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So....I started this post last night, almost done, but I fell asleep. So I decided today to finish it up. HOWEVER, by one-year-old had apparently another idea for this post. Kids like computers, intriguing to them, so as he went off the couch, he took my computer with him, which deleted the entire post..apparently this is why I should do this while the kids are sleeping :) So off to play with him until his nap and hopefully his big sis will also be sleeping so I can start over. Gotta love the babes :)

Last night we went to a wedding that was very beautiful. It was simple and very pretty and there were quite a few nice touches to everything. As the guests came into the wedding, they had someone there taking pictures of the family, couples, etc. Before the picture you signed your names in a photobook where your picture was going to go. During the ceremony rather than a unity candle being lit, they had a sand ceremony where they had their own bottles of sand and combined each of the bottles into one for the same representation as a unity candle, but there obviously was different wording explaining it, very cool I thought! Also, I'm sure others have seen it, but instead of one cake, the had two sheet cakes and two stands with cupcakes on the 2nd and bottom tier, an assortment of cookies on the 3rd tier and the top tier had a small cake. I liked how they had such a great variety. Then the head table was in a square rather than a long table facing everyone. I like both, but the thing with the square is that I'm sure it's easier for the party to talk. It was an overall great wedding. Congrats Kari and Bryan!!

Cheers for now!

Charles Schulz Philosophy

Here's a great e-mail I received today from a wonderful friend, Kim (Hi Kim!!). Hope you enjoy it!

The Charlie Schulz Philosophy
(This is marvelous!! Scroll thru slowly and read carefully to receive and enjoy full effect)

The following is the philosophy of Charles Schulz, the creator of the 'Peanuts' comic strip. You don't have to actually answer the questions. Just read the e-mail straight through, and you'll get the point.
1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America pageant.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.

How did you do?
The point is , none of us remember the headliners of yesterday.
These are no second-rate achievers.
They are the best in their fields.
But the applause dies..
Awards tarnish.
Achievements are forgotten.
Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.

Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:
1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special!!
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.

Easier?

The lesson:
The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials..
the most money...or the most awards.
They simply are the ones who care the most.

'Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia !'

''Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Taken!'

Random....

Those "security" words that are somewhat italiazed in a box or however you would like to describe them....who thinks of those??? Some are words, some are words with numbers, some are just letters. Really, is there a job out there for that!!

Traditions....

So for some reason when I'm at work that seems to be when I do the most thinking about life, what things need to get done for projects, around home, what I need to shop for, things about life in general. Maybe it's because it's quieter there than at home. No one is pulling at me, jumping on me (the kids use me as a gymnasium at home, not Brian jumping on me, ha....that would lead to a different post, ha), no singing on the tops of lungs, crying, you get the jist. So anyways back to the point. So as I was sitting there today and again reading different blogs (on breaks of course, haha), I was reading about different traditions different families have. I love that!! So now I'm inspired to figure out different little traditions with my family. One was seeing if there is paint or something I can get the kids to put their handprints on fabric, so when I have time or a quilting retreat where I need a project (haha, if you were to see my "stash" I have enough materials to last me to retirement and I'm only 32, plus I have material I inherited from mom, but lucky for me that's at their house yet), I can make some type of wall hanging, lap quilt, something with those squares of their prints. Oh....maybe I could get them to draw and see how that develops as they grow along with how their hand prints get bigger. My lands, I think I'm onto something!! See one thing you'll learn about me is I have many ideas, but get too overwhelmed with everyday life and the house and kids that creativeness doesn't happen, but I absolutely love reading ideas and thinking of them. So feel free to share!!! Anyways I love the idea of traditions and would love to hear what others do.

So Extra is on and Sanjia is on (American Idol contestant)...I CANNOT stand that guy!!! I hear his name and I squirm, I see him and get the heeby jeebies. He needs to not be seen just like Omarosa, who the hell is she and why do people waste their time on her!! Man-oh-man!!

So I have more I want to say, but am looking at my hubby and seeing his sleepy eyes, which are making me sleepy and need to get some card ideas picked out so I can get material together and go stamp away!!!

