I realize I haven't posted for a while. That's because I was following the advice of the singing animals in Bambi..."If you can't say something nice...shhhh....say nothing..."
So in keeping with the positive-ness I aspire to on this blog, I didn't whine about how sports and coaches (my hubby included) screw with my world...how it's impossible to create a grade card for first grade which pleases administration, teachers, and parents...or how jeans really do shrink if you dry them. Instead I will try to focus on how cool it is that my sister is coming to visit this weekend...how my birthday was Monday and even though I turned 33 my students pointed out that its a number you can't mess up because either way you write it, it's a three and a three...or how my mum is blooming beautifully in spite of my tendency to slowly and cruelly neglect plants until they are dead.
One may find it unsettling that my moral compass is guided by animated feature films, but as a mother of two, Disney and Veggie Tales were my movie-viewing bread and butter until the last couple of years. And frankly, I've never found as sound advice in Napoleon Dynamite or Batman. Maybe it's only because their sage wisdom wasn't sung by cute, large-eyed animals.
So, when times get tough, I think of Dory in Finding Nemo and I "just keep swimming....just keep swimming..." and eventually, like Princess Jasmin, I find myself in "a whole new world." As long as my family and I have "the bear necessities" then "love is all we need."
Right?
Or is that the Beatles...
Maybe I should just stick to scriptures.
"Whatsoever things are pure....whatsoever things are lovely...think on these things"
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