Posts Tagged ‘parents’

May

The Most Important Woman Who Has Influenced My Life

Posted by: admin in Strong Women, You Just Never Know, family

I was asked to give thanks at a recent family reunion and I couldn’t think of anything better to give thanks for than my Mom:

I think I speak for each and every person in this room. We would like to give thanks to our mothers for all they have given us in life. I especially want to thank my Mother for teaching me to do what is right in life, to love each other as a family above all else.

My Mother, especially, has taught me not to let outside forces ever interfere with my family coming first. As we have fought the many battle in our lives that we have, it was through the love and respect that our parents had for each other, and taught us to have for each other, that made an impact on my life. Teaching us not only by their words, but their examples.

I only hope I can be as good of an example to my kids as my Mother has been to me. I also hope that I can always live up to the expectations of my Mother, and to do what is right above all else, and put my family first.

We are all gathered here because of the love of our parents and their parents, and so forth. We share a common bond that is only known in families who love and respect each other above all else.

Many of us here have lost our parents, children, sisters, and brothers and would give anything in the world to have even one more moment with them to tell them how much we love them. I am one who is lucky enough to still have my Mother here. I treasure every moment I can spend with her.

Time is something you can never get back, so in our busy lives we need to take time everyday to tell the ones we love how much they mean to us and to give them, as they have given to us, the gift of our time, because at the end of the day all that matters is our family.

Thank you all, and above all I want to thank my Mother, I love her more than life itself, she has given unselfishly, she has put her family above all else and if ever there were an angel on earth it is my Mother.

I love you Mom

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Tags: family, Love, Mom, My Mother, parents, Respect

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Sep

Have You Ever Searched For Your Home Town on YouTube?

Posted by: admin in St. Patrick's Day, You Just Never Know, about me, affiliate marketing, family, small town

Have you ever searched for your home town on YouTube? You might be surprised what you find.

Okay so my kids have been asking me “Mom what have you been putting on YouTube?”, everyone in town is talking about it. OMG I mean I am trying to stay at home and mind my own business, and I still get talked about in small town America.

I have been involved with affiliate marketing, because it is something I can do from my home, on my computer, and not have to get involved in the small town BS. Okay, so I am helping Affiliate Summit with a new mentor program to help new attendees have a better experience at the Summit. I got up enough courage to actually video myself and talk about this program. Believe me it isn’t easy, I am not a very outgoing person anyway. I had also put a couple of slide shows on YouTube that I had submitted to Affiliate Summit for a contest.

Anyway I guess it was embarrasing to my kids to have their Mom on YouTube. Oh well, I am. So, now what? I started to see what else was out there about this fine small town. These are a few YouTube videos that I found that were about, Shamrock, Texas.

Looks like we have lawn mower races, tornadoes, songs about St. Patrick’s Day “Donagel Beard Contests”, Route 66 and the famous “U-Drop Inn” (featured in the Disney’s Pixar movie Cars, as Ramones Body Shop, and last but not least a video about my Parent’s campground and their long marriage.

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Tags: Affiliate Summit, Beard, Campground, Cars, Disney, Donagel Contests, Home Town, Lawn Mower Races, long marriage, Movie, parents, Pixar, Ramones Body Shop, Rt 66, Songs, St. Patrick's Day, Tornadoes, U-Drop Inn, YouTube

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Jul

Fraggle Rock Mountain, and Tummy-Getter Hill

Posted by: admin in You Just Never Know, about me, family, small town

Tummy-Getter Hill

Memories ! awwww wonderful memories. I am so lucky to have had my Parents around when my kids were growing up. My Parents made some really great memories for my kids, memories of love, fun, and laughter.

My Parents own a campground, so they actually lived in the back of the office of the campground. My Parent’s also own a farm. Just east of my Parent’s campground is a hill, the hill has a lot of gypsum rock, and some actual caves. It could be kind of scary to a small kid, to go near a large hole in the ground that leads to who knows where, especially in the imagination of a child. My Dad would sometimes load up the grandkids (7 grandkids) in his pickup truck, (no car seats or seat belts mind you, that is how us country folk do it !) and take them up on this hill, probably to get them out of the house and out of my Mom’s hair.

After the journey up the hill, they started calling “Fraggle Rock Mountain”, my Dad would then take them “Round and About on Buttercup Farm”. I don’t know where that name came from, I remember it from my childhood, maybe there was a song with that in the lyrics, I’m not sure. Well on with the journey….I don’t know how many of you have been down farm to market roads, country roads, or back roads, (whatever they are called) but they are usually just dirt roads. Some are winding, some are hilly, some are both. Here in Texas it is usually dry and when you drive down these roads the dirt flies up behind your vehicle, that is how you can tell is someone is comeing up the road, you see the dirt. My Dad would take the kids from “Fraggle Rock Mountain”, then “Round and About On Buttercup Farm”. Last but not least, the ultimate thrill, was going really fast on one of these hills on the backroads and when you came over the hill, it is kind of like a rollercoaster, it gets your tummy. Hence the name “Tummy-Getter Hill”.

Memories ! awwww wonderful memories.

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