I am soooo :Lucky

I am taking another day off from Momdot, because I haven't anything to contribute to the postings...but go visit it is a great one and should be lots of fun..

One of my favorite bloggers is "mocha Dad"  In among thousands of "Mommy Bloger's" we have daddy bloggers but we don't really hear a lot about these vallantly dads who have made their mark. Some of their blogs are very intersting and restore my faith in well Dadhood and some just reinforce it.

Mocha Dad reinforces it. He is a strong Christian Father, who loves his kids and wife and writes about revelant issues in todays world.

He wrote a post called "Taxicab Confessions" it is not his most recent, but a lot of times I like to read back through older posts of blogs just to see what I missed.

This one is the story of a man, the cabdriver who moved to Canada from somilia He tells stories of a life of hardship and fear VS minor things such as name calling here and what impacted me was, I do worry about whether or not people like me....when in the whole scheme of life they have a right not to, and people are starving in Somilia and i shuld better wast my time worrying about ow to get those children fed.

At the end of the line, that person will still not like me, but maybe if I get one child fed, that child will have a better future.. What a revelation for me in my selfish little world.

It is funny, it is sad, it is eye opening, i made me realize how luck I am.
We frequently forget the large things when we are so inundated with small things.

Sharon's Bears is my new tore I am opeing up online. I am working on the website, but I have a squiddo page and a button on the sidebar over there , look to you left...right there see it? Yes it is right there under the one marine buttion...Good Job.

Proceeds from purchse of a bear for me goes to the American Hear association and Than You soldier foundation. Again, in my selfish world I can't bring Sharon back, but maybe I can stop another parent from feeling the horrible grief of losing  child.....

And so.......Life goes on..

Angel

Visit to the Pumpkin Patch...

It's quite chilly today, gray and gloomy.I am sitting at my computer working while Max and Ruby are carrying on in the background and Tasha is reading a new piano book uh playing it anyway.

I don't know what I was thinking when I brought that book. :)

We went to the Pumpkin patch on Sunday afternoon, as did most all of Charleston.

Tasha and Denise walked the corn Maze, My foot wasn't handling it to well so i sat it out. Denise accidentaly found a short cut, at least she said it was an accident....

And of course they had great decorations...good think I left my money, CC and stuff at homes..

The jump pillow Tasha's favorite thing to do..

We were so busy doing other things we forgot to pick up a pumpkin

Oh well there is always Wal Mart....

Sunday Ramblings..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMMceEx72sE
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This is one of my favorite videos! I haven't quite figured out, well not even quite...I don't know how to put a you tube video on blogger! I know theres a way...someday I will learn. Anyway this is a fun video, and so I am sharing it today.


Its cold in Charleston, now mind you it has been in the 80's all week but today we had plans and....it is freezing. So we are going to bundle up, except for my foot I still can't get a shoe on, and bravely venture out into the Charleston cold to visit a petting Zoo and a pumpkin patch. What are Nanny's for?


I hope you are enjoying your Sunday, I can't quite get used to this having Church on Saturday Evenings...


Have a blessed day all

Sunrise in Charleston

Sunrise in Charleston. I couldn't sleep last night. You know one of those nights where you are up and down, lying in bed staring at the ceiling.
I got a new camera the other day so I am playing with it.

My camera, so it says, not only is a camcorder but is an MP3 player, connects to google, texts, I can download an ebook on it, play games on it and a host of other things I haven't the faintest need for. Whatever happened to a camera that just takes pictures?

So now it is afternoon and I am sleepy, is my clock off?  What do you do when you can't sleep?

/charleston Early Morn and Cinderella....

Wordless Wed Brought to you by Momdot bTW watch her video here

I am doing two memes this week, because I love memes Shortmama over at Family of shorts is starting one: she asks a question and we have to answer it..the question this week is:

What if the shoe didn't fit Cinderella

Well, it's simple actually. The poor girl had been scrubbing the floors all day, her feet were swollen beyond reconization. Being Prince Charming; the prince wasn't to smart but his mother the queen was. She put her arms around poor cinderella and quickly propped her feet up.

You see, the queen had been watching this whole little farce with the ball, lost shoes and the stepsisters very carefully.

Her worst fear was having to have tea once a week with the wicked  stepmother which was tradition in thir country so, she propped up Cinderella feet made her sit there for two hours  while she warmed up the glass slippers, (you know, glass expands! don't look at me like I am crazy) then, took the  shoe horn and forced her (cinderellas) size  7 feet into size 3 glass slippers. Showed her to the prince then whipped them off her feet before they shrank again.

