Gandhi

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ".
Mohandas Gandhi
I really like this quote and almost everyday I think about it, everything that I say and do is going to reflect how I represent my Christ.
I love to read and learn about others cultures and religions, always have. Can't imagine my life without knowing, feeling that I have my Heavenly Father, that Jesus is the Christ and he's my "SAVIOR", but I confess that I like some of Gandhi teachings and philosophy. I read many,many years ago, that he said that our house is our sanctuary, only people that loves us and we love should enter it, bring only good energy and take with them only good feeling from the visit. I don't invite just to invite people to my home, who enter in my house is really welcome and I hope they can feel it and have the desire to come back.

Signed up....

I signed up today for the gym and 7 sessions with a trainer, I'm going to pay for it. I'll started tomorrow at 10:00, I'm excited about it, can't get over the feeling to see my pictures, I'm fat, my arms are fat :(
Went to buy a Capri and the sales lady asked me if I was sure about the color because that color would make my butt bigger, my friend look me and we couldn't believe it what we heard. I told her "very nicely" that I was sure about the color because what makes my butt big are all the sweets that I eat not the colors that I wear. I almost died with my own poison hahahaha!!!!!

Just did it!

Just signed up with "spark people" online.It's free. Lets see how goes! I want to lose 20lbs by my 20 years anniversary in November, I'll be 49 in October, so I really want to look better. Tomorrow I'm going to the gym, I don't want to hire a trainer to exercise with me everyday, it would be too expensive, but I want to see how much would cost just to design a program for me and check on me every 4 to 6 wks.

Amigo e coisa para se guardar....

Happy that I saw my dear friends and their families, happy that in August I'm going to see more friends in Utah.
Happy that someday my dear Beto,Lucia,Flavio,Fabio and Celso a gente vai se encontrar :)

we had fun....

That's what life is all about, be together, be happy, make memories, smile, make the best of every opportunity we have, say I'm sorry, say I love you and also fight for what we believe :) Of course there was a little drama, everybody wanted me to go to the rides, I'm scared, I can't stand the drop, so I didn't go. I'm the kind of person I can enjoy my own company. At the end everybody was happy :)

Mickey,Minnie and us :)

I looked at Mickey and said " I waited 48 years to meet you. I love you Mickey " He gave me a big hug.

Disney

That was my first time ever at Disney and I confess I was more excited than my kids. Greg said that my eyes was sparkling with happiness when I saw Mickey. When I was a little girl Disney was just a far,far away dream and when I was here I had a child after the other, I was always nursing, had 2 in diapers, I wanted to go when everybody could walk and not be crying behind me.
That was magic, we stayed 5 days and went to bed every night between 3-4 am, we enjoyed every second of this.
I asked Greg what princess I was and he said, of course I'm Ariel, romantic, dreamer and impulsive :) I'll post different pictures.

Familia Rodrigues

This is my sweet friend Patty and her family. I was very, very happy to see her, Josue and meet her kids. I haven't seeing Patty for 17 years. It's amazing how time flies. seems like yesterday that I called Patty from Brazil, I was still very sad with Flavio death and Patty invited me to come and stay for a while in USA, that I'd stay with her family. So Patty and Josue went to pick me up at the airport and she stopped in front of this house and told me to wait 5 minutes, I said okay. What I didn't know is that Patty went inside and told her brother Renato and sister-in-law Cristina that she had a friend in the car that just arrived from Brazil and didn't have where to stay....So I went inside and Cristina didn't even look at me and I didn't know why??????
Took Cristina couple of days to like me and today she's so in love with me hahahaha!!!!!
Her and Patty favorite thing was scare me, because I'm so afraid of dark. Cristina told me later that she hated me even more when she saw me in swim suit and I was so skinny and didn't have cellulite hahaha!!!!, Cristina said to stay in her house has to be least 300 lbs and have lots of cellulite.
Patty has a big heart, if you want something or need something and she has, that's yours. Beautiful family, I was very happy for the 3 hrs we spent together, we laughed a lot, It was awesome to see our kids together :)

Butterfly on my stomach!!!!

Sometimes I don't blog for a month, then sometimes I blog everyday. I really feel sick of my stomach to think that I'm going to get inside a plane. It has been 5 years now, but I'm still very scared. I haven't been in a plane for 5 years, we have been driving everywhere, but now is time to confront my fear.
Of course Greg thinks I'm crazy, that fly is safer than drive,I was the one inside that plane that almost went down not him, least I'll have everybody with me. I asked my friend Vera if something happen she will take care of Doche, she has a little dog and she loves dogs. I love Doche, such a sweet boy, I hope he doesn't think that I abandoned him at the Pet hotel.
I'm calling my Dr tomorrow to give me some pills since I can't have some wine in the plane. hahaha!!!!

