Monthly Archives: March 2008

…from my Uncle in Nova Scotia. Thought it would be relevant to everyone, not just me. I especially love the rules to live by section at the bottom.

A lecturer when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked
‘How heavy is this glass of water?’
Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.
The lecturer replied, ‘The absolute weight doesn’t matter.
It depends on how long you try to hold it.
If I hold it for a minute, that’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you’ll have to call an ambulance. In each case, it’s the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.’
He continued, ‘And that’s the way it is with stress management.
If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won’t be able to carry on. ‘
‘As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again.
When we’re refreshed, we can carry on with the burden.’
‘So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down.
Don’t carry it home.
You can pick it up tomorrow.
Whatever burdens you’re carrying now,
let them down for a moment if you can.’
So, my friend, Put down anything that may be a burden to you right now.
Don’t pick it up again until after you’ve rested a while.

Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens of life:
* Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue.
* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
* Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.* Drive carefully. It’s not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
* If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply be kind to others.
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The baby counter is wrong. I don’t know how to fix it. Maybe Mark will at some point. The doctor’s have pushed the due date back by at least 10 days so far. Every time we talk to one of them, it seems to be a little later and a little later. The due date may even be as late as Mark’s birthday (September 1) at this point. I’m not sure. I try to block out alot of what the doctors say at these appointments. It may not be mature to point my fingers in my ears and sing “lalala” to myself during the consultations but it does help me sleep at night. I do believe this is a conspiracy to drag this, my final pregnancy, on into eternity. That’s right, I said final. If anyone ever, I repeat EVER, hears me talk of having another baby, I beg you to yell at me, threaten me, even hit me. We will never do this again! Future generations of our families will have to rely on others (Christopher, Joseph, heck, maybe even Jason) to reproduce as this baby store is officially closed!

Joseph called us on the weekend. It has been a long time! I mean a looooonnnnngggg time! Mark didn’t even recognize the sound of his own brother’s voice. He had no clue who it was! Mark claims that Joe was altering his voice so that he wouldn’t recognize it. I told Mark that Joe always sounds high pitched and girly on the phone! All is well as Joe continues his random travels through out the world. His path definitely seems to be meandering but if the pics on facebook are a fair representation, it looks like he’s having a great time! If you haven’t already, join the facebook group…Where in the world is Joseph Bentley? He’s certainly keeping everyone guessing! Hope you’re having a blast Joey. Love and miss you.

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