Thank you to everyone who donates blood!!! Last Wednesday I was sent from my doctor's office to the emergency room with severe anemia. I spent two nights in the hospital and received 4 transfusions. I am feeling stronger, but still very easily tired. The doctor said that it will be a few weeks before I feel 'normal' (what ever that is!)
Cookie Magazine is holding a contest for Smart Cookie 2009. The prize is $35,000 to the winning charity. Amy Eldridge from Love Without Boundaries is one of the finalists. LWB is an amazing organization. Please go to the site and vote for her. It is only one vote per email. This can help provide many heart, cleft and other surgeries so needed. Or help pay tuition for a student that otherwise wouldn't be able to go to school. Click here to enter.
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This is what the elevators are really like in China!
This is what I am ready for...wishing wistfully, like the snowman!
So, the kids were watching TV, mom had gone to work and dad was sleeping in a little. We have done this before. We can hear them and they come screaming to us if they are fighting, etc. On Christmas Eve, they decided to get some packs of fruit snack to eat - they usually bring them to us to open. Yes, we are talented enough to open fruit snacks in our sleep!
However, this morning, as a special Christmas present to us, they got out TA's safety scissors and cut open the fruit snacks. Then the story gets fuzzy...the results were two unplanned haircuts. Here are photos from their self-stylin' event: 
Look at the notch over his left eye. At least it is on part and not very noticable!!!
The part you can see used to be the same length as the rest of the hair. Not shown are the 1 inch segments near her crown that is currently hidden by other hair!
We took her for an emergency haircut. This is the after...the stylist cut off about 3 inches and put long layers in to blend the cut part. But EQ's hair wasn't cut as short as the self-stylin'. It'll grow...slowly, but it'll grow!!!
...and all scissors are put up far, far away...
I feel so fortunate to live in a country where I can vote without pressure or fear. Amazingly , I arrived at my local polling place and saw a fairly full parking lot. I walked inside after being bombarded by volunteers giving out 'sample' ballots. The end of the line was at the door.
The Big Apple Circus came to town and had a Circus of the Senses for hearing and visually impaired people. It was a blast!!
Tomorrow is the Service of Remembrance at Potomac Hospital. It is one small way to honor the babies that went to heaven too early for the families left on earth. I will be reading this poem that I found on the Share International site and adapted for our service. I am sorry, but I do not know who wrote it.
We’re gathering to remember what in life we can’t forget
The loss of precious children some we’ve never even met.
We’re standing here together, the bond between us strong
For we’re the only ones who know your pain, it isn’t wrong.
They’ll tell you that you’ll mend and try again someday
But only we know in our hearts this pain is here to stay
Our lives we’ll go on living our families they may grow
But there will always be a special place, for the children we didn’t get to know.
They’ll never be forgotten by all those who hold them dear
They’ll never be forgotten thanks to gatherings like this one here
We’re gathering to remember these children one and all
As together we’ll unite our hearts and break this silent wall.
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