Right now we have 851 heroes waiting for adoption. Even though new Angels join every day, the reinforcements headed to Afghanistan make for a continuous need. You’ve probably already adopted (if you haven’t yet, please do!), so give someone else the opportunity to enjoy the rewards of supporting a hero: Tell a stranger about Soldiers’ [...]

Carol Kimball is a fantastic human being! I have to let the world wide web know because Carol flies under the radar. She’s a very humble lady and gracious woman, that if you didn’t read about her somewhere else, you’d have no idea the experience that she has! Carol is very interested in clothing being [...]

Mom called tonight around 6:30 – Aunt Charl was out of surgery – cancer free! Not only that – her doctor – the same one who had operated on her when they found the cancer (at which time he just closed her back up because she was too weak to withstand surgery), the same doctor [...]

Mom came through the surgery with flying colors!!! The doctor sent her home after just a few hours. They took out two lymph nodes and that came back negative for cancer cells. They removed the cancer via a lumpectomy. She will meet with the radiation oncologist next week when she’ll begin her first round of [...]

After over a month with no rain, we finally had a rainstorm roll in and it was worth the wait! Slobo captured it in pictures for me. After which a beautiful summertime sunset followed: The trees, grass, buildings, everything – glows around the dark pines. The already dark green evergreens turn to almost black, the [...]

I went on a shopping trip one evening with the family in search of “something pretty”. I told Slobo I didn’t know what I wanted to buy, just something to brighten up the house. Yeah, I had that ole’ spring bug again. We visited 2 or 3 stores, much to the chagrin of the kids. [...]

As a mom, I hold my breath in fear of the moments our children will lose some of their childhood innocence. If you read Slobo’s blog, you know that Flash, our 6 yr. old Golden has cancer. We will see a specialist on Tuesday morning to see if anything can be done. When Pope John [...]

My sweet SIL sent me this video… Technorati Tags: Performance Art, Firefighter Painting

I want to put a personal face on the heroes of our country. This is our hero, my nephew, Christopher. We just got word that he will be going to Iraq the day after our youngest sons birthday. As with most of our heroes, he can’t wait to go and put his training to use! [...]

We knew we needed tires on our Envoy for awhile. That’s the reason we started doing paid blogging. Just Friday, Slo added it up and we finally had enough payments due to buy the tires when they paid at the end of the month. Yesterday, we found out it wasn’t the tires that were the [...]

Johannes Gutenberg (printer) born, 1400. Being a printmaker myself, this is an important day! The smell of printing ink, mineral spirits, the softness of a sheet of handmade paper, that lovely indentation left behind …… Happy Birthday Gutenberg!

My great grandmother, Lula Belle, lived on a farm in W.V.. To hear my mother talk about her, she was very tiny, with size 1 feet, long – curly white hair and very meek. She had seen her share of hardships. She lost at least 5 babies, many before they even turned one year old [...]

Soldier’s Angels notified us this morning that they are in need of the following. If you can help, please email me: gidget at allsewnup (dot) com and I’ll let you know who to contact. It’s very cold in Iraq and Afghanistan now and we are receiving a number of requests for caps, fleece blankets, and [...]

This came in a newsgroup I subscribe to. Ya’ll might like to check it out: —– Original Message —– From: U.S. Department of Education’s Teacher Initiative Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:27 AM Subject: The U.S. Department of Education is Launching the FREE Website for Teachers The U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce [...]

Do you have old cell phones hanging around your home or place of business? Why not recycle them into calling cards for the Soldiers? Here’s how (link at the end) Soldiers’ Angels has teamed up with Pacebutler to collect cell phones (handsets and batteries only). Recycled for cash, these phones will buy much needed prepaid [...]

The kids finished two quilts for the Soldier’s Angels group and I wanted to share one of the tags they made. Any soldiers out there – know that you are undeniably loved!

Poor Kids. Yesterday they went and picked out pumpkins and got haircuts. Last night they woke up one by one with stuffy noses, sore throats and low fevers. Today, trying desperately to retain their excitement for the Halloween season, they carved pumpkins, blew noses, carved some more, blew some more… until cleaning both seemed an [...]

My DH and I watched Steve Irwin’s Memorial tonight on Animal Planet. We recorded it for the kids to see tommorrow. It was a perfect memorial to Steve for all that loved him so much. There was a song played, “True Blue” by John Williamson which was Steve’s favorite song. What an absolutely perfect piece [...]

It was a day mixed with sorrow and tears, thoughts of heroism and anger and lots of supportive hugs as we remembered 9/11 throughout this day we were given. We must never forget to stand as a United nation. We must have the courage of our convictions just as the passengers of Flight 93, ney, [...]