Oh so many thoughts running through my head, with nothing in particular to say I thought I would just share my thoughts, my happenings and all that la dee da stuff.
*Ok, this weekend. Friday tended for a couple hours that was fun we went to the park and hid in bushes. Why were we in bushes? because we were hiding from "bad guys." No worries we got rid of them, just threw a bunch of bombs at them (pinecones.)
I then went to the mall for a bit to unsuccesful shop hmmmm. I then went and picked up this great gal Jozel so we could go to Wal Mart and pick up a card for another great gal going on a mission. Awesome enough we ran into my sister, brother in law and niece!!! That was great! I love seeing familiar people in unfamiliar places! and also I just love seeing people I LOVE!
Jozel and I then proceeded or are missionary friends farewell party (maybe a little/lot late). After that a bunch of us went to a stake dance, we only got to about an hour of that because we were late. Which I am totally fine with because my dancings skills are NOT skills they are more like a freaky nightmare or maybe a comedy a pathetic comedy. It was still fun though, I know how to be a good sport! I got home at around two AM, grabbed my purse upside down so all the contents fell out. The hard thing about this situation is that I don't have lights in the car so I had to feel around in the dark. This sorta got me freaked out.
*Ok, friday nights events were very fun!! Saturday was more relaxed I just stayed home. I then went to a relief society service project and dinner with my sister. Then we listened to the relief society broadcast. So So nice!!! The choir was excellent, I felt the spirit so stronly through the music. My favorite speaker was Elder Uchdorf, he gave a wonderful talk on five very important steps. I don't remember each step so I won't tell you what they are. But he talked about the flowers "Forget me Nots" he used them as a metaphor throughout his talk. One of my favorite things he talked about was enjoying the "now" He talked about making the wait for our Golden ticket (Willy Wonka reference) an enjoyable one. He talked about not being grudging if you don't get exactly what you want, if your ideals weren't perfect. Overall a good Saturday!!
I am so glad it was a busy weekend! I love being busy. But I also enjoy a quiet moment or two, like part of the day today was mellow. It gave me time to gather my thoughts and take a moment to myself. I think it is important to be busy and know what your boundaries are and when to take a rest!!! I am getting to that point pretty quick here!! I had a late night, and an early morning, and a busy week!
Goodnight!
Oh to be such a lady!
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Best Friends!!
Best friends are a wonderful thing! They are so much fun and you can build such great memories with them!! As time changes people change and so do situations. A lot of my best friends have gotten married, or I no longer live near them, but they are still so important to me. I wish nothing but the best for them! And I love hearing what they are up to!! Of course I love hearing from all people! But I especially love hearing from those that I have built a great foundation of friendship with.
I love when I am with my best friends. I love laughing with them, and doing crazy fun things you only do around the people you are most comfortable with. I love inside jokes. I also love and am so grateful for the fact that me and my friends urge eachother to be better. Thats what a friend is, somone who encourages you to reach your full potential. I feel like I am a better person because of the great influences of my friends. I am so glad that I have had friends to talk to and go to when I needed help. I love having friends that you hang out with all the time, even when you just go on errands or are studying. Somehow you can make things enjoyable because you enjoy your time together.
I have been thinking about that a lot lately. Being a new place you tend to really miss people who have been in your life. I miss hanging out with my friends late at night into the early morning. I miss the kind of friends that can sit and watch a movie with you and quote it. I miss the kind of friends that when they haven't seen you even just a couple days call and text you to hang out or to check up on you. I miss having best friends nearby. Or I guess I miss being near my best friends.
Seeing other people with their best friends can make me feel pretty lonely. Its hard jumping into a new situation and making new best friends. Heck it is sometimes hart just making friends!! its scary to invite people to hang out to strike up the conversation. You risk the possibility of rejection, but you also give yourself the oppertunity to make some wonderful friends!!!
We are so blessed to have friends on this earth. We all need good friends, best friends. Everyone needs those special in people in life for support. Not only for support but for fun times and good memories! I hope everyone tries to be friends with everyone. Give people a chance, if you don't you may be missing out on something very special.
I love when I am with my best friends. I love laughing with them, and doing crazy fun things you only do around the people you are most comfortable with. I love inside jokes. I also love and am so grateful for the fact that me and my friends urge eachother to be better. Thats what a friend is, somone who encourages you to reach your full potential. I feel like I am a better person because of the great influences of my friends. I am so glad that I have had friends to talk to and go to when I needed help. I love having friends that you hang out with all the time, even when you just go on errands or are studying. Somehow you can make things enjoyable because you enjoy your time together.
