Poo Bum

So our youngest gets away with calling us names, Poo bum being his name of choice. I'm not sure how it started really, I think it was with us calling him Brycie poo bum when he had a dirty diaper. So we really set the example for him which he is only following. We said it affectionately of course which he in turn says to us. So when he does something that sends him to timeout or that we ask him to tell us sorry for, he replies, "wharry daddy poo bum." He says this to everyone and even caught our friend off guard the other night as he was leaving when he said "Bye Steve poo bum!" This is a man in his 40's that probably isn't used to being called poo bum, but again, let me reassure you people, it is a term of affection.

I had to learn this quickly in my first few years of marriage when Christy would call me crazy. I'm not quite sure what I had in mind with the definition of the word crazy, but it wasn't one of affection that's for sure. After getting a little upset more than once she finally explained this to me that it was a term of affection and I've since learned to associate that word with acceptance and love. And now poo bum has joined those ranks of affection. Of course I may be like the emperors new clothes and they tell him what is good when others are laughing behind his back while he prances around naked. Maybe she has bamboozled me into believing that crazy is a good thing? But go ahead and laugh for all I care, heck, kiss my crazy poo bum! Because I believe I am loved...

Goals

I've been thinking lately about goals and success... I think that there actually might be more of a correlation between the two than I previously gave them credit for. I've been living too many of my days just taking life as it comes to me, and while I don't think this is necessarily bad, it breeds too much complacency and maybe even depression because I have nothing to really work for or look forward to. That is one main reasons goals are good. They allow us to continue to improve ourselves and help build our self-esteem as we accomplish each one. It can sort of act like perpetual motivation once you start and accomplish the first few. We end up accomplishing much more. And I'm not even talking major goals...even small ones like doing something small that's been on my list for months that I haven't done just because I've never set time apart for them.
(As a disclaimer to anybody I live near, my mission president once told me that as a leader, it was okay to teach the right things to do as long as we know they are right, we shouldn't not teach something that is right just because we may not be implementing our own teachings. In other words, I feel that goals are something I should do and set for myself and I shouldn't feel like a hypocrite if I don't always do them. )