MichaelHeart's comments

It's Been One of Those Days! - Blog Entry

21 May 2006 07:40 PM

Your story brings back many wonderful memories! Thanks so much for sharing!

Michael Heart

Boys & Guns - Blog Entry

21 May 2006 07:32 PM

Nicki,

While I do applaud you for wanting to keep violence out of your home and away from your "man boys," you have learned a very valuable lesson. No matter how hard we may try to keep our children from doing certain things, whenever we try to circumvent Mother Nature's Laws, we simply postpone the inevitable.

A word of advice here. You like being a girly girl and I commend you for that. Just remember, boys like to be man boys just as much as you like being a girly girl.

Look, guns are a part of every boy's growing up. Guns aren't violent, it's the people that use them to commit acts against people that are violent.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading your story. I almost fell out of my chair from laughing so hard reading about the legos and later about the penis guns.

I'll just bet your boys have a lot of fun at your home!

Sign me trying to sypathize with you but my side hurts too much!

Michael Heart

Tips for Surviving Divorce with Children - Blog Entry

21 May 2006 07:18 PM

Just wanted to give you an update on the divorce rate. As of 2006, the divorce rate is almost 58%.

God Bless You and Yours, Michael Heart

Is there really a single parent who understands? - Journal Entry

19 May 2006 07:16 PM

Dear Single Parent,

You are right, life is geared towards meeting new people, life is geared towards expanding our knowledge, life is geared towards long-term relationships, and yes life is geared towards marriage! That is absolutely the meaning of life. We are born, we are loved, raised, educated, and then we become adults. We date, we experience life, we get married, we have children of our own, and then the cycle repeats itself.

Though I have just described the simplicity of life, each of us, every one of us gets to choose. We get to choose our own specific path. We can choose to go left. We can choose to go right. We can choose to go forward. We can choose to go backwards. We can even choose to remain motionless. But WE get to choose. We decide what we get. We decide how we achieve our goals. We decide what dreams we pursue. We decide how we feel about ourselves. We decide to run and hide or we decide to stand up for what we believe in and face the world. We decide to let the world run right over us or we decide to be the engineer and drive the train. We decide to feel sorry for ourselves or we decide to fight for what we want. We decide to allow others to run our life or we decide to take the bull by the horns and run our own life. We decide when we feel helpless just as we decide when to be the hero. We decide to be a victim or we decide to be responsible and to be held accountable for our decisions, but WE decide.

While it is sad that you do not have any help, it’s still your choice. Life isn’t easy. Life is what we make of it. No one is going to hand you happiness. If you want happiness, go and get it, but go and get it with determination, with pride, and with a well conceived plan. Don’t expect that happiness is handed out to us. We all have had good and bad experiences in our lives. We have all suffered pain, heartache, grief, lost love, sick children, frustration, anger, peer pressure, hormonal changes, and yes even financial difficulty.

When the world has handed us lemons we either make lemon-aide or we throw out the lemon because we don’t like the taste. Either way, it’s always our choice to make. Sometimes life isn’t easy and yes sometimes a good cry helps to empty the hurt and frustration that we feel inside. Always remember, that we cannot rid ourselves of unhappiness just because we want to, it takes planning, dedication, commitment, and action to accomplish any goal. It’s hard work but the results are well worth the effort!

In the end, life is always what we make of it, especially when we are single!

God Bless You and Yours, Michael Heart