Truly blessed

Wow I have been truly blessed with such a wonderful family. We all each of strengths & weaknesses but through it all we stick together.
Each of my family members I have a different bond or thing we share together. Im very proud of my family & their accomplishments & well since my sister did her post about me today I am going to start by saying how proud I am of you, Rebekah. You have taken on being a New Mom so well! Even though I don't get to see you often I'm so glad we are sisters. I Love you & the bond we share. 

From children you have always been such a great sister

I never thought almost 7 years ago you would be marrying the man you loved & I would wear a dress only cause I Love you so much. 

And now seeing you as a mom & I still think you look as beautiful as you did the day you got married.

Even though you don't blog much I love it when you do as you really do a good job at writing.

I am so proud of your accomplishments in life dear sister & I can't wait to see you at Christmas!

The Reason for the Season

God has given me the gift of giving. I love to Give & not get anything in return. Truth told if I had all the money in the world, I would probably give it all away. I am not here to brag but I love it when someone gives something out of love not asking for anything in return. Several times including this past Sunday I have gotten gifts & I have never asked for anything in return. Thing is as much as I enjoy gift exchanges I rather give funds or time to charity sometimes instead. Some days I would rather participate just on the giving side cause I really don't need anything in return. God has given me an awesome family, great friends, & an amazing church. I could go on & on about how blessed I am. What I wish, is that this world would reflect the real meaning of Christmas. What if we thought of others before ourselves? If we decided to help the elderly? The poor? The most needy? I know this world would be better if we shared Gods Love with others by giving without getting anything in return. I don't know if I ever will get anything in return but even if I do I give all the credit to God cause he gets all the glory in everything! When Celine and Cora Lynne find families I will take no credit cause it's what God wants us to do! It's him who speaks to the families that step up for the orphans!
So do something kind for someone else today whether its an orphan or some random stranger! 

 

Teamwork Tuesday-Carter & Giveaways

Meet today's Teamwork Tuesday child, Carter

Carter is just 5 years old I can imagine him playing with trucks & trains. Sadly that's not his reality. He probably is stuck in his crib all day with no toys. 
He has a great warrior, Kristi who is holding a Giveaway for not only him but several kids as well! Please check it out here!
Also go check out another fantastic Giveaway here for many Angel Tree kids!

A beautiful butterfly found!

I was not planning on posting today but I woke up to glorious news, one of my beautiful butterflies have been found! 
Carmen, the one who my sister donated to back in 2010 as my Christmas present & the one "Santa" donated to as well. The girl I have her ornament from last year hanging on my tree & the girl I have written on my prayer request card at church several times. Oh yipee finally God another one of "my kids" rescued!!! I never will stop praying for these kids & so glad my prayer was heard for this precious girl! Praying for her family as they begin this process.

THANK YOU GOD FOR GIVING THIS GIRL A FAMILY & FOR ANSWERING MY PRAYER FOR HER! I was shocked when I found out about it. My reaction was priceless but when my other girls find their families I will go NUTS.

A God story

Once upon a time there was a girl, she wanted to crawl in a deep hole & never come out. She was discouraged & disappointed in herself. She blogged a post cause she wanted it all out in the open. After she wrote the long post she decided to go up to her room for bed. She poured her heart & soul to God as the tears kept streaming down her cheeks.  As she said her pleading prayers before she went to sleep one of the things she prayed for was for New hearts to open & lives to be touched. 7am came around the next day, she woke from a bad dream regarding the thing she was passionate about but she was determined that the devil was not welcome.
She went back to sleep at peace that things would get better. She later awoke that day to head off to church on a very yucky day. When she walked into service she was quite shocked when a new friend she did not know very well gave her a gift. What that friend did not know she was an answer to a prayer. Then few seconds later as the girl scooted into her row to her seat that God would use another friend to bless her today. As the worship band began to play the tears in her eyes clearly flowed like a river. I guess she needed a little cheer today. God touched her heart today & I think she remembered the true reason for Christmas. Christ was given to us just as my friends gave me gifts today. Please remember the reason for the season. Its better to give than to receive! What I did not realize my life would be the one that's touched as well. Thank God for good friends! Oh what would my life be without them!
Thank you all who left comments of good cheer on yesterdays post!
Celine, my prayer was answered & you will be blessed by this new friends gift.

Overwhelmed

Lately I just have not wanted to write at all to tell you the truth. Why? Cause I am plain ole frustrated at the stupid spam comments I have gotten almost every day this past week. I know people do read & I really don't care if I get one or hundred comments (that would be fun to have sometime hehe) but what matters is these kids. I know people have lives to live & don't comment sometimes for certain reasons, heck I don't comment much either but it would be nice to get the occasional comment other than spam or a troll. Not only is the spam bothering me a tad but frankly I am just overwhelmed. Overwhelmed by personal issues I don't want to discuss cause it just makes me depressed, then don't get me wrong I am thankful for what God did in October for Celine but she is a long way from being fully funded & all my local efforts to help have stunk cause people are doing other things or just not hearing in this bad economy. I feel bad cause I just wish Cora Lynne was on angel tree. 
Very greatful I have a loving & generous Grandma who has given me donations for RR. Seeing $210.50 makes me happy but sad at the same time knowing how much I hate rules & regulations in the state I live in that I can't be doing more for her. I have managed to raise the first $10 through amazon, then two donations from Grandma, & $88 through half of my babysitting funds. The rest I will never know who donated. I just want to go hide in a dark corner like I said I go to from time to time. I keep going for Celine & the other kids out there. Maybe it was too much to think I could manage to raise at least $300 in change for her? I'm disappointed I don't have a fancy something to sell to help her get closer to the $1,000 goal & that I could not do the toy consignment sale cause I did not have enough time to tag & gather items. Not to sound prideful but I even asked instead of presents to donate to Celine as my present. I want to help others & might still have success in the gift wrapping, auction, & other attempts to fundraise for her but still. It's very hard when I have about run out of ideas to do locally, & it's hard for me cause I want to raise it myself but I can't manage to do that. At least it makes my heart happy decorating my tree full of angels. 6 of my angels are still waiting for families & all have new photos this year. Cora Lynne is not on Angel tree this year but I am going to get her  newer photo printed to be put in a photo necklace or ornament. I like to think the angel on top is watching out for these kids.

The other side holds the rest of the RR angels. Makes my heart joyful know the bottom two, Quinton who is home & "Katelyn" has her forever family & should be home soon!

Then as I glance at these two stockings it breaks my heart knowing i have had them up since last christmas & knowing that they will sit up there til Cora Lynne & Celine find their families.

IF I HAVE TO SAY IT A THOUSAND TIMES ALL I REALLY WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS FOR THIS GIRL TO FIND A FAMILY & IF AT ALL POSSIBLE GOD FOR HER TO REACH HER ANGEL TREE GOAL! ALSO PLEASE OPEN NEW HEARTS & TOUCH OTHERS TO DONATE TO HER IF THEY CAN.

Just no words

Just no words to describe what has happened so I send you to my friend, Julia's post. If you have not heard we lost a beloved treasure named Henry. We all rejoice that he knew the love of a family but our hearts are broken he is no longer with us. Please keep this dear family in your prayers. In loving Memory of Henry. Rest in Peace in the arms of Jesus precious boy.