mom – You guys must think it’s your job to drive me insane.

daughter – Yes, it’s our God given job!

mom- NO! Children are supposed to be a blessing!

daughter – Maybe being insane is being blessed.

In that case, I’m Incredibly Blessed!

In honor of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, 5 Minutes for Mom is giving away a pink Dyson vacuum! So head on over to and enter!

I was talking with the kids the other night about where I used to go swimming. Here’s one, Buttermilk Bay.

I can’t find Bumps Pond on the map. Maybe that’s wasn’t it’s real name. lol
Oh, just for fun. Here’s where I lived. See the little road that goes between Kayajan Ave and Queens Bay Lane? I lived in the house on that little road. And used to play in the park in front of the house. Yep, I lived in a subdivision. I much prefer the country!

The Battle for the Toy Box Contest!

I entered the Battle for the Toy Box Contest

on the HSB Company Porch.  I hope to win

over $100 worth of, Tales of Glory, Bible-based toys

from one2believe!!

Look what I found! I LOVE this song!

A Love Worth Giving by Max Lucado

This was an awesome book! I loved it! If you haven’t read it yet, it is a must read! Wow, that’s a lot of exclamation points. But that’s how great this book is!

Here’s a quote:

You have a ticket to heaven no thief can take,
an eternal home no divorce can break.

Every sin of your life has been cast to the see.
Every mistake you’ve made is nailed to the tree.

You’re blood-bought and heaven-made.
A child of God – forever saved.

So be grateful, joyful – for isn’t it true?
What you don’t have is much less that what you do.

See? An awesome book!
Ok, one more quote:

Discover along with the psalmist:”He….loads me with love and mercy” (Ps. 103:4) Picture a giant dump truck full of love. There you are behind it. God lifts the bed until the love starts to slide. Slowly at first, then down, down, down until you are hidden, buried, covered in his love.

“Hey, where are you?” someone asks.
“In here, covered in love.”

Let his love cover all things.

Do it for his sake. To the glory of his name.

Do it for your sake. For the peace of your heart.

And do it for their sake. For the people in your life. Let his love fall on you so yours can fall on them.

A Love Worth Giving is a must read book!

Author Unknown…

A little boy asked his mother
“Why are you crying?”

“Because I’m a woman”, she told him.

“I don’t understand”, he said.

His mum just hugged him and, “And you never will”

Later the little boy asked his father, “Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?”

“All women cry for no reason”, was all his dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.
Finally he put in a call to God; and when God got on the phone, he asked, “God, why
do women cry so easily?”

God said: “When I made woman she had to be special.

I made her shoulders strong enought to carry the weirght of the world;
yet, gentle enough to give comfort

I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children.

I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.

I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly.

I gave her the strength to carry her man through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.

I gave her wisdom to know that a good man never hurts his woman, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.

And finally, I gave her a tear to shed.
This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed.

You see:
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart – the place where love resides.”