I have been thinking about that a lot lately. Being a new place you tend to really miss people who have been in your life. I miss hanging out with my friends late at night into the early morning. I miss the kind of friends that can sit and watch a movie with you and quote it. I miss the kind of friends that when they haven't seen you even just a couple days call and text you to hang out or to check up on you. I miss having best friends nearby. Or I guess I miss being near my best friends.
Seeing other people with their best friends can make me feel pretty lonely. Its hard jumping into a new situation and making new best friends. Heck it is sometimes hart just making friends!! its scary to invite people to hang out to strike up the conversation. You risk the possibility of rejection, but you also give yourself the oppertunity to make some wonderful friends!!!
We are so blessed to have friends on this earth. We all need good friends, best friends. Everyone needs those special in people in life for support. Not only for support but for fun times and good memories! I hope everyone tries to be friends with everyone. Give people a chance, if you don't you may be missing out on something very special.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
School!!
Last week was my first week of school. It was also the least stressful week of school I have ever had. I normally take 15 credits and work part time. This semester is 5 credits online and partime job. I was going to USU and now I am going to BYU online (yes I am a "betrayer"). I am really excited about this semester, because... 1. it will be easier then normal (I think) 2. It was deffinately cheaper! 3. BYU basis so much of its education around the Gospel!! Isn't that wonderful? to learn through the gospel!!
This week one of the assignments was reading some chapters by Henry B. Eyring (who I am related to). It was about gaining a "higher education" and about the competitive world we live in. It was kind of a scary read! It made me realize how hard I have to work to be successful in my education and career!! I have a hard time in school so for me to be successful I am gonna have to live and breath school, once I start taking more credits again! This weeks I have done alright and hopefully I will keep my grades better and better!
I think this BYU program is one of the main reasons I need to be here. I know Heavenly Father wants me to get all the education I can. I was having a hard time in USU and not being as succesful as I would like. I think this new school and new start will bring up my motivation again. I know I was beginning to loose and about ready to give up. I hope I will keep having this desire and I don't get burnt out again!!!
Heavenly Father presents us with so many oppertunities, and He provides us with ways to learn and grow. I sometimes have a hard time recognizing the things though. I hope I get better at noticing those things, at being spiritually prepared and aware. I want to be able to feel the Holy Ghost and my Saviors love much more then I have been.
I am so grateful for the oppertunity He has presented me with in this school. I feel like this school will be a great and better way for me personally to get my education. I have been struggling to much in school and it has been so frusterating!! I really hope I can do better. I have been trying so hard in the past to do good in school, and without success. Maybe with a new approach I can do better. I hope that I can meet the goals that I have been working on for ages that I seem to not be able to reach.
This is going to be an interesting semester!! Wish me luck!!!
This week one of the assignments was reading some chapters by Henry B. Eyring (who I am related to). It was about gaining a "higher education" and about the competitive world we live in. It was kind of a scary read! It made me realize how hard I have to work to be successful in my education and career!! I have a hard time in school so for me to be successful I am gonna have to live and breath school, once I start taking more credits again! This weeks I have done alright and hopefully I will keep my grades better and better!
I think this BYU program is one of the main reasons I need to be here. I know Heavenly Father wants me to get all the education I can. I was having a hard time in USU and not being as succesful as I would like. I think this new school and new start will bring up my motivation again. I know I was beginning to loose and about ready to give up. I hope I will keep having this desire and I don't get burnt out again!!!
Heavenly Father presents us with so many oppertunities, and He provides us with ways to learn and grow. I sometimes have a hard time recognizing the things though. I hope I get better at noticing those things, at being spiritually prepared and aware. I want to be able to feel the Holy Ghost and my Saviors love much more then I have been.
I am so grateful for the oppertunity He has presented me with in this school. I feel like this school will be a great and better way for me personally to get my education. I have been struggling to much in school and it has been so frusterating!! I really hope I can do better. I have been trying so hard in the past to do good in school, and without success. Maybe with a new approach I can do better. I hope that I can meet the goals that I have been working on for ages that I seem to not be able to reach.
This is going to be an interesting semester!! Wish me luck!!!
Monday, September 12, 2011
You know you are a nanny when.
So tonight while I was at FHE I got a voicemail. This voicemail was a sweet little mom asking about her sons poo today. YES his poo, he has been having allergies, so they cut milk out to see if that was the reason for his upset stomache. So she gave me a call asking me how her sons diaper was. Yep that is how my voicemails tend to be. (If you are groessed out by this sorry, I am groessed out changing diapers I just deal with it.) You deffinately know when you tend to much when you get voicemails from mothers asking how their sons bowel movements were.
You also know your a nanny when.... You have stuffed animals and toys in your bed you trip on toys going up the stairs. And you can't go to the restroom without the question of "what are you doing in there?" You loose your voice from reading books out loud. Your attention span starts getting as short as the kids you care for. The question you answer most is the good ole question "why" (goodness I am so sick of that question).
