Keep on keeping on!! Be strong and never give up hope

  Spring is around the corner with some tulips looking up from the snow around town, garden season will be here also!  Thankful that winter and snow doesn't last forever.  Thankful for daily blessings and the freedom we have in this country.  God bless our soldiers!  

 My son got his driver's permit, so we are on the road to another stage of life and wow! it all happens so fast ...he is mature and learns so quick-- of that I am thankful.. 

Even with the weighs of health problems, seeing so many suffering, we keep looking upward and seeing people that need an encouraging word!!!

  Thank you friends and family--what  a BLESSING!!! 

some sweeps ending today to check out!!! FEB 15th!

For those gamers on the Nintendo there is a sweeps for Cosmos Chaos at :
 http://twoboysonegirlandacrazymom.com/?p=8945&cpage=4#comment-15813
looks like a great learning game that would keep them busy for a time.  Moms like the learning and the keeping busy part!! good luck !
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Win a Kitchenaid blender and some yoplait--who wants smoothies??
please visit  serendipitymommy.com  to put your comment in for a chance !!! This would be great for some spring/summer treats !!! This can also be used in your weight loss ventures or for some nice party ideas..Good luck !
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Who loves goat's milk and all the grandeur???  I must say we have some local farms that use goat's milk for soaps and it is beyond compare for keeping skin soft.  Stop over to confessions of an overworked mom to  enter for $ 20 GC to use for your special soaps.
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Gall bladder surgery done! whew

I am so thankful for the drs and nurses I had at our local hospital and that this week has flown by with no complications!!! wheeeeee--surgery time is not my fave--as migraines always strike and they are worse than the actual event!

I WILL NOT be posting a post surgical photo my spouse took with the iphone--but that morphine smile--that was the happies!

  Also thankful to my church family that kept the family fed for the week and the other friends that checked in on me!!  I love them all!!! God bless the compassion in others!!!

Wednesday wanderings ~~ on the west slope~~

  Sunshine today and warmer temps in the 50's--a heat wave for us!!  

  Have 2 surgeries coming up shortly, have a teen getting his driving permit and of course just the usual this and that of chores that pile up amidst chaos!  Wishing a great rest of the week to everyone--my mini doxie says bow wow to ya all ! 

  sending you all a happy ill for the day -o

Make A Child Smile Organization - and volunteer places to help others

Make A Child Smile Organization - Send a card to a sick child 
please visit this organization that helps make the day of the sick children more bearable--just a card/note!

Other organizations to use your time/crafting skills: angelsforhope.  
make commitment to crochet simple angels, smiley faces or butterflies


 The Jared gift box project is a neat organization that started in PA to help brighten sick children and you can get involved at filling your own boxes! 


Send love today for sending small gifts and letters to those battling brain cancers/tumors.

Project Linus --can start your own chapter to provide comfort through blankets

Register to donate bone marrow ~~~ I have always been in favor of this organization and would invite you to check that out, you can save a life! 

Sweepstakes for your health ! ends Jan 29

"Now is the time to get healthy" sweeps is running so you can step up the new year in detoxing, picking some good foods or cleansing! Get rid of unwanted toxins and whatever else could be lurking in that thar body!  I think I may need a truck load of the stuff !!! runs until Jan 29th, so head on over and enter! just click on the "now is the time to get healthy" above
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Homicide in Rural town--last one was 18 years ago~ Colorado

As saddened news last evening, a friend of my hubby's went over the deep end and shot his soon to be ex wife dead.  There was so much more involved that the news never reports of course, as they were going through many difficulties.  A shortened marriage in the rounds with a baby girl involved.  My hubby had just talked to him a week before and he talked to him about the problems he was having, paying 2 mortgages, going through divorce, trying to get custody, and who knows what else behind closed doors.  
  As in this small area, many violent crimes do not occur, but we have heard of so many marital probs, financial, affairs, alcohol, meth/drugs amid  turmoils that it surprises me that more do not.  We live in a coal mining area with very good pay for miners especially and, well,  money doesn't buy love and can buy all sorts of trouble. Please uphold all involved in prayers as that little girl's life has just been changed forever! 
  He did turn himself in and I do not know where that little one is going as he has no family here that we know.

  Years ago we also knew of a man that was killed in an accident locally and the woman he was having an affair with was riding with him at the time--she survived.  Imagine telling the wife that there was another woman with him during the accident in which he was killed.  So many people hurting in this world!  We can only pray for them. 

 Thank you God for the blessings of my family that I hold dear and the friends for which I can try to be an influence on during life's trying times and to know that You are there with us all, even when it seems all is lost.  May we not forget that lives around us can change in an instant and forever change course.  Let us be stewards of prayer to uphold others.
Amen