Please help baby Hailey's family

Hello all,

Please go to this blog today and bid on her silent auction.  The proceeds go to a family who lost their baby girl to SIDS when she was only a couple of months old.  They cannot afford a headstone for her grave.  It is very sad and touching, and amazing that their sister has put this together.

Hailey Angel Silent Auction

I will be bidding on the birthday plate...I think it's so darling!

Post It Note Tuesday

Have you ever had one of those days....

....when you over sleep and finally get up 14 minutes before you are supposed to leave for work? And you put on a new shirt and inspect yourself in the mirror, thinking you look pretty cute? And somehow your hair still has some of the curl in it from yesterday so you just throw a pretty flower clip in it to finish off the look. And you leave the house feeling pretty lucky that you are such a goddess that you don't even need to put any effort in to looking good for the day?

Then as you are walking in to work you catch a glimpse of yourself in the semi-mirrored doors and something looks a little off? You walk in to the elevator with mirrored walls (why is everything at my work mirrored!!) and you look like you ate an entire humpback whale for breakfast even though all you really had was a bowl of Kashi cereal with soy milk and 1   2  3 cookies?  And you see the back of your hair and realize that what you thought were soft curls actually resemble knotted mouse nests?

Somehow you make it to the bathroom just to confirm that the elevator mirrors were really just fun house mirrors from the carnival...and you realize that you look like the female equivalent to the Elephant Man?

You take a deep breath, tell yourself you can do this, put your shoulders back, chest out and suck in your gut as far as you can because you know you have to make it past that guy's office that  you work with that used to be a model and even though you think he's a major jack hole you don't want him to think Shamu just swam by his office?

PLEASE tell me you've had one of those days....and that it's not just me?? 

I think I need another cookie.

Feel Good Friday

I received this in an email today from a friend. I thought it was fitting with the happenings of the world today.

The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him. Every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.

Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect himself from the elements, and to store his few possessions. One day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, with smoke rolling up to the sky. He felt the worst had happened, and everything was lost. He was stunned with disbelief, grief, and anger. He cried out, 'God! How could you do this to me?'

Early the next day, he was awakened by the sound of a ship approaching the island! It had come to rescue him! 'How did you know I was here?' asked the weary man of his rescuers. 'We saw your smoke signal,' they replied.

The Moral of This Story: It's easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we shouldn't lose heart because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of our pain and suffering.

Remember that the next time your little hut seems to be burning to the ground it just may be a smoke signal that summons the Grace of God.

If you want to join the Feel Good Friday, click on the picture above and go to the little McLinky!

Wordless Wednesday

If at first you don't succeed

Try a different recipe!

Take That, Neeleys!

Just Because You're Paranoid....

Doesn't mean they're not after you.  And by "they" I mean the ducks.  Click here for the original stalking tale.

(Pictures taken by my car yesterday).

If my tire falls off, you know who to blame!