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0 degrees brown ground turkey and onion season with favorite seasonings add tomatoes and heat for 10 min to cook off some water set aside sauté zoodles until slightly soft add meat mixture and stir put in a 13 in by 9 in baking dish cover with mozzarella cheese bake uncovered 40 60 minutes until bubbly let sit 15 minutes this is a perfect meal to make ahead of time and pop in the oven i love meals like these to make in the morning so homework time goes smoothly all three of my kids ate a good serving of this posted by lemira at 6 34 pm no comments labels dinner livehealthy2lose recipes zucchini monday february 15 2016 3 tips for reaching your potential do you feel like you re trying to find who you are like you know there s more to your potential but that you re just not sure where what or how are you afraid of that change do you feel like if you change you lose a part of yourself two years ago i realized that there was more for me to accomplish and to go and do that there was part of me struggling to get out a part of me that had been there but that i d buried somewhere along the way over the last couple of years i learned a few things 1 be real 2 be you 3 make the change be real being real means being truthful about your current reality your goals and what it s going to take to get there don t shy away from what you visualize as your potential and about what you want if you want to be successful say it out loud acknowledge it if you want to be healthy but are 80 100 pounds overweight and need help like i was admit it if you have an addiction that you want to overcome don t hide it admit it and find help if you want to have a stronger marriage admit what it takes to have that and what s keeping you from it be you each of us is born with a unique personality and skills set some of those skills come very naturally but most of those skills need to be developed find what you love what you do well and don t shy away from it don t be afraid of your strengths make a list of those strengths do you love to be around people do you love research are you a reader that is a strength believe it or not one that i wish i was better at are you a worker bee do you get a job done do you like to delegate jobs can you see what needs to be done and be willing to assign it out are you a good listener do you teach something do you build what makes up you are you good with words do you love unconditionally make the change at first glance this statement seems contradictory to the others but actually it makes sense the best way i can describe this is with an analogy of a butterfly a butterfly starts out as a little yellow egg when it hatches it becomes a caterpillar it spends it s first few weeks as a caterpillar eating leaves crawling around on the dirt leaves and trees it sheds its old skin and becomes a vibrant color different depending on its variety all throughout this process it looks nothing like its full potential if it survives is not eaten squished or carried away it will be come a chrysalis and develop hidden away when it is 7 8 weeks old it finally looks like a butterfly picture taken from the book see how they grow butterfly the thing about a butterfly is that it doesn t question who or what it is or will become it will become a butterfly no doubt about it but it has to go through some major changes on the outside it s a chubby squishy sort of ugly caterpillar in its core it s a butterfly it doesn t regret leaving behind the life of a caterpillar for it had to be a caterpillar before it could become a butterfly however all of that hard work and enduring is what made it possible to reach its potential maybe you are a little squishy and you have ugly parts that you are want to change in your core you re a child of god you can become like him sure you have rough spots and you have to change and even for a while you might have to eat leaves and crawl on your belly but that doesn t change who you can become you are a butterfly waiting to come out be real accept who you are and who you want to become be you recognize your talents and use them to bless others make the change don t be afraid to take the steps you need to be who you want and who you are destined to be while you may look nothing like what you want to become shedding your old skin doesn t mean you aren t you you ve always had that potential in you but making the change is releasing that old skin and allowing others to become butterflies too one of my favorite quotes is from marianne williamson our deepest fear by marianne williamson our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us we ask ourselves who am i to be brilliant gorgeous talented fabulous actually who are you not to be you are a child of god your playing small does not serve the world there s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won t feel insecure around you we are all meant to shine as children do we were born to make manifest the glory of god that is within us it s not just in some of us it s in everyone and as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same as we re liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others note this inspiring quote on our deepest fear is taken from marianne williamson s inspiring book a return to love though often quoted as part of nelson mandela s moving inaugural speech our deepest fear does not appear in the speech marianne williamson herself has commented on this mistaken attribution for marianne s website click here for other highly inspiring poems click here go out and shine today posted by lemira at 7 14 am 1 comment sunday february 14 2016 put a little heart into personal progress this month s reminder for the girls feel free to download the jpeg and print it off if you need a bigger version feel free to comment or send an email to me lemira livehealthy2lose dot com i printed it off in wallets 4 to a sheet at costco you could also put a heart shaped sugar cookie my original plan but then decided to go with chocolates posted by lemira at 9 13 am no comments labels personal progress young women thursday december 24 2015 merry christmas eve happy christmas eve today my heart is full as i think of this season and the culminating day tomorrow today is the day of anticipation for so many children and families while we wait and wait for christmas i think the most exciting and emotionally charged day is usually today as children we couldn t contain our excitement for we knew what was coming all month long i ve been thinking of another person who felt the anticipation of tomorrow who had so many conflicting emotions today i speak of joseph the husband of mary the father of jesus christ as a child i learned early on that joseph was only the earthly father as jesus was the son of god for some reason that was easy to accept as an adult i ve thought a lot about this relationship and now as an adoptive mother i feel i have a deeper understanding and a respect and admiration for this man i think of some of the emotions joseph must have felt before jesus was born can i love this child as my own will i be a suitable father for a child with such a great heritage you trust me to raise this child will i be able to teach him about his father to help him understand his divine mission will this child love me as i pondered those questions it was astounding to me as to how many of those i have asked