Are There Happy Teenagers? Miss Nineteen Shares All…

I had a milestone in my mommy career not so long ago.

Timing fell into place, in such a way, that for 4 months I had 3 official teenagers in my home.

My son, Trevor, turned 13 in December and my oldest daughter would not step into twenty until spring.

I do realize  that a house with multiple teenagers may not be unusual to some, but for me, it was a unique moment of time and space.

After what felt like an eternity wiping noses and tying shoes, I finally had no “children” under my roof.

The humbling reality of steering 3 almost adults in the right direction made me ponder how “happy” of a home  had I really provided?

Was ”home” as much their “happy place” as it had become mine?

What are Your Happy Colors?

Big Beautiful Happy COLORS!

 I remember an old hair product jingle from when I was a kid that sang  ‘Bryl-cream, a little dab’ll do ya”

Forget the dab. How about a splash?

A great big splash of BRIGHT BEAUTIFUL COLOR!

A splash of color will more than do ya.

Color surrounds us.  It is the first thing our eyes see when we look.

Blue skies, green grass, red roses, golden sand, gray skyscrapers, whatever landscape surrounds you, it is full of color.

Even going beyond our immediate vision, our vocabulary and how we speak is descriptive  with hues and shades.

We are “tickled pink” or we are “feeling blue“, and when we are down right sick, we become “green around the gills“.

Every swashbuckling knave knows that being called a “yellow-belly” is a “black-eye” to your reputation, and could make you so angry that you “see red“

If after reading this post, you are still undecided about how color effects you, you will find yourself in a the”gray-zone” of opinion.

Oh the sheer glory of color all around us!

The very existence of color brightens up the darkest corners of our world, and it can brighten up you in your dark corners of your world too.

Sharing Some Borrowed Hope

 Every now and again, a little diddy will come across my desk that grabs me from the inside out.

 

Borrowed Hope has been around the internet a while, often reposted as a staple share of encouragement and well, hope.

 

Many sources list the author as “Unknown” but a site that takes its name from the first line’s plea, Lend Me Your Hope, identifies the author as Eloise Cole.

Eloise was an everyday gal with a true hero’s heart, taking her life of tragedy and becoming a beacon of hope to countless others.

 

Buttering up the Tongue

Feathery, Flouncy, Flummery, Flamboyant, Fanatical Flattery!

A silver tongued devil, sweet talker, smooth talker, snow job, smoozing, shoveling it on, and laying it on thick.

 I won’t tell you how impacting Deborah Smith Pegues “3o Days to Taming You Tongue”   is because, today,  I doubt you are going to believe me.

Study Predicts a Happier Weekend

I am writing this Friday afternoon and I have a feeling its going to be a happy weekend.

Apparently you are going to have a happy weekend, too.

At least it should be “happier”.

LYING~ Never & Always Not the Worst Thing EVER

“Teachers often teach that which they need to learn themselves.
I am no different.
I am writing this book first and foremost for myself.
I desire a wholesome tongue,
one that always learns to speak what is pleasing to God.

I have learned what James the brother of Jesus,
meant when he said
“No man can tame the tongue”

Secrets to a Happy Sweet Sixteen~ A Teen’s Answer

Is there a secret formula to having a happy teenager?

It would be every pooped parent’s dream come true.

If only we could get our hands on a magic wand, get inside our adolescent’s unhappy moods, and poofity-poof! 

Voila!

Vanished are the stuck out lips and stomping feet.