Snow? Sunshine? What?

so i got up this morning and let Princess out and it was snowing. Yeah! got start my vechile 40 min.s later and nothing. drive to work and get to the fruitland exit and it's snowing again. get to work and it stops. then the sun comes out. ???? so no snow. i have snow paper (found it when i was sorting my paper!) i want to use. i want snow. but i was happy i didn't have to drive in it. it's fun until you get to interstate and then the big trucks come by. not so much fun then. and now i only have liability on the expedition. kinda makes a difference!!! lol

so i was sick tuesday and stayed home. just me and chloe. no kids. no hubby. me and chloe, oh and pokey. pokey doesn't get mention very much cause she doesn't have much to do with us, and it got worse when we got chloe. she does NOT like chloe. she's too much a busy body. lol but pokey, our beautiful black and white cat. she is a stray mark found the november after we build our house. so she is about 6 years old. she is a good cat. doesn't tear anything up. comes in a while then goes back outside. she likes it outside more these days, chloe is to blame for that! lol

anyway, i felt alittle better after lunch so i started to sort out my scrapbook paper. i have way to much. i can tell ya what my two fav companies are/were thou. Fancy Pants and Basic Grey. i love to work with Fancy Pants and always buy at least 2 sheets of each if not 4. basic grey, i just like to collect it i think. i ahven't used it on a layout in months. another paper i have quite a bit of is chatterbox. and i love it. i can't wait to use some of the older stuff cause it is pretty to me. and they are coming out with new releases!!! yeah! and another i don't have alot of but absoulutely love is crate paper. and they have new releases coming out!!!!

so i have been busy tring to get my ducks in a row so i will be able to continue the retreats. i have gotten a fed tax id and a friend told me about a place to go talk to about a business tax/registration or state tax id. it's alot of stuff! what i really want to do in a very small scale is start a online store. don't know if that will ever be, but................ the retreats are really what i want to continue. we'll see. what is hard is i don't want to carry or do anything with what hobby lobby has, and that's not a whole lot! and you never know what they are gonna get. anyway, just know i have been busy trying to keep it going and i know april has some things up her sleeve as well. and Rona has the poll on her blog about a kit club, so that sounds like she is thinking too! ya know, when God closes one door He opens another. my good friend Syd sent me a email this morning that i love. kinda goes with the saying i love---everything happens for a reason. here it is:

When your hut's on fire

The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island.

He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him. Every day he scanned the horizon

for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to

build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and to store

his few possessions. One day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to

find his little hut in flames, with smoke rolling up to the sky. He felt the worst had

happened, and everything was lost. He was stunned with disbelief, grief, and

anger. He cried out, "God! How could you do this to me?" Early the next day, he

was awakened by the sound of a ship approaching the island! It had come to

rescue him! "How did you know I was here?" asked the weary man of his

rescuers. "We saw your smoke signal," they replied.

The Moral of This Story:

It's easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we shouldn't lose

heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of our pain and

suffering. Remember that the next time your little hut seems to be burning to the

ground. It just may be a smoke signal that summons the Grace of God.

P.S You may want to consider passing this on, because you never know who

feels as if their hut is on fire today.

Syd sends me some of the coolest emails that really make me think!

well markie has a school dance on friday night. when did she start looking for dresses? saturday. then i had to go with her on monday. then she wanted me to go again on tuesday, but i was sick. so amanda went. OMG. how funny. i wish i would of counted the phone calls i got, from them both. you see markie is NOT the funnest person to shop with. actually, i would almost rather go to the dentist. almost. but she came home with a dress. a cute dress at that! that is why i sent amanda with her. who knows what she would of came home with if she had no supervision. she is a mess. and i knew it would come and it did. she wants to go to her first concert with her friends. friends i don't know from work. i know one boy, she used to go to the babysitters with him when they were babies. but he is amanda's age, i guess 19. but they are going in a group. but the concert is in st louis, actually right across the river at a place callled pop's. i asked about it at work and a couple people said she would be ok, esp since she was going in a group. i will be saying alot of prayers that night, will you join me? lol ahhh teenagers. you know what they say, pay back is $@((. and it is.

hope you have a great day.