Sound of Music

I'm not sure how long the "Except Sunday" provision has been up there, but I believe it is a pretty recent change.  This intersection used to get backed up when we left church but it wasn't bad today.  I was a little humored that traffic signs changed because of our ward. I only know of one or two people in my ward that read my blog...but if there are any of you, is this a recent change or am I that unobservant?

The kids and I played Zingo after church while Bracken took a nap. Then Kamri wanted to Skype someone that "is a girl that isn't an adult".  My cousin showed up as online and her daughter is two days older than Kamri so we called them.  Kamri now has a friend (second cousin) in Hawaii that she's never met. She kept asking to Skype more people and threw a fit when we ran out of people to Skype.  She's excited to Skype in the morning with people we couldn't reach and I promised we would try again. I've created a monster.  If anyone has kids that like to Skype, I know a three-year-old that would love to oblige.

After dinner we watched the first half of "The Sound of Music" I checked it out for Kamri and she seemed to enjoy it. I enjoyed it too, I didn't realize I knew all the songs as well as I did.  My dad used to sing us Edelweiss and I think my mom listened to the soundtrack because I don't remember watching it that often.  Halfway through Kamri wanted popcorn but we were too lazy to get out the air-popper so we pulled out some year old microwave popcorn. Hayes was amazed you could MICROWAVE popcorn.  Bracken has turned me into a popcorn snob, airpopped is WAY better. (especially when the microwave popcorn is over a year old...) While Bracken & I were discussing that microwave just isn't as good Hayes told us that he liked microwaved popcorn better.  Then my favorite line from today: Bracken looked at me and said "First he likes Obama, now microwave popcorn?! Next he's going to tell me he's buying stock in Wal-Mart"


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My quote for Sunday is from a book I'm currently reading Christlike Parenting by Dr. Glenn I. Latham.

"A key facet of Christlike parenting is for parents to move toward teaching values and being less concerned about compliance and conformity. Remember, "Socrates, Jesus Christ, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King were not conformists. The Nazi's were...as are all totalitarians.  Forced conformance and compliance creates a coercive environment, which in turn encourages children to escape, avoid, and counter-coerce (meaning get even) It is a natural law of human behavior. You can count on it."

I'm only a 1/4 of the way through the book but I've already found some very helpful reminders and new ideas in parenting and in how I think about myself as a parent. I also liked this thought.

"We must quit beating up on ourselves through a lot of useless introspection and mucking around in the past and get on with life. We must change what needs to be changed."

My growth is stunted by  my thoughts of not being able to do it "well enough." I just need to stop the negative thoughts and make the changes I know will help me in the long run.  Anyone else get caught in that?