Walk MS

Mornin' Blogland! Today I want to talk about something that struck home in my family last November. My 30 yr old son-in-law, Randy was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.

Here is Randy with his wife, my youngest child, Tracy.

This is their 5 yr old son Carson. He will now be an only child.

At my job, we have an ex-employee, Jim, who has MS. From him I found out about the Walk MS fundraiser here in PA. I decided to walk with Jim. Then another employee from Tobacco World decided to walk also. The plan was hatched to raise funds.

To start with, I put together a raffle to win a basket full of Avon products ( I sell Avon myself, so I had the supplies on hand)

Behind the basket you see a wall covered with paper. All of those look like these:

For anyone making a donation, no matter how small, their name was put on a quarter sheet sized paper with the shoes on it & it was posted up in the store.

This is just a small sample of what is hanging up in our store. Also, we do not have a color printer at work, so all of the shoes were hand colored by our staff!

Next we decided on adding a second raffle. June, who is walking with me busted her tail getting local businesses to donate. ( I have a slightly embarrassing video of June that I threatened to post to Facebook that got her motivated.....yes, I am devious like that. Surprised? Didn't think so!)

This second raffle has 11 different chances to win with 1 ticket!

So far we have raised over $1,500.00. I am so proud of my staff. Here are a few that have been pimping the raffle tickets.

June is seated in front of the small tray table they set up for selling the tickets. The drawing is to be held next Friday, April 26th. Our walk is on Sunday the 28th. My son-in-law & daughter walked in the Walk MS walk in their area just yesterday.

This photo shows their team. My grandson Carson & great niece Abigail are in front holding the sign.

Wish us luck as we finish up our last week of fundraising before our walk!

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Morning to you Blogland friends! I know I was away & now I am back asking for favors like I never left.
My Cat friends over at the Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary need your help. With just a week left in a contest to help them get a $10,00.00 donation to help with upkeep & such, my friends are in 2nd place. We need them to get to 1st to win the donation.

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/ars/shelter-challenge

Please click on the link to vote. For shelter name, all you have to do is type in: Blind Cat. They are located in N.C. You can vote once from your computer, & then your phone, & from an ipad or laptop. Vote twice a day. Once in the morning & then again in the evening. Help the Kittehs please! You will be wickedly awesome if you do!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Blind-Cat-Rescue-and-Sanctuary-Inc/121386005165?fref=ts

Above is their link on Facebook. Visit the Kittehs. They even have live upstream video so you can see the cats at play!

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Hey Blogland! Remember me? Yes, it has been way too long since I have visited my cyber OZ, & connected with all of my wickedly awesome Blogland friends. My Broom is tapping me on my shoulder because he wants me to say that he has missed all of you too! I have let life get in the way of my blogging passion. I just wanted to take some time to share with all of you some windows I painted for my job. Here we go!

July 4th windows

Summer Fun windows

Halloween windows

Thanksgiving windows

Little close up action here. I had turkeys hiding from the farmer.

I even painted the windows had the Senior Care Home my husband works at.

Christmas windows

These below are the windows at my house. We bought a house! So very much has happened since last I visited Blogland.

  

Here is my cat Ramses trying to catch a snowflake as I painted it!

Full shot of the window we put our tree up in front of!

I promise to poof back i more often. I have been the Manager of the tobacco store I started working at a month after moving to PA. just over two years ago. I have been in that gig for over a year now. I love it but it does take up the time I was hoping to spend doing crafting & visiting craft fairs. Oh well, such is life. Hugs to all of you!

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Never Forget The "Little Things" Count

 Hello Blogland! It's Beth from Wiccan Make Some Too. 

Here I am helping out my friend Amie while she is recovery from her surgery. Shout out to Amie! Feel better soon Girl! (cyber hugs)

 Today I want to talk to all of you about the "little things". You know those things you do for your loved ones that don't seem all that important but at the end of the day, they end up meaning quite a bit to the other person.  Maybe you took back some lunch meat to the store cause they gave your husband Honey Baked Ham instead of the Black Forest Ham that he ordered. Or you go that extra mile just to make someone feel special. My son called me yesterday to tell me that his wife was being "mean" to him. I asked him if he deserved it & he replied that he probably did. So I told him that I had no problem with her being mean to him if that was the case. That was all the call entailed but it was my son's way of letting me know he was thinking of me & that meant a lot.  Like for Valentine's Day I got my Hubs some balloons & for an extra $.50 I got a sheet of poster board. I brought it all home, took the poster board & made a sign from the cats & from our bunny Bandit (we lost Bandit the next day due to health problems) Then I  placed it outside in the driveway so he saw it as he came home from work. The neighbors & passers by saw it too! Here it is:

It reads "We love U Dad" 

He was so tickled with this & it did not take much out of my day to do that for him

 As I was making some shamrocks out of toilet paper rolls, I also made this for my Hubs in honor of our bunny Bandit:

It took very little time & he was so happy that I did that he actually brought it up the next day, telling me how much it meant to him. I was like " Uh...toilet paper roll? Not a big deal!" But to him it was. So take a minute & write a note to slip into your husband's briefcase or on the dashboard of his car or in your child's lunch box  that says "Hey, I love you" If you are in line at the store & you see a candy bar you know the hubby likes or a magazine with an article you know will interest them., grab it it put it in your cart. Yea, okay, it may seem stupid but those things count too & says " I think about you even when you are not around." My husband & I have an anniversary this month on the 16th. 

 Us on our Honeymoon in Key West

We have been together since 1996 & our relationship is still great cause we take the time to show each other that we care with little things. 

So ...it only takes a second or two but it will stay with the person forever.