Halloween --the nonscary route

BOO! Happy Halloween.

I love Halloween. I think dressing up in costumes are fun.

Guess what I bought? Ruby slippers. Yup! I found them in my size 11, on ebay in a cross-dressers shoe store. Go figure! Glad anyways that I finally got them. I LOVE these shoes. I'm going to wear them out. Maybe I'll wear them for Christmas eve service with my black velvet dress too! hehehe

Great time of the year to hand out candy, coloring book pages, and Avon books for the Mommies who come to the door. Alexander loved the trick/treaters but cried when each one left. He didn't care they looked strange, just stay and play a while. :)

I wish we were more organized this year, so John and I could have gone out somewhere to a Halloween party for adults. Besides the Trick or Treaters and decorating a bit....it was just another day.


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Vendor Sales ROCK!

Our annual (4th year) biggie Christmas sale came and went already. We did excellent. I think things get better with time and practice. We did better than we ever did before. Of course all the profits are going to fund our adoption to China.

It was a lot of work. Actually we were busy constantly all day. My feet were hurting so I really didn't walk around. We stayed in our booth and took in money.

We sell a LOT of chapstick! We sold 2 large jumbo ziploc bags of chapstick at 50cents each. WOW! I prepare my chapstick collection all year round so there are interesting flavors from throughout the year in there to choose from. I put them in these 2 big gold containers and people come over and dig around in them looking for the perfect flavor. It's silly but fun!

What a fun event.
I sold a lot of things and was totally tired when it was done, but my Avon gets organized after being put on the tables. 2-3 more sales before the end of the year.

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What a wonderful day

For the past month I have been suffering, probably why I haven't posted sooner. Why is it that medical science most times doesn't work for me?
My shoulder was out of socket. I went earlier in the month and got a cortazone shot. It helped but didn't fix the problem. Today we saw a new chiropractor and he popped it back into socket. I went somewhere else and was told it couldn't even be fixed. This guy goes WHAM! and I feel better.
What a Blessing!

Autumn colors are everywhere. What a beautiful time of year. It's even nicer when you feel like dancing because someone stopped your shoulder pain.

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Power of a blessed tongue

Good Tuesday Morning!
(Well, I guess it's really the afternoon.)

I guess I want to talk about the power of the tongue today. I had this pep talk with my dad today. He's one to speak nasty or hateful things against his children (my brother and I). The thing is, he should speak well of us as we aren't bad people and have done quite well for ourselves. We both went to college and graduated, both are working, both are good citizens...and aren't druggies or living off of welfare.

Our pep talk included the saying: "if you don't have something nice to say, don't speak at all." John (my dh) says that's from the Bambi movie. I guess I don't remember that, maybe I'll have to find that tape and watch it tonight.

Evil can breed evil. Good can breed good. Ever heard "you are what you eat?" or "if you lay down with dogs you'll end up with fleas?" or maybe "do unto others as you'd have them do unto you?" I once heard the last one said "do it to others before they do it to you." I guess that's the wrong point on that Bible verse, isn't it?

What if we make good things happen by speaking happiness and love in our words and actions instead of living in the negativity. Doesn't it sound like I should hand you a flower and say "peace" right about now?

What if dad's speaking negative is some of the reasons things happen the way they do in this town? I know it's true. I'm a business owner in this town but if my dad says evil (some aren't worthy writing here) and people turn away from wanting to purchase items from me...evil wins.

The purpose of this blog is to try to uplift God in my daily life, maybe show others that Christians live normal lives too. Some think Christians live in bubbles.

Be blessed.
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PS: I'm blessed to have a Heavenly Father who loves me, even when my earthly father is ashamed of me!

Legion meeting...Oct

This is the pin I bought for a couple of bucks. It's the official Bernie Bear pin, she's the new president for this next year of the Am Legion Aux.

Beyond buying a pin, most locals in our group probably don't even know who she is or what's going on. Say "email" or "internet" and they freakout. They talked about getting a webpage but then the grammas tell you they don't have computers. Seems some people live in the dark, some live in the gap, and some live in the real world.

Amazingly enough, technology scares people. I wonder why? It's not scary being online. Amazing again that I'm an expert compared to most, and I still feel like there are tons of things I'd like to know more about. WOW!

Next meeting will be a big one, potluck, speeches, and my poppy centerpieces to raffle off. It should be fun, if my babysitter gets here in enough time so I can help decorate and bring food over there.

Still amazing that the internet scares people.

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Pain in shoulder---be gone

Ever suffer from shoulder pain? I don't know why it's here but it's been hurting for 3 weeks. I had a shot for the pain today and I might actually survive it.

Someone made me this bear w/my name. It's cute.

Working on paperwork for China.

GOAL: NEED TO MAKE A PACKING LIST so I'm not forgetting something important to take along.


Going to go
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Church presentation --adoption

We were asked to speak at Church about our upcoming adoption from China. It would be a blessing, regardless if they just thought we'd need a tiny piece of time. They only called John to the front, but I went too.

We had this wonderful video to share. And also this poem. I'll add it to the end so that others could read it too.

Our message was that we can't save all the orphans in the world, but it would be a blessing to save one.

Our little Rachel Qin will someday call us all a family. It's taken so long to get all the paperwork gathered, notorized, and processed.

I think our message was heard as many people are now asking us when are we going, what do we need, and how can they help us. What a gift!

Here's the story:

No, we can't save all the orphans....but what if we just were to save one?

The Starfish Story
Author Unknown.
There was a young man walking down a deserted beach just before dawn.
In the distance he saw a frail old man. As he approached the old man,
he saw him picking up stranded starfish and throwing them back into the sea. The young man gazed in wonder as the old man again and again threw the small starfish from the sand to the water. He asked, "Old man, why do you spend so much energy doing what seems to be a waste of time." The old man explained that the stranded starfish would die if left in the morning sun. "But there must be thousands of beaches and millions of starfish!" exclaimed the young man. "How can you make any difference?" The old man looked at the small starfish in his hand and as he threw it to the safety of the sea, he said, "It makes a difference to this one!".


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October starts

At times it's hard to post here, I'm not sure who's reading along, or who cares....but this blog exists. Fall is in fullswing. We spent most of the summer adding on our 2nd floor and it took far longer than we could have imagined.

October is a great month. Lots of decorations make the month more soothing, basically fall is the start of winter. Winter is a long cooped-up season here.

I will have to find out about haunted houses. Too bad my nephew doesn't like them. I think I'll always enjoy a good scare in the dark. I've been going to haunted houses since I was little.

Happy October 1st.


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