My CornerStone Trio

You know, the old saying is so true…’Time really does fly’. My baby girl just turned a year old and I can’t believe it has been a year already.

It has been so wonderful being able to stay at home this past year and watching my daughter grow and discover all new things. The miracle of life is such an awesome thing anyway, but witnessing it firsthand, is something else all together.

It hasn’t always been a bed of roses as most of the parents out there know. You have middle of the night feedings, 1,000’s of the disposable diapers, teeth cutting, and on and on!But all in all, it is a wonderful experience and I count myself blessed to have been able to experience it 3 times now.

I wanted to take this opportunity to let all parents out there know that no matter how hard it gets at times, our children are promises and blessings from the Lord and it is our job to guide them to the best of of abilities.

I have been trying to find this leather sofa for my pastor’s wife and am coming up empty handed!

A little background…

My pastor’s wife at my church is so awesome. She is always upbeat and positive. She is so much fun. She is the children’s director at church and that is no light job, mind you.

Anyhoo, the church is building a bigger building next to the current one and making all kinds of really neat and cool upgrades to enable us to not only house the current membership we have but also to help us grow more efficiently.

She has many strong qualities and attributes but the one thing that she doesn’t like to do is research on the Internet. That is where I come in.

I love finding stuff on the Internet, shopping, and finding great deals. So she asked me to find this sofa that she saw in a local store in Florida.

No problem I said. How hard could it be? Right? WRONG!!!

I have looked high and low, through furniture catalog after furniture catalog, visited numerous sites, searched, googled, you name it, I have done it.

I can’t find this thing. So I figured I would see if any of you out there may know where I can find this thing one, and two a store that will ship it to us.

The sofa is made be DeCoro and it is called the Tanner. The store she saw it at doesn’t deliver nor ship. So any help on where we can find this would be AWESOME!!! The picture is at the beginning of the post. Thanks so much!

There are so many places out there on the world wide web that make promises of untold riches and wealth if you sign up with their company.

I know you have seen them, they are everywhere. Just type in the words ‘make money from home’ on Google and you will see 43,000,000 results come back. THAT IS CRAZY!!!

People want a good small business opportunity to work from their home and search tirelessly to try and find it.

I know this, because I have been one of those people. I have bought into scam after scam. Pouring over one sales page after another with my eyes popping with dollar signs and dreams flooding my mind of what I would buy if I made the money they were promising.

It always sounds so good. You get reeled in on the promise of massive income and buy into their program before you even know what you are going to be doing, or what product they want you to sell.

I would say too, that 8 out of 10 ‘programs’ that you buy always end up asking for more money from you. They give you the $19.95 product, you print it off, read it, get more excited, then they tell you you need to spend another $200 for the ‘real secret’ to this wealth.

By this time you are so intrigued and hooked, you buy that program for $200. So now you have spent $220 and you still don’t know what the heck you’ll be doing.

I have been there, done that. More times than I care to admit. But, I am through with all of that because I finally found something to where the product was more important than the money that most surely will follow.

I am not going to get into it now. I am going to work it for a little bit and see how things are and then go from there. Of course I will keep you posted on how I do with it.

My thing is this: If someone I know or am acquainted with, can show me real checks, talk to me live on the phone & not some stupid automated computer, then I want to see what they have. I want to be a part of that company, and so I am!

I will keep you up to date on how this goes!!

Whenever someone decides to diet, how do they make that choice? Some common questions that get asked is What type of diet do I want to use? Do I implement exercise? Do I change eating habits? Do I use pills to help?

Most people in America that fall into the category of ‘wanting to loose weight’ look for the easiest, fastest way to get to what they want.

Most Americans feel that they are TOO busy to diet and therefore look for fast, easy alternative methods.

Pills like Phentermine, Hydroxy Cut, Nitetrim, and the list goes on and on, folks look for what promises to be guaranteed results without a whole lot of work.

This pills are designed to ‘assist’ in the process of losing weight. But you still have to make some changes yourself.

You can’t sit around eating Big Macs and chocolate ice cream all day, pop a pill and expect to loose weight. It just doesn’t work that way. And if anyone DID come up with that ‘magically’ solution, well, the company would be an overnight success because everyone would want it.

You have to do your part. Diet, exercise, and drink plenty of water. There is really no way of getting around this.

If you are too lazy to diet, then you can always start by cutting your portions back a little. Or eat smaller meals more often.

I will be posting more on this later, so stay tuned.

I have recently started asking myself some pretty tough questions. Questions that I don’t like to think about because it means that I have to think about what will happen once I am gone.

I am talking about thinking of stuff like writing my will, getting term life insurance, and getting all of my affairs in order in case something ever happened to me. That way my kids will be ok.

But when is a good time to do this? I am only 33 years young and I feel like my whole is still in front of me.

When I start thinking of ‘taking care of business’, it makes me feel a bit sad just thinking of what I will miss out on with my kids.

The whole dying thing doesn’t bother me and I know where I am going when I die, it’s leaving my kids.

So when is a good time to get your affairs in order?

It is almost that time again. Back to school clothes shopping. Have I ever mentioned how much I despise shopping.

I know, I know, women are supposed to love shopping, right?! Well, not me! It is up there with the least favorite things to do like laundry, cleaning poopie diapers, grocery shopping, you know, all of the stuff that most don’t like to do.

The only time that I actually ‘enjoy’ shopping is when I am buying for someone else. Even then it is a stretch for me to enjoy it.

But I have to start looking for some sales on school clothes. I don’t want to wait until the last minute on this either. I am so bad at procrastination, so I am working on not putting things off to the last minute!

So, I am going to schedule a time, maybe this weekend to so look for that great sale that hopefully is out there.

I did catch wind that Belk’s is having a sale! YEAH!

My brother is somewhat of a collector of ’stuff’. Not your everyday average inexpensive stuff either. I am talking about the really expensive stuff.

He lives in North Carolina, and when I was up there visiting last, he showed off his ’stuff’.

He has a drag race car that has the long nose on it. (don’t remember what he called it) Has the deluxe trailer for it to go in as well. He has a HUGE ocean boat too. Much more stuff too, too much for me to sit here and spell it all out.

But, the one thing that I liked the most out of all of his ’stuff’ was his ‘69 Corvette. Talk about a beauty. Well, it used to be a beauty.

He was out driving it one afternoon and lost control of it and wrecked it. Talk about your heartsick feeling. Uggh!! I was sick just looking at the beautiful car sitting there, damaged!

We started talking about him getting it fixed and how much it was going to cost to put it back in pristine, mint condition. Then I remembered a website that I ran across once. It was http://www.corvetteguys.com.

I told him to jump on the world wide web and check out this site to see if he could save money by going through these guys. Maybe he will, who knows, right.

But if he does, maybe he will be so grateful to me for showing him the site and helping him save money, that he will let ME drive that little beauty. It would be so great to feel the wind blowing through my hair as I drive that little piece of history!