Have a good night and Cheers!

P.S. Something also to be warned about with me....I'm well known for interupting, I really don't mean to do it to be rude, but I can't help it when people are talking and I have a thought or question about that right then because I know if I wait until later it won't make as much sense. So anyways if at all you read these posts and notice I may leave ya hanging it's because my thoughts jump, also known as ADD :)

TTFN

random thought

You will see many of these random thoughts throughout this blog, but here is one I had as I was traveling to my dads to leave for Illinois last week. I saw a bull in a field with his eyes closed and his head tilted so slightly standing up...This leads me to the question, do cows sleep standing up?? I have an aunt and uncle who said theirs back in the day did not, but if that's the case, where did cow tipping derive from????

Again, random thought. Would love to hear what you have to say :)

So I'm an addict when it comes to reading/viewing blog sites of people I know or ones I find through hobbies I love. One site I just read was of an inspiring woman, Stephanie Nielsen, of which I found her blog (http://www.nieniedialogues.blogspot.com/) through portabellopixie (http://www.portabellopixie.typepad.com/), a wonderful blog of a talented woman who designs fabric and has many wonderful projects and patterns I envy! Stephanie sounds to be the mother I hope to be and to become. Tragically she and her husband were in a private plan crash which left her in critical condition, with 80% of her body burned and her husband with 30% of his body burned. They have four children and by reading her blog, her sister's blog (http://blog.cjanerun.com/), and hearing her siblings on the Today Show, it made me realize how important family is and how to Carpe Diem, "Seize the Day" of life and to do that the way you would want to be remembered and how you would want to live!

I am also inspired by my mom, LaRae Fisher, who was in a car accident January 24, 2008, and passed January 26, 2008, from injuries. She was such an inspiration to so many, especially me! She was my best friend, my go to person. She knew everything about me, 98% of the skeletons in my closet, and she still loved me unconditionally. I could talk to her about everything, random thoughts, stuff about the kids, complaints about work or my hubby (yes, believe it or not, haha), good news about anything. I could count on her 24/7 for everything and anything. This als0 makes me realize how dependent I was on her, but in talking with others, I guess I was just being a daughter and proving that a mother's job of being a mom never ends. We all, my brothers and I, said how she is the rock of the family. Several months after she past a guy from Stewartville who knows my parents even said how she was the rock, so that was so awesome for me to hear that someone who wasn't necessarily talking about the family, but just her in things she did daily, was a rock. This proves once again, Carpe Diem, and be the person you want to be and can be. Unfortunately my eyes are opening for the first time to so many things in life since she's been gone. This is a good and bad thing. Good because it's probably made me a tad bit more indepedent and made me grow up a bit (who am I kidding, that may never happen), but it is kind-of bad, because I feel like I may have put too much on her rather than helping her in some instances, when she was again the rock for the family and other groups she was. But again, do I regret anything, not really, other than I should have stepped up more, but again (again) it's making me realize more now, and I am hoping I am stepping up more now......I think....probably should ask my husband, ha! It also made me aware of what others really do go through to lose loved ones and although it does eventually happen, I wish it wouldn't because it sucks! Last week my great aunt passed away of a heart attack at the age of 86, now after losing my mom I can somewhat understand what her family is going through (although every individual is different from how their loved one passes) and it makes me very heart broken for them. Images of them getting the phone call, going through the steps of planning things, trying to figure out what needs to be done, etc., and then settling down and realizing things, it's a hard time and my heart goes out for them. I especially think of her husband, of I believe 62 years or so, as he was with her when she passed, in fact she fell on him from what I hear, and what he will be going through. I just have to pray for him and the family.

Whew so reading this, sorry to have babbled. My point to starting this blog is to share my thoughts (I will apologize now if I ever get carried away, haha) and my family of whom I love so amazingly deeply! We'll see how this goes, if anyone reads this cheers to you. If not, then I'll be using this as a life journal for thoughts, funny things my kids do/say, happenings with myself and family, and maybe even pics of my creative outlets (if I actually finish my projects).

So cheers!!