The prince and cinderella lived happily ever after and the queen took her tea with Snow Whites stepmother who was just as wicked, but the 7 little men were somewhat entertaining especially the one who kept falling asleep.

The End

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Small talk six..

 6 of your favorite sweet treats in the whole world brought to you by the ladies at Momdot...


1> My all time very very favorite....Milkshake from Chick Fillet. Smooth, creamy real Ice cream, rich...will finish later running out to purchase one......


2. French chocolate from france..my son brought me a box when he was overthrere I kept the box for years just to smell it..


3. Charlestons famous Cheesecake..you can only buy in in Charleston SC, and it is what cheesecake was meant to be....


4. good old fashioned Hot apple pie with cheese or a scoop of vnilla ice cream or both


5. Sympnony bar, Heath bark or a Skol bar. If you think I like Toffee yes sireee


6. My own German Chocolate cake. The recipe belongs to my mother, and I treasure it. I inherited it whenshe died my sister still fights me for it. But she can't cook so it's mine mine mine....




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Faith hope and Charity but the greatest of these is love.

faith hope,  love and charity, of the three the greatest of these is love. That is what the Bible tells us..I hardly think you can have one without the other two, and the other two lead to the one. It is a wonderful thing that God puts things together for us.

I have been suffering from lack of blogging ideas  and so my blog has suffered. I am sorry for not being diligent. Tasha hasn't said to many cute things, and life has been calm, so what do you do when you haven't anything to say?

I went to the store today, and feeling like nothing exciting has happened to much in my life lately going to the store was  thrilling. Oh all right, may not thrilling, but it beat sitting at the computer typing for someone else so Denise asked me to pick up a diet pepsi for her and some Ice Cream , believe it or not I pretty much grabbed my purse and flew out of the house to Food Lion. Now what processed me to go to food Lion I don't know, I haven't had a good experience there in years, but still Food Lion it was, (I was too lazy to drive to Wal Mart) and proceeded to do my little shopping and got into the check out line.

Now let me ask you have you ever gone to a store and just picked up what you have gone after? No, well quite honestly neither have I and today was not an exception. Therein lies the problem, and you must remember I said flew out of the house.

First I got behind a man in a wheelchair who had three items, that was fine until we had been in line and his friend showed up with a basket full of items. "I'm with him," he said. and proceeded to get in front of me. I hate when this happens, what law says you can have a place holder in line, even if it is a little old man in a wheel chair? But we are supposed to be charitable right? I let it past and didn't even feel to upset. This is the Charity part.

 They proceeded to put their groceries on the belt, one at a time chatting in between so it took 20 minutes.
Then they didn't have enough money, so there was a big discussion about what they couldn't afford.the man behind me paid the rest of their bill and finally it was my turn.I had faith I was going to get out of there.

I put my little groceries on the belt, (remember I flew out of the house) and began to look for my wallet...which was at home next to the computer. All I had was Denise's three dollars and one dollar of that was change.  OOPS
I was very happy I hadn't been annoyed by the people ahead of me because if I had acted upset, this would have been twice as embarrassing. Good thing I showed love to those ahead of me, funny that was the first thing I thought about. .

I dug in my purse and had the food lion card, giving that to the cashier kept her busy for a couple of minutes, then I proceded to dig in my purse. Quarter by quarter, nickle by nickle and penny by penny I came up $1.74 cents short..which I pulled out my credit card that is stuck in the bottom of my purse for emergencies(forget it was there under a Avon book)  and charged 1.74 cents on the card. Whew. I was glad the man behind me didn't have to pay for me as well.

I crept out of the store. and ran into the men again blocking my car. Some days there is just justice.

The next time I go to the store I am remembering my Wallet I am not going to get upset by the people in front of me because you just never know when the person in line holding up the belt might be you.



It's great God told us about love. Some days you just have to show charity and some days it has to be shown to you......

I'm just sayin'

Angel

The wonders of Childhood make believe and Monday morn in Charleston

Monday Morning  it really looks and feels like fall in Charleston. Cloudy, a little cool and the leaves are vibrant.

So fall is here.

Tasha has gotten extra energy. She has discovered gymnastics, well sort of. She saw a little girl on TV flying and has now decided she will be a Gymnast. So i have been watching her fly off the sofa, through the air, and roll on the wood floors.
Needless to say her mom and I stay in prayer.

