Happy Father's Day

Just wishing all the fathers/ dads a Happy Father's Day! Here are some words to reflect on. They are not my own but it's worthwhile.

1. Respect Your Children's Mother
If you are married, keep your marriage strong and vital. If you're not married, it is still important to respect and support the mother of your children. When children see their parents respecting each other, they are also more likely to feel that they are also accepted and respected.

2. Spend Time with Your Children
How a father spends his time tells his children what's important to him. If you always seem too busy for your children, they will feel neglected, no matter what you say. Treasuring children often means sacrificing other things, but it is essential to spend time with your children.

3. Earn the Right to Be Heard
All too often, the only time a father speaks to his children is when they have done something wrong. Begin talking with your kids when they are young, so that difficult subjects will be easier to handle as they get older. Take time and listen to their ideas and problems.

4. Discipline with Love
All children need guidance and discipline, not as punishment, but to set reasonable limits. Remind your children of the consequences of their actions and provide meaningful rewards for desirable behavior. Fathers who discipline in a calm and fair manner show love for their children.
5. Be a Role Model
Fathers are role models to their kids, whether they realize it or not. A girl who spends time with a loving father grows up knowing she deserves to be respected by boys. Fathers can teach sons what is important in life by demonstrating honesty, humility and responsibility.

6. Be a Teacher
Too many fathers think teaching is something others do. But a father who teaches his children about right and wrong, and encourages them to do their best, will see his children make good choices. Involved fathers use everyday examples to help their children learn the basic lessons of life.

7. Eat Together as a Family
Sharing a meal together can be an important part of healthy family life. In addition to providing some structure in a busy day, it gives kids the chance to talk about what they are doing and want to do. It is also a good time for fathers to listen and give advice.

8. Read to Your Children
Children learn best by doing and reading, as well as seeing and hearing. Begin reading to your children when they are very young. When they are older, encourage them to read on their own. Instilling your children with a love for reading is one of the best ways to ensure they will have a lifetime of personal and career growth.

9. Show Affection
Children need the security that comes from knowing they are wanted, accepted and loved by their family. Parents need to feel both comfortable and willing to hug their children. Showing affection every day is the best way to let your children know that you love them.

10. Realize That a Father's Job Is Never Done
Even after children are grown and ready to leave home, they will still look to their fathers for wisdom and advice. Fathers continue to play an essential part in the lives of their children as they grow and, perhaps, marry and build their own families.

Happy B-lated Birthday

Woot Woot... Happy 74th!!!!!!

Still Lookin Good There Grampz

Much Love To Ya.

From Maurice's Clan.

CANT TOUCH THIS:

Before Hammer Rock'd The Parachute Pants.. my Father DId. (Talk about Swagger Jackin').. Check Him Out

Reunion Weekend Reminder

3rd Annual Fields Family Reunion

Meet & Greet @ the Mann Residence

Date: July 18, 2008
Time: After work/ Dinner time
Place: 29 Ellis Parkway, Piscataway, NJ

Family BBQ
Hosts: Ronald & Teresa Fields
Date: July 19, 2008

Place: Possumtown Park in Piscataway, NJ

Siblings need to be at the park by 11am SHARP! Family to arrive by 12pm!

Sunday activities

TBD - To be determined

Reunion dues (siblings) are $175
Reunion fees (family)are: Infants to 12 years old - $10; 13 to 17 years old - $20; 18 years old and older - $25 are due ASAP!

The host, Ronald, is asking that each family member bring a dish or two to share with the family! Please let him or Teresa know what you wish to bring and share with family.

As always, please check out the Family Blog/ Website: http://fieldsconnect.blogspot.com/

