The dog said, “That’s a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I’ll give you back the other ten?”
So God agreed……

On the second day, God created the monkey and said, “Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I’ll give you a twenty-year life span.”

The monkey said, “Monkey tricks for twenty years? That’s a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the dog did?”
And God agreed……

On the third day, God created the cow and said, “You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer’s family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years.”

The cow said, “That’s kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. How about twenty and I’ll give back the other forty?”
And God agreed again……and then………..

On the fourth day, God created humans and said, “Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I’ll give you twenty years.”

But the human said, “Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?”

“Okay,” said God.. “You asked for it.”

So that is why for our first twenty years, we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years, we slave in the sun to support our family.. For the next ten years, we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren. And for the last ten years, we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.

Life has now been explained to you.

It all started 5 years ago when I was 8 months pregnant with Natalie while we were still living in Ottawa. Kyle came home one evening and said that we were going to Toronto for a 3 day course and that his mum was coming from Winnipeg to look after the kids. Then he suggested I read this book by T. Harv Eker: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

That book changed my life. After I read it, I was really excited about learning how to have a millionaire mind. Till that point, I had the mindset of just working at a job and living our life, whatever ways our salaries provided. After reading this book and attending the followup seminar, I realized that I was limiting my beliefs, I was capable of so much more. This book was the turn around point for me in what I could do personally and what I had to offer to others.

After attending, “Mind of Steel, Heart of Gold”, I know now I can do anything. I have re-evaluated my priorities and once I am clear of my intentions, it will happen. If I stumble along the way, I know I will have the support of my friends(old and new) to guide and help me along my journey! Thanks Golden Steel! I trust in the Universe… and I know I can do it!

I have a Mind of Steel & A Heart of Gold
I Love my Life!

During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the WarsawGhetto, as a Nurse. She had an ‘ulterior motive’ .. She KNEW what the Nazi’s plans were for the Jews, (being German.)

Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried in the back of her truck. She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.

During her time doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi’s broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely.

Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar ,buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.

In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize … She was not selected.

Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.

She died, whilst being nursed by one of the children she saved from the gas chamber.

Today the Lieutenant Governor Philip Lee and his wife came for a visit and I stayed at the school to take some pictures. He made a short speech and gave out Manitoba Pins to all the kids.

]]> http://ameliayap.com/mummy-thoughts/2010/07/manitoba-kids-chinese-summer-camp/feed/ 0 http://ameliayap.com/mummy-thoughts/2010/07/an-awesome-weekend-with-friends/ http://ameliayap.com/mummy-thoughts/2010/07/an-awesome-weekend-with-friends/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:39:31 +0000 http://ameliayap.com/mummy-thoughts/?p=1546 This last weekend, our friend Rick call us up to join them at their property on lake Schnarr in Ontario. We jumped at the chance. We have been there every summer and the kids just love hanging out and just playing with their kids. They have no running water or electricity so it is a little different experience. The have a bunk house which Kyle help build last summer which was great when it rained at dinner time on Saturday. The kids swam a lot and then on Sunday morning we went for a canoe ride and discovered a water fall on the next lake. Move over “Dunn’s River Falls”…
Here is a little video of our fun weekend!

It has been raining quite alot for Winnipeg so the Strawberry farm was pretty wet. Even though they put straw down, there has been so much water, there was quite a bit of mud and standing water. Anyways, it was a beautiful morning with a slight breeze so the mosquitoes were at bay. So we had a great morning of picking.

Andrew and Natalie were moving at super speed. I had only picked a quarter of a pail and Natalie walks towards me with a filled bucket of strawberries. Wow! Since they were done so soon, they went to play and guess what, Andrew fell into the mud hands first and then Matthew, hands and knees. So I sent them to the edge of the strawberry patch to wait. While they were waiting for us, they decided to play in the ditch and climb up the mud dike. Of course they were covered in mud and all of them had to strip before I would let them in the van. I brought them extra shoes, never thought that I would have to bring extra clothes… Here is a picture of their boots when we got home.

Needless to say the kids had a blast and ate tons of strawberries…