March Madness...

I'm normally a positive, upbeat person, but I cannot lie......March 2010 has pretty much bit the big one!

Work is crazy because on an acquisition we have been working on. My knee has gotten to a point that it isn't getting any better, and I am looking at having surgery. The weather has just stunk - lots of rain and no signs of global warming. The politicians have gone mad, and voted in Obamacare. My sister-in-law has moved back to Hawaii. A couple that we were close to at church has moved to Maine. And Bobby's grandmother has been experiencing some health issues. This household has been bummed out!

So we need a good dose of spring to pull us out of the pits. If you happen to see Spring, could you please send her our way?!

~MM

Friendship in full bloom

Work has been so stressful. Luckily I found a little me time this weekend, and I created this mini book using new Bo Bunny papers, and a My Little Yellow Bicycle chipboard book. Seriously, this really helped me keep my sanity! This is not necessarily what I would have picked out to do this book with, but I am glad it is what I got b/c I think it turned out kind of cute :)













Hope you all have a great week!
~MM

Quite Contrary

No I am not talking about my 9 year old, b/c the title would "most definitely, super duper contrary"!

I'm talking about the new line from My Mind's Eye, and this little LO I made it with. Fun stuff in this line....





Hope you have a good one!
~MM

Sweet Treats & such

So let's pick this thing up around Valentine's Day.....

The 3rd grade class requested chocolate covered strawberries, so J and I obliged. Didn't they turn out pretty?



And here are the Valentine's we made for the class. They are owls made out of heart doilies.



And here's a funny little dilly. My wonderful sister-in-law was teaching J to do the hula. This get-up totally cracks me up!


Hope you have a GREAT weekend!
~MM

Technical Difficulties (on so many levels)

Wow - I really feel like I have been in a time warp over the last month. My computer crashed, I busted up my knee, lots of crazy winter weather, some heart aches, and a new acquisition at work.

But, the good news is....I got my computer back today. So I can finally upload my photos over the last month or so, and pick back up on my blogging.

So what did I miss over the last month?

~MM

PSA: Bears on Patrol

Bears on Patrol is a non-profit set up to provide bears to patrol officer. These officers in turn pass them out to scared and hurting children when they are working difficult calls of domestic abuse, child welfare cases; etc. It is amazing how these children open up when there is a friendly object with them. I am so proud of my friends, Angie and Blake for tackling this project. I know about it first hand, because Bobby has patrolled for many years with a garbage bag of stuffed toys in his trunk.

They have received a request for 1,000 bears by the Philadephia police dept. This will come to $7,000 for the bears and cover shipping. Seems like a $7 a piece to comfort a young child is a bargain.

Please consider a donation. If not, read about what they have going on, pray for them and their endeavors, and more importantly....pray for the littlest victims. Their website is www.bearsonpatrol.org.

Hope you all have a blessed Sunday!
~MM

Attitude of Gratitude

While listening to a Dave Ramsey podcast (yes, I am still hung up on Dave to my daughter's displeasure!), I heard him say that Zig Zigler tells his readers to make a list of things that they are grateful first thing in the morning to get their heads focused on the positive. I started a few days ago, and have set myself an appt at work for the rest of the month of January to make a little list every morning. (My goal is for it to become habit, & I won't need a silly appt to remind me!)

Anyway, I fill up the whole side of my desk flip calendar page before I do anything else. I tell ya, all of the petty little things that I have no control over have lost their control over me! For all of the problems the US has, we still live in a blessed nation. It is a crying shame that we take it for granted and focus on little meaningless details that don't even have a place in the big picture.

I am so ashamed that I get bogged down and bummed out about junk. I have a secured eternity, my health, my family, my job, my church family, food on my table, a roof over my head, clothes on my back and I could go on and on and on and on..... There are people who are really hurting - lost loved ones, fighting health issues/addiction, battling loneliness; etc. It is a slap in their face for me to focus time and energy on my inconveniences when they are going thru so much bigger trials. So I am proclaiming it - I AM BLESSED in big things, and (even better) in the smalled things in my life.

Want to join me in my "attitude of gratitude" project? It will definitely change your perspective!

~MM