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What really constitutes a GOOD LIFE? Can you say you're living the GOOD LIFE and cry too? Can you be honest and still say you are living a GOOD LIFE if you are cleaning up dog pee 2 or 3 times a day (from a house broke dog), your Visa bill charged you a $39.00 late fee because online bill pay took 6 days to arrive and you screamed at your husband before he left for work? Is that just having a bad day in a GOOD LIFE? I think the answer is yes and I think we need to realize it.

The dog is going through a stage of some

sort and he'll get over it. You have now learned not to rely on bill pay if there is a four day holiday weekend close by. And well, your husband should have seen the writing on the wall and carefully side stepped that last nerve he walked on. A GOOD LIFE doesn't mean a perfect life. It doesn't mean a problem free or a "no more bad days" kind of life.

If your life if pretty darn good for the most part and you have a bad day or a few consecutive bad days every once in a while - you still have a GOOD LIFE. It's all about our perspective. We will have days when we are depressed because we are grieving something we have lost. We will have days when fights amongst family members occur. And we will have days when we flat don't want to get out of bed because of what we know lies ahead from time to time, but... a GOOD LIFE is based on the whole picture, not just a few days or weeks here and there.

Striving for a GOOD LIFE is striving to live life in such a way that if tomorrow were your last you could honestly say - I had a GOOD run! Take a look at some of the things that we compiled that can add up to making a GOOD LIFE. We pay a lot of attention to how today went and not nearly enough attention to how things add up.

Example: If you don't get some kind of physical exercise today - it's not really going to be a big deal, but if you don't do anything for a year - it adds up to a big deal. It's no secret that a lot of how we feel today is determined by how we lived yesterday and the day before that. Life consists of a certain number of days, how you live them determine how GOOD your LIFE is. It all adds up and you get to choose all of the elements in the equation.

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I often get emails and comments asking how I stay so positive.

Those who have read me for a while know about my somewhat epic battles with depression in the past and that creates even more questions as people who are in the battle now want to know how I manage to maintain victory over it.

I have truly been at that place in my life where I felt no hope – I have been in the very bottom of that dark pit where I found myself desperately looking for even the smallest ray of light and found none.

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gonna be a soft cushy blanket. It will be more of a battle cry. Even though you feel exhausted, if you are ready for this post, it will cause you to have to work harder than you ever have before – but for a goal you’ve longed for. If you think you are ready, here goes…

so hard for a person to hold their hand in the darkness that they miss out on the opportunity to hold God’s hand instead.

Sure, there might be people in your life you can lean on and that is all good and well, but when it comes down to the big battles…I’m talking the life and death battle between me and the hopelessness, if

I know you’re hurting. I know I have a choice to have the creator of the you’re sad and I know you’re tired. I universe as my coach and team mate, I’m know you feel like you’ve been fighting, going with those odds. struggling, day in and day out for so very long and yet have gotten nowhere. I know I learned a long time ago that going your heart desperately longs for hope or to people (friends, relatives, etc.) with my warmth or some sort of reprieve from the problems might help on a temporary level, constant ache. I know because I’ve been but they can’t do anything for me. Instead, there. I wish I could hold your hand and I started taking my problems directly walk you out of this, but I can’t. I wish to God, because He is the only one who I could look into your life and tell you can actually help me. If He leads me to a exactly how to handle each situation, but person then so be it, but it is about you I’m not able. But I can tell you how I got and him solving this together. There is through it and I can tell you that if you are no easy way to get from point A to point in that pit, you are not meant to remain B, but it begins by realizing that this is there. a journey that you are on. You have to decide that you are ready to get to point B

God has a plan for you. He has and dedicate yourself to doing whatever it a purpose for you. And He can take this takes in order to do that. pain and use it for good.

1. Do you really want to change?

He can take the darkest moments of your life and use them to make you I know this seems like a ridiculous stronger, wiser, and happier than you ever question at the onset, but it is a valid one. dreamed possible, so much so that you will Most people claim they want to change, find yourself years down the road looking but then only really want to do so if back and being grateful for this moment, happiness drops out of the sky and lands because so much strength and joy came in their pocket like a lucky lottery ticket. out of it.

They don’t want to do the work it takes to get there. There was a time when I’d

A lot of people end up looking rather continue to complain and moan and lay flailing on the ground because that is what I knew and what was comfortable. I was like that for years.

Do you have 2 hours a week that you can give to help somebody?

In fact, I blamed my life for every problem I had rather than realizing that it all began with me.

Change requires someone realizing that the very nature of existing and being an adult does not validate our personality. We are a work in progress and if we don’t work on us, we make no progress. So the first question is, do you want to change and if so, do you want it bad enough to actually start the process and stick with it?

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2. Are you ready to accept responsibility for your own actions, thoughts, and words?

I had to learn that me losing it in a traffic jam is not the fault of the traffic jam, it was a lack of selfcontrol and a character flaw on my part. I had to realize that my yelling at someone was not that person’s fault, no matter how I felt they prompted me to yell. My voice is controlled from within, not without. A man without selfcontrol is like a city broken into and left without walls. ~Proverbs 25:28

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3. Is complaining one of your primary activities and if so, are you willing to give that up?

