Food 4 Thought Friday

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Food 4 Thought Friday!

A little feast without the calories!!

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Food 4 Thought Friday ~ This week's questions:

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It's All Complimentary!

Breakfast ~ What is a compliment you have received that you still remember?

Lunch ~ Do you compliment others often?
Dinner ~ How do you usually react when given a compliment? 
Midnight Snack ~ What would be the greatest compliment you could receive and why? 
Recipe for the Week ~ (instead of your recipe for life, what is it just for the week?)

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Breakfast ~ What is a compliment you have received that you still remember? Many year ago, I was shopping with my Mom in Sam's Club with all my boys when they were little and a few of them were being "boys" who would have rather been anywhere else but shopping.  I was doing my motherly thing and very patiently trying to get them to behave as we shopped.  After this had gone on for a while, a woman came up to me and touched my arm and said, "Excuse me, but I just have to tell you I have been watching you and I want you to know how impressed I am with what a great mother you are and how patient you are with your little ones."   I am not sure why her words made such an impact on me, but I still remember them to this day and now when I see a young mother struggling with her children, I often go of out of my way to compliment her on what a great job she is doing because I know firsthand how much that meant to me and how hard motherhood is... especially while shopping.  :)

Lunch ~ Do you compliment others often? Not as often as I should. This is something I am consciously trying to make a greater effort to do because I know the impact it can have.  I notice so many good things in others all the time, I just need to go out of my way to express them to them.
Dinner ~ How do you usually react when given a compliment? In the past, I used to say something like, "Oh, I wish!" or "Well, that's not true, but thanks!".  I used to believe that it was prideful and I was not being humble if I accepted a compliment. I have since learned that a compliment is a gift and if I don't accept it then I am rejecting the gift that someone went out of their way to give me.  I now try to fully receive a compliment with a simple, "Thank you, that is very sweet of you to say!" or something along those lines.
Midnight Snack ~ What would be the greatest compliment you could receive and why?  That is hard to narrow down to just one.  But I think if I had to settle on just one, it would be:

"You are so much like your mother!"

Here are a few more that I'd love to receive (along with a few I have) that would mean a great deal to me because they are what I value in life: 
"You inspire me!"  "You are an amazing mother."  "I want to be you when I grow up." "You are one of the strongest people I know."  "You make my life so much better for being in it."  "You have changed my life forever."  "You get me."  "Is there anything you can't do?"  "You are a very inspiring speaker - writer - teacher - etc."  "I want your body!"  (That one I did receive this week but not like it sounds.  It was from a woman.  haha And not "that" kind of woman!  This day and age you have to clarify everything!  lol)
Recipe for the Week ~ (instead of your recipe for life, what is it just for the week?) Be you!  You are you for a reason.  Don't compare yourself to others but accept your own strengths and gifts and allow others to have strengths that you don't have without feeling envious.  If you admire their strengths, then work to make them your strengths and be inspired by them instead of jealous.