Happy Valentine's Day!

Roses are red,

Violents are blue,

Happy Valentine's day

to all of you :)

Spread the love - everyday!

Parent, Teacher Association

Guess who is on the PTA board again :) - me!

Natalya, loves the kids!!! 

The PTA is about, parents, teachers and the community, coming together to make things better in the system of educating our youth, and we need it.

Just yesterday I heard of two incidents of young children being molested - BY OTHER CHILDREN - 'inside' of institutions designed as a safe haven for our children to get educated and play.  What the what!? :(

I was at a school board meeting and as I listened, the folks at the meeting were saying the same old thing about the system - and what we as parents need to do - as 10 years ago.  I was on the board with my oldest daughter back then. 

My questions is, if things in the world have changed - why hasn't the school system?!  Well, all I can do is my part.

I am now apart of the PTA and will do my very best to make things as good as I can for the children; help assist the teachers; get assistance from the community; and provide as much information and guidance as I can to the parents - to get them involved.

Let me know your thoughts or ideas.

Go Down Moses!!!

Go down Moses, way down in Egypt's land, and tell ole, Pharaoh,

let my people go!!!

Hum sounds familiar.

The people's God has spoken again.

My thoughts - history repeats itself. 

Hosni Mubarak - LET IT GO!!!

It's time for change!

Who Moved My Cheese?



By Dr. Spencer Johnson.

 This is a book about how to accept change.  Change is inevitable, whether you are prepared for it on not.

Winter

Things are cold, you grab your coat, maybe an umbrella.

Spring

Things begin to warm up, you might be able to put away your umbrella, exchange your coat for a sweater.

Summer

It's hot!  Throw your sweater in the closet, grab a pair of shorts and a tank top and head to the beach!

Fall

Things are starting to cool down again.  Exchange those shorts for a pair of jeans, but you might still be able to wear the tank top, just grab that sweater again.

Then it begins all over again - Winter.

That is the system we have all gotten used to.  So then why - is now - in the middle of winter, are we reaching 80 degree temperature weather marks?  I don't know, but it is definitely a change.  My birthday falls on January 22nd, and that is winter.  Never in a million years would I have thought I could possibly have myself a picnic - I didn't - but I could have.  The weather was B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L, sun shine, blue skies and warmth.

That's an easy example of change that I could think of, but what happens when the change is harder to accept?

Death - Lost of a job - Lost of a home - Lost of hopes and dreams - Friendships change -

Children grow up - Parents grow old - Institutions change - Lost love

The list is endless!

Who Moved My Cheese is written about how to accept all kinds of change.  When someone moves the cheese that you are so used to going to, what do you do?  In the book - which the characters are two mice - one character keeps trying to find the cheese (the system) in the same old place that it's used to finding it.  The other character realizes it's gone and it's time to move on.  Time to figure out a new way to get the same results.

My thoughts - when you find that your cheese has been moved - SOMETHING'S CHANGED - evaluate the new situation, then create a new way of doing things, learn the new system.

Chaos, is what you find when people try to keep things the way they were, when things have changed.
Order, is what you find when people have accepted that things have changed and they create new way of getting the same results. 

Which person are you?  What are you finding in your life, order or chaos?

Let me know your thoughts.



Man in the Mirror

By Michael Jackson

I'm Gonna Make A Change,
For Once In My Life
It's Gonna Feel Real Good,
Gonna Make A Difference
Gonna Make It Right . . .

As I, Turn Up The Collar On My
Favourite Winter Coat
This Wind Is Blowin' My Mind
I See The Kids In The Street,
With Not Enough To Eat
Who Am I, To Be Blind?
Pretending Not To See
Their Needs
A Summer's Disregard,
A Broken Bottle Top
And A One Man's Soul
They Follow Each Other On
The Wind Ya' Know
'Cause They Got Nowhere
To Go
That's Why I Want You To
Know

I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change
(Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change)
(Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,
Na Nah)

I've Been A Victim Of A Selfish
Kind Of Love
It's Time That I Realize
That There Are Some With No
Home, Not A Nickel To Loan
Could It Be Really Me,
Pretending That They're Not
Alone?

A Willow Deeply Scarred,
Somebody's Broken Heart
And A Washed-Out Dream
(Washed-Out Dream)
They Follow The Pattern Of
The Wind, Ya' See
Cause They Got No Place
To Be
That's Why I'm Starting With
Me
(Starting With Me!)

I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
(Ooh!)
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
(Ooh!)
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change
(Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change)

I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
(Ooh!)
I'm Asking Him To Change His
Ways
(Change His Ways-Ooh!)
And No Message Could've
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make That . . .
(Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make That . . .)
Change!

I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror,
(Man In The Mirror-Oh
Yeah!)
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
(Better Change!)
No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
(Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make The Change)
(You Gotta Get It Right, While
You Got The Time)
('Cause When You Close Your
Heart)
You Can't Close Your . . .Your
Mind!
(Then You Close Your . . .
Mind!)
That Man, That Man, That
Man, That Man
With That Man In The Mirror
(Man In The Mirror, Oh Yeah!)
That Man, That Man, That Man
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
(Better Change!)
You Know . . .That Man
No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change
(Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change)
Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!
Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,
Na Nah
(Oh Yeah!)
Gonna Feel Real Good Now!
Yeah Yeah! Yeah Yeah!
Yeah Yeah!
Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,
Na Nah
(Ooooh . . .)
Oh No, No No . . .
I'm Gonna Make A Change
It's Gonna Feel Real Good!
Come On!
(Change . . .)
Just Lift Yourself
You Know
You've Got To Stop It.
Yourself!
(Yeah!-Make That Change!)
I've Got To Make That Change,
Today!
Hoo!
(Man In The Mirror)
You Got To
You Got To Not Let Yourself . . .
Brother . . .
Hoo!
(Yeah!-Make That Change!)
You Know-I've Got To Get
That Man, That Man . . .
(Man In The Mirror)
You've Got To
You've Got To Move! Come
On! Come On!
You Got To . . .
Stand Up! Stand Up!
Stand Up!
(Yeah-Make That Change)
Stand Up And Lift
Yourself, Now!
(Man In The Mirror)
Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!
Aaow!
(Yeah-Make That Change)
Gonna Make That Change . . .
Come On!
(Man In The Mirror)
You Know It!
You Know It!
You Know It!
You Know . . .
(Change . . .)
Make That Change.