There is an old saying that some people find fault like there was a reward for it. There are a growing number of people like this in our world today and they love every second of it. They get power trips off of how many things they can find to complain about and a twinkle in their eye Continued

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I set out to write the one cookbook that I myself would use the most when it came to planning suppers for my family- I hope you'll find it as useful as I intended it to be. Please keep in mind, though, that the recipes in this book and the meals you and I make are really just a tool to bring our families and friends together.

Because at the end of the day, the supper table is where we teach our families where they came from and they let us know where they hope to go.

Values, heritage, history, dreams, and encouragement are passed around with the serving platters and roots grow a little deeper with each bite. We may have high hopes and aspirations when we set off into the world each morning, but if you really want to make the world a better place, end the day by coming home to supper.

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2. In a separate bowl, stir together instant pectin and sugar. Pour into strawberries and stir for three minutes, or until sugar is dissolved.

Fresh flavors of the season just can’t be beat! I especially love this strawberry jam because it manages to maintain that fresh picked strawberry flavor that you lose when the strawberries are cooked. They’re still good don’t get me wrong, but to me when I want to taste springtime strawberries, cooked or store bought preserves don’t even hold a candle to these.

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Continued when things go the wrong way as they mentally build up their story and how they will spin it.

I used to be like that. There was an odd satisfaction in complaining. In a strange way, it makes the complainer feel superior to a circumstance or situation, or even another person. But you know what? The ability to control my tongue is a much greater satisfaction. Daily, I see people complain about having a job, traffic, and a house payment and now I can’t help but think “Wow, you have a job, a car, and a house!” A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. ~Proverbs 15:4

You have got to want to be happy. You’ve got to want it so bad that you are willing to do the hardest thing there is... discipline yourself. You’ve got to be willing to do whatever it takes, chastise yourself when you complain, make yourself step out of your comfort zone. We’re not

3. Ladle into clean jars, leaving ½ inch headspace to allow for expansion during freezing. Cover with lids and allow to sit out for thirty minutes. Place in fridge if you will use within next few weeks, or freeze for longer term storage.

I ended up with about seven 8 ounce jars of Strawberry Freezer Jam. Enjoy!

talking about having someone hold your hand here. That is what we do for children crossing the street. We’re not kids anymore. We’re adults and an adult that is not capable of disciplining themselves is a train wreck waiting to happen.

Chances are, if you are depressed/negative life right now, you are a current train wreck. You feel it. You know it. But you can get out. You can be happy. I PROMISE you.

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” ~Christian D. Larson

To get there, you’ve got to want it like a starving dog wants a hambone. You’ve got to be willing to work for it, to uproot that tree you are chained to and drag it to that bone centimeter by centimeter, taking as long as it takes to get there and then, once you get it, you clench your teeth

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around that bone and you don’t let it go. You do whatever it takes to keep that bone, because you’re not going back to starving again.

for our misery. Rather than looking inward and taking any responsibility whatsoever for our own crappy thinking process. Pardon my language here, but that word seems

You’re not going back into to suit best when thinking about how that pit again. You’ve got to realize my own thought process used to be. that you are sick and you need to make yourself healthy again. You’ve The world may have been got to realize that your mind is not hard on you in the past, but now it is thinking right and you have got time to get tough with yourself. I had to train it how to think. Yes, I do to stop coddling myself, nurturing believe that negative people who my sadness and self-pity. My inner complain all the time are mentally drill sergeant (which is actually the ill. What is worse... this is a highly Holy Spirit) had to grab hold of that contagious mental illness and we are blanket I was wrapped up in, pull it all potential carriers. off, and say “Stand up. Your life is beginning today and you’re going to Medical Disclaimer: To begin, go live it.” Before anything could get see a doctor. Make sure there isn’t better in my life, I had to be willing a chemical imbalance that they to take responsibility for my life. can help you with.

I had to be willing to say: “I can’t change this but with God’s help, I

Then, no matter what that can change me.” doctor says, even if they give you a prescription to help, you’ve still got Until I was at that point, until work to do. A pill may help and may I was ready to stop blaming everyone even be needed, but you’ve still got and everything else, I wasn’t ready to tidy up this house you’re living in. to claw myself out of that hole. For Are you ready? a long time, I preferred to stay at the bottom of that pit and spend my Here is how I did it... time trying to find someone else to blame for putting me there. Once I sunk low enough and got desperate

One of the most common enough, through God’s grace, I threads among depressed and began my journey out. But it was negative people is our ability to not quick and it was not easy. It took blame our lives, our family, our a few years (not days, not weeks, circumstances, and our environment not even months) and it took some

definite determination on my part and it takes daily consideration to keep from going back.

I realized that I was prone to depression and negative thinking and I needed to find a way to recover from that. Just as an alcoholic recovers from alcoholism, I had to look about my life, identify triggers, and set boundaries. You know how some people are meticulous about every little bite of food that goes into their mouth? I had to become that way about what I allowed into my head.

