Magnolia Pearl give-away don't miss your last chance to enter!!

Don't forget, I'll be picking the winner for the Magnolia Pearl Bloomers in just a week! If you still haven't entered to win, don't miss your chance! Just leave me a comment and I hope to have Robin herself pick a name out of a hat and reveal the winner. I will let y'all know who won when I get home from Round Top. Good Luck!

Round Top here I come!

I'm off to Round Top! BUT this year my foot won't be broken and I won't be on pain killers!
So...I won't be kissing any ducks,

I won't be picking up any new boyfriends,

I won't get arrested by the cutest sheriff ever,

But, my car WILL look like this after I have shopped till I dropped! See you all there!
If you can't come, don't worry I'll take tons of pictures for you! Now what will my excuse
be this year for buying so much, hummmmmm.

Anyone can rescue a kitten!

Spring is here, please have your cats fixed! Our shelters are overflowing with kittens! Plus,our Rescue Racoon Squad could use some more volunteers!!

OMG! I am so excited! There is finally a book for bone head bloggers like me! This book is fantastic! I have bought books like this in the past and they have left me even more confused than before. (yes, Karen that can happen!) I cannot recommend this book enough! It's $19.99 and Karen can send it to you as a PDF to your email address or if you're a dinosaur like me she will send you a hard copy on a CD. I'm one of those old souls that believes that with the next huge thunderstorm my hard drive will crash and I'll lose everything! Go to her blog and check this out!! MyDesertCottage.blogspot.com

A Mother's test....

This is a photo of my mother, Mary her senior year in college. She was young, beautiful and in wonderful health. Today she does have health problems but with everything I have on my body crossed, she is thank God still with me. I posted this photo of my mother today because I got some bad news today.  One of my best friend's mother has fallen very ill. The first selfish thought was not of my friend but of myself and what I would do when my mother is gone. What if that were me that just got the bad news?

Who would love me the way my mother does? The answer, no one. A mother's love is like no other, but then again, so is a daughter's love of her mother. It made me think, if I had children of my own, I would hope I would get every test, every mammogram, every pap, every colon screeen, and every test possible to be there for my children as long as possible. I believe my mother has done this for herself and for my brother and I. I am guilty until today for not telling my mother how much she means to me. That changes today.

So, for those of you hesitating, putting off and waiting for insurance to pay for those annoying tests, I can tell you as a child to their mother, please do them for yourself and your children. Make a pack with your friends, I'll drive you to your test if you drive me to mine. Then go to lunch and talk about what a pain these silly tests are! Celebrate, have dessert and check that test off the list. Next one?