Here's What I Know.....wrapped up in this week's Top Six

~Patience- is not an easy lesson.  Patience, to me anyway, doesn't come easily, nor am I an eloquent waiter, or equipped with characteristics to sit unfettering as time agonizingly passes.  Patience is, simply put-hard.  But everything worth going after requires it....in bunches! 

~Love- is a choice.  Feelings come, go, change, transform, grow or fall away.  But love isn't something that you feel, it is an active and daily decision that you make.  Will you share it, embrace it, allow it to help you grow, or will you decide it's not worth the time or worth your energy to work for.

~It's an incredibly productive lesson for your kids to hear the word NO.  (It probably wouldn't kill most of us to hear it or use the word more often either)

~Quality time and plain old hard work poured into anything will show results.  Apply that to your relationships, your work, your children, your friendships.....you get the idea; apply it and you will see rewards, (silver lining? maybe!).

~Cookies fresh from the oven make everyone happy! Yes, EVERYONE! And there's nothing wrong with having more than one! 

~Knowing your boundaries is tricky, asserting them is another thing entirely!

   It's not much but it's what I have to offer today.  You all may be sick of hearing this by now, but I'll say it anyway, and I'll keep saying it, because I need the reminder as well!
  The small things are what count; watching your children laugh, mixing up a batch of cookies for the ones you love, pancakes drowning in a lake of syrup, cracking the spine of a new book, a quiet house and a glass of wine, being thankful.
   The things to cherish are in the everyday, take time to enjoy them!

Happy Friday and a fantastic first weekend of February to you all......

Cheers