Live, Laugh, Love

You have just entered the grand ball room. The ceiling stretches high above you and it is adorned with the most beautiful art work that you have ever seen. The walls are covered with the finest drapes and tapestries. Everyone is swaying to the sound of the band that is playing as the music fills the air. They are a sea of bright colored costumes gliding a cross the floor. Masks of all shapes and sizes adorn there faces. As you make your way through the room all of a sudden you are stopped by someone. They introduce them self, and the game begins.

You start to engage in the conversation, but you ask yourself who is this person? It becomes a game to discover who the person is under the mask.

In life we all wear a mask at some point. These masks come in all shapes and sizes, and are used at different times. Some of us will wear them for our whole life. Only to take them off when no one is around.

The mask is used to hide some part of us that we don’t want others to see. Maybe our flaws, weaknesses, or just our secrets. We can choose to hide all of our self or just a portion. The mask also becomes our protection and we choose when to use it. Some of use like to think of ourselves as transparent but the truth is that we are never 100% transparent to everyone all the time in all areas of our life. We are always covering some part of ourselves.

We are the only ones who really know what is beneath the mask and maybe just maybe someone else knows too.

So who is under the mask?

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - snap - the job’s a game.

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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living.

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“Walk the walk” matters. Children learn what they live. They learn from what they see and hear their parents do- how parents make things work, how they solve problems, what behavior is acceptable or not, what types of cues and words win positive responses. Parents can and do mentor through their everyday actions and words.

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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The makeup that I use is bareMinerals. For so long I used a liquid makeup and hated applying it. So one day I broke down and joined there club. They are usually running a special offer on there starter kit online. The foundation has great coverage and blends well.

If you are just looking to a good makeup brush theirs are awesome. They are not made poorly. You may loose a couple of bristle but they will last a long time. I will not buy any other brushes.

Note: not all products work for everyone, just sharing with you what I have found that works for me.

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One day your children should be able to look back and say, “My family was the one place where I felt I could be myself- and be loved for it.”

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This is a product that I really like. It is a very potent moisturizing lotion but I do not have any problems with it clogging my pores. My pores get clogged very easily by other products. I have very dry skin in the winter and this is the only moisturizing lotion that I found that I can use. It has worked on flaky dry skin.

Note: not all products work for everyone, just sharing with you what I have found that works for me.

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The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them.

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Biore deep cleansing pore strips is a product that I love. The strips do remove dirt from your pores. They are very easy to use just open and wet strip. Place it on your face in specified place. Let dry and that will take about 10 to 15 min. Remove gently. If you look at the strip you should see the dirt that was in your pores.

Note: not all products work for everyone, just sharing with you what I have found that works for me.

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