Greg's request....!!!!

Greg said that I had to post this!!!! I recycle everything, I save empty roll of paper towel and toilet paper and give to preschool so they can use for art. Anyway I don't like to fry things inside the house and we almost don't fry anything, but we have an electrical fryer that Greg uses more than me.
Last week I cleaned the fryer but wasn't sure what to do with the oil so I got an empty laundry detergent container and put the oil inside for see if Greg could take to the same place that he takes the oil from the cars after he changes it.
To make the story short I went to do some laundry and when I poured the detergent I thought it looked weird, I smelled and it was oil and was already inside the machine, then I looked in the dryer and Greg's clothes was there and smelling fried chicken.
Greg did all his laundry with fried chicken oil. I called him, then he said when he got in his car, at work, everything was smelling friend chicken and he couldn't understand why. Now he knows. Greg was the one that put the container in the laundry.
I think that was a good reason for a second wife, hahahaha!!!!, but he said that would be one more thing to remember in the future and laugh about it, probably with the boneless chicken that I baked 450 degree for 4 hrs 20 years ago, with the brand new car that I forgot on. locked with the key inside for 2 hrs and many, many others....:) I guess if depend on me we'll have a lot to laugh about it. And yes Greg washed all his cloth again.

I'll find you my friend.....

May 24th 1987 was the day I was baptized. Every year I like to write something about it.One day one of my children or a grandchildren will enjoy reading this or gain a testimony reading this. You never know.

Some people pass through our lives and we don't even notice, some people are more special than others, some people we remember the face, but not remember the name, some people we remember with joy, some people we remember with hurt or anger, some people we have a strong connection that is like we know that person forever. Some people touch our hearts and makes us to feel something that we don't understand, but somehow has a vague feeling that we already know, but forgot. Some people cross our life without a reason, some people God put in our way, because he loves us so much. He knows our needs and our weakness, I always believed in Angels among us, we're put in each other path sometimes for a reason, so we can help each other roll our wagon when it's too heavy.
That's the feeling that I had when I met the missionaries. God's love comes in all shapes,forms,colors,language. As my uncle that was from another faith always told me " Wildilselma you're one of the chosen ones " and gave me my first bible. He was right, my patriarcal blessing says the same thing.
How thankful I'm for Elder Griffiths and Elder Shiveley. Griffiths once told me " I feel like I know you, maybe it was from the spiritual world and I think I promised you that I'd find you"
My first calling in church after just a month being baptized was in young woman, the Lord wanted me to learn while teaching that I was a daughter of god, my testimony was growing every Sunday.
How special was having Griffiths on my wedding in the Temple, how beautiful and touching was the THANK YOU letter that Greg wrote to Griffiths thanking him for teaching me the gospel, that I was the best gift he ever received. We all joke around that I hope I can wear hills in heaven and that I love to shop, but who knows me knows, that I like to have fun and be happy, I'm a free spirit, that heaven for me will be perfect heaven if I can least decorate my room and throw a party ones a year :) The Lord wants us to be happy, have joy and be the best that we can. Love and respect each other.
How wonderful is the Lords plan, he makes no mistakes, everything has a purpose. I can't thank the Lord enough for so many blessings, for a wonderful priest holder that I love with all my heart, four sweet spirits that are my life and that he trusted me with to love,protect,care and teach, thank for my sweet Doche that bring so much happiness and joy to my life as well and I hope he'll be my eternal puppy.
My brother Wilian always said the fruit don't fall to far from the tree, the kind of people we're, are the kind of people our children will be.
Couple more year Cody is going to serve a mission and I pray that he finds and touch as many heart as he can of those that someday he promised he'd find them. I pray that doesn't matter how far the wind may take my children that they will always remember the tree they came from, I never forgot my and I was alone and far away from home. I knew who I was and who I was meant to be,before being Selma Gibby, I was Selma Novaes, but even before that I was and always will be a dear daughter of loving heavenly parents, a child of God.

A day to remember....

I recently read a text which expresses the urgency of not leaving for tomorrow what you can do today. In July of this year Brazil witnessed the most devastating aircraft accident in its history. There were 199 people killed, including passengers, airline workers, crew members, and others who were at the site when the accident happened. The text I mentioned was said to have been posted on the airline communication board by the husband of one of the flight attendants who died in the accident. It is entitled “Tomorrow Never Comes” and is based upon a poem by Norma Cornett Marek.

