It is with an aching heart that I need to write this......a dear little boy has passed away this past Thurday....a neighbor and friend.......much, much too young at just 5 years old......he was a favorite playmate of my little Cubby......soooo lively and full of life...energetic and imaginative....he loved to be outside and loved everyone....it is amazing how one little guy has touched soooo many lives ......we will miss him terribly.....the evening of his passing a tremendous rainbow was visible from our street......we all just knew he was smiling down on us....I truly have to try and turn this into some kind of blessing and hug my kids harder and longer, say yes more often, overlook the fingerprints on the windows and the clothes on the floor, spend more time playing and enjoying......and less time cleaning and doing laundry.....because you just never know what each day may bring......God Bless our dear little friend, his loving brother and parents....give them the strength to carry on and to smile again....to again someday find joy...
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check out smilebox
Posted by rangga on Wednesday, June 18, 2008
I was visiting a favorite blog last night and there was a post about the website http://www.smilebox.com/ ......oh my gosh!!!.........it is sooooo cool and very fun!!!......tons of fun stuff to do with your pictures.......you can create postcards, ecards, digital scrapbook, etc.....then you can email everything, print it or post it to your blog....I spent all night playing!!!......there is tons to do for free, but you can also join for the month/year....a friend of mine is always so thoughtful to send ecards with bluemountain.com and I was thinking of joining that ....they sent a free trial month email.....but this is soooo much cuter!!!!........beware! make sure you have a bit of time to play!!!
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Pam's Jam
Posted by rangga on Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Yes!....it's that time of the year again!!!......it's become a personal tradition for me to make at least strawberry jam every year ....sometimes blueberry and peach as well...I stopped over the weekend at my local farm market and the berries didn't look as great as I had hoped for so I thought I would wait a few days and stop back.....well .......my sister in law knew I was wanting to make jam and found some scrumptious berries in Erie while she was there for my nephews soccer tournament....which, by the way, they won and will be attending regionals in Indiana at the end of the month!!!!....I had a little helper this year and we had fun!....it turned out yummy and I will have some to share!!
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It doesn't take much!!
Posted by rangga on Sunday, June 15, 2008
I love, love, LOVE my new brownie pan!!!!.....A super huge THANKS to my Dad!!!!.......he asked me a few weeks ago what I wanted for my birthday and I told him I'd think about it and get back to him.....I was looking around ebay one night and stumbled up the Bakersedge brownie pan......wow!!!!.....every brownie is a corner!!! totally fabulous!!!!!!....I am a true "corner girl".....and have been forever sad that there is only four of them in a pan..........well, the pan was $32.00 plus s&h.......and I thought I could find it at Bed, Bath and Beyond with a 20% coupon and get the fuel perks too!.....but that wasn't the case!.....then it dawned on me that this would be the birthday gift for my Dad to give me!!!....I emailed him the listing on ebay and started getting excited!!!...........well, I couldn't believe he called and thought I was kidding that this is what I wanted!......he didn't understand that this meant a life time of corners were going to be forever mine!!!........well, as always----he came through for me and sent me two!!!!......I've told all on my corner loving friends about it and my sister in law even gave me two boxes of Ghiradelli brownie mix with the gift she gave me so I would be all ready to go!!!........I couldn't be happier!!!!
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random act of kindness
Posted by rangga on Wednesday, June 11, 2008
These peonies are beautiful!!!!!....left at my door by a friend who thought of me!!!!....how special I have felt all day......it has been a hard few months with my husband who has shattered his ankle at the end of March......it seems like I can just barely keep things running smoothly......He's going to be on crutches until July and I am now the yardgirl too!!!!.....the grass just keeps growing!!!......but this act of thoughtfulness and kindness just makes me smile!!!!....I need to be sure and pass more random acts of kindness to those near and dear to me too!!!
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Sewing Bee
Posted by rangga on Tuesday, June 10, 2008
As you can see this is not the sewing bee that you've read about in grade school!!!!.......we 5 girls have brought it into the new millenium with a power strip and five machines plugged in on the back patio....cold Miller chills and awesome tunes piped in on the surround sound!!!....We gathered to make cool bags..... we all brought material, thread, a sewing machine and a kid or two......they played and we laughed, chatted and sewed.....it was sooooo wonderful!!!!!......how truly lucky I am to have found such happiness in my life with these sister friends!!!......I'm already looking forward to the next time we treat ourselves to such fun!!!.......I wonder what the ladies who helped us at Joanne's would have thought if they had peeked in on our afternoon???? Thank you again dear friends!!!
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fruit extravaganza!
Posted by rangga on Saturday, June 7, 2008
When I got asked to bring a fruit tray to my niece's graduation party.....my first thought was.....how can I make it special????.......I remembered seeing this in a cooking magazine I had from last year, so I started to rumage around looking for it......I finally found it after hunting through several back issues.......I studied it for while and thought "I can do this!!".......I spent a few days trying to find just the right fruit dip recipe .......and then the "steps" turned into a project!!......it called for four 10" round pieces of styrofoam and four 6" ones as well....I went to Joannes and had no idea they were going to be almost $25!!!!........so I went home and found some that I had tucked away in case I had a fragile ebay package I need to send out, and made my own!!........my husband secured them with dowel rods and I was in business!!!.......I decided to build it at the party because there was no way I was going to be able to drive it there even though they live just a few houses away...I'm just so happy it turned out so nice and it was delicious too!!!
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