I Actually Did It!!!!!!!!

I've been playing a game called Rocket Mania. The reason I've been playing so much is because I read somewhere that on the hard difficulty, there were 2 more levels to reach. Well, let me tell you from experience, there isn't. Brothers of Dragons is the highest level you can reach on any difficulty. My latest score is 4056340, and still it shows Brothers of Dragons.

I realize this may not interest you, but I'm surprised I've made it this far. This is the best score I've ever gotten during the whole game and just had to share.

Have a great weekend and God bless.

About my newest site

I told you about a new site on the web, but now I want to go into more detail about it.

It's a site I did to try and help churches bring in more visitors by having one central location to post any event that might be happening. The name of the site is Local Christian Event Calendar. I got tired of having to look all over the place to find out what is going on where at the churches in my area, as well as where various singing groups were performing. And once I get it off the ground, it will be a great source for this kind of information.

If you've never started your own site, let me tell you it can be very time consumming! Between finding other sites to link to it, calling churches and singing groups to advertise on it, it's been slow going. But I know God had a hand in this, (and still does), so it will prosper, I just have to be patient. I ask that you be patient also with this site. I'm getting word out about it and really believe that it will be a great site one day with a lot of information on local Christian events. Just keep my site in your prayers as I'll keep you in mine as you read this.

God be with you always.

Please have your eyes checked

In February of 2007, we found out that my husband had cancer in one of his eyes. It was melanoma. There were no symptoms only a blind spot in his side vision that he found when he was out back shooting BB guns with our 2 boys.

We had 2 choices, go to Philladelphia and have radiation placed in his eye and loose his sight, and the eye, in a few years or just go ahead and remove the eye. He chose to have it removed. He now has a fake eye that is very hard to tell is fake.

I'm not going to say we had an easy time going through this because we didn't. Your first response when you hear that your loved one has cancer is total fear. "What if I loose my husband?" That was the first thought that went through my mind when I heard it.

Once the eye was removed, we found out that they got all of the cancer when they removed the eye and his chances of ever getting cancer again is 1 to 2 percent each year, and it's an accumulative percentage, meaning that in 25 years, he'll have a 25 to 50 percent chance of getting cancer again. So the odds are great for him.

I thank God that he went to the doctors when he did. As I stated above, there were no warnings that it was even there and with it being in his side vision, it was very hard to see unless he was only using one eye as in the case of shooting guns with the boys.

Please, if you don't have regular eye exams, do so. You never know what might be there. We didn't.

Dear Politicians

I realize that it's easier for you to run a smear campaign, but we would much prefer that you tell us what issues you stand for and how you actually intend to help the American people. Contrary to popular opinion, we are actually intelligent people and will understand what you're talking about. We want to know your feelings on the real issues. What your opponent has or hasn't done is not what we consider a real issue. How you intend to stop illegal aliens from taking over our country is a real issue. How you intend to bring gas prices down to a reasonable price is a real issue. How you intend to stop all of our jobs from going overseas is a real issue. Why can you not stand up for a real issue and actually do what you say you will?

We may not always do the best for ourselves, but we don't need you telling us what that is. All you can do is give us that information and let us take it from there. If we mess up, then we pay the consequences.

We've let you take our freedoms from us and now I say that it's time to take them back. It's time to stand up for the rights and freedoms the founding fathers intended for us to have and the politicians that we have to choose from aren't the answer.

For once I would like a politician that doesn't talk out of both sides of your mouth. If you make a promise I expect you to keep it. I expect you to actually do what is best for the USA, not how much money you have in your pocket. If you can't do that, we'll put someone in there that we think will. If that person doesn't we'll just find someone else.

It's time the American people took our nation back. It's time we stand up for ourselves. I intend to start now.

May God bless you and help you do what is right.

Here is some wonderful news

At the beginning of August, I received a letter from an organization that's called People-to-People, and in case you're not fimiliar with this organization, it's in charge of the Student Ambassador program. Anyway, Devin, my oldest son, has been recommended for this program. When we first received this letter, I honestly thought it was a form letter that was sent out to all new 5th and 6th graders, so to make sure, I called them and found out that a child has to be recommended to be sent this letter. Needless to say, I was so proud of him for that. The fact that someone thought that much of my son, just thrills me no end. Also, this will count for high school and college credit. I already know that Devin is going to college because he's has that mentality already. And no, it's not just because I'm his mother, I know my son if smart, if he'll apply himself.

