Words Parents should speak to their Children

I was reading this great article and the writer feels that there are seven phrases or words that Parents must speak to their children to help them be who God wants them to be. They are:

1. I believe in you
2. You can count on me
3. I treasure you
4. I'm sorry, please forgive me
5. Because
6. No
7. I love you

Sometimes when you are a parent you get caught up in what needs to get done rather than taking the time to focus on one of your greatest responsibilities and mission in life, which is raising your children the way God wants you to. Time goes so fast and your children will be grow before you blink twice. Make sure your children know you and you know them and that they hear those 7 little phrases listed above. Peace and Joy, Miss Kathy

Cleaning Day!!!

ok, so the time has finally come to really get the apartment finally fixed up. After living here over 8 months I guess it is time to take out the boxes from moving....I've been busy......and everything else is a lot more fun and interesting than cleaning house....My boys and their families are coming down for Mothers Day and also to celebrate my favorite son-in-laws graduation from Harding with his MBA...way to go Josh. Since they are coming they are going to need a place to sleep so there in lies the main reason for cleaning up....I have been very busy this week getting everything ready for the new rotation study in PLUGG. We have added 2 new groups, a light purple and a retro black and white group. That makes 10 groups of kids going to the workshops now. Hopefully since we added 2 more groups the numbers in each group will be more manageable. But since we have new groups all the groups had to be re-grouped and new name tags made etc. so I am about cross-eyed from working on the computer all day and half the night. But it is done and everything is ready for Sunday. I love having the problem of having to make more groups because of more children coming...those kind of problems are blessings. yeah kids and yeah parents for bringing your kids to PLUGG. I am going to take pictures Sunday during PLUGG and post on PV's website. just click on children's ministry and it will take you to the kids site. Blessings

Today I was invited to lunch with some really sweet ladies to celebrate Miss. Tina's birthday. We ate at Capers and it was so nice. Thanks for including me Ladies..

Tonight was a fun evening. One of the youth ministers at Church received his Masters degree and his sweet little wife gave him a party. There were a lot of people who came by to wish Steven the best and it was really a nice time. It was so neat to see so many from the Church drop by and visit it was very obvious that Steven is certainly loved by PV. Way to go Steven.

Look what I did!!!

This is my sweet sister, Karen. Don't we look alike?? Karen has always been there for me no matter what...She is a wonderful big sister and a wonderful Christian Woman.

Several weeks ago I got to go visit my son and his family. They have just moved to the same city that my sister and her family live in. While I was there my sister, Karen, and her daughter Becky along with Becky's daughter Aliese and I took Haleigh to a really cute tea room and we had such fun. This is a picture of Haleigh trying a scone. She wasn't so sure about it but since Grammy wanted her to try it, she did. She is so sweet and so very special to me.