The most common phrases you hear are things like this.....
* "your mean"
*"can I sit on your lap?"
*"can you help me with homework?" (this can happen at anytime even at 6:30 AM)
*"when I grow up"
*"when I was a baby"
*"can you button my pants"
*"can you take me to the park"
* "Hold my hand"
* "I am scared can I sleep in your bed?"
Be warned future nannies out there!! Haha just kidding!!
caring for children is a wonderful thing, I feel so much better prepared for when I am a mom. I feel like I have learned patience, and understanding. I love being needed and giving others what they can't give themselves yet. I love getting to know the kid and finding out his/her personality, and what works best for them. I love teaching, and seeing a child finally learn something!! ( way too adorable how excited they can get).
I love that I am relearning to forgive as a child does. I am grateful that I am learning to slow down and listen to others concerns. I love that when I am sleepy its ok if I say dumb things because kids don't need to have an intelligent conversation with me (thank goodness for that). I am so grateful the Scriptures teach us to become as little children. They teach me things everyday!!! Today while tending some kids the four year old bit the three year old HARD!!! and she came to me for some comfort. . But this sweet little girl forgave him!! she just hugged him and said it was ok. While she was a little more cautious around him, she had no harsh feelings. I love these lessons we learn!!!!
Todays lesson and goal is to work on forgiveness!!! Christ atoned for ALL our sins!!! He made it possible for us to repent for what we did and improve. He did this for me and EVERYONE!!! Children are so good at accepting and forgiving. We can all follow their example in this! We are all imperfect. So we all should be able to be quickly to forgive, and understand that we all make mistakes!!!! (This is easier said then done I know) But don't you love that??? thinking we all have our own issues to improve!!! It makes life interesting, it gives us character. It helps us learn to be sympathetic, and confident. Confidence comes from hard work and improvement I think.
Of course everything I say is my opinion. I am not sure who will read this, but I like putting these thoughts down for me to look back on and remember.
Love Clancy
You also know your a nanny when.... You have stuffed animals and toys in your bed you trip on toys going up the stairs. And you can't go to the restroom without the question of "what are you doing in there?" You loose your voice from reading books out loud. Your attention span starts getting as short as the kids you care for. The question you answer most is the good ole question "why" (goodness I am so sick of that question).
The most common phrases you hear are things like this.....
* "your mean"
*"can I sit on your lap?"
*"can you help me with homework?" (this can happen at anytime even at 6:30 AM)
*"when I grow up"
*"when I was a baby"
*"can you button my pants"
*"can you take me to the park"
* "Hold my hand"
* "I am scared can I sleep in your bed?"
Be warned future nannies out there!! Haha just kidding!!
caring for children is a wonderful thing, I feel so much better prepared for when I am a mom. I feel like I have learned patience, and understanding. I love being needed and giving others what they can't give themselves yet. I love getting to know the kid and finding out his/her personality, and what works best for them. I love teaching, and seeing a child finally learn something!! ( way too adorable how excited they can get).
I love that I am relearning to forgive as a child does. I am grateful that I am learning to slow down and listen to others concerns. I love that when I am sleepy its ok if I say dumb things because kids don't need to have an intelligent conversation with me (thank goodness for that). I am so grateful the Scriptures teach us to become as little children. They teach me things everyday!!! Today while tending some kids the four year old bit the three year old HARD!!! and she came to me for some comfort. . But this sweet little girl forgave him!! she just hugged him and said it was ok. While she was a little more cautious around him, she had no harsh feelings. I love these lessons we learn!!!!
Todays lesson and goal is to work on forgiveness!!! Christ atoned for ALL our sins!!! He made it possible for us to repent for what we did and improve. He did this for me and EVERYONE!!! Children are so good at accepting and forgiving. We can all follow their example in this! We are all imperfect. So we all should be able to be quickly to forgive, and understand that we all make mistakes!!!! (This is easier said then done I know) But don't you love that??? thinking we all have our own issues to improve!!! It makes life interesting, it gives us character. It helps us learn to be sympathetic, and confident. Confidence comes from hard work and improvement I think.
Of course everything I say is my opinion. I am not sure who will read this, but I like putting these thoughts down for me to look back on and remember.
Love Clancy
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Lessons from going to the park
I have been learning a lot lately about picking your battles with children. When to be stubborn, when to teach, when to let a child go off and just learn from an experience. The other day I was walking to take the two little boys I nanny to the park (Nathan age 4 and Josh age 6). They asked me a if they could climb up and down a big hill. My first instincts was NO WAY I don't want to "deal" with the hassle of managing how many times, and then fighting with them when they were to be done. Last time they had asked this I said now and they had a big fit , that turned into the threat of "I will never take you to the park in this behavior" and tears from them. So this time I thought "hmmmmm maybe if I just relax and take fifteen minutes extra to let them explore it will be easier" . I am glad I had this thought because it was!!! they climbed up and down the hill a few times, (I gave them a certain amount of times they could do this). and then we left. NO tears NO threats, and GOOD happy boys!!!
