It's your turn to speak...
1. What is the best advice you have ever received?
2. What is the worst advice you have ever received?
I'll start:
1. Personally I have been on the end of a lot of good advice. When I graduated from high school my dad's best friend told me to remember who I was and whose I was. A friend wrote in a email a couple of years ago, "Lead on in love and imperfect walk, but sustained pursuit." My dad use to come up with a different saying each year during basketball season. One of my favorites was, "Go for it, don't hold back!"
2. Recently someone I had just met asked me if I was married and had kids. I replied with, "No, I'm single." She then went on to tell me how lucky I was because I would not have to bury my husband. Yes! Something that I can cling to when I struggle with being lonely. :) Of course this all brought on the realization that it would be up to my brothers to make my "arrangements" some day. I have a feeling I'll get the cheapest option available at the time...which reminds me I should call those boys and tell them how much I love them! Or better yet, I'll call their wives!
Your turn...
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About Me
- Jane
- First and foremost, I have been saved by the grace of God. I am blessed to be the wife of an amazing man, who manages to keep me in line. We added a little man to our family in February 2013 that seems to have truly made us a "family". With E's arrival, I have found myself asking numerous questions, questioning my decisions, and being constantly overwhelmed by it all. My goal is simple...to encourage others and maybe give a few laughs along the way. This is my journey of motherhood...along with every stinky diaper and goofy toothless grin shared along the way. Enjoy!
5 comments:
Best advice...Brad is a great advice-giver. I don't know if I could narrow it down to one thing!
Worst advice...hands down--someone told me that I could eat anything I wanted while I was pregnant and that all the weight would come off very easily after delivery. Worst advice in the history of the world, I can't believe I took it.
Hey now! Your funeral should be safe as long as you go before Stuart! You know his expensive taste. Roger, on the other hand...
Michelle
Maggie- Thanks for playing! I think it works to your advantage to have married a "great advice-giver"! Yeah, that is some bad advice...If I had been around I would have set you straight...sorry I wasn't.
Michelle- LOL. My two brothers are about as opposite as they come. But just for the record...I'm not planning on "going" any time soon. I figure I have a good 50 to 60 years left!
Jane, it was awful, I mean, it still is! I'd gotten down to 138. I was taking topamax (where's that stuff now, when I need it??) for migraines. I went off of it when I found out I was pregnant and gained about 10 pounds, putting me at a normal range. Then, I told this friend of mine, who is thin and has three kids, and she told me I could eat whatever I wanted and that it'd all fall off very easily after I delivered. I stopped excersizing and the weight just added and added! It was very difficult to get off, too. I got down to 165 before getting pregnant with Parker and I'm still not back at 165. Ugh, such a struggle. It's a lot harder, for me anyway, to get the motivation to excersize with two now.
Wow, okay! I'll shut up now.
Mags- When I got back from China I was doing well with the weight thing, but over the last couple of years it's been a struggle. I have taken off a good bit in the last couple of months, but still have a ways to go. If you were around here or if I was around there we could get together and jog every once in a while.
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