Happiness is a choice!

How the Malachite collection began

  My uncle, told me this story. He was a salesman and was earning $250,000 a year. He was put in a management position to help the others sales people do what he does. He gave 100 sales people a rock. 50 of these sales people received a real genuine malachite stone. The other 50 received a replica. No one knew what one was real but my uncle. He told these sales people to keep the rock with them every day and to bring it back in a year and we would see what the result were. One year later the 100 sales people showed up for their yearly training. He asked everyone who had “really” kept the stone with them every day, to come up. 40 people came up, and he divided them between the real stone and the replica. Out of the top 20 people in the company that year 19 of them had the real malachite stone. Then he handed me a genuine malachite stone. He said,”You earn the first $50,000 and the stone will do the nest $50,000. I looked and looked for another stone to give to my friends. I finally found some beads in

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Do you measure your worth with money?

Yesterday was Valentine’s Day and I wanted to make sugar cookies. I needed flour. I went to the store and bought some. I picked up an extra bag of powdered sugar, just in case. I didn’t feel bad about myself because I ran out of flour. I don’t use white flour very often, so it isn’t something I use a lot. I just use it for special occasions. I always have wheat and a wheat grinder, I use that almost every day. I make my own bread and use the wheat for all my general baking. Why do we feel bad when we don’t have enough money? We went to the car lot the other day. I know pretty much what I a looking for. I was set back a little because the price/payments were going to be more than I had anticipated. I was feeling really bad about myself and was beating myself up. I want to buy a car like I buy a bag of flour. I am not going to feel bad because I can’t do that right now. I want to do fun things, I want to have joy in this life. So I will no longer

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Happy Girl …has a secret

Yes this Happy girl has a secret to being happy. These are crucial for this girl recovering from cancer treatments. My Lymphoma doctor recommends these! I am not kidding! I haven’t had to have anything for depression but these. He told me to stay away from synthetic caffeine. For reals  I can’t tell you how these really help me. I was really needing Excedrin every day before these. I had to stop taking it before cancer treatments. It was so painful! The pain  I felt from going off Excedrin was amazing! Body aches and leg aches were almost unbearable.  That is good stuff! I feel like this is a much healthier alternative, though I don’t condemn anyone taking excedrin every day. Excedrin contains a combination of acetaminophen, aspirin, and caffeine. Acetaminophen is a pain reliever and a fever reducer. Aspirin is in a group of drugs called salicylates. It works by reducing substances in the body that cause pain, fever, and inflammation. This is my alternative. I keep it in my personal refrigerator in my master bath. I take one upon arising every morning. I feel happy and in love! That is good for everyone around me! I can wake

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Yes! A Short Haircut Will Do

I just came across this in my documents, I wrote this 7-8-15. This is before I knew what kind of cancer experience I was going to have. The doctors believed that I wasn’t going to live more than a week. I went to the musical,”Cats” with my girlfriends at BYU-I, and Jim stayed home and called Huntsman’s Hospital and the made arrangements that saved my life. I am smiling to myself, the part that says, “A short haircut will do” I had no idea what that really meant. Yes, I am 52  years old, and a short haircut will do! I am alive and I am living life and loving it. Jim never changes, he is my rock, he is the mashed potatoes and I am the gravy!    The surgeon reads a very long CT scan report I feel dizzy and find it hard to breath There is nothing he can do There is a foreign growth around all my organs and I need them It is most likely cancer. Does this means a slow death or get well soon? The only way to get rid of it is to shrink it. I am tired, but I think I

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Compare and Contrast

I just finished several  life changing experiences. My mom died, I went through a divorce after 24 years of marriage, then I remarried a family friend with 9 children, (I had given birth to 5 children of my own), my new husband and I started a business together, then my 18 year old son died from influenza, and  then I had stage 4 cancer and survived. Well, I am alive and somehow I am still writing on my blog “I am a happy girl.” I am 52 years old and I made it, so what else can this girl do? We now have 2 children at home and this gal has an opportunity to change the world. I need money to change the world. My goal for 2017 is to create $100,000 for myself and my husband. He deserves someone to take some of the pressure off of him. I have several ideas, I won’t tell you about all of them, but I am doing lots of good stuff.  First, why not see if this 52 year old grandma is still hirable? So in September of 2016 I applied to be a tutor for Boxfish education. It was more of an experiment

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