Ericksens and their Half Dozen: February 2010

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

1996?

I found this picture from a classmate, I think it is 1996, Just before I turned 16 and got married-Yikes! I didn't realize what a baby I was. When you are that young you think you can accomplish everything, which is perhaps the way it is meant to be. There is an entire world out there that needs to be tackled and it takes all the optimism and courage one can muster. How blessed I was that I ended up with a good man who was/is willing to work and that him and I are on the same page with a lot of things. It's been good.

Formal Night

I finally got these pictures from my father-in-law of the formal night from our curise. It was nice to be able to spend that time with Trevor since we never really did get to before we became parents. Such fun memories

I was among the very few who covered up. It felt good to be modest and stand for what I believe in.

I was having fun feeling like newly weds again

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

What the heck.....

So I just got done with music lessons on skype and I go upstairs to check on the rest of the kids and finish my job chart project that I have been working on, before I need to prepare dinner. And this is what I find...
3 naked boys running around
all the bedding ripped off the beds
All the toy box organizers emptied on the floor and toys everywhere.
One of those boxes used as a toilet with you know what floating in it.
All the garbage emptied everywhere, yes I need to revaccuum
oranges and orange peels strewn all over the place
clothes taken out of the drawers and closet
My job chart project scattered everywhere
(Ha, job chart-is it hopeful?)
Water and toothpaste on the floor, and it needs to be rewashed
poopy water on the micro cars-they need to be washed.
scrapbooking tape all over the carpet
ANOTHER load of laundry because of the newly soiled towels and clothes
Did I miss mentioning something? All this in an hour.
But that is three boys for you, trapped inside for going on 120 days...

Now the girls on the other hand are quietly playing with dolls

The difference between boys and girls.
Looks like I got my work cut out for me.
-and them

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"A true wife makes a man's life nobler, stronger, grander, by the omnipotence of her love; turning all the forces of manhood upward and heavenward. While she clings to him in holy confidence and loving dependence she brings out in him whatever is noble and richest in his being. She inspires him with her courage and earnestness. She beautifies his life. She softens whatever is rude and harsh in his habits or spirits. She clothes him with the gentler graces of refined and cultured manhood. While she yields to him and never disregards his lightest wish, she is really his queen, ruling his whole life and leading him onward and upward in every proper path." -JR Miller

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

"Governement big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

"The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations."

Thomas Jefferson (It's quite evident that I relish in his brilliance.)

"Gratitude is the beginning of civilty, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way."

"Hatred always fails and bitterness always destroys. Are there virtues more in need of application in our day, a time marked by litigious proceedings and heated exchanges, than those of forgiving, forgetting, and extending mercy to those who may have wronged us or let us down?"

"Civilty carries with it the essence of courtesy, politeness, and consideration of others. All of the education and accomplishments in the world will not count for much unless they are accompanied by marks of gentility, of respect for others, of going the extra mile."

"In leadership, in standing for principle, there is loneliness. But men and women of integrity must live with their convictions. Unless they do so, they are miserable."
Gordon B. Hinckley-Standing for Something