More Beautiful You

Today's song is for my official teenager, Mikaela. :) She loves this song and I do too. And interestingly enough she loves this song for the same reasons I do! See, Mikaela gets it - so far. She gets that true beauty comes from inside. She's always telling me about things her friends say to her and what she says back to them. This is such a "sticky" age. Girls trying to figure out body issues and who they want to be versus who they are, etc. Lanny and I pray that Mikaela always has the healthy mindset and perspective about her looks and body that she has right now. She uses makeup because it's fun, not because she must have it. She understands that when she looks in the mirror she's looking at the body God designed and she has choices to be a good steward of it. She gets that in order to take care of yourself you have to eat but what you eat is important. That's all the external but Mikaela gets the internal. She understands the scope of purity - not just sexually but for her mind and how she portrays herself to the world. She believes, without Lanny and I ever talking to her this specifically about it, that purity is a whole package. To be beautiful you need to be pure sexually, in thought, in word, in deed, in dress. In all ways. Hello?!? Can I be her when I grow up?!? :) She's an incredible young lady with a lot of wisdom and maturity. She knows where beauty comes from and she lives for that kind of beauty. She rocks our world! And our prayer is she stays the course.

More Beautiful You

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

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