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What's your super power??

I title this post that because I feel like I had a super power and it was my job to play hero and hand it over.

http://www.miamiherald.com/1374/story/1311679.html

If you read the article, you will know what I did. You see this inspiring young lady goes to the school I teach at. I decided I needed to help someone to so dedicated to helping others after her own experience.

So, I went and chopped off 6.5 inches of my hair and donated it to this tenacious young lady for Locks of Love.

I feel so good. Even if I hated the hair cut, which I don't, it was still worth it.

Here's the new do with a cause!

Latest Conversation with my 5 year old...

John: "Mom, none of the other kids in my class know a song I love." Me: "What song John?" John: "Aruba, Jamaica, Oooh I want to take you" - So, my 5 year old loves Kokomo by the Beach Boys and my diverse Ipod is to blame. LMBO! My response, "John, tell the kids in your class that you are a cultured and tropical young man who is expanding his musical decades a lot deeper than they will ever go." John: "Ok, Mami. I will tell them tomorrow that I am way cooler than they are." I was LMAO!!!

Juggling Life

How do we do it?

I mean, I know how we do it. But, I wonder how this became the norm. I have not rested since I woke up at 5am this morning.

It's always something!

The icing on the cake part of my day was my son's incredible plays at baseball today. WOW!! Is that what it is? Our kids' accomplishments bring us so much joy that we look past the madness everything else brings? I think so...

Tell me how you do it?

Humbling experience..

Ever had an experience that has humbled you?

Well, dictionary.com defines it like this: to make meek: to humble one's heart. My heart has been very humbled.

Why? You may ask...

Well, my husband wasn't working for the last two months. Some specifics about his job that I would rather not discuss. Sometimes I feel like he works for the FBI. He doesn't, but all the restrictions on what can and can't be said make it feel that way.

So, how have I been humbled?

It seems I am always frowning upon his constant traveling and hardly ever getting to be around. Well, that constant traveling is what puts our kids through private school, puts food on our table, clothes on our backs and provides us with wonderful summer vacations without restrictions. So, this season, instead of moping around because I am working and raising two kids alone, I will hold my head up high and thank the good Lord that my family has a job that provides so much for us. I will stop looking at the glass half empty and more as half full.

We will miss you honey, but we know you are doing what is right for our family.

Pictures from Florangel: Pumpkin Patch 2009

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Bimini Pics

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