MOTHERS

This is for the mothers who have sat up all night with sick toddlers in their arms, wiping up puke laced with Oscar Mayer wieners and cherry Kool-Aid saying, 'It's okay honey, Mommy's here'.
Who have sat in rocking chairs for hours on end soothing crying babies who can't be comforted. This is for all the mothers who show up at work with spit-up in their hair and milk stains on their blouses and diapers in their purse.
For all the mothers who run carpools and make cookies and sew Halloween costumes. And all the mothers who DON'T.
This is for the mothers who gave birth to babies they'll never see. And the mothers who took those babies and gave them homes.
This is for the mothers whose priceless art collections are hanging on their refrigerator doors.
And for all the mothers who froze their buns on metal bleachers at football , hockey or soccer games instead of watching from the warmth of their cars, so that when their kids asked, 'Did you see me, Mom?' they could say, 'Of course, I wouldn't have missed it for the world,' and mean it.
This is for all the mothers who yell at their kids in the grocery store and swat them in despair when they stomp their feet and scream for ice cream before dinner. And for all the mothers who count to ten instead, but realize how child abuse happens.
This is for all the mothers who sat down with their children and explained all about making babies. And for all the (grand) mothers who wanted to, but just couldn't find the words.
This is for all the mothers who go hungry, so their children can eat.
For all the mothers who read 'Goodnight, Moon' twice a night for a year. And then read it again. 'Just one more time.'
This is for all the mothers who taught their children to tie their shoelaces before they started school. And for all the mothers who opted for Velcro instead.
This is for all the mothers who teach their sons to cook and their daughters to sink a jump shot.
This is for every mother whose head turns automatically when a little voice calls 'Mom?' in a crowd, even though they know their own offspring are at home -- or even away at college.
This is for all the mothers who sent their kids to school with stomach aches, assuring them they'd be just FINE once they got there, only to get calls from the school nurse an hour later asking them to please pick them up. Right away.
This is for mothers whose children have gone astray, who can't find the words to reach them.
For all the mothers who bite their lips until they bleed when their 14 year old dye their hair green.
For all the mothers of the victims of recent school shootings, and the mothers of those who did the shooting.
For the mothers of the survivors, and the mothers who sat in front of their TVs in horror, hugging their child who just came home from school, safely.
This is for all the mothers who taught their children to be peaceful, and now pray they come home safely from a war.
What makes a good Mother anyway?
Is it patience? Compassion? Broad hips? The ability to nurse a baby, cook dinner, and sew a button on a shirt, all at the same time?
Or is it in her heart? Is it the ache you feel when you watch your son or daughter disappear down the street, walking to school alone for the very first time?
The jolt that t takes you from sleep to dread, from bed to crib at 2 A.M. to put your hand on the back of a sleeping baby?
The panic, years later, that comes again at 2 A.M. when you just want to hear their key in the door and know they are safe again in your home?
Or the need to flee from wherever you are and hug your child when you hear news of a fire, a car accident, a child dying?
The emotions of motherhood are universal and so our thoughts are for young mothers stumbling through diaper changes and sleep deprivation...
And mature mothers learning to let go.
For working mothers and stay-at-home mothers.
Single mothers and married mothers.
Mothers with money, mothers without.
This is for you all. For all of us.
Hang in there. In the end we can only do the best we can. Tell them every day that we love them. And pray.

'Home is what catches you when you fall. l - and we all fall.'

BEFORE I LEAVE.....

I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT YOU LIL HOBBITS HAVE VISITED THE BLOG (TALKING TO MY BROTHERS N SISTERS N LILLER COUSINS).

SO MY QUESTION IS... WHERE ARE YOUR POSTS???
THIS IS A VERY GOOD WAY FOR ALL OF US TO GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER. POST SOMETHING SHOW US WHAT YOUR INTO. GET US INTERESTED IN YOUR INTERESTS!!!!

*INTO MUSIC FROM AN IRAQI BAND (TEEHEE) POST IT!!!
*INTO POETRY LIKE ME ..POST IT!!!
*GOT A FUNNY VID YOU WANNA SHARE ....POST IT!!
*IF YOU ENTERED INTO A MIDGET TOSSING TOURNAMENT..... KEEP THAT TO *YOURSELF.. THATS JUST WRONG!!!

JUST KIDDING!!!!!..... BUT SERIOUSLY. WE WANNA KNOW WHATS GOOD.. AND IT MAKES IT ALOT EASIER fOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN A DIFFERENT STATE.. .. WE...DO..NOT..LIVE..UP THE STREET AND AROUND THE CORNER FROM EACH OTHER!!!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

JUST WANT TO WISH ALL THE MOTHERS A VERY HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY.
EVERYDAY IS MOTHER'S DAY BECAUSE WITHOUT YOU. WHERE WOULD WE BE?!

LOVE YOU ALL AND GOD BLESS.

Monthly Praise and Worship Song May 2008

This Months "Praise and Worship" Song is.........."HIS WILL" by Destiny Praise. You can listen to it on the family blog by clicking the "Play" button and if you like it let me know and I'll email you an MP3 of it or you can buy it on ITUNES.....

Peace n Blessing,

Unc....

being the example

The Absence of Color is not the Color Of Absence

Hey Fam. Just thought I'd Share a Little Project I've been workin on with some friends. The Title Of Course is "The Absence of Color is not The Color Of Absence".. Now i'm not the First to do it, but i'd thought i'd give it a try...Notice Each Picture is in Black and White.. Some say with COLOR brings LIFE to a Picture.. a story.... a feeling.. or it shed a Brighter Light on a situation/gives a better understanding...