No more TV shows that feature negative people or showcase characters that represent who I didn’t want to be. No soap operas, no “reality” TV with its manufactured crisis every five seconds. I stopped ingesting that mess. It is not shown on a television in my house, I will not serve it to my family, and I won’t be around where it is being served.

I stopped listening to at least three different genres of music altogether. No more sad songs. No more getting in the car and cranking up the soundtrack to my pity party.

Only encouraging and uplifting music. I had a few friends who were enablers. Like an alcoholic might have to give up the friend who drank constantly and didn’t see it as a problem, those who wallowed

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in complaining, negativity, and woe is me were just people I couldn’t be around anymore, once I decided I was going to live out the purpose of my life. These people encouraged me to stay the way I was and saw nothing wrong with it. I had to get away from them in order to be able to recover (drug addicts who want to recover do not maintain a relationship with their dealer).

I began watching what I read, how I spoke and what words I chose.

I began seeking, actively seeking, to find something to be grateful for in every moment, in every situation.

For every one complaint I thought – just thought – not even said, I made myself find at least two things to be grateful for. I began training myself.

I learned how to shut my mouth so that my own voice did not become something negative to my own ears. There have been so many times when I have opened my mouth to say something and I literally forced it shut before I could, because they were words that were not worth the energy of my voice. Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your

mouths, but only what is helpful for spectacular and there are gardens of building others up according to their fragrant hope all along the way. needs, that it may benefit those who It is time to make a choice. listen. ~Eph 4:29

If any of this seems extreme to you, if there is any step here that you just can’t imagine doing, this is a sign that you’re comfortable where you are, enjoying your depression and negativity, and you don’t want to get away from it bad enough to do anything about it just yet. Once you are ready to recover, you have to realize that there are things that are fine for other people, but they are not fine for you. It may be alright for someone who has never suffered from an alcohol addiction to go into a bar.

It is not for a recovering alcoholic.

Pick up your foot and decide where you are going to set it down. It is possible to take the other path. But get ready, because that day will come when you will find yourself standing in the sun again. You’ll still feel the pull of that dark cave, but you will have taught yourself how to stand firm and refuse to go back.

And the moment you turn towards that darkness and declare that the sun is shining, you’ll hear someone in the cave call out “Don’t listen to them, they don’t have any idea what its like in here”. When you

You will have to be meticulous hear those words, remember when about identifying your own triggers you were there, and show them grace. and keeping those off limits to you. It is a process and it won’t be easy, but “Most folks are about as happy as it will be worth it. If you are reading they make up their minds to be.” this and identifying with what I am ~Abraham Lincoln saying, God has brought you to a fork Sometimes, if you really in the road. One path is as dark as the one you have been traveling on, wanna be happy, you’ve gotta get but the other is bathed in light. It is stubborn about it. ~Christy Jordan hilly and unknown, but the views are

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How To Pray for Your Strong-Willed Children

My little girl barged into the bathroom while I words at each other over little things that don’t matter, was soaking in the tub. My head snapped up from my the color of clothes, the length of shorts, the scary stuff book. She walked over to the edge of the tub and stuck under beds. both hands in my warm water. And wildly splashed.

We have found our way, only to falter and

There went my relaxation. And my privacy find it again as we navigate this life together. Much of (thanks, broken bathroom door lock). And my temper. parenting is two steps forward, one step back.

“Please don’t touch the water again,” I whispered through gritted teeth.

My daughters are loyal. They are determined leaders. They stand for justice. They work hard and

She stared at me and let her fingers hover are fiercely protective of those they love. They can’t over the water, so close to touching, but not quite. So, be bullied or manipulated. They are rule followers, obeying. But just barely. but also risk-takers. They are respected by their peers.

They know what they want and nothing can deter them.

This is a strong-willed battleground and I know They are passionate lovers and fighters. And they never it well. In the last 14 years, between my two strong- stop talking. willed girls, there have been meltdowns and tantrums and wild words and power struggles. There have been They walk into a room and light it up. moments of anger and tempers and tears and regret from all Their iron clad wills have rocked my world. of us. We have hurled angry And even in the hardest moments when I fail them

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or they fail me, I wouldn’t change who they are for a minute. Because their fierceness will change the world.

And so I pray this over them, under them, before them and after them: God, You gave me strong girls. They are a gift. You and I both know, this is a hard calling.

Please help me not to crush their determined spirits with all my rules and regulations.

You created them to color outside the lines, give me the courage to let them.

Channel their determination into purpose. Turn their stubbornness into pliable willingness to say yes to you.

Teach them to yield their steadfast spirit and help me to let go of what doesn’t matter.

I need help mothering: Show me how to look past the attitude and see a pure heart. Lead me to look for the good and appreciate the crazy. Instead of controlling them, teach me to empower them. And instead of drawing a line in the sand and demanding my way, remind me that these girls are a whole lot like me.

Oh, and see what you did there.

