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Friday, January 14, 2011

Day 14 ~ Photo Challenge

I have NO idea where the day went?

This all I got....

So...what is it?




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It's my rug...just simple place to rest my weary feet in the evening!  :)



“I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. 

Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, 

Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.”

~Shel Silverstein



Thursday, January 13, 2011

Day 13 ~ PhotoChallenge

Had a super day with my sister and sister-in-law!


We all need to take a moment away from the monotony, of our daily lives take a deep breath and just....


LAUGH......

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LAUGH.....


 .......until you cry........

Love spending time with my family!

This is my sister Linda...
check out her blog at:
and see how she's doing on her alphabet photo challenge!


“The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.”



Today was NOT wasted!


Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Day 12 ~ Photo Challenge


The Climb
Life is like stairs...
You have to keep climbing.
On that climb you run into obstacles.
Things you haven't planned on get in your way.
You may have to take a detour to get to your destination.
But you keep going forward, your destination is in front of you!
Keep focused, move around the obstacles & you will reach your destination!



“The way to learn to do things, is to do things. 

The way to learn a trade, is to work at it. 

Success teaches how to succeed. 

Begin with the determination to succeed,

 and the work is half done already.”



Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Day 11 ~ Photo Challenge

We received about 12+ inches of snow in the last 2 days!
Today's photo:
snow at my house

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But I think we have been very fortunate this year.....

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This is was the snow we had last year....

February 2010.....




And this photo was taken after some of it had melted...
as you can see my nephew is only in a sweatshirt!

Couldn't decide which thought to end this with so you get two....


“When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels”



“To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake,

 it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”







Monday, January 10, 2011

Day 10 ~ Photo Challenge

Today my husband received his first issue of a Christmas gift subscription to the ever popular magazine "Reader's Digest".  



Looking at the magazine I began to think about how long this magazine has been around 
so I did some internet research.  

Here is what I learned:  

 1920: DeWitt Wallace was turned down by publishers
1922: DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Acheson Wallace publish volume 1, number 1 of Reader's Digest.
-the first issue sold for 25 cents
1923: a subscription for one year was $2.75
1925: Their first full time employee was hired 
1935: the circulation was nearly 1.5 million.
1938: The first international edition is published in the United Kingdom.
1950: Reader's Digest Condensed Books is established. 
1973: The Wallaces retire. 
1996: Reader's Digest World, later renamed www.rd.com, is launched,
 giving the company its first presence on the Internet

The magazine originally started as condensed articles taken from other resources 
and is now almost 80% original articles. 
It was designed smaller so people could carry it with them.
And this Year 2011 the magazine turns 90 years old!



If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. 
                                                 ~Pearl Buck


Sunday, January 9, 2011

Day 9 ~ Photo Challenge


Spent the entire day working on the Heritage Makers website.
Made MY Wedding Book!!
check out the site for yourself and make your own project!


Love is a symbol of eternity.  
It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

January 8, 2011 ~ Day 8 ~ Photo Challenge

A day late; but better late than never...
Mass held on January 8, 2011 in memory of Dad.



St. Joseph's Church

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, 
the things you never want to lose. 
 ~From the television show The Wonder Years