This is The Color of Class and Style...Without Color .. Do you Not See Swagger??

This is The Color Of Sorrow...Do you need the Colors to feel her pain?

This is The Color Of CHANGE... Will a Splash of Color Help You Understand the Legacy??

This is The Color of YOUTH....Can't you Tell with out the hints of yellow or splashes of blue?

This is The Color Of SACRIFICE.....

Well Fam Thats all I Have For Now.. HOPE you liked it so far.. IF you want to add on .. hit me up with some more ideas.. Love .. Peace n Blessingz

JUST A MOM?

A woman, renewing her driver's license at the County Clerk's office, was asked by the woman recorder to state her occupation.

She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself.

'What I mean is,' explained the recorder,

'do you have a job or are you just a ?'

'Of course I have a job,' snapped the woman.

'I'm a Mom.'

'We don't list 'Mom' as an occupation,
'housewife' covers it,'

Said the recorder emphatically.

I forgot all about her story until one day I found myself

in the same situation, this time at our own Town Hall.

The Clerk was obviously a career woman, poised,

efficient, and possessed of a high sounding title like,

'Official Interrogator' or 'Town Registrar.'

'What is your occupation?' she probed.

What made me say it? I do not know.

The words simply popped out.

'I'm a Research Associate in the field of

Child Development and Human Relations.'

The clerk paused, ball-point pen frozen in midair and

looked up as though she had not heard right.

I repeated the title slowly emphasizing the most significant words.

Then I stared with wonder as my pronouncement was written,

in bold, black ink on the official questionnaire.

'Might I ask,' said the clerk with new interest,

'just what you do in your field?'

Coolly, without any trace of fluster in my voice,

I heard myself reply,

'I have a continuing program of research,

(what mother doesn't)

In the laboratory and in the field,

(normally I would have said indoors and out).

I'm working for my Masters, (first the Lord and then the whole family)

and already have four credits (all daughters).

Of course, the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities,

(any mother care to disagree?)

and I often work 14 hours a day, (24 is more like it).

But the job is more challenging than most run-of-the-mill careers

and the rewards are more of a satisfaction rather than just money.'

There was an increasing note of respect in the clerk's voice as she

completed the form, stood up, and personally ushered me to the door.

As I drove into our driveway, buoyed up by my glamorous new career,

I was greeted by my lab assistants -- ages 13, 7, and 3.

Upstairs I could hear our new experimental model,

(a 6 month old baby) in the child development program,

testing out a new vocal pattern.

I felt I had scored a beat on bureaucracy!

And I had gone on the official records as someone more

distinguished and indispensable to mankind than 'just another Mom.'

Motherhood!

What a glorious career!

Especially when there's a title on the door.

Does this make grandmothers

'Senior Research associates in the field of Child Development and Human Relations'

And great grandmothers

'Executive Senior Research Associates?'

I think so!!!

I also think it makes Aunts '

Associate Research Assistants.

May your troubles be less,

Your blessing be more,

And nothing but happiness come through your door!
AMEN!!

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MAY DAY MAY DAYZZZZZZ

May 10th ****Timothy (Jamie) College Graduation ****

May 15th ****Happy Birthday Teresa****you don't look a day over 30

Latikka and Deryk will be celebrating their 4Th year of wedding bliss

Ronald and Teresa will be celebrating 3rd years of wedding bliss

May 18th ****Happy Birthday Sharief "Sunny Black"****

MAY 23rd THOMAS FIELDS SR. (pop, grand pop... is 74 years young)

May 26th Curtis and Jeannine 1st year of wedding is complete

I Pray That..................May 2008

With all the praise and glory my Savior Jesus Christ, I ask that you accept these words without offense or judgment.

In life through our actions and interactions, we will ask others to be, give, try and even do sometimes the seemingly impossible, yet we are unwilling to ask the same of ourselves. Some of us would even take offense when others "dare" have the same expectation of us.

I Pray That, we strive to be the example we want and ask others to be and not hold others to expectations we are unwilling to live up to ourselves.

I Pray That, we do not resent or hold judgment against those who fall short of our expectations and that we expect no less of ourselves than we do of others.

I Pray That, we are living the life that we expect of others and that we ask ourselves, when we to go others with expectation "would I be willing to be, give, try and even do sometimes the seemingly impossible for others"?.

It's in Jesus name I say this prayer to you,

Amen

PS. All monthly "I pray that" will be original writings.

Striving to be the example...........

Unc