Most of all, teach all of us how to follow you.

Amen.

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Stop feeling guilty as though they are your fault. They are just part of the package. The difference for you is that you don’t have to lose your peace and joy over them. You don’t think I punish people with cancer because they have been bad, do you? People with cancer have a lot of bad days. They didn’t cause them. And I’m not mad at them.

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You always act like troubles are your fault.

Trouble is to be expected, I told you that. I also told you to cheer up because I have overcome them. You just have to wait to see it come to pass. In the meantime you can have joy and peace. I gave them to you. It’s you that keeps Every time you open up trading them in for misery. the GOOD NEWS... you expose yourself to a

It’s just a bad habit for you to get depressed and world where the GOOD worried when trouble or sickness comes. You can act as is celebrated & the bad though nothing is wrong. You can act like you believe Me is not glorified. SHARE when I tell you I’ve got everything under control. It’s yet some Good News with another choice I’ve given you. You can get in the habit of your loved ones today. remaining happy during the hard times just like you are in the good times. If you believe Me when I tell you that It's FREE for everyone! everything is going to be alright, you don’t have to change your attitude at all when trouble comes knocking. What I gave you the choice to change is how you respond to troubles. My way or misery?

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bet when the people were headed west and they ran into the Indians who scalped them and burned their handmade homes to the ground, the cholera that killed thousands and the thieves that robbed and killed them... they thought their plight was hopeless and impossible at times.

like our senseless murders, the awful cancer battles and all the people who would rather steal than work. Kind of, but our house fires are not intentional set and most of us didn't build them with our own hands and most of our thieves don't scalp or kill us.

Does every generation believe they have the hardest trials?

Ask anyone who lived through 2 world wars and the Great Depression and I bet they will tell you that theirs trumps ours. We act like this is the worst it's ever been, but it's not. It has been much, much worse and that generation - the one known as the "greatest generation that ever lived" can tell you stories that will make most of our trials look like childs play.

It's not really any more bleak now with our hurricanes, tornadoes

I bet they saw the droughts, and blizzards and they weren't aware the floods and the pastures full of that global warming might even exist. rocks as unbearable obstacles. I'm We see all of the trials and suffering guessing they thought from time to that goes on and let it get us down time that they were living in the most from time to time. We feel hopeless hopeless generation that ever lived and some things seem impossible to Perspective is a marvelous gift. in America. I'm sure it was kind of bear, just like it did for them I'm sure.

Sometimes all is not well with my soul, but I can make it well again by focusing on my God, rather than on whatever it is that is disturbing my soul.

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Model 1300 Defender old smoothbore up to my shoulder and pointed at the middle of the target and fired. “Baroom” is what I heard through my earmuffs.

Nine pellets of buckshot and all of the accumulated dirt and debris that had collected in the barrel sped through the air. The old saying that “it kicked like a mule”, was very accurate. Apparently I wasn’t holding it correctly into my shoulder. As I had received absolutely no training on this weapon; my winging it was apparently not a good idea. It’s what happened after the shot was fired that caused my injury though.

“I hate shotgun shooting.”

Prior to my law enforcement career, I had only fired a shotgun one time in my life. It was a very old Savage .410 gauge/.22 long rifle over and under shotgun, and I was about twelve years old at the time. I remember the recoil as mild, but I only had the opportunity to fire it the one time. When I got into law enforcement, I was first introduced to the .12 gauge police riot gun, an (Ithaca Model 37 trench shotgun with an exposed hammer) and the introduction wasn’t pleasant.

The range officer had us take the antique WW II era shotguns out of the sewn in sacks beneath the front seat of the units and stand in a line and fire off all of the loaded rounds that were in the shotguns. Now I had handled these old shotguns each day to check for barrel obstructions and to make sure they were loaded, etc, but I had never fired one before.

They had us shoot at a half sized man target (called a B-27) from the 15 yard line and told us that if we got fifty percent of the buckshot pellets on the paper we would pass the qualification requirements. I threw the

I racked the slide back smartly to eject the spent shell and load the new shell.

I had forgotten that on this old timey shotgun (with the exposed hammer) a part of the action came back towards my clenched right hand. The web of my right hand was neatly sliced open, and bled profusely. Not only was I injured, but being a green rookie, I was highly embarrassed. I had to live with a lot of ribbing from the old hands for several months for not knowing what I was doing that day.

I learned as I went. I wrapped up my injured hand and finished the drill. I finally made my qualification score after a couple of tries. Then they made us go down to the skeet range and had us load

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up with light birdshot shells.

We were supposed to break three out of five flying clay birds to qualify, but I never did meet this requirement.

I just couldn’t understand the amount of lead you had to hold ahead of the flying bird to get it to run into the shotgun pellets.

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As I look back now, I realize that all they were doing was getting us to manipulate the shotgun under stress, so when we needed them in an emergency, we would be reacting instinctively instead of struggling with the controls to get a shot off.

Finally after a few years we got new Remington Model 870 pumps and the shotgun training wasn’t as bad.

