Why this blog...

I am the mother of the three most talented, intelligent and beautiful children ever to live on this earth. I am also privileged to be married to the most wonderful man! He has added three additional talented, intelligent and beautiful children to our family! I have a job that I mostly love, a wonderful education, a beautiful home, marvelous family, and I have the privilege of belonging to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I have been greatly blessed in my life, but I sometimes forget that. So, I decided to create this blog as a way to remind myself of all the many blessings and miracles that surround me. (I'm also terrible at keeping a journal- so this will be something for my kids to enjoy as well.)

I hope you enjoy what you read. I would love to hear what you think!

Deanne

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Lessons I Learned from Scooby-Doo!

Yes, I mean as in the cartoon TV show, 'Scooby-Doo'... I loved this cartoon when I was younger, and my kids and nieces & nephews, especially Jon, have learned to love it too! Yet, through the years, this fun little show has taught me some things that I want to share. (in no particular order)


(Yes, the blue pics are from a quilt I made Jon once upon a time!)
* Chase scenes (those hectic, maybe scary, frantic times of life) are always more fun (and bearable) with music! Music, especially music being blasted throughout the house with my kids, is the best life soundtrack anyone could ever want... when life gets how it always will get, try it- chase scenes aren't any fun without music!

*The ghosts of life will always turn out to be 'a man with a mask'! The bad/scary/weird thing still happened, but if you hang in there, keep looking, examine those clues, rely on your 'gang', life will get better- even if it only means that you made it through.

* Life and its mysteries are more fun when you have the 'gang' along... I certainly have mine!

I relate to Velma! From her I have learned that being the smart girl is not a bad thing. I know this may sound a bit conceited on my part, but I was always the smart one- learning and school were and still are easy for me- so my friends made sure I knew they considered me the smart one in the group. But being book smart does not mean being other kinds of smart, and I wondered for many years if their comments were a good thing or not- Velma is book smart- and well liked by the gang too! So, being smart became a great thing to me!





Eric is our Freddie! He is that good-looking, oldest guy who always likes to think he is in charge and knows everything (really Velma was in charge, but she let Freddie think he was!) Eric does know a lot, is good at taking charge and terrific at figuring out directions- such a Freddie in our gang!




Charly- has to be Daphne! She is such an amazingly beautiful and talented young woman! But she does tend to get lost quite often... where would we be without our Daphne?!







Jon, well the pic says it all! The best friend to one and all- even the dog that people can't quite understand when he talks... just like Jon and his unique gift at understanding anyone who has an accent! Of course, Jon also has an appetite to rival even Shaggy's famous bottomless stomach! And  he is a great friend to Velma (me!)- Jon is definitely our Shaggy (although much better looking!)

Now all we need to complete our gang is a Scooby-Doo!
Scooby-Doo, where are you?!!

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