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Show A2 • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2009 ommunity ews Being and sharing our best - N E W S - Spanish Fork 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, UT 84660 Life After Birth Lane Henderson. . . . .Publisher Namon Bills Editor Dana Robinson . Assoc. Editor The Spanish Fork News is published each Wednesday for $37.50 per year in area and $41.50 out of area by J-Mart, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork Utah 84660. Email stones to editor@5pforknews.com Email ads to ads@spforknews.com Call us at 794-4964 POSTMASTER Send address changes to Spanish Fork News 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, Utah 84660 Tlie entire content of this newspaper is Copyright © 2009 Spanish Fork News. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the editor or publisher. THE SPANISH FORK NEWS (USPS 024716) is published weekly for $37.50 per year by JMan Publishing, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork, UT 84660. Periodicals Postage Paid at Spanish Fork, UT. POSTMASTER; Send address changes to The Spanish Fork News, 42 East 300 North, Spanish Fork, UT 84660. DEADLINES Weddings, anniversaries, missionaries, 1st birthdays, articles, photos, letters to the editor 2 p.m. Covering what matters most Janene Baadsgaard When my children were small they had an uncanny way of knowing when I was about to leave the house. "Where are you going Mommy?" one of my children would always ask before I told them I was leaving. "Why do you think I'm going somewhere?" I answered. "Because you have lipstick on," my child said. That's when I realized I always put on lipstick before I left the house. That comment got me thinking. Why do I try to look my best for strangers and not my own family? I rarely fixed myself up or wore my nice clothes at home. I decided to change my habits. Eventually the children stopped asking me where I was going when I put lipstick on because I wasn't going anywhere. This change of heart also helped me notice I was saving my best linens, bath towels and dishes for special holidays or when house guests were staying in my home. I decided the people who actually live at my house certainly deserve to enjoy our nicest things. So I began using my best Janene Baadsgaard "Mom was afraid they'd get broken and she wouldn't be able to buy new ones." We all tend to put off using or sharing our best things. We protect and save until we die. Then nobody ever gets to eat off our nice dishes or see us in our fancy dress or nice suit - not even us! We wait too long to delight in what we already have. We collect and store instead of use or give away because we harbor some illusive fear that our good things will be ruined. Perhaps the real ruin is in hoarding. If we don't offer our best to those we love today, the opportunity may be lost forever. "You and your husband are good savers," an older woman told me once. "But don't forget to enjoy your money as you go along. My husband and I never went on vacations or bought each other nice gifts because we were responsibly and dutifully saving for retirement. That's when we were going to start enjoying our lives together. Well my husband died the day before he retired and now 1 am left with all our savings but no companion to share it with and no fun memories to keep me warm at night." There is no tomorrow - but only today. Life is short. The day to buy that special gift, go on that dreamed about vacation or use your best china is today. None of us know if we have a tomorrow and by then the opportunity has past. Those closest to us deserve our best every single day. Janene Baadsgaard is the author of many books including 15 Secrets to a Happy Home, Families Who Laugh - Last, On the Roller Coaster Called Motherhood, Winter's Promise, Financial Freedom for LDS Families and The LDS Mother's Almanac available at local book stores or on-line at www. springcreekbooks.com. Read her past columns at www.janenebaadsgaard. blogspot.com. sheets, towels and dishes for everyday. Yes, sometimes those nice things got stained, broken or ruined but I could always replace them. I couldn't replace the time I had with my husband and children. I stopped waiting for special occasions or house guests. Enjoying and using my best all the time reminds me to value myself and the members of my own family. When I live this way, every day is a special occasion and each person in my home is treated like an important guest. When my mother-in-law died her daughters divided up her only set of nice china and gave one place setting to each surviving child. I asked my sister-in-law why I'd Courtesy plioto never seen those beautiful SHARING OUR BEST: "Enjoying and using my best all the time reminds me to value mydishes or eaten off them. lJ[t> ; self and the members of my own family." -Janene Baadsgaard'' • • .,<? o i f Holiday recipes probably write 2008 on checks for a while until we get used to the new numShirlene YL Ottesen bers. Some have expressed a sort of "good riddance" Your chuckle for the to the year just past and are week: A young