I never could hit more than one out of five birds on the skeet course though, and NEVER had any real formal training on the shotgun by anyone. I believe this was because it was not cost effective and everyone back then believed that the best use of a shotgun was the sound of the round being racked back and the mere threat of it.

The 12 gauge shotgun is probably the most devastating shoulder fired weapon devised for close quarters combat. Shotguns have many different usages, and have been in American homes as a deterrent to crime for decades. They have been included in the United States military arsenal since World War I, and they are still being used today in combat zones by our troops.

The specific shotgun we are reviewing today is the Winchester Model 1300 Defender. It’s derived from the base model Winchester 1300 that first appeared in 1978. There are several

different models of the Defender series that include rifled barrel slug hunting models for deer hunting, etc.

My shotgun has an 18” barrel, a wooden stock and forearm, with a single brass bead for a front sight. It came with an extended tube that allows seven 2 ¾” shells to be loaded, but it will also fire the heavier 3” shotgun shells.

It loads from the bottom and ejects the spent shells to the right side. The finish on this Winchester 1300 Defender is a non-glare finish and it’s made of steel and composite materials.

The racking of the slide in a dark building is an ominous sound that almost everyone recognizes. On two separate occasions that racking sound and a stern verbal warning was all it took to convince a concealed suspect to come out with his hands up.

“The Boss also hates shooting a shotgun.”

With her department she had to qualify with a shotgun once every six months. Being of small stature, it slammed into her shoulder roughly with each shot. She would come home bruised and battered after every qualification day.

Her department was somewhat more advanced in their training than mine.

She actually had to fire their shotguns many more times than I did, and she was required to actually hit something. Finally they switched to the MP-5 submachine gun and she could handle that weapon easily.

She hasn’t fired a shotgun since those days and probably never will again.

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I came across this shotgun at Shooters Corner in Texas City. I was hanging out one day and I saw that this shotgun had been waiting to be picked up by its owner for three years. I asked Frank if I could buy it for the amount of the repair work that was owed on it. He checked with Jerry Tkac, and all of the legal requirements had been met, so it was sold to me for a nominal fee to cover the amount of the repairs that were performed. I really didn’t need a shotgun at that time, but for the price I paid, I couldn’t pass it up.

Well I would be remiss if I didn’t talk about the wide variety of loads for the 12 gauge shotgun that currently exist for home defense. They range from 9 pellet buckshot to light dove loads. There are frangible rounds for knocking off door hinges, and reduced power loads for home defense. If all I had to defend my home with was a .12 gauge shotgun, I’d stagger my rounds, light, heavy, and then slugs. That would make me feel confident that I could eliminate any two legged threat that came through my door uninvited.

Till next time, get legal with a concealed carry permit and practice shooting as often as you can. And please consider joining the NRA to help them uphold the 2nd amendment to the constitution and protect your gun rights.

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everything I want and do it just that way? The instances in which he does something differently, does it mean he's wrong? When did "my way" become "the only way?"

When did it become okay to constantly correct him and lecture him and point out every little thing I didn't like as if he were making some kind of mistake?

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"No. You're missing the point, " I said. "You got the 70/30. I always get at least the 80/20."

And how does it benefit him? Does it make him think, "Wow! I'm sure glad she was there to set me straight?"

He laughed. "Oh. That's all? I thought I'd really messed I highly doubt it. He probably feels like I'm harping on up or something." him for no reason whatsoever. And it I'm pretty sure it makes him think his best approach in regards to me is to That's how it started. I launched into him. I berated him either stop doing things around the house, or avoid me for not being smarter. Why would he not get the more altogether. healthy option? Did he even read the labels? Why can't I trust him? Do I need to spell out every little thing for him Two cases in point. #1. I recently found a shard of glass in minute detail so he gets it right? Also, and the thing on the kitchen floor. I asked him what happened. He said I was probably most offended by, why wasn't he more he broke a glass the night before. When I asked why he observant? How could he not have noticed over the years didn't tell me, he said, "I just cleaned it up and threw what I always get? Does he not pay attention to anything it away because I didn't want you to have a conniption I do? fit over it." #2. I was taking out the trash and found a pair of blue tube socks in the bin outside. I asked him As he sat there, bearing the brunt of my righteous what happened and why he'd thrown them away. He said, indignation and muttering responses like, "I never "They accidentally got in the wash with my jeans. Every noticed," "I really don't think it's that big of a deal," and time I put in laundry, you feel the need to remind me not "I'll get it right next time," I saw his face gradually take on to mix colors and whites. I didn't want you to see them an expression that I'd seen on him a lot in recent years. It and reinforce your obvious belief that I don't know how was a combination of resignation and demoralization. He to wash clothes after 35 years." looked eerily like our son does when he gets chastised.

That's when it hit me. "Why am I doing this? I'm not his So it got to the point where he felt it was a better idea — mom." or just plain easier — to cover things up than admit he made a human error. What kind of environment have I I suddenly felt terrible. And embarrassed for myself. created where he feels he's not allowed to make mistakes?

