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All About Me (Part 7)
>> Wednesday, November 12, 2008
My Family (Part 2)
So yesterday I talked about the impact of my parents - today I want to hit up my sister, brother, and grandparents - here we go:
Grandma - My grandma awesome! When I was little I told her that she was the best cook in North and South America - today I believe shes the best cook in the world! My grandma is the typical movies you see in movies and want to cry because their so cute! She's a blessing... She taught me:
Pap - Pap: I call him "The Icon" . . . I'm pretty sure I got my sense of humor from him! He is hilarious! He was a pilot in WWII and has all kind of cool Nazi gear including a gigantic Nazi flag that I hope to inherit someday that he stole from the Nazi's! He taught me:
I encourage you to write each of your family members name in a journal and write the lessons you've learned as a result of having them in your life. It is eye opening...it will give you 100 more things to be thankful for during this season!
Have a great day!
Grandma - My grandma awesome! When I was little I told her that she was the best cook in North and South America - today I believe shes the best cook in the world! My grandma is the typical movies you see in movies and want to cry because their so cute! She's a blessing... She taught me:
- How to treat women - how to be a gentlemen (ladies - believe it! haha)
Pap - Pap: I call him "The Icon" . . . I'm pretty sure I got my sense of humor from him! He is hilarious! He was a pilot in WWII and has all kind of cool Nazi gear including a gigantic Nazi flag that I hope to inherit someday that he stole from the Nazi's! He taught me:
- To Fish - He loves to fish - so many great memories of fishing trips when I was little
- How to Treat Women - He was a stud... it's been passed down!
- To be proud of family - He is a family man for sure and 100% Italian!
- How to make fun of parents for their quirks - What's in the fridge? ha ha
- Repentance - When I was in high school I wasn't exactly on fire for God. For years, I beat my sister up verbally - calling her worthless along with some other things. As I've grown up I had to apologize for that and repent...huge lesson.
- The Power of my Words: In calling her names and in now calling her beautiful and things like that - I can see it in her eyes the effect that my words have on her life. I need to carry this over into every arena of my life.
- The Power of Influence - being 16 years older than me I obviously looked up to him growing up. I wanted to be like him, do what he did, etc.. It's amazing how impressionable we are as children. It's a constant reminder that people are watching my life and I have to think to myself - am I leading by example - or am I showing them a bad example.
I encourage you to write each of your family members name in a journal and write the lessons you've learned as a result of having them in your life. It is eye opening...it will give you 100 more things to be thankful for during this season!
Have a great day!
3 comments:
Wow Bubba what a great series.
I really love what you said about the power of words. I didn't realize it, but i never really build up my brothers. I think as a fun experiment i will start to and see what affects it has on them :)
Anyway to answer your question my real name is not Rain, though i dearly love that name. I plan to name my daughter Rain Marie when I have her. However, it will be quite a while before that happens and since you don't know my true name and i so thoroughly enjoy Rain, you can feel free to call me that until I do give birth :P lol
But hey just to help my creditability a little, I will tell you that I'm not just some random stranger, I met you at camp last year ;)
My friends just informed me that I sound as if i may be saying I am presently pregnant in my last comment. Fortunately, since I am unmarried, I am not. When I said "in a long time" I meant a REALLY long time as in like years and years.
It never once crossed my mind that you were pregnant... lol
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