KINDNESS

Last night I was laying upstairs with Brady getting ready to read a book when the phone started to ring. I normally do not answer it when I am reading but for some reason I did. It was my Aunt Joan who was very upset, could hardly talk from crying. She proceeded to tell me that the neighbors daughter that lives beside my cousin Trista was killed in a car accident on I 26. I got up put some clothes on and went to their home which is only a few minutes from mine. They are a nice military family with one daughter Lindsey, 17 years old in September. The mother was on the porch and the Dad in the house both in shock from the news. My heart broke and I mean broke for this family. I stayed with them for a while and made some arrangements for them then came home. I have to say I held Brady a little closer than normal and welcomed him in bed with us when he walked in at 3am this morning. Today was a very hard day for them with having to pick out things for the service and all. My Aunt and I had the honor of getting Lindsey's clothes together and as sad as it was I was glad that I could do this for them. I called our new pastor at our church and he came over and had a prayer with them and visited for a while. I could tell that his being there was such a comfort to them even though they had never laid eyes on him before. The family will be taking Lindsey back to Pennsylvania where they are originally from on Thursday to have ceremonies. Please remember this family during this hard time that they may see Gods Grace in this accident that took their only child and always show KINDNESS to everyone you met you never know what they are going through and how you can impact their life.

DECORATING

I love getting out the Halloween decorations because I know that Christmas, my favorite time to decorate will be here soon!! Yeah!!! Last year my sister n law got me this great ghost at the Atlanta Market for our new house that is awesome in the big tree out front. I loved it last year and even more this year. I had kids ask me earlier in the week where is your big ghost Mrs. Cyndi. I was feeling a little creative so I decided to put a wreath together for the front door so I am attaching some pictures so you can see what I came up with. I like to add something new every year to my collection and this year the big black spider by the front door is the winner. I hope you are all enjoying your weekend we have been at a Cub Scout Cuboree all day (8 til 3) and I am very, very, very tired. Until next time.

BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

I was in a local shop that I visit yesterday picking up a few things for Lilly Rae's closet and ran into a lady that I haven't seen in a while. She is a 15 year breast cancer survivor and told me she had just had it again over the summer. She is doing well but very upset by some other news. Her daughter who is young single mother had decided to have her breast removed to prevent ever having breast cancer since it ran in her family, when she did it was to late she already had cancer in both breast. She had just had a mammogram earlier in the month. Please keep this mother and daughter in your prayers they are really going through a hard time and don't know what the next step is for the daughters treatment. It is very important that we have ourselves checked and not let things go.

JIB JAB...

OK scroll down and check out the short Jib Jab video. It took me a while to learn how to put it on the blog but I finally figured it out. I love it, it is so funny.
Have a good Wednesday.

CAT WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR

After getting Brady feed and off to school I went upstairs to check my e-mail and get some things straight when I was sitting at the computer (which is a closet turned into a little computer office with a window with plantation shutters) I jumped by the site of something big and black going by the window on the roof. When I stood up and stepped back to see what it was it was just SOX (coolest cat in the world by the way) on the roof hanging out. I opened the window but there is a screen so he just looked at me like why aren't you letting me in??? He then just hung out on the roof looking into Brady's room for a while. Who knows how he got down but when I went to the car he was waiting at the door for me. I think he just likes pulling jokes on me.

JOHNSON AMIMALS

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DADS UPDATE

WELL THE BLOOD DID THE TRICK. HE WAS FEELING MUCH BETTER THE NEXT DAY SO MUCH THAT HE WENT OUT TO EAT BREAKFAST THAT MORNING. HE FINISHED HIS FIFTH ROUND OF CHEMO AND WILL HAVE A BREAK FOR THREE WEEKS THEN HE WILL START ROUND SIX WHICH SHOULD BE HIS FINAL ROUND. HE IS TRYING TO DECIDE WHERE TO GO FROM HERE. HE IS LOOKING INTO SEVERAL PLACES THAT OFFER ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT. IF ANYONE HAS ANY SUGGESTIONS PLEASE SEND THEM WE WOULD LOVE TO KNOW IF THERE IS ANYTHING WONDERFUL OUT THERE THAT WE AREN'T ALREADY CONSIDERING. THANKS FOR THE PRAYERS THEY ARE MUCH APPRECIATED. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.