He was right. It really wasn't anything to get bent out of shape over. And there I was doing just that. Over a silly And let's look at these "offenses": A broken glass. A pair package of hamburger meat that he dutifully picked up of blue tube socks. Both common mistakes that anyone from the grocery store just like I asked. If I had specific could have made. But he was right. Regarding the glass, requirements, I should have been clearer. I didn't know I not only pointed out his clumsiness for breaking it, but how to gracefully extract myself from the conversation also due to the shard I found, his sad attempt at cleaning without coming across like I have some kind of split it up. As for the socks, even though he'd clearly stated it personality, so I just mumbled something like, "Yeah. I was an accident, I gave him a verbal lesson about making guess we'll make do with this. I'm going to start dinner." sure he pays more attention when he's sorting clothes.

He seemed relieved it was over and he left the kitchen.

Whenever any issues like this arise, he'll sit there and take it for a little bit, but always responds in the end with And then I sat there and thought long and hard about something like, "I guess it just doesn't matter that much what I'd just done. And what I'd been doing to him for to me." years, probably. The "hamburger meat moment," as I've come to call it, certainly wasn't the first time I scolded I know now that what he means is, "this thing that has him for not doing something the way I thought it should you so upset is a small detail, or a matter of opinion, or be done. He was always putting something away in the a preference, and I don't see why you're making it such wrong place. Or leaving something out. Or neglecting to a big deal." But from my end I came to interpret it over do something altogether. And I was always right there to time that he didn't care about my happiness or trying to point it out to him. do things the way I think they should be done. I came to view it like "this guy just doesn't get it." I am clearly the Why do I do that? How does it benefit me to constantly brains of this operation. belittle my husband? The man that I've taken as my partner in life. The father of my children. The guy I want I started thinking about what I'd observed with my friends' to have by my side as I grow old. Why do I do what relationships, and things my girlfriends would complain women are so often accused of, and try to change the way about regarding their husbands, and I realized that I he does every little thing? Do I feel like I'm accomplishing wasn't alone. Somehow, too many women have fallen something? Clearly not if I feel I have to keep doing it. into the belief that Wife Always Knows Best. There's Why do I think it's reasonable to expect him to remember even a phrase to reinforce it: "Happy wife, happy life."

That doesn't leave a lot of room for his opinions, does it? him - otherwise I wouldn't have. He doesn't need to be reprimanded by me because I don't like the way he does It's an easy stereotype to buy into. Look at the media. some things.

Movies, TV, advertisements - they're all filled with images of hapless husbands and clever wives. He can't cook. He When I got to that point mentally, it then made me can't take care of the kids. If you send him out to get three start thinking about all the good things about him. He's things, he'll come back with two — and they'll both be intelligent. He's a good person. He's devoted. He's wrong. We see it again and again. awesome with the kids. And he does always help around the house. (Just not always to my liking!) Even more, not What this constant nagging and harping does is send a only does he refrain from giving me grief when I make message to our husbands that says "we don't respect you. mistakes or do things differently than him, he's always We don't think you're smart enough to do things right. We been very agreeable to my way of doing things. And for expect you to mess up. And when you do, you'll be called the most part, if he notices I prefer to do something a out on it swiftly and without reservation." Given this certain way, he tries to remember it in the future. Instead kind of negative reinforcement over time, he feels like of focusing on those wonderful things, I just harped on nothing he can do is right (in your eyes). If he's confident the negative. And again, I know I'm not alone in this. with himself and who he is, he'll come to resent you. If he's at all unsure about himself, he'll start to believe you, If we keep attempting to make our husbands feel small, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Neither one is a or foolish, or inept because they occasionally mess up desirable, beneficial outcome to you, him or the marriage. (and I use that term to also mean "do things differently than us"), then eventually they're going to stop trying to Did my husband do the same to me? Just as I'm sure do things. Or worse yet, they'll actually come to believe there are untold numbers of women who don't ever do those labels are true. this kind of thing to their husbands, I'm sure there are men who do it to their wives too. But I don't think of In my case it's my husband of 12+ years I'm talking about. it as a typical male characteristic. As I sat and thought The same man who thanklessly changed my car tire in about it, I realized my husband didn't display the same the rain. The guy who taught our kids to ride bikes. The behavior toward me. I even thought about some of the person who stayed with me at the hospital all night when times I really did make mistakes. my mom was sick. The man who has always worked hard to make a decent living and support his family.

The time I backed into the gate and scratched the car? He never said a word about it. The time I was making dinner, He knows how to change the oil in the car. He can regot distracted by a call from my mom, and burned it to install my computer's operating system. He lifts things cinders? He just said, "We can just order a pizza." The for me that are too heavy and opens stuck jar lids. He time I tried to put the new patio furniture together and left shovels the sidewalk. He can put up a ceiling fan. He fixes his good tools out in the rain? "Accidents happen," was the toilet when it won't stop running. I can't (or don't) do his only response. I shuddered to think what I would have any of those things. And yet I give him grief about a dish said had the shoe been on the other foot and he'd made out of place. He's a good man who does a lot for me, and those mistakes. doesn't deserve to be harassed over little things that really don't matter in the grand scheme of things.

