Empowering Daughters of God

My neighbor came by and informed me, one afternoon, that him and his wife were going through a messy break up.  He warned us that she might stop by and try to convince us of some things about him that were untrue.  He claimed that she had lost her mind and had gone crazy!  He said to contact him if we saw her in the neighborhood.  At this same time my husband was running for State Auditor in the upcoming election and things can get a little intense when you face people that disagree with you politically as a potential representative.  Luckily we have never experienced anything too crazy because of our political beliefs, but we are always aware that things can happen.   Let's just say it was a little bit of a stressful time. Later that evening I was talking with my husband, Jared, when we heard a knock at the door.  My husband approached the door and asked who was there, when there was no answer we got a little suspicious.  Oh well they w...

I have been thinking about this topic for the past week and it just so happened that some really sweet people have been my Angels for the past week.  They have been leaving charming and very thoughtful notes, and gifts at my door every night.  Every delivery has been signed  "Your Angels"!  I don't believe it is coincidence that as I have been writing this, that someone has been performing kind acts for me, it truly is inspiring! A special thank you to my anonymous Angel's for putting a ray of sunshine in my days last week!  Why is it that whenever we perform acts of kindness we feel warmth surge through us and it makes us happy?  According to randomactsofkindness.org Kindness can increase the love hormone, oxytocin, it increases energy, happiness, lifespan, pleasure, and serotonin.  Kindness can decrease pain, stress, anxiety, depression, and blood pressure.  Kindness is like a muscle and as we exercise it we develop more compassion for o...

   According to BMI I was bordering on obesity.  Overweight my entire life and completely uncomfortable in my own skin.  I thought there was nothing wrong with eating a whole bag of chocolate chips in one or two days.  If you are a male and you can eat a whole pizza or a whole cake by yourself you are THE MAN, you are cool.  If you are a female and you can put it away like that......you are not so cool! At least that was the observed attitude. I had a problem, a big one. Not only did I deal with the adversity of being overweight most of my life, but I had a lot of health problems over the years.  Some of these problems were weight related.  I had childhood migraines which I sort of grew out of, but I still get them sometimes and with Aura, which is extremely horrible.  From day one of the monthly gift, each woman has the privilege of receiving, I had issues.  It's the gift that keeps on giving and the one you can never re gi...

When I was about 7 years old I decided I wanted to play the piano.  It seemed cool to me to be able to play the piano.  I begged and begged my parents to let me take piano lessons.  We did not have a piano, but lucky for us a neighbor wanted to get rid of their old piano.  We also had a neighbor that taught piano lessons, YAY!  "This was going to be great" I thought, I would be playing like a pro in no time!  For some reason my little 7yr old mind thought that I could get really good at it, really fast. My mom paid $5 to rent a dolly to haul the old, heavy, very out of tune, cast iron backed piano up the street and into our house.  It was in pretty bad shape.  It was missing a bench, a foot pedal and most of the ivory on the keys, oh and a few of the hammers would stick and cause some of the keys to detach from their hammers, making them useless!  Maybe I learned more about how a piano was put together than how to play it, maybe...