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...

Your car just broke down, crap!  You decide you are going to get rid of it because it is not worth fixing, but before it broke down you just filled up the gas tank, great!  You decide you are going to do yourself a favor by siphoning out the gas and save it for your other car, yes you can save $40!  You don't have anything that will work as a siphon so you go to the dollar store to buy one because you are too cheap to go anywhere else, you are trying to save money here, not spend anymore.  So yeah, that sounds like a good idea!  You get a siphon that costs $1 and you convince your little sister to come and help you because this job is going to take more than one person.  You go out in front of your house and you and your sister are right there by the car trying to shove this flimsy, cheap excuse for a tool down the gas tank!  You think you are starting to look a little suspicious to others now.......Yeah we look like thieves for sure!  We be...

Well Hello All!  My name is Haley, and I decided to start blogging because I see so much negativity everywhere, and I don't want to be part of it!  I want to spread positivity in any way I can. No matter what your beliefs, religious or other, you are a daughter of God!  I believe we are all  children of a loving creator!  You are welcome to partake, and participate in the positivity I hope to emanate here! We are all daughters and women and I want to celebrate that!  We are powerful and have the ability to empower others, and change the world for good! Today I was thinking about my job, and the way I was raised.  I was raised in a very traditional, and some may call it old fashioned, household.  Mom stayed home with kids, and Dad worked and supported the family financially.  I always thought this was the ideal situation.  I am a member of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and it is taught that, that i...