This made me think about life aswell. How in life sometimes we tend to make a battle or a drama, or put in the victim card. A lot of things that happen in our lives are, our choices. Sometimes we need to just sit back relax , and not make something more then it is. Life is to be enjoyed, it is for learning and growing. Life is also HARD why on earth would we want to make the choice and cause the drama and make it harder?? I remember hearing Gordon B. Hinkley talking about how we are supposed to be a happy people. I truely believe this. I also believe that we should shape our lives around helping other people and supporting them in their decisions to be happy. As I said life is hard, everyone needs love and support and we need to give it to them! As a nanny I find that being a positive rewarder is better then being a negative punisher. The kids tend to be happier and more independent in themselves.
Its amazing how life teaches us and how we can have moments to think and remember whats importants. Even if the reminder is letting a child climb up and down a hill!!! Life is really an interesting thing! I hope I will always learn and find lessons in life. I want to be the best I can be when I leave this earth!!
Clancy
This made me think about life aswell. How in life sometimes we tend to make a battle or a drama, or put in the victim card. A lot of things that happen in our lives are, our choices. Sometimes we need to just sit back relax , and not make something more then it is. Life is to be enjoyed, it is for learning and growing. Life is also HARD why on earth would we want to make the choice and cause the drama and make it harder?? I remember hearing Gordon B. Hinkley talking about how we are supposed to be a happy people. I truely believe this. I also believe that we should shape our lives around helping other people and supporting them in their decisions to be happy. As I said life is hard, everyone needs love and support and we need to give it to them! As a nanny I find that being a positive rewarder is better then being a negative punisher. The kids tend to be happier and more independent in themselves.
Its amazing how life teaches us and how we can have moments to think and remember whats importants. Even if the reminder is letting a child climb up and down a hill!!! Life is really an interesting thing! I hope I will always learn and find lessons in life. I want to be the best I can be when I leave this earth!!
Clancy
Friday, September 9, 2011
New Blogger
I usually keep people up to date with statuses on facebook. BUT I think that is less detail and I know some of my relatives want MORE detail. I like to write and am happy to oblige. Right now I am living in Chula Vista California. I am a part time nanny and part time student. I will be starting school on 09/12/11, I am so so stoked for this!! I haven't been to school in ages, and I am so excited to be learning and growing. This will be a great challenge to start up! and yet a simpler one because I normally go to school full time so hopefully school grades will be easier to maintain!
I was nannying in New York this spring so moving here to California has been quite a different experience. Especially because before I nannied full time and am now going only part time. I have been so blessed to be able to live and participate in two wonderful families! I hope that I am a good influence in their lives as they have been in mine.
Adjusting to new enviroments and new people is always a challenge. My biggest challenge right now is building up friendships, and a social life. But I am up for this challenge, and I hope people are open to getting to know me and are patient with me as I learn to adjust in this new place!! I have been missing my family more, then when I am usually away. I think it is because my last time with them during this summer, I saw how OLD my siblings are getting. STOP GROWING it makes me sad I want them to forever stay young and small. But then I also find that my relationship with them is stronger. I know now that we can have mature conversations , and they are some of my best friends. I am so truly grateful for my brothers and sisters and I miss them so much!!
I am sort of just babbling now, it is weird starting up a blog!! But I am excited even if no one reads this it will be my "journal" of sorts. Yep life is full of little adventures even if its just learning how to blog!
Happy day to all!!!
Clancy
I was nannying in New York this spring so moving here to California has been quite a different experience. Especially because before I nannied full time and am now going only part time. I have been so blessed to be able to live and participate in two wonderful families! I hope that I am a good influence in their lives as they have been in mine.
Adjusting to new enviroments and new people is always a challenge. My biggest challenge right now is building up friendships, and a social life. But I am up for this challenge, and I hope people are open to getting to know me and are patient with me as I learn to adjust in this new place!! I have been missing my family more, then when I am usually away. I think it is because my last time with them during this summer, I saw how OLD my siblings are getting. STOP GROWING it makes me sad I want them to forever stay young and small. But then I also find that my relationship with them is stronger. I know now that we can have mature conversations , and they are some of my best friends. I am so truly grateful for my brothers and sisters and I miss them so much!!
I am sort of just babbling now, it is weird starting up a blog!! But I am excited even if no one reads this it will be my "journal" of sorts. Yep life is full of little adventures even if its just learning how to blog!
Happy day to all!!!
Clancy
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