asking them 234567 thousand times to do it themselves? PFT. punish them!!! "you are sitting in your chair at the table until you tell me you're cleaning up your toys. they are not mine, i did not make the mess- i am not cleaning them up. you tell me when you're ready." then don't reward them w/ ice cream or a new dress. they're reward is not sitting in a hard un-comfy kitchen chair for another hour. maybe i'm an awful person. but heck- i'm not cleaning up a huge nasty mess that i didn't make when i feed, bathe, love on, provide for, and buy those mess-making toys for the kid. not my job.
don't wanna vacuum the kitchen? you can eat your dinner off that dirty floor. a little dirt never hurt. (at this point i'm thinkin like 7-13 yr-old. not infant / toddler) do that, then tell me it's fine and doesn't need vacuuming.
boom roasted.

3. you don't wanna eat your peas?! sit there till you do. when i was a kid i spent hours at the dinner table- no joke. my momma put me there and let me scream for 10 min until i stopped and and then she left me and i sat there for 3 hours until i ate whatever it was. one time i sat there till bed time. went to bed- then sat there the next morning. yep. my momma's awesome!!!!!!

4. No, it doesn't make you a bad parent if your kid runs into a hotel room and screams "hooommmmeee!!!!" or the only way you can make them happy at 3 am is a rice krispy treat and cartoons, or you spank them cuz you've just had enough of telling them no over and over and over and your patience is gone. it's OK. anyone worth listening to (advice on parenting -wise) will tell you the same- if that's what it takes to get your point across, or get them to stop crying, or make them happy, or get a smile out of a tear-streaked face; then that's what you should be doing.

there's really no point to this, and i have no wise words about parenting to share. but that is a brief "glimpse" of what i think. lol.
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 -Rae

PS! check out my friends blog!
"laughlivedream.com"

Love Song

This is a song by Audery Assad. She's my new discovery :) i loove her. check 'er out on Youtube 
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You could plant me like a tree beside a river
You could tangle me in soil and let my roots run wild
And I would blossom like a flower in the desert
But for now just let me cry

You could raise me like a banner in a battle
Put victory like a fire behind my shining eyes
And I would drift like falling snow over the embers
But for now just let me lie

Bind up these broken bones
Mercy bend and breathe me back to life
But not before You show me how to die

Set me like a star before the morning
Like a song that steals the darkness from a world asleep
And I'll illuminate the path You've laid before me
But for now just let me be

Bind up these broken bones
Mercy bend and breathe me back to life
But not before You show me how to die
Oh, not before You show me how to die

So let me go like a leaf upon the water
Let me brave the wild currents flowing to the sea
And I will disappear into a deeper beauty
But for now just stay with me
God, for now just stay with me


Isn't that gorgeous?

Story Time!!!

Hello!!

dunno why, but i feel like sharing a little from the Dumbo kids book. so here you go. no copyright infringement intended! lol

"don't worry, Dumbo," Timothy whispered as he curled up on Dumbo's hat brim for a good night's sleep. "We'll have you flying yet!"
When the morning sun arose, Timothy was the first to awaken. He blinked and looked up. Just above him, four old black crows sat and stared at him. "Why... why.." yawned Timothy, rubbing his eyes. "Where am I?" "You're up in our tree," snapped the crows crossly. "That's where you are." "Tree?" gasped Timothy. He looked around. Sure enough, there he was, sitting on a branch. He and Dumbo were up in a tree! The ground was far, far below. "But... but... how did we get here?" He stammered. "How!" cackled the crows. "You and that elephant just came a-flyin' up!" "Flying!" Timothy yelled. "Dumbo, Dumbo wake up! Dumbo, we're up in a tree! You FLEW here!" Slowly Dumbo opened his eyes. He glanced down. He gulped. Then he struggled to his feet. But suddenly he slipped on the smooth tree bark and fell. Down... down... down! He bounced from branch to branch, with Timothy clinging to his trunk. Plonk! They landed in a shallow pond just underneath the tree. The crows chuckled and cawed from above. Timothy scrambled up out of the water and wrung out Dumbo's tail. "Dumbo," he panted. "You can fly! If you can fly when you're asleep, you can fly when you're awake. Your ears, Dumbo, they're your fortune!" He grabbed one of Dumbo's wet ears and patted it. "You won't be a clown anymore. You'll be famous... the only flying elephant in the whole wide world!" And Timothy and Dumbo began all over again to practice flying.........

... And Dumbo traveled in a special streamlined car. But best of all, he forgave everyone who had been unkind to him, for his heart was as big as his ears.
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idn't that juss the sweetest thing ya ever did hear?! lol.

when i was blogging last night i had all these great, deep topics come to mind that we could discuss. but, being me, i didn't right them down anywhere- so i have no recollection of what the crap they were anymore. :/ i'm all upset.

random thought: "Hot and bothered" and "hot mess" are my phrases/sayings of the week. officially. maybe the month. they make me chuckle.

Have you seen the 4th Pirates of the Caribbean movie? i can't decide what i think of it. i guess it was entertaining, and worth seeing. but i'm not THAT pumped up about it! and i looove the other three. anyway-- if you haven't seen them, check 'em out! they're great.

