Can't forget my Emily Elizabeth

My photo part of this blog would not be complete without a picture of my oldest daughter, Emily. She is a smart little 4 year old with a memory that just amazes me sometimes.

Picture of my baby girl, Izabella

I am just in the mood to share pictures tonight. Here is my 10 month old Izabella sitting in a high chair at Christmas.

Changing it up.....here's a picture of my little Olivia

I thought that I would dress up the blog with a picture that I took a few days ago. My middle daughter Olivia just loves our little cat, Smokey. She walks around the house every day with the cat in her arms. It amazes me that the cat hasn't scratched the heck out of her considering how Smokey gets treated. She practicially strangles the cat sometimes as she is carrying her across the house. The cat doesn't even try getting away either, so Smokey must be a glutton for punishment...lol

What I Saw.....in the face of a stranger

I was sitting at a gas station today waiting for my turn at the E85 pump and for some reason I glanced over at a lady sitting in the cab of a truck. She was waiting for the driver to return. For some reason she captivated my attention, and for the first time in a long time I wanted to write poetry. Of course I had to keep repeating the words in my head until I could find a pen and paper to capture my thoughts. The words in bold are what I came up with while I was waiting. The rest were added on before I went to bed:

tired face
sorrowed eyes
lines of time
across saddened cheeks
as you sit and stare
unaware
that I see

what would you say
if I came your way
would you accept
a helping hand?

or would you say
oh not today
just go away
i'm fine
okay?

i can't help but wonder
if i'm right
and tonight
will be a fight
like every other night
with no end in sight

more lines to form
more tears to fall

as you look out a window
and wish
to escape from it all.

One Person's Junk mail....now a kid's collection

We get bombarded with credit card offers at our house. Nearly 1 credit card offer every day, sometimes more. I decided to save all the "credit cards" that we would get with these offers and let my kids play with them and to see how many credit card offers we would get.

I have been saving these since we moved into our home. We have been at this house for about 1 1/2 years now, and we have quite a stack of those fake credit cards. There are a few of them that have some neat pictures, but for the most part they are plain. The total number of cards that I have saved so far are 44. In all honesty we have received more offers than this since we have been living in our home, but I just threw most of them away when we first moved into our home. Out of these 44 cards, 13 of them are from Capital One, 7 our from Household bank, 5 are from Orchard bank, and the others don't have any signs of bank names on them. Out of the ones that are not from Capital One, 99.9% of them are from MasterCard.

I am going to try to post a few pics of my "credit card collection." You would think that after about the 5th or 6th credit card application had been sent that Capital One would have gotten the clue that we aren't interested......obviously I was wrong. Not sure what to do with these cards, so if anyone has a suggestion, let me know.