Contemporary Challenge

CONTEMPORARY- n, One who lives at the same time with another.

March 27, 2011
To my dear sweet Contemporaries,
Sorry I have been lacking in the Challenges for the month but it is a time issue.  You know finding the time to do all you want to do. So this challenge is for March and April, do find time for all you have to do?  Whether you work away from home or you are at home all day, do you find time and energy and apply it to the ones you love.  Or are you like me, who is home all day, there for around the ones I love, but find myself saying not now.  "Mommy will you play with me?" "Mommy, can you read me a story?" "Mommy hold me."  Words I hear all day long but sadly rarely act upon, because allas I am busy.  Busy with what?  Chores, life, blogging, the list is long but it is poor.  Because the stuff will be there when I am done playing with my monkeys.  The stuff will be around as long as I am around.  My sweet children, I have eighteen maybe nineteen years with them, and they will be gone.  So my challenge to you and myself is this.  Stop, what we are doing you know the stuff and give the love our loved ones need.  Including our husbands.  Our homes will be okay for those few fleeting minutes, our world will not be upset.  But our loved ones in those minutes we impact them for the rest of their lives.

February 12, 2011
Dear Sweet Contemporaries,
Where do you find yourself today? Abounding with love and grace or over whelmed and on the brink? Is your family an ugh right now, your job or maybe just life.  There is that something amiss just not right.  Are you like me who lets everything compound until you blow?  So the challenge if you so dare to except is to find at least one blessing for whatever is bothering you at this moment, next week or month.  Is it hubby? Do you remember why you love him? Children driving you nuts? Is it you? Are you, your own worse enemy?Take time to thank God and encourage what ails you. I know sometimes it is really hard to be like, oh yeah, I love that guy who left the toilet seat up in the middle of the night for me to fall in.  (Totally hypothetical I don't think he or I have ever done that) Remember even on really bad days there is still a blessing waiting to be seen and had. Look closely and you will see it.


Dear Sweet Contemporaries, 
   I have challenge for you and your family. Moms here is the thing you are always hearing how American are getting fatter and fatter.  Lets change it! I know many of you have gym memberships or exercise on your own, but what about your family?  How many days a week and meals a week do eat on the go?  Oh, I know busy, busy can not stop for making dinner, lunch or breakfast.  I need something convenient, my child has a sport at dinner time, and they only like.... So take a one month challenge, make you families meals.  They don't have to be five, four or three courses. Make a something simple from the heart.  Children have activities at 5 or 6pm  feed them early, make a snack for when you get home.  Work way to long to make a meal?  Make them a head of time, either on Saturday or Sunday and freeze them.  Take them out as you go.  Prepare them the night before and just cook them the next day.  Who says, it has to be something different every night?  Make one or two nights a week left over nights.  What about my very picky eater?  This ain't Burger King, take it or leave it.  I am serious, you know what they will eat when they are hungry and guess what once they learn you are not going to cater to them they will eat what you make.  I know, mine tell something is yucky, just to come back 5 minutes later and decide maybe it doesn't look so bad after all.  You created the picky eater now change them.   Do you think you can do it? "Try them, try them and you may, try them and you may I say. " - Dr. Seuss Green Eggs and Ham.