Thursdays Blessings

Good Morning Friends,

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Thursday is here to greet you with another Amazing Day, if you choose to see it! I hope you've had a Great week so far and that you found time to enjoy the simply things in life; like family, friends and some You time.??The story is literally priceless and is a reminder of the true blessings of family.?I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. The Quotes is the Best Advice I can give you today and it rings true for each day! Life iis too short not to make it Outstanding.

Happy Thursday

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Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

~Og Mandino

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??The Price of Children

This is just too good not to pass on to all. Something absolutely positive for a change. I have repeatedly seen the breakdown of the cost of raising a child, but this is the first time I have seen the rewards listed this way. It's nice, The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 for a middle income family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn't even touch college tuition. But $160,140 isn't so bad if you break it down. It translates into:

·?$8,896.66 a year,

·?$741.3 month, or * $171.08 a week.

·?That's a mere $24.24 a day!

·?Just over a dollar an hour.

Still, you might think the best financial advice is don't have children if you want to be "rich." Actually, it is just the opposite.

What do you get for your $160,140?

• Naming rights. First, middle, and last!
• Glimpses of God every day.
• Giggles under the covers every night.
• More love than your heart can hold.
• Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.
• Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies.
• A hand to hold, usually covered with jelly or chocolate.
• A partner for blowing bubbles, flying kites
• Someone to laugh yourself silly with, no matter what the boss said or how your stocks performed that day.

For $160,140, you never have to grow up. You get to:

• finger-paint,
• carve pumpkins,
• play hide-and-seek,
• catch lightning bugs, and
• never stop believing in Santa Claus. You have an excuse to:
• keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh,
• watching Saturday morning cartoons,
• going to Disney movies, and
• wishing on stars.
• You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers under refrigerator magnets and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas, hand prints set in clay for Mother's Day, and cards with backward letters for Father's Day.

For $160,140, there is no greater bang for your buck. You get to be a hero just for:

• retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof,
• taking the training wheels off a bike,
• removing a splinter,
• filling a wading pool,
• coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs, and coaching a baseball team that never wins but always gets treated to ice cream regardless.

You get a front row seat?for?history to witness the:

·?first step,

·?first word,

·?first bra,

·?first date, and

·?first time behind the wheel.

You get to be immortal. You get another branch added to your family tree, and if you're lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren and great grandchildren. You get an education in psychology, nursing, criminal justice, communications, and human sexuality that no college can match.

In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there under God. You have all the power to heal a boo-boo, scare away the monsters under the bed, patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever, and love them without limits.

So . . one day they will like you, love without counting the cost. That is quite a deal for the price!!!!!!!

Love & enjoy your children& grandchildren!!!!!!!

A bit of humor for your day

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There were to guys from?Brooklyn,?Rocko?and Steve. They got into a car accident and died, and arrived at the?pearly gates?of heaven, where Peter stood.

"Yo, Pete!" said Rocko.

Peter took one look at them and said, "I don't think so."

"Hey, man, good people come from Brooklyn!" said Steve. "Go ask the big guy himself!"

So peter went to God's office and said, "God, there are two men from Brooklyn are standing at the pearly gates, and they wish to be admitted."

"Good people come from Brooklyn," said God.

"oh, all right," grumbled Peter. He went back down to the gates.

A few minutes later God get's a call from Peter on the emergency line.

"What is it now?"

"Sorry to bother you again, sir, but they're gone."

"The two guys from Brooklyn?"

"No, the pearly gates!"

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