URGENT PRAYER REQUEST!!

I am briefly coming out of hiding to urge everyone who is a pray-er to pray for my dear blogging friend, Heather of "Especially Heather". You may know of Heather because of her daughter Emma-Grace. Now Heather has been diagnosed with a brain-tumor. How much more can one family endure?! Her friend, Laura, is doing regular updates on Heathers condition at Heather's blog. Please keep Heather and her family in your prayers as they deal with this latest crisis.

Sure puts a lot of things in perspective....

I really have nothing much good to talk about these days. Except of course, my kids, but people probably get tired of hearing about them all the live long days. So, I'm just going to take a break for now until something happens that's worth writing about. I'm not quitting; just waiting for something good to happen. Sorry I haven't been around much visiting blogs and commenting on everyone. Just haven't had much time, energy or desire lately.

Care Bear's Good Friday Prayer

Tonight, during Care Bear's goodnight prayer, she stopped mid-prayer to inform me that we needed to say, "Dear God..." tonight instead of "Dear Jesus". When I inquired as to why we needed to do that, this was her response:

"Because Jesus can't hear us tonight, Mommy. He's walking down a street with a cross on his back and thorns on his head."

This Mama, needless to say, was speechless. After we continued the prayer to God instead of to Jesus, she ended the prayer by saying, "Have fun in Heaven tonight, Jesus. Amen."

Have a wonderful Easter.

Celebrity News by Kristen--American Idol Edition #4

Volume 1: Issue 8

Doing My Part to Keep Bloggy World Informed

**Disclaimer: I have nothing personally against any celebrities named in "Celebrity News by Kristen". It is only for fun and only opinions. Please do not sue me. And please feel free to express your own opinions....even if you don't agree with mine!**

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It's official. This season bites the big one. I'm thisclose to tuning out for the remainder of the season....and believe me.....I will do just that if Haley and Sanjaya end up being the final two. What kind of finale would that be?!?!

So Gina is gone. It's no secret that I was champion-ing for her. I liked her spunk and her "different-ness". Some people may have not liked the rocker chick persona, but the past two weeks, she proved that she can actually sing--and sing well. True, maybe she wasn't the power-houses that Lakisha, Melinda and Jordin are, and I had no inclincation that she would win or even get to the top four, but she under no uncertain terms deserved to be there longer than Sanjaya and Haley. I guess America just likes the same ole same ole. And Haley's legs. And that's America's prerogative. But it's my prerogative to be highly irritated and annoyed that I get to witness yet another week of ridiculous Sanjaya hair. I guess people thought it was cute that he went out there and danced with Paula. Or maybe they didn't feel like insulting Tony Bennett by voting him out after Mr. Bennett had such nice things to say about Sanjaya. Who knows. I'm through trying to figure out the appeal of peacock boy. ------>>

I thought all of the contestants did pretty well this week (minus twinkle toes) and I had no doubt that Sanjaya would be safe this week. But I was shocked that first off Gina was in the bottom three, further shocked that she wasn't the one to go back to safety, and downright p'od that she was the one to go home. I just had to quit watching right then and there. I couldn't stand to watch her sad video with that tear-jerking Daughtry song playing in the background. I did happen to see a glance of her crying while watching it and I had to leave the room.

Tell ya what....when Blake goes, that's when I'm done. And I won't be kidding then.

If it's any consolation, Gina, I liked you. And I voted for you. And I'll miss you.

There's a poll on the sidebar. Vote. If you want.

Have You Done It Yet?

Gotten your blog critiqued, I mean? I wasn't gonna. I mean, what if I did and he had horrible, nasty, mean things to me? My ego is too fragile to handle that kind of rejection, people. But I'm a band-wagon jumper type, and everyone else was doing it, so I decided to jump off the cliff, too. I got my response from him today. This is what Bill had to say about my so-called life.

Keeping with the mom theme (as the dads get pounded into the pavement), Kristen send us her blog entitled, Mama's So Called Life! No shortage of material here either, Kristen blogs about her life and times with her family and her 3 children with stories that I can amazingly relate to. I have 2 small boys so these mom and dad blogs hit home for me. I loved the post about how her little on asked to start her own blog. This is great...bloggers are getting younger and younger. You have to check out this blog that, in my eyes, is the best one yet. It's entitled Care Bears World. It would be nice if you all stooped by and said hi to this mom and daughter team of bloggers and leave a nice word in the comments!