So is he just a better person than me? Why doesn't he bite my head off when I don't do things the way he likes? Since my revelation, I try to catch myself when I start I'd be a fool to think it doesn't happen. And yet I don't to nag. I'm not always 100% consistent, but I know I've remember him ever calling me out on it. It doesn't seem gotten a lot better. And I've seen that one little change he's as intent as changing the way I do things. But why? make a big improvement in our relationship. Things seem more relaxed. We seem to be getting along better.

Maybe I should take what's he always said at face value. It think we're both starting to see each other more as The fact that these little things "really don't matter that trusted partners, not adversarial opponents at odds with much to him" is not a sign that he's lazy, or that he's each other in our day-to-day existence. I've even come incapable of learning, or that he just doesn't give a damn to accept that sometimes his way of doing things may be about what I want. Maybe to him, the small details are better! not that important in his mind — and justifiably so.

They're not the kinds of things to start fights over. They're It takes two to make a partnership. No one is always right not the kinds of things he needs to change about me. It and no one is always wrong. And you're not always going certainly doesn't make him dumb or inept. He's just not to see eye-to-eye on every little thing. It doesn't make you as concerned with some of the minutia as I am. And it's smarter, or superior, or more right to point out every little why he doesn't freak out when he's on the other side of thing he does that's not to your liking. Ladies, remember, the fence. it's just hamburger meat.

The bottom line in all this is that I chose this man as my Searched several posts and could not locate who the partner. He's not my servant. He's not my employee. He's actual author of this piece is, but it's apparently a not my child. I didn't think he was stupid when I married woman & she nailed it!

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3223 Avenue G 1/2

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View from the back porch!

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Charming home of yesteryear...

Orignally moved from the Heights area and nestled on 2 acres in Galveston county. It's a two bedroom, but can be three and has been used as such since the 80s. Built in 1950, it has 1.5 baths, a 2 car attached garage and a large covered porch. Updated kitchen and baths-- are far from original, however it still has the glass door knobs.

Laminate flooring throughout and carpeted bedrooms. Plenty of outside spaces, bbq area and a side deck. The playset will stay. Unrestricted and in Santa Fe ISD, so bring your horses & come get your piece of the country!

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SFISD Marching Band Plays to Disneyworld crowd!

Santa Fe High School Marching Band became stars of their own Disney show when they entertained resort guests at the Magic Kingdom. The group traveled to take part in the Disney Performing Arts Program.

The marching band, under the direction of Matthew Raines, entertained hundreds of Magic Kingdom Park guests as they marched through Frontierland and around Cinderella Castle and onto Main Street, U.S.A before the “Festival of Fantasy Parade”. The group’s performance included “Hey Baby (If You’ll Be My Girl)” by Bruce Channel.

In addition to their performance, they participated in the Disney Performing Arts “You’re Instrumental” workshop, where they learned how to get the most of their rehearsals and honed their sight-reading skills under the guidance of a Disney Teaching Artist.

Vocal, instrumental and dance ensembles from all around the world apply to perform each year as a part of Disney Performing Arts at both the Disneyland Resort 37 Santa Fe Good News

LOCAL NEWS NEWS and the Walt Disney World Resort. Once selected, they are given the opportunity to perform at the resort for an international audience of theme park guests. Millions of performers have graced the stages of the Disney Parks in the more than 25year history of the program.

LOCAL NEWS NEWS Happening at Genevieve Miller Hitchcock Public Library...

8005 Barry Ave. (409) 986-7814 www. hitchcockpubliclibrary.org

Library Hours

Tues. Wed. Fri. Thurs.

Sat. Closed Sun. -

10 to 5 10 to 6 10 to 3 Mon.

Summer Reading Program

ALL programs start at 2 pm. Please arrive 2030 minutes early to log books before program.

All programs are FREE!

KICK OFF DAY *Sat. June 6th NOON to 2PM - Sign up for the reading program, pick up brochure and check out your 1st batch of books.

NOON to lPM - Visit with the H.E.B. Buddy Man & get buddy bucks.

12:30PM - 1:30PM Enjoy a balloon twister.

1PM - 2PM Play with ChickFila Cow & Games. While eiyoying the visitors, you can munch on an ice cream cone too!

WEEK 1 Tues. June 16th - Guess who is coming? Ronald McDonald with his "Giving Back" program.

Wed. June 17th - That special day is coming up for Dad's, so let's make him a "TOOLBOX" card!

Thurs. June 18th Every Thurs. will be "Make a Super Hero costume" piece. This week: the MASK. Fri. June 19th - Ages 4 - 7 play Bird Bingo.

See if you can "Bingo" & win a prize!

WEEK 2 Tues. June 23rd Meet members of the Galveston Island Beach Patrol. Learn about water safety and lifeguard heroes.

Wed. June 24th Texas A&M Chemistry Road Show - It's science magic! presented by Dr. Pennington. Fun & fascinating!