I like to remember when Denise and her siblings were little. they had imaginations that delighted me. I remember when they were about 7, 8 and 9 They all decised they were going to open an office they built desks in the basement out of boxes and each one had a desk.

Eric was the "owner" of the company and everyday for about a week they went down into the basement and "worked" I hadn't and still today haven't the faintest idea what they were working on, exactly, but they worked hard. They each sat at their desks, and talked on the phone mostly while writing stuff on paper.

Eric put on his suit and tie, the girls wore nice "work" clothes the office was quite busy.

I love imaginations  I hate the world ends up in reality and the kids have to find out life is not as it seems when you are little.

Tasha has a great imagination. She has an imaginary friend who goes everywhere with her. I like Little girl, because if I tell little girl she needs a nap then Tasha needs one to: its okay if little girl has to go first.

Today Tasha and Little girl have been singing yo Gabba Gabba songs, that hasn't been to pleasent because Little girl .I guess, sings off key, it can't be Tasha off key right?

Tasha's mom has started selling Avon and so Tasha has been delivering mail and selling AVON to me. I have received so much mail and brought so much AVON I  will own the company, Tasha's part anyway.

Isn't it sad kids have to grow up and find out life isn't perfect? Don't you wish your kids will always be as warm and safe as when you tuck them in at night?

And don't you wish they never had to learn that Reindeer don't fly, Cinderella didn't live happily ever after, and the reality of what happened to Bambi's mom?

Childhood. God says we should believe in him like a child believes, don't you wish we still could?

Small Talk Six.. Celebrations!

 6 unconventional things you think people should celebrate by throwing a party Brought to you by the ladies at Momdot

1. The I lost ten pounds party. It should be celebrated with ice cream and chocolate.

2. The  I gained the ten pounds back. Celebrated with celery and carrot sticks, with diet coke. 

3. The Toddler went potty party. celebrated by toilet papering the potty and doing the traditional potty dance. I don't know how to do it, you will have to rent the DVD potty power to learn it. Toddler may join in. 

4. That I remembered to put the garbage out party. Ice cream cake and rent o good movie. Maybe the garbage pail kids. Most likly a good sobber like Steel Magnolias so I can be really happy. 

5.  national Chocolate day. Everyone  have a party and only eat chocolate all day. No cheating. Nothing healthy. 

6. National No Yo Gabba Gabba day. Yo has to return to their planet for a day so moms can have peace. Celebrate by finding the blasted ship and pulling the plug. 


Thats it, Visit Momdot for more, I should have just one more, Don't mae changes to your blog when you don't know what you are doing....film at 11


Angel

Wordless Wedness

Fall. These pics were up for grams on Mom dot and I grabbed them. Fall is here.

A child saved

A few weeks ago a fire in a trailer claimed the lives of two children, a 4 month old an a 1 year old. I had nightmares for days. I kept thinking of these little ones crying for their mom,  not understand what was going on, the terror they felt..I felt really bad for the mother, standing outside hearing this. I wouldn't have stayed out side. I would have had to perish with my kids.

In yesterdays paper I read, the children died because the mom left them alone. the police were apparently

suspicious because mom had no bruises and didn't appear to have tried to get the kids out, she, it turns out had left them alone and gone somewhere. The police wouldn't say where.
I am speechless.

Our kids are so precious, I wonder why some parents don't understand this.

I am totally against abortion. You don't have to have an unexpected pregnacy, you have birth dontrol that stops your cycle for up to a year, shots, pill, IUD's they are so many ways, not to mention things for guys so why should abortion even been necessary?  Prevention is the answer if you are going to play, are you going to play football without a helmet, drive a car without a seatbelt?
Common sense goes a long way. I don't understand.

Any child has the right to be safe. We have to find someway to make sure this happens. We can't sit by and let our children die. What can we do?

Kids come into this world innocent, All they expect is the one whom they trust to love and care for them. What a betrayal to find out that one person is the one who will not care for you, but hurts you and causes you harm.

I have searched many organizations and found out there are many set up out there to help survivors of abuse, and indeed  Pinwheels for prevention is one trying to stop this insane trend.

 I myself am a survivor.

What I wish more then anything in the world someone had stopped it before it happened, but when I was a child parents had total control over their kids, child abuse hadn't been invented yet.

I remember, praying for help and wondering why God hated me.

I would always wish to be invisible. I lived in a world of make believe that meshed with reality where I wasn't sure which was which some days.