If I knew this would be the last time I would watch you sleep,
I would hug you tighter. I would plead with the Lord to protect you.
If I knew this would be the last time I saw you walk out the door,
I would hug and kiss you and call you back to hug and kiss you one more time.
If I knew this would be the last time I would hear your voice in prayer,
I would record every gesture, every look, every smile, every one of your words,
So that I could listen to it later, day after day.
If I knew this would be the last time,
I would spend an extra minute or two to tell you, “I love you,” instead of assuming you already knew it.
If I knew this would be our last time, our last moment,
I would be by your side, spending the day with you instead of thinking,
“Well, I’m sure other opportunities will come, so I can let this day go by.”
Of course there will be a day to revise things,
And we would have a second chance to do things right.
Oh, of course there will be another day for us to say, “I love you.”
And certainly there will be another chance to tell each other, “Can I help with anything?”
But in my case, there isn’t one!
I don’t have you here with me, and today is the last day we have—our farewell.
Therefore I would like to say how much I love you,
And I hope you never forget it.
Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old.
Today might be your last chance to hold tight to the hand of the one you love and show all you feel.
If you are waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today?
Because if tomorrow never comes, you certainly will regret for the rest of your life
Not having spent some extra time for a smile, a conversation, a hug, a kiss,
Because you were too busy to give that person what ended up being their last wish.
Then hug tight today the one you love, your friends, your family, and whisper in their ears how much you love them and want them close to you.
Use your time to say,
“I’m sorry,”
“Please,”
“Forgive me,”
“Thank you,”
Or even,
“That was nothing,”
“It’s all right,”
Because if tomorrow never comes, you will not have to regret today.
The past doesn’t come back, and the future might not come!

The man that wrote this poem woke up one morning to see his wife walking out the door for work. She was an airline attendant. He thought to get up and give her a kiss and say goodbye but was to tired and went back to sleep. She never came back. Her plane crashed and killed 199 people. I felt like I should read this in testimony meeting. It seems like families everywhere are falling apart. Everybody is getting divorced or separating and kids hate their parents and their siblings. it seemed that so many of the hardships within families could be solved if we just said i love you and decided to forgive and forget instead of hold on too our pride.

I want to share this...

Most of the time testimony meeting is boring, but today few testimony touched my heart, but a 9 year old Dilan Shaw made me cry. He went up there and I thought one more kid to say " I love my mom and dad, I know this church is true", but I was so wrong. He went up there and said.

"My name is Dilan Shaw,my dad just spoke. I know this church is true because I feel it in my heart, I know that Jesus is my savior and the more I try to be good and nice to others I become more like him, and when I mess up I know I can sincere repent at night. The more I read the book of Mormon more I understand what I need to know to go back home and live with Heavenly father someday, that I need to forgive others because I need heavenly father to forgive me too"

I thought it was amazing, that sweet little Dilan figured out at such an early age what sometimes we struggle and sometimes forget to do it. Tonight I'm going to start to read the book of Mormon with Tati. I feel the desire tonight to ask for forgiveness not so much for things that I'm doing, but for things that I'm not doing. I want always to remember when I mess up because I'm not perfect I can sincere repent at night and ask for knowledge and strength to do better the next day. I really believe that the Lord knows us by name, knows ours imperfections and loves us just the way we are.
The other day I was very frustrated with Cody about his Eagle project, I told him that I get mad because he waist his time, that I know how smart and capable he is, that I just expect of him his very best, after I said that, I felt in my heart like if the Lord said " me too Selma, I just expect of you your best " We want the very best for our kids and this is what our Father wants for us too.

more photos

I told everybody to bring a towel and of course Chad didn't, so he had to use one of the girls.

Pool party

We went to a pool party at Greg's friends house. That was nice, but I didn't know anyone, but we had fun anyway. Greg new almost everybody. The girls had lots of fun riding on the 4 Wheeler. It was pretty hot, but I'm just to fat to be in a swim suit around people that knows us. So was baking alive :(

Brown family

Last night my dear friend Chris, his wife Tammy and their children came to visit us. We're all very excited, I haven't seen Chris for 20 years, I used to be size 0 now I'm 6 and Chris used to have more hair. hahahaha!!!! We had an awesome time going back time and talking about our present life.
I loved meeting Tammy, such a sweet and fun lady, after few minutes was like I already new her. my girls and their girls had fun together that's a good thing about kids. Nick is a perfect little cowboy, sweet and very polite.
Chris had a perfect word for us, we're like brother and sister, Greg said Chris and I are real friends happy that each other is happy. It was very special have the families together, to see our kids playing together. Thanks for one more sweet memory :) Hope we can get together again in the future. The boys can go fishing and the girls shopping.