Another month and no sisters bloggin

Wow, I am surprised at myself and how much I actually love blogging.
Although, I miss my friends, my fellow bloggers!

Chesney Girls...

So, this time last year my hubby surprised both my daughter and I with two fantastic seats for the Kenny Chesney concert. What a great time.

Oh, how I miss the fun times my daughter and I have with each other. She is so far away now...California! What is really bad is she is expecting her first and I am having a hard time thinking about her going through the pregnancy and not being able to be close.


But, she and I talk everyday, even around the crazy time zone differences. She is so excited about her little one. His name is Brayden Michael O'Malley and he will be loved much! She is due October 16th and seems to be doing very well with the pregnancy...even without Mom around to coddle her every move!

I am so confident that Brittney will be the most amazing mother. She will be twice as good as I was and more! What a blessing! The new daddy is doing fine and they are enjoying the pregnancy together.

I love you Brittney. Miss you more each day.

A burden to bear...

Happy Memorial Day to all!
It has been a back breaking weekend so far. We have been re-doing all the landscaping around the house. Trying to re-edge the beds and mulch as well as plant some new plants. Needless to say, my back is killing me!

The the grandkids are here and since it was so warm yesterday, they spent several hours jumping on the tramp while at the same time we ran a hose to mist them. They were worn out after a couple of hours. What fun! Oh to be a kid again, with only worries of how to have fun.

Well, today is going to be a day of rest and relaxation with fun in the newly landscaped yard and a picnic to celebrate the beginnings of Summer. Ya'll enjoy!

Arbonne...shabonne...

You will not even begin to guess what happened to me with my new product. The new SPA line.

So, I decide last night that I am going to do the spa detox. I get everything ready. Start with the Mud Pack and OMG! Within seconds this stuff is burning my face. I am thinking, it must be me, I am being a sissy. I know I haven't ever had a mud pack before, but how hard can this be?

I decide to try and leave it on a minute, but literally, I couldn't stand it! I was on fire. So I hurry to splash cold water on it. I just try to dilute it as fast as possible. I am thinking, what in the world is in this stuff.

Once it is off, I sit for the next hour trying to calm down my welted face. I get a white washcloth and keep getting it wet with cold water...and then applying it to my face.

The next thing I know, I am looking at my face in the mirror, my face is one great big red blister. I am serious, it was welted up like a huge blister.

So I get online with the distributor. "We have never heard of that happening." Well, no kidding, it is not a shocker that you haven't heard of this before!

I say, "send me a list of ingredients between the products, so that I might be able to do a process of elimination with what is in the Mud pack and the rest of the spa line".

Honestly, I am so upset with them discounting my experience, that regardless of what they say right now-I am done with the stuff!

Is Summer coming...

I am sitting here wondering why it is raining and raining this week. I miss the Sun.
I would come to the blogging site just to get my sunshine fix from the sisters and now that isn't even happening.

Today, is just another day...well have a great weekend you all!

What is going on...no one has posted since April

So I miss all the blogging buddies! Kit has disappeared!
No ONE is blogging.

Today, I worked till almost 8:00 PM. That would be a 12 hour day for me. Why do you suppose I did that? I know I am high energy, over zealous and even type A driven, but what in the world and I thinking.

I just want to start working from my home, being my own boss. I am so tired of the corporate craziness. My job is going through yet another bunch of changes. Usually that means means people. 20% Capital and 20% Operations and Maintenance (O&M).

Who knows, I may get my wish someday! I definitely want to do something where my time is spent doing the things that bring me success and not someone else!

Bloggers, stay with us. I miss you all!

Arbonne Lady here I come...

I have decided to work at kicking off my business with a new launch of Spa Products.
I spent most of the weekend working on the presentations. I am getting excited for more opportunities to do presentations.

What is Arbonne? Well it is not just another makeup line, or skin care line, but it is a focus on improving ones health, both internally as well as externally. Arbonne has developed an excellent SPA line of products, and the best part... it is brought straight to your home.

Most of what I am doing with Arbonne, is positioning myself to retire with some type of subsidizing of my retirement income. But mostly, it is because I have worked many years in several kinds of jobs and would like to someday to be in a position to work for myself. I believe that I am in control of my destiny. Arbonne is a way to arrive there.

I am having a launch of the Spa product line on May 24th, from 2:00 to 4:00 at my home.
If you are interested, let me know and I will send you an email invitation.

"The tiny hand of hope"

A picture began circulating in November. It should be 'The Picture of the Year,' or perhaps, 'Picture of the Decade.' It won't be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the U.S. paper which published it, you probably would never have seen it.

The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner. The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother's womb. Little Samuel's mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta. She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkable surgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.

During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile.

The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the picture, "Hand of Hope". The text explaining the picture begins, "The tiny hand of 21-week-old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother's uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor for the gift of life."

Little Samuel's mother said they "wept for days" when they saw the picture. She said, "The photo reminds us pregnancy isn't about disability or an illness, it's about a little person." Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation 100 percent successful.

See "Hand of Hope" photo here.