PLEASE GIVE THEM HELL

Sometimes you just have to call on our faith to give you the answers when your silly enough to ask them. Three blogs and millions of words, flights to places I would have never went, putting my head square in the middle of the chopping block and handing the butcher the knife, a Walk, a support group, and an exquisite quilt and I still wasn't good enough for Washington, D.C......l know better than to question. No I am not giving up, and I thank all that backed and encourages me this past year. I will just work toward next year and save more back.....if I was meant to be there I am sure I would have been......Thanks again to all that pushed me on and to the ones that are going .....PLEASE GIVE THEM HELL FOR ME!!!!!!!!

The Past stands by, a bank where man may borrow of what he will to shape his own Tomorrow. H.L. Marshall

STANDUP AND STANDOUT

The time is right and we all need to help out. There is something important for all of us to do. Look around and size up your life. If it's good right now it could instantly get worse. .. are you ready? If your the senior in your family, are you stashing back just little here and there. Start a penny jar for the grand kids. Have them hunt pennies and save them in the jar. Sit down with them to roll them. Let them go with you to the bank. Talk about the financial crisis with them. Help them to understand their lifestyle is going to change and make them a part of getting it back on track. Small things like......Paper towels and toilet paper......sounds funny but be teaching them they CAN live on less. one or two paper towels instead of a hand full just to be barely used and thrown away. Get on their case......Watch what they are doing and correct it.As seniors we play a huge part in solving this problem. We are the last generating to remember cheap......where the name on our jeans was Levi and it was ok....It was made in the USA. This is about America and it's unique people and how God is showing us the way.....as always POKIE.

Today is Thursday

Today is Thursday. The day before the weekend. The time when all the areas of my life come together in total confusion for two days of listening , laughing and savoring all things around me. My family, as all do these days, are so busy with games and school events. Cell phones and texting have taken over the face to face conversation and all things seem to be lost in cyberspace only to be retrieved if you could remember the right password. What kind of mood was I in when I ventured into a conversation with a fifteen year old, only to find out that I was the last thing on the plant earth she was paying attention to. How about the eight year old who gets your attention by telling a story that starts out "Gramma Nee Nay". Right there he has me and I'm listening and he makes up some wild story and I believe every word. So tickled someone actually has singled me out to talk to I pass the story on....only to see him standing in the corner grinning as I realize he made it all up. There is one trying to impress the other and little fingers and hands are just flying in search of the perfect treasure that I have stashed away for them to see at a later time. And then there is my "little Jesus"Precious little guy, just seven months old, who follows you with those huge blue eyes as the curls fall in ringlets around his face. You see the perfect cherub starting at every move you make. He pulls you in just like a magnet and begs you to pick him up, without a word being spoken. The kids pile in on the floor around him and he grabs their faces and gives them kisses and pulls their hair while Gramma Nee Nay watches from the side lines and knows "Life is Still So Good"

ALSTDI plus MLB = STRONG

Today in my news letter from ALS Therapy Development Institute it was announced that they have joined forces with the National Baseball League to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of Lou Gehrig's retirement from baseball on July 4th, 1929. The awareness program will take place on Independence Day of this year, and will focus on raising awareness and empowering all of us to take greater action in the fight against ALS and in doing that helping all the Neurological Disorders get closer to the cure. But what you make of this opportunity is up to you. I invite you to take part in the ALS Awareness program using the same proven grassroots fundraising methods that have accelerated the research at ALSTDI in the past. We envision a day in which hundreds of families and neighborhoods across the country come together on July 4th in a show of unity. Go to www.als.net. A cure for one could be a cure for all!!!!! love pokie