boy who hoping for a better 2009. had a fairly successful sum- Others have expressed mer lawn mowing job went some concerns as we enter to pay his tithing. The clerk this new year and express began to finalize the trans- great apprehension about action. Surprised at the the next 365 days. Only amount of the contribution time will tell. Most everyhe questioned the faithful one takes a "one-day-at-ayoung man and said, "Are time" attitude any more. you sure this isright?This is Life seems to be pretty a large amount of money." unpredictable and just The clerk then proceeded to when things seem to be goexplain to him that tithing ing your way, a curve ball is 10% of income and even comes out of nowhere. gave him a simple example: One thing about going $10.00 is a tenth of $100.00 to parties during the holiand his contribution far ex- days is that you are probceeded that amount. The ably going to go home with young boy insisted that it a new recipe. Such was my was right. When the clerk case when the "daughters" was about to again ques- of our Palmyra DUP Camp tion the transaction, the boy met for our Christmas went on to explain: "My party early in December. Mom and Dad said that our We enjoyed a lot of good bishop is the poorest bishop food at our pot-luck lunwe've ever had and I want cheon, but because I needto help him out!" ed some new salad recipes Whew! We made it I ask for a copy of a salad through another year and brought by Linda Prior. I here we are a week into the See SHIRLENE* 3 New Year of 2009. We'll There and Back Again r ' n t>i •• A happy healthy new year Rhythmic Aerobics came out with program called "Huff and Puff aerobics Marilyn M. Atwood designed especially for children. I volunteered to What is the number one teach each grade level for New Year's resolution? At 30 minutes once a week. the top of the list for most My goal was to teach them people is losing weight. ways to get aerobic exerObesity has become such cise every day at home by a problem in this country jogging, walking, riding that over sixty percent of bikes, jumping the rope adult Americans are ei- and other fitness activities. ther overweight or obese. I wanted the children to According to the Centers spend after school hours for Disease Control and getting exercise instead of Prevention, over the past watching TV and playing three decades the child- video games. hood obesity rate has more Exercise is essential than doubled for preschool in losing weight but you children and for ages 6 to also need a healthy eat19 years, it has almost tri- ing plan. Another stapled! tistic that is troubling to I became very con- me is nearly one-third of cerned about health and children age 4 to 19 eat fitness for children when fast food every day. The my three oldest children results are approximately attended Salem Elemen- six extra pounds gained tary School. I was teach- per year, per child. This ing aerobics to adults is a bad habit that must three times a week. Then be broken. I believe the Happiness is Homemade Marilyn M. Atwood / Spanish Fork News NEW YOU: A lifestyle change with more exercise can be a family New Year's resolution. key to helping them have better nutrition is for par- ents to make a permanent change in their family's See HEALTHY • 3 Letter to the Editor Thank-you Fire Department OLD OR YOUNG WE HAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE (801)798.8777 77 EAST INDUSTRIAL PARK. DRIVE. SPANISH FORK _%•'• Yes! Thanks to our Spanish Fork Fire Department, we still have a home in this great city. The woodfirein the insert was a little hot, but not as hot as it had been before, but I still thought I would separate the fire and let it burn slower and turn down the dampers. Woo — what was all that rush of air? Could I have a chimney fire? Closing the door to the insert I hurried out side and saw the chimney just belching out smoke. I took the time to run around the house and there was no doubt about it, smoke was really coming out and then as I put a ladder up to the roof (I had drained the hose so water would come out, even in this cold) the smoke suddenly turned to fire that reached about three feet into the air, going just like a blow torch, As I took the ladder from the side of the house, I had yelled to my wife to call the fire department and then do whatever she could to put the fire in the fire place insert out. This she was able to do so the original source of the fire was gone. About this time, when Ifirststarted spraying the water with the hose onto the chimney, I heard the sirens and felt a great relief knowing that the fire department was so quickly on their way. How grateful I was then, and always will be, for those fire people (as I soon found out that some of our fire fighters are young ladies) that drop what ever they are doing to run to the aid of a distressed family, at just a moments notice. Again, I would like to give all of you fire people an insufficient thanks for all you do. It's a great city we share and we are so happy to still have a house, to be able to continue living, right here, in our own Spanish Fork. The Royden Hill family Spanish Fork |