Love!

p.s.
i hate vultures. they're awful. they look like hell birds and they freak me out.
what's a fear of yours that random and considered weird? not a fear of spiders or snakes. like a random fear. something like a fear of soap. orrrrrrrr coffee mugs.

 -Rae

My Favorite Blog

Hello!!
i wanted to rant and rave about my favorite blog for a sec. it's called "cupcakes, sprinkles and other happy things" by Jenny Simmons. she's the lead singer for a Christian band called "Addison Road" and she's fantastic. she tells the funniest stories and makes the best points, EVER. she's fantastic. I adore her :)

So i'm on a trip. I'm going to be staying with family for about a month, with no parents. i'm so excited. not only because it's a month without parents, because that's not the only reason! i'm definitely going to miss them, and it'll be weird, but i'm a pro at being without my parents. so i don't get to homesick. and i'm SO excited. It's a whole new freedom and i become a whole new person. plus, it's great practice for knowing how i naturally behave for when i'm out on my own after i'm through college. Right? maybe that's pushing it a little bit, but i'll take it. this is boring, and i apologize. most of you probably quit reading the first sentence. no one's even discovered this yet! **warning! in case i haven't already told you, or you haven't noticed, i'm not a grammar person. i spell things wrong, never capitalize the right thing, and honestly, i don't care. that's not the important thing. Yes, i know when to capitalize, how to spell, and maybe eventually it will become more of a priority for me, but at the moment i just want to share my thoughts about life and my feelings with  you. It'll be fun. So bear with me and i'll try to entertain you. the point of this is to get down to the roots of the soul, brain, and heart. not the roots of words or the origin of grammar. if that makes sense. but i'll still do my best to not overuse commas and apostrophes.)

i know i've talked about getting down to the roots, being real and honest etc etc in this post and the first one, and i haven't really done it yet- but i'll get to it. i have to go through a thoughtful process for that to happen- which does happen quite often, which is actually why i decided to start a blog. facebook statuses weren't doing the job for sharing my deepest thoughts. for some reason though, probably because satan  doesn't want me to share my spirit with you, i haven't been inspired the way i usually am. and by usual i mean like, on a daily basis. this happens a lot! so a blog is wise, in my opinion. i overanalyze and over-think every detail of everything. for example- what about us humans and our brains naturally distinguishes a sneeze as nasty? why is it gross? why is picking your nose gross, rude, or "in-proper"? who cares?! why is it gross to let a dog lick your face?!??!!? these are the deep dark questions and secrets of life that i constantly contemplate and just don't understand. what i do know is the difference between man and animal. this is so simple it's amazing.

man has a will. we can acknowledge that something is wrong or immoral and we have the will to refrain from whatever it is. on the other hand, a dog has no way to will against something. they can choose (do i want to eat or chew on a shoe?) but they don't have a will. they operate on instinct. (oh! another warning. sometimes i don't pick the right word 'cause i can't think of another one.) i think that's interesting. Why didn't God give animals a will? did they start out with one before the fall? THAT"S THE OTHER THING! Could animals talk before the fall?!??! i've alllllways wanted to know. i think they could. also, have you ever thought about what God's favorite color (or colour*S*) are? i think they're brown, green and blue. this was actually my sisters idea- but the main eye colors in humans (contacts are obviously un-included in this statement) are brown green and blue. the world mainly consists of brown (earth/ tree bark/ wood etc), green (trees, grass, leaves etc) and blue (water, the sky, etc). Ever thought about it?! why don't we have purple eyes? why don't people who worship satan have red eyes? lol. i think it'd make sense to do that.

this is really long. i'm sorry.
one last thing---- i have major A.D.D. hence the crazy spastic grouping of dumb thoughts that crossed my mind while warning you about my bad grammar and typing.
i also think you should know that i spelled grammar wrong the first time i wrote it. LOL. i think that's funny.

Time for bed!
Goodnight

 -Rae

Newbie

Hello!
I'm Rachel. I'm very, very new at the whole blogging world- so you'll have to bare with me! I'll catch up- i always do!
so here is a little bit about me: i'm a photographer! If you want to see any of my work, check out my 365project at 365project.org/stationary315. i want to make my passion my career, eventually. I plan to major in Graphic Design and minor in Photography when i get to college. Once i've got this whole blog situation figured out, i'll share some photography with you :) also, i am a Christian. i'm still growing in my faith, and i've recently realized how much of a learning process faith is!!!
some of the blogs i stay tuned into are as follows:
- http://www.jennysimmons.com/
- http://lookingforlogos.org/my-blog/

i'm a young women stumbling through my life, trying to make memories, make the decisions i won't regret, establish life long relationships, honor my father and mother, be a good, honest and fun sister and friend, become a world-renowned, super duper famous photographer/graphic designer, and honor God through thick and thin. While making sure the kitchen stays clean my doggy stays happy, and grades stay up.

I hope you enjoy my ranting and raving, questions and conclusions i have about my simple life.
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