So to brag on him some, I've set up a small site to tell you about it. Through this program, he'll be able to visit all kinds of different places in Europe, places that I would love to go to. Anyway, go to his site and check it out.

God Bless and I hope you have a great day.

Have sooo much to tell you about!!!!

The first thing I want to tell you about is a Sunday School class that saved for one quarter and sent a donation for my program. The donation was over $70. That in and of itself is amazing, but what makes it more amazing is that the students are only 4 and 5 year olds. Here is a picture of the class so you can see these students. I'm not sure what order the students are in, but here is a list of the students. Paige, Smai, Rachel, Emily, Cassie, Julia, Rachel, Alex, Dylan, Dakota, Eli, Davis, Garrett, Lauren, Amanda, Macy, Mady, Terik, Zach, Chloe, Cale, Rose and Olivia. I really want to thank these children for their help. It's nice to see children trying to help other children and it really touched me when I received their gift. They also sent me a lot of Veggie Tales coloring pages to use, so I hope everyone likes these because I'll be using them soon.

Here's the other thing I wanted to tell you about. We went to Panama City Beach for our vacation to visit my sister. I'm sure I've told you about her. Her son's name is Jay and he's 2 and 1/2 now, I can't forget the 1/2 because she won't let me. Anyway, we had a great time. We rode on the Sea Dragon and if you have children and happen to be in that area, it's well worth it. For two hours they keep the children occupied and the parents can actually relax without having to worry about what they are into, and they loved it. The theme is all about pirates. They have sword fights, tattos, watergun fights, shooting cannons, and my favorite, seeing dolphins. This is good clean fun for the whole family and no, I'm not being paid for this. I really enjoyed it and so did the whole family.

I hope you have a safe and happy 4th of July. God Bless.

Been Very Busy

I want to apologize for not posting lately. Both my boys decided that they had to play baseball this year and if you've never done this before, like us, it's hard to imagine how busy it will keep you. Let me explain:

Tryouts - Imagine being in a small gym with over 100 screaming children all wanting to try out for baseball and only a handful at a time are trying out. The rest are left to play until it's their turn.

Practice - When things first were first decided, we were scheduled to have practice for both boys on Tuesday from 4:00 to 5:30 and from 5:30 to 7:00, then my youngest was given to a new coach and his practice time was changed to Monday and Friday from 7:00 to 8:30. Sometimes they had to practice on Saturday, especially my oldest son's team, and if you knew the coach, you'd understand. Having them practice so much usually wouldn't have been such a hard time but most of the practices we sat there watching while trying not to freeze to death or at least feeling like it anyway.

Games - Now comes the fun part, watching my boys play. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it, but the games were usually Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays with practice thrown in whenever they could find a field open. And since Marcus's team usually had practice so late, it was easy for them, so the Monday and Friday practice was usually on. We even had a few Wednesday practices for both of them.

Concession stand duty - On top of all the other times we had to be there, each parent was supposed to help in the concession stand, which i have to do tonight. Something I'm really looking forward to (yeah right). The only good thing is Devin really wants to help, so he'll be going with me.

Now the regular season is over and we have county tournaments. Marcus's team has already lost 2 games and are out, but Devin's team has won both games and has to play again tomorrow night. But - Marcus has made the T-Ball All Stars team so we have to find out when that happens, and we're scheduled to go on vacation soon, and since we're already reserved rooms and such, we can't change them. But I'm proud of both my boys. Neither one has ever played before or even knew anything about baseball so I have to say they both have done a great job. Devin has finally gotten to where he'll hit the ball during games, and he's doing so much better fielding than he used to. Needless to say, Marcus took to it like a duck to water.

But it has been benefitial for both of them. Devin has learned that if you get hit by the ball, it may hurt for a little while, but the pain goes away, he's been hit twice in the side of the head (thank God for helmets) and the side while trying to bat, once in the thigh while running from second to third, and once in the mouth while trying to catch a pop fly after it bounced off the ground. I have to say though, he was a trooper each time. He kept playing and never let it bother him. When he got hit in the mouth, he threw it to second right after it happened and never expected practice to stop. I was so proud of him and at the same time it took everything in me to not run out there and check on him, but I didn't. He was with the guys and didn't need momma babiing him. I may not like it, but I understand it. I let the coach make sure he was okay and stayed sitting on the bleachers. Even the coach was impressed by him that day.

Anyway, I'm about to go to town in a little while. I hope you have a blessed day.