What he said about me wasn't ego-crushing. So I'm alright. But the fact that he plugged Care Bear's blog? Well, the guy has my eternal gratitude. I mean, how cool is that? So, I expect that Care Bear may soon be receiving more traffic than me. It's all good. As long as it stays in the family. :-)

And speaking of Care Bear....she has a new post up today. With artwork.

In Which I'm Happy to Still Have My Eye

1st lesson in doing dishes:

Never, ever under any circumstances begin to run your garbage disposal unless you are absolutely certain that there is nothing impeding it. I know most people probably know this, and so do I. And I thought there was nothing impeding it but it was hard to tell what with all the food trying to make its way down the disposal. I discovered I was wrong when a butcher knife shot its way out of my sink like a rocket and missed my eye by about a millimeter. The whole incident lasted about 2.5 seconds, but in that time my heart stopped briefly and visions of a knife stuck in my eye and trying to picture my daughter calling 911 but not being able to after witnessing the horror of mom's bloody head swirled around. The fact that neither my husband nor my parents were around just furthered the panic. And then I realized....the knife didn't pierce my eye. I'm OK. No need to panic. But I am a little scared to do dishes now. If you don't believe me, come look at my sink.

Paying it Forward

My mom recently awarded me the "Thinking Blogger Award". The idea is to award five people and then "pay it forward" by going on to award five more people. I feel honored to have been given this award, but I am faced with somewhat of a dilemma. There are so many blogs that I love to read and I have been blessed to have met so many wonderful people throughout my blogging time. To have to narrow this down to five people is very difficult. But here goes:

1. I would first like to pass this award onto someone who is very dear to me. I have known her my whole life and when I was younger, we spent a lot of time together; playing when we were younger, and as we were older writing "snail mail" back and forth to eachother talking about the typical teenage things; boys, music, school, boys, doing makeovers, boys....you get the idea. We had many "kool-aid" chats in my cul-de-sac late at night while she was visiting. She is a fellow blogger and I love to read her because not only is she greatly funny and tells stories in only a way she can, but she can also make you think. I present the first "Thinking Blogger Award" to my dear cousin, Karen of "The Big Trade-Off". I love you, Karen!

2. I'd like to pass my next award along to someone I have only recently met through the new community of moms I am a part of "Moms of Grace". She is a young mother of three, one of whom suffers from Mitochondrial Myopathy and autism. You may have read and heard about her daughter throughout blogland: Emma Grace. Heather and Emma's story touches me and gives such hope. Heather is a true follower of Christ and has the utmost faith in Him and I feel priveledged to "know" her and be able to pray for her little girl. She inspires me and definitely makes me "think". You can visit her at Especially Heather.

3. I'd like to pass #3 onto someone who I have been following since around about my 125th post. I found out about her when she posted her 200th post. She had a "revolutionary" idea to commemorate her 200th post by attempting to get 200 comments. She succeeded and I decided to copy her and attempt to get 125 comments for my 125th post. I have followed her ever since and I am so happy I have. Her husband has been going through some health problems and she just recently started a new job and she is another person I admire greatly in her ability to just keep going! I think she'll inspire you, too. Her name is LaLa and you can find her at "Insight to LaLa's World"!

4. #4 goes to someone who I have been reading for quite some time, however to be completely honest, I'm not quite sure how we found eachother. But she always has something thought provoking to say, and she can also be very funny. I enjoy reading her and she is also responsible for making my cool header picture look like a cartoon! She deserves to be read because she has such great thoughts and conveys them in the most creative ways. Go read Yellow Mama at "OneStepUpFromStupid"!

5. And last, but not least, I would like to pass this award along to another person near and dear to my heart. She is an inspiration in the truest sense of the word. She has been through a mountain of stuff in the past few years. She has traveled the world. She has gotten two degrees. She worked and went to school at the same time while supporting herself while her husband was away. She lives thousands of miles away from her home, but it wouldn't feel like home without her here. She has given someone I love very much her unconditional love and stood by him through thick and thin. She has honored her wedding vows to the utmost and I am proud to call her my sister. The last award I am giving goes to my dear sister-in-law, who you all know as Sema of 28 Celsius.

And that concludes my part of this wonderful awards ceremony. I don't even know who started it, but it was a beautiful idea. I love everyone of my friends out in blog-land and everyone I read deserves this award!