Thurs. June 25thGet Crafty, 2nd piece to the costume, the "Head Band".

Fri. June 26th Ages 8-12 Bingo. See if you can "Bingo" and win a prize!

WEEK 3 Tues. June 30th Texas Seaport Museum presents: How sailors worked & played aboard the 1877 ship Elissa.

Wed. July 1st - "Turtle Lady" with her beautiful "live" turtles of all sizes.

Itsy Bitsy to lOO lbs.

Happenings at Mae S. Bruce Library in Santa Fe...

13302 6th Street (409) 925-5540 www.maebrucelibrary.org

Library Hours

Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs.

Fri. Sat.

Summer Programs

10 to 6 12 to 8 10 to 6 10 to 1:30

Reading Program runs from June 8th to July 31st.

All programs are FREE! Super Camp 2pm

Hero Training (Mondays) at Ages 7 and up.

June 8th Design your own superhero.

June 15th Test Your Superhero Strength.

June 22nd Create your own Superhero Comic.

June 29th Batman & Gravity.

July 6th Make your own Superhero Sandwich.

Story Hour (Tuesdays) at 11am Ages 6 and under.

June 9th You're my Hero!

June 16th What's that loud Siren!

June 23rd Watch me Fly! June 30th Here I come to save the day!

July 2nd Ah-Choo Enter tainment (Wednesdays) at 10:30 am For all ages.

June 10th Captain America.

June 17th Journey to Neverland.

June 24th Visit

with Ninja Turtle & Spiderman.

July 1st Nasa "Suiting Up" July 8th Santa Fe Fire & Rescue July 15th Santa Fe Police Department Crafts (Wednesdays) at 2 pm For all ages.

June 10th Super Hero Mask June 17th Super Hero Puzzle June 24th Super Hero Duct Tape Key Rings July 1st Super Hero Necklace July 8th Avenger Bookmarks Junkfood & Journaling (Thursdays)6-7:30 pm Ages 10 and Up. Every Thursday evening June 11th - July 30th Friday Movie @ the Library For everyone.

June 12th - July 24th Saturday Game Days 10:30 -11:30 School Age (1st Grade & up.)

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Sew-Sew Gang Donates

Our local sewing guild, "The Sew-Sew Gang" donated 2 dozen hand sewn teddy bears for our Santa Fe Police Department crash/trauma "Bear Program". SFPD hands out these bears to children who have experienced a traumatic event or been involved in an accident. It’s a great tool to help console a young child who has experienced a tragic event.

The group has been together for over 20 years. Their main purpose and goal is for charity and to help children; each bear takes approximately two hours to sew. On behalf of the City of Santa Fe Police Department and our community we would like to thank the Sew-Sew Gang for their time, talent and commitment to helping the less fortunate and the children in Santa Fe and Galveston County.

Spring Fling

Pictured from left to right are: Officer Shores, Ann, Ura, Captain Meadows, Linda, Jo Anne, Chief Campbell, Nancy, Lieutenant Boody, Dena, and Verna.

Join us for: Musical Entertainment – Silent Auction – Door Prizes Raffle – Country Store – Flea Market – Craft Vendors Homemade Baked Goods & Cake Wheel Wheel of Chance Children’s Games – Train – Face Painting Harvest Table & Food & Drink Concession Stand

SANDWICH LUNCH

BBQ Beef Sandwich, Chips, and Cookie - $6.00 –Take Out is Available

FREE ADMISSION

Saturday, June 20th, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information on events & renting vendor booths call 409-925-8476 or 409-925-3093 St. John’s Lutheran Church 13136 Hwy. 6 – Santa Fe, Texas 39 Santa Fe Good News

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The Galveston County Animal Shelter has REDUCED the "Adoption Fee" for cats and dogs that are already Neutered/Spayed ("fixed") to half price--$42.50, which includes all their shots including rabies and microchip.

And often there are pets available who are "Sponsored" - meaning their "Adoption Fee" has already been paid by a generous donor to help you get them out!

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SPRING FLING

We will have St. John's Lutheran Flea Market Sale on Saturday Only!

June 20th at 13136 Hwy. 6 in Santa Fe, TX from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm.

Mark your calendars for these BARGAIN PRICES! Old & new items, collectibles, household items, crafts, toys, furniture, and lots more!

Benefiting St. John's Lutheran, Youth Camp Fund, Salvation Army & the Texas Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod Disaster Relief Team.

Arts & Crafts Vendors are needed at the SPRING FLING. For information please contact Barbara Wright at (409) 925-1461 or (281) 455-1133 or by email at dbwright02@aol.com

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Customer Facebook reviews LOCAL cinema is re-opened

by a LOCAL family...

Why should you patronize a hometown theater?

Here's one GOOD reason "We take the movie watching experience seriously and want to actively promote an environment of quiet and courteous movie watching."

They are working very hard to bring back the enjoyment and affordability of taking the whole family to the movies.

All tickets are $5.00

Call (281) 756-7166 for show times or friend them on Facebook!

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