A Sweet Day (in more ways than one)

After work this morning, I met Annie, Bethany, Mum, and four kids to shop for wedding accoutrements.
Crazy, you say?
Indeed.
But nevertheless....mission accomplished:
Bridal shoes, fabric and pattern for bolero, chosen and purchased.

When we arrived home, the sun was shining fiercely on the deck.

We played.



And lay in the sun.


And played some more.



After a couple of hours, everybody got grumpy and then they went home.

Witness the remains of a very scrumptious box of chocolates, bought by mistake by me, at Grocery Outlet, on the way home.

Happy Easter

A lady opened her refrigerator and saw a rabbit sitting on one of the shelves.
"What are you doing in there?" She asked.


The rabbit replied:
"This is a Westinghouse, isn't it?",
To which the lady replied "Yes."
"Well," said the rabbit,

"I'm westing."

Ha!

Thanks to Uncle Ozzie for that one.

Announcement

Annie is getting married



to Edwin.

We think he's pretty cool.
He loves Annie.
He seems to "get" Annie.
So we love him too.
He comes with two little boys.
Whom we will add to our stable of little grandsons.

Edwin is a soldier in North Carolina.
The wedding will PROBABLY be in June.
We say "probably" because it is, after all, Annie.

Maybe it will be in August.

Or tomorrow!

A joke

What goes "Ha ha ha, boink"?

A man, laughing his head off!


Well, I thought it was hilarious.

Reluctant no more

Has it really only been two months?
Every time Obama opens his mouth, he pushes me more firmly to the right.
I want to say to him:
NO MORE APOLOGIES FOR LIBERATING IRAQ
NO MORE BOWING TO KINGS OF TERRORISTS



NO MORE WEAKENING OUR MILITARY STRENGTH
NO MORE RAMPANT SOCIALISM
NO MORE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE ECONOMIC MESS HE INHERITED
NO MORE AMERICAN FUNDING OF OVERSEAS ABORTIONS
NO MORE FETAL STEM CELL RESEARCH
NO MORE NEW DRESSES FOR MICHELLE
NO MORE OBAMA

Feel free to add any more in the comments section.
I may have missed a couple!

I am mad and I am going to demonstrate.

You could come too.

It's so easy!

Being a closet environmentalist (albeit a rational one, I choose to believe) I try to incorporate baby steps of environmental change into my life whenever I can.

Here's an easy one.
Whenever you go out to eat, take some small containers for your leftovers, instead of using those ginormous styrofoam thingies that most restaurants provide.
This is such an easy idea.
I can't believe that I didn't think of it before I read it in the newspaper!

So you choose.

THIS.......?

OR THIS.....?

It's easy!

Just make sure that you DON'T warm up your leftovers in your cute Tupperware.

May no soldier go unloved

is the motto of Soldiers' Angels.
When the war with Iraq first began, I thought a lot about the stories my parents told me about growing up during the Second World War.
How everyone sacrificed and pulled together for the war effort.
They donated pots and wrought iron fences for munitions.
They lived on food rations.

My uncle told a funny story:
His Mum would send a couple of the kids to join a queue whenever she heard of one forming outside a shop. He said they often wouldn't know what they were queuing for until they got close to the shop. One time he stood in line for over two hours. The shop ran out of whatever it was they were selling. He never did find out what it was he stood in line for.

I missed that feeling of unity and felt as if I wanted to sacrifice something too; that the military and their families shouldn't be the only ones hurting.
So I spearheaded an effort to send care packages to soldiers.
We sent over 40 packages and it felt like a good endeavour.
The warm fuzzy feeling lasted for a good year or two.

Then (through Michael Yon) I found Soldiers' Angels.

SA is a non-profit that was founded by the mother of two soldiers.
It is now almost 200,000 volunteers and 30 teams strong.
Through Soldiers' Angels you can:
* Adopt a soldier, writing to them regularly and sending care packages.
* Make blankets for wounded soldiers or deployed soldiers.
* Sew for infants of deployed soldiers.
* Bake treats for deployed soldiers.
* Write supportive letters or cards for deployed soldiers.
* Help support families at home.
* Attend various functions to support troops.
* and many other small and large acts of support for our soldiers.

The photo in the last posting was of a small group of friends who went to the beach overnight. We made seven "blankets of belief" to be included in Christmas packages for deployed soldiers last year. Altogether, ladies from church and I sent 29 blankets. I got the feeling from those who donated that they got a lot of satisfaction from the project.

So if you have a niggling feeling that you could be doing a little something for our military effort, explore the SA website and see what tickles your fancy.

There is something for everyone.

A soldier will thank you.



"Mom, I'm not a soldier, I'm a MARINE!"