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Comment on Guilt : Don’t Let It Take Over Your Life by sandy

sandy — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:19:11 +0000

Dear Sabrina, Thank-You for replying to my website. I’m glad you enjoyed my posts. Remember guilt will keep bogging you down if you let it. It’s like the 100 lbs. that you have lost and how much lighter you feel. That load we carry on our backs is heavy too. Think about all the good things you do and concentrate on that. Then do something nice for someone. Their happiness will spill over to you. Good Luck!

Comment on Guilt : Don’t Let It Take Over Your Life by sabrina

sabrina — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:10:04 +0000

I just love this site. I am guily of carrying a BIG guilt backpack with 50lbs or more. It is sorta funny too because I had weightloss surgery 2 years ago and lost 100lbs…then just had a tummy tuck in october of this year to remove the extra skin and yet I carry around this stupid guilt backpack. You are sooo right and thank your for opening my eyes. I will do the list and see what I come up with and then maybe hang in on my bathroom mirror to remind me daily until the guilt backpack is gone.

Comment on The Little Girl by sabrina

sabrina — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:05:02 +0000

As I read that my heart is touched and I wish you could come to my house and hold my husband when he is having a temper tantrum and maybe it would calm him.
I believe in helping people and I have always tried to go out of my way to do so. I work in the healthcare system and helping is always there to do. I know it is hard sometimes when we are tired and grumpy and just want to get home or we are with our kids and they aren’t behaving etc. Just remember this:
One day I was at the ” farmer’s market” with my kids and I had my last $100 with me for the month for groceries. I did realize that my pocket on my purse was opened and the money fell out. I went in with the kids and filled my basket full with fruit and veggies. We got to the counter and I went to pay and couldn’t find my money. I panicked. I apologized to the people behind me moved my cart and asked the lady to hold my stuff I would be right back. I went out looked in my car and it wasn’t there. I tore my purse and apart and it wasn’t there. I started to cry and my kids were not little…little but little enough that to see me cry worried them. It was my last $100 dollars. My daughter bless her heart told me “mommy it will be alright.”. She started to look around and low and behold she found some of the money. My son and I joined in the search and we found about $60.00 dollars of the $100.00. As we were looking a woman came out and asked if I needed help. I told her we were fine but thank you for asking. Kids as we know will be kids and my son said, ” my mommy lost her last $100 dollars and we can’t find it.” The lady to my amazement said to me,” Oh my goodness is there anything I can do to help.” Of course being the proud person I am I said no and thanked her for taking the time to care. This is a true story so sit down for this…..This angel, this wonderful person said to me, ” Wait right here I will be right back.” She disappeared for about 10 minutes while we contined to look for the rest of the money without finding anything. The woman comes back and grabs my hand and places her hand in mine and says, ” Just remember to pay it forward when you get the opportunity.”. I looked at her with tears in my eyes and said, ” there is no need for you to do this we will be fine.”. She said, ” I was once in your shoes and someone helped me so I must pay it forward.” She hugged me and simply walked to her car and drove away. I looked down and the woman had placed in my hand $ 140.00 dollars with a note that I have to this day with a smiley face on it saying only this….” Pay it forward someday when you have the opportunity because you never know when it is going to come back to you. You were my opportunity to pay it forward thank you for that.”
I will never forget this woman and the kindness that she showed me that day. A desperate, upset, and most assuredly not all together mom with two smallish kids.
Pay it forward is now my motto……just thought I would share.

Comment on Kids: What in the world are we doing to them? by sabrina

sabrina — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:48:03 +0000

I just want to say I happen to agree whole heartdly with you. While two of my children do have cell phones it was out of necessity that they have them because at one time I was working days and my kids were walking home alone in the afternoon. We had some scares with men trying to grab kids in my area so they would call me on the way home from school. Having said that though my kids know that they have to work hard even with having the cell phones. It is a requirement in my mind. Now lets to to the flip side of my husband with his son….this is and has been the BIG debate….like verge of divorcee debate……my stepson has been flunking school since the 5th grade and he is in the 8th grade now. Yes I said it “Thanks George Bush and the no child left behind act”. FLUNKING!!!! Now my husband decides along with my father behind my back to buy these perverbile carrot drums that my stepson says he just wants. He has had them dangled in front of him since the 5th grade and has done NOTHING to earn them at all. I am upset because we are not teaching him the same values that my other two are learning and have learned. What kind of message do you think that sends not only to the kid getting the drums but the two who work hard???? I don’t know what is wrong with my husband. He works in a public job dealing with kids like his son everyday….he comes home and jokes about the parents and their rose colored glasses…BUT his are just as big. At what point do you say to a kid who is 14 by the way….”ok…your chance to be given the drums has was since passed…if you want them you will have to get a part time job when you are old enough and by them yourself.” What is wrong with that?? My husband thinks it is wrong to deny him his dream. I am so confused because I read your article and totally agree and understand it. My husband even turned my father against me…I think that the man forgot he raised me and raised me with a very good work ethic. I am very confused and on the verge of a break down in arizona….HELP!!!!!