I hid in my room, not making a sound hoping my stepmom would forget I was there, but she didn't and anytime she was mad, I was her target

My grandmother saved me, she took me away and for a minute life was better.
But only for a minute. But she gave me the tools I needed to be survivor, and because of her

 I am a child saved.

You have to be strong to get over it, and I was. On my own, and promised I would never see another child hurt. I failed. Everyday many many children suffer child abuse by the very person they expect protection from.

If you think a child is being abused, speak up. If you see suspect child abuse, get to know the child if you can. Watch carefully if you can't.

Our system does not work, Unless we help it.

Of blogging and life, virtual and real...

I missed Six small things Saturday, I couldn't think of six things I wouldn't want my kids to say. So I skipped it.

I have a lot of favorite bloggers. Some of them just fit my mood, like Barb at Nice shoes. She is a blast (dates me right?) her life as a business exec and entering the dating world again are inspirational sometimes, touching other times,  but keeps a smile on my face all the time

Shortmama over at the family of shorts, has many different subjects on her blog, you can't help but laugh, cry, giggle with her, and when all is said and done go over to her other blog, short cook and have dinner. I have tried many of her recipes, they alway turn out and I can even make them taste good. This, if you knew me, would know how amazing that is in itself.

I meant Shortmama through a charming little household out at  Life at Killeny Glen Jill has wonderful tales to tell of life at the Glen. She makes you wish you lived there. I thought about naming my house, but I couldn't think of a suitable one.

I like blogging. I like talking to my blog friends on facebook and Twitter, because then they feel like real friends which they are and as if they are close to you.

For instance, I spent a lot of time in prayer for a new bloggy  friend, Ohilda over at A bouquet of Blessings she has had a very hard week with sick kids, and she her self was not well and at one point I think even the dog had the sniffles, she came through like a trooper and I had the honor of praying for her and her little ones.

I started reading Carma Sez because of her Cheese Ball project. It kept and held my attention for a minute, but Carma's blog is one of the ones that always has something going on, and it's always fun just to stop by.

Bloggers are special people. The USA today says mommy bloggers are the most powereful voices in the world today. We do everything. We blog. We sell on our blogs, some preach, some talk, some vent. Whatever we do, we are telling the world how it is.

I think thats grand.

I started blogging for the fun of it. I just wanted a place to write, so I could look back and see where I have been this year. Well, I am on my 200 blog post and apparently I have been a lot of places, Tasha went from a baby with a mind of her own to a little girl still with a mind of her own. I have lived in four houses in three states, changed jobs three time all with the same company, gave up and started my own business, which to my surprise is actually working out.

I learned a lot about myself, more about others. Just because of blogging.

I heard somewhere the basis of our communication is changing. Social media is the way businesses are enticing customers, if you are a business and you don't have a website then you are not legit.

Theres a big difference between the real world and the online world. I am proud to have friends in both.

I also now make my living in the virtual world for the most part. I remember years ago, going online and simply playing pac man.

How far back do I remember? Does anyone remember Prodigy? That was the very first network I was on, then I moved up to AOL.

One of these online networks is totally gone, and the other has become a shadow of itself.

Sill, the virtual world grows. You can buy anything online, never leaving your house.

So communication is a natural outcome of this, making friends in Scotland, while living in Charleston seems natural to me now, a few years ago it was unbelievable.

I learned all of this blogging. While you have a minute, check out my friends I mention above, I meant them through other friends, but if I named them all I would be here all night and I have tomake a living sometime.

How about you?  Why do you blog?

Where did Summer Go?

I woke up this morning and it was October. HOw can that be? A minute ago wasn't it just September 1st? Worse still, wasn't it just the begining of summer and now I have to start worrying bout Christmas? Time shouldn't go so fast.

So now I have to face that horrible Christmas shopping thing, and decorating, pushing people out of the way, standing in line to get a particular toy, stealing parking places, knocking little old ladies over just to be the first in line, hmm. I think I will calm down this year.

We have had a pretty exciting two days, Denise's car was inpounded it was parked next to a hidden do not park here sign, we didn't see it. I think they should not be hidded behind a tree but what do I know?

I am an Avid fan of "Parking Wars" on A&E, so i was prepared for the fun of dealing with the beaurcracy. We made sure we had proof of insurance, plenty of time, and headed out to the impound lot. I told denise on TV it takes hours, we have to have insurance, etc.etc.etc.

We got there, found out reality TV lies, the attendant looked at the release in her hand, waved her though  and went back to whatever he was doing. It took us 5 seconds.....just goes to show you can't believe anyone these days, not even reality shows....