Rhi's Designs

Self-care- Marion G. Romney said, "without self-reliance one cannot exercise these innate desires to serve. How can we give if there is nothing there? Food for the hungry can't come from empty shelves. Money to assist the needy can't come from an empty purse. Support and understanding can't come from the emotionally starved. Teaching can't come from the unlearned. And most important of all spiritual guidance cannot come from the spiritually weak.  This time in my parenting class I have learned that I need to take more time for the self-care of mom! This is a scary time in the world and if I'm not stocked in faith, hope and courage, how to I expect my children to feel or know where to turn if I don't teach them? I have thought over the many weeks what types of activities am I showing them by my example of filling my oil lamp to be spiritually fed? I have tried to spend more time on my knees praying for strength to get through school, to help my children m...

Quarantine, what a time to live in. I don't feel like this time has been effecting me like many others. I have seen my children going a little stir crazy, especially when I get home from work. They have said it's because they are seeing another person for the first time. I still have to work at my full-time job during this time. Since they are at home, I think about how they are being safe. I have also thought about the many influences that they are letting their minds see. They are good kids but this last school year has been a rough one. Both are in the stage where they are liking the opposite sex. Not more than a crush on someone. But I have seen them handle their own set of dramas or novellas is what we like to call them. My daughter has asked me several times why her friends have boyfriends and why she doesn't? I'm actually happy that she doesn't but I know how it feels to not feel loved and parent love isn't the same. While I deal with one person who d...

Thinking back at this semester, I have learned some things about failure. That sometimes you have to give up on stressful things and enjoy the better things of life. This has been one of the tougher semesters that I have had since coming back to school. Everything has been going at a rapid pace. Even though it's been fast, I would have to say I still appreciate the things that I have learned. There is not enough time to make up the work that I have missed. So I have to suffer the consequence of having poor grades. Because the assignment was to post about what I have learned and to give some advice that would be helpful to others, this is it! Just enjoy the time you have. I am a mother of two great teens, I am worker bee that has three jobs because I like to shop way to much. I am a wife that feels like a failure and doesn't know how I got so lucky with an understanding husband? I use to compare myself when I was down to others good times. I use to think that my life wasn'...

This week has had it's own set of challenges. Life is busy and I can't imagine it any other way. I have been feeling bad though with the classes about entrepreneurship because I haven't felt the passion to quit what I do and become my own boss. I work hard for others and though it's never the ideal situation to have to spend time working for someone else. I like having the steady work, the benefits and being able to leave work behind me at the end of the day. The thought of owning my business is has been an illusion of what I would like to do. My husband and I have thought about when we retire to open our own pizza place. But that is a dream that we just talk about. We have good jobs that we don't want to leave and busy children that we can't just stop doing what they need to do to follow our dreams right now. We are just trying to find the place with the craziness of life. However, I have been using the ideas and principles to my current job and how I can...

I love reading anything from Elder Holland. He has such a way with words that it makes me want to be better. With his talk that was "Are We Not All Beggars?" I know that I'm a person that needs different things than others. I try to give my things away to others when I no longer need them. People ask do you want me to pay you? My answer is always no. I have been blessed to have a steady job and to be able to buy things. Some of my co-workers don't have those luxuries. Luckily I can help. When I am done with my clothes, since they haven't been used for a that long. I bring in bags full of clothes for them to go through. It makes me feel good that I can impart my substance to others. The questions from this week's Quiz asked, why is virtue and Integrity important in business? My answer is they are important because they help people be accountable for their actions. We see is all the time with businesses that they end up closing up shop because someone in the b...

Measuring the cost, of education, life, love and success. I started out on this school journey to "just finish" what I started so many years ago. I have felt that my lack of education has limited me in my career goals. It might have but I have had many on the job experiences to give me quite an education too. I have wanted to get this degree because it makes me nervous to have to start over some day from where I currently work because I lack the education. I had to measure the cost of my family when I went back to school. I would be busy on nights that I needed to help get kids places, I would also not get to watch T.V. with them. These things still break my heart but I know that if I strive to change with school, we can have a better future. What I have loved in all of this is gaining a new perspective in learning, in studying not just school work but church related topics too. I can see my testimony grow because of the blessing that I am receiving. Those costs are innumer...