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Last Few Hours ..

 

Only a few more hours until the mcc designs giveaway over at Paige's blog is over. If you haven't entered, please be sure to do so! The winner will be announced tomorrow afternoonon both on my blog and Paige's blog.

 

I also wanted to thank those that have made purchases from my etsy shop - all the proceeds will be donated to the Haiti relief fund. Every little bit can help.

I also received word today that a father of a student at my son Griff's school is missing in Haiti. He was traveling on business and was last seen at the Hotel Montana in Haiti, which suffered much damage from the earthquake. Please pray for this family as well as all the millions who have been devastated by this catastrophe.

Help for Haiti

My heart just aches for the mass devastation and all those suffering in Haiti. I spent an hour perusing the newspaper articles this morning and it just heartbreaking.

As my little way of helping, I am currently donating all of my etsy proceeds to the American Red Cross for Haiti. Many other etsy sellers are doing so also. You can visit Angela's blog for a list of those participating. Be sure to read sweet Paige's post too. Paige is an incredibly kind, caring, and loving woman with such strong faith in the Lord. She is such an inspiration to me and I admire her so.

 

Also another easy way to help Haiti relief:

From the Red Cross: "Text "Haiti" to 90999 to donate. 100% of your $10 donation passes thru to @RedCross for Haiti relief. Your cell carrier keeps nothing."

Etsy Benefit

I know most of you have heard about this family. Today, there will be a Nie Nie Benefit Sale at Etsy (this took place yesterday also). I have donated an item and there will be many, many fabulous items listed. Please check it out.

Will it Ever End?!

Another day of unrelenting rain! The schools were closed again (Tuesday also). We had a few moments this afternoon with no rain and even a bit of  'brighter' skies, but just as soon as I would step out the rain would come pouring down again. Water is standing everywhere. Lots of trees and branches down in our area and power outages too. By some small miracle (thank you Lord), our power never went out. We almost always have outages during storms due to the above ground power lines here. My poor friend, Jan has been without all last night and today.

To make matters even worse, TS Fay has traveled up the state. Barret is back at FSU (went back last Sunday) and he has been without power at his house all day and still out as of tonight :(. Connor headed back to Gainesville this afternoon and so far, no problems at his place.

Here's to hoping for bright skies tomorrow - good riddance Fay - we've had enough of you already!

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Also: Don't miss out on my give away (see below) and thank you to those who have ordered and/or posted about it on your blog - much appreciated. I am really trying to 'boost' my business and become a 'real' working girl!  With 2 boys in college, I have more time - I am basically a mom of 1 these days.

Just because I like to include a photo with my posts. Here's our formally 'homeless' boy, Murphy out in the back yard (before Fay came our way). He's been with us over 2 months now :) ...

 

 

I Spoke to Soon

Fay is still here. We have had rain for 3 days straight and today it is very heavy. Fay is predicted  to hit Florida  a 3rd time. Brevard county, which is an hour east of us has had major flooding (25  inches of rain). My blogging friend, Lisa lives in this area  - please keep her and her family in your prayers.

Fay, Fay ...  GO AWAY!

Tropical Storm Fay ...

was a bust! Thank God. Nothing much happened here today besides gloomy skies and rain all day long. Some slight wind, but is actually nice - it  feels great outside this evening - a bit of cool weather!!

Thank you all for your concern, thoughts and prayers - much appreciated. Oh, and I made it to my hair appointment this morning with no problem :) A girl has to do what a girl has to do!

Fay!

Here we go again. Fay is supposedly headed right our way - through central Florida. Schools are closed tomorrow. While Griff started last week, the public schools just started today and now no school already. All I know is that I have a hair appointment tomorrow morning and am planning on being there! LOL. Seriously though,  I hope and pray we do not get hit like we did in August of 2004 with Hurricane Charlie - no power for 8 days! We also lost all of our huge oak trees (no need to worry about trees falling on the house this time), as well as a car.

The worst is suppose to hit us around 2pm tomorrow afternoon. Let's hope Fay stays calm and all we have to deal with is rain and winds.