and am still asked by other people in regards to my children these questions are also questions that are very personal and very real to adoptive parents with both of my children who were adopted i ask and continue to ask if i m doing enough to help them reach their potential do they know who they are and where they ve come from do they feel a connection to their birth families what will our bond be is my bond diminished because they are not my flesh i don t doubt that joseph was connected to his son i don t doubt that he felt jesus was his son and i don t doubt that our father in heaven felt that joseph was jesus father as well just as i m a mother to children i did not bear i have watched my husband with my children and he didn t contribute any dna to two of those children and his love and devotion to his children is not any less than it is to his biological son at the same time as adoptive parents we are not trying to replace their birth parents we want our children to know all of their family to truly understand who they are and what they are called to do those questions now seem silly to me in a way of course my children know i love them of course i love with with every fiber of my being yes they love me at least that s why they say if i could speak to joseph i would tell him thank you i would thank him for being an ideal parent a man who showed how to love a child that was not his flesh and blood i would tell him that he s a good dad that he did raise jesus right that although he made mistakes he was who the father trusted to raise his son on earth i have personally witnessed a father bonding to his children who are not his flesh and blood i see it every day my favorite christmas songs are when joseph went to bethlehem and guard him joseph songs about the savior s father i m no longer worried about calling joseph father to jesus for he held that role in conjunction with our father in heaven joseph sort of fades away in the background but i do not doubt that the savior loved joseph for all of his life i do not doubt that jesus knew that both of his fathers loved him i do not believe that acknowledging both joseph and god as fathers of jesus diminishes either role in fact i believe it deepens the relationship as it proves that god had so much trust in joseph to raise his son that joseph probably prayed long and often to know what to do the lds church recently put out a message about joseph s relationship with jesus and it touched my heart as you celebrate christmas i pray that you will remember why we have christmas and that little family 2015 years ago that changed the course of the world whether you believe in god or not you can t deny that this little being has shaped so much of our lives and society i testify to you that jesus lives that he loves you and he loves me merry christmas posted by lemira at 6 43 am no comments tuesday december 1 2015 advent ures in christmas this year our calendar is full of fun things to do together as a family since one of our goals is to connect more with each other of course each little door has a treat as well in the past we ve tried service or scriptures to fill them but no one really got excited about it except for the candy this year it s filled with traditions as well as a few service traditions i m really excited about this year as we ve added some new things to do listed below the picture is our list of 25 things we are doing this month many are very specific to a day since that s when the event is happening what traditions are you doing this year that you are excited to do 25 days of christmas decorate your tree downstairs go see the lights in spanish fork set up nativity go to the festival of trees go to the payson creche display watch christmas devotional and decorate gingerbread cookies decorate gingerbread house write a letter to santa have an indoor snowball fight shop for gifts for other children angel tree at walmart make a craft with mom go to the christmas party at church stake christmas fireside make christmas cards for grandparents leave a treat and doorbell ditch a neighbor drive around and look at light displays and listen christmas music go to jackson s choir concert have a family christmas movie night with popcorn shop for a gift for your siblings watch church christmas movies and eat popcorn deliver neighbor gifts buy your christmas morning cereal have lunch at a special restaurant with our family wear new jammies to bed read the story about the birth of jesus posted by lemira at 8 07 am no comments sunday november 22 2015 our open adoptions something that s been on my mind a lot lately is open adoption whenever we tell people the nature of our open adoptions with our children s birth families we get a lot of surprised looks and some questions technically the legal definition of an open adoption is very simple the birth parents and adoptive parents know who each other is by name and possibly location in the adoption world however you will find that each adoption situation is very different in terms of what open looks like in one family it could be different with each child for instance one child might have a closed adoption no contact whatsoever with either birth parent and another child might have regular visits our family s philosophy is simple our children s family is our family we are one neither one of our children s birth mothers initially wanted an open adoption we did from the beginning we told them that we would love an open adoption in fact with emily s mom we told her very directly that we wanted it for emily more than for us or for her with cole s mom we didn t even meet her until one month after he was born but i started sending emails within a week of his adoption she came for thanksgiving that first year and in the last four years our relationship has grown so much that it hurts when we can t see each other in fact she lived with us for two months this year and i would do it again in a heartbeat emily s mom thought she wanted a closed adoption as well and we were very open before emily s birth and we were there for emily s birth and i stayed the first night with emmy and her mom the day emily s mom left the hospital matt and i wept bitterly worried that we would never see her again to our delight three days later when she had to sign the dreaded relinquishment papers she changed her mind here are her own words on the matter before having emily i wanted it closed because i thought i could never bear the sight of seeing my baby in the arms and home of anyone else but my own after having you guys there during delivery and having matt give me a blessing i knew leaving that hospital that i couldn t bear to not have her in my life i know that sweet little angel was sent here to be in my life but not my home and through open adoption i have gained a whole new family a best friend and a opportunity to have emily be not only in my heart but in my life and i know i wouldn t been able to choose a better family if i hand picked you guys myself for me open adoption has been the biggest blessing because not only do you guys invite me and my family with open arms but you are beyond awesome at allowing me to be a part of all of her firsts and i could never thank you enough something i always said i could never do is now something i could never not do i do not post that because of what she says about us but so you can read in her own words what she thi...