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Are you inspired by all the 3-Day "stuff" on my blog?

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Get to it!

- d.

And I Thought the Life Jackets Were a Formality....

Dude... Did you see this? Or this? The US Airways plane that landed in the river today??

How amazing was that?? Everyone was rescued. And while the reports aren't in from all those who were taken to hospitals, by all accounts this was a miracle.

And I always thought the life jackets on planes were kind of a formality -- that if you hit the water there was no chance you'd ever get to use them.

That could be because the first umpteen flights I ever took were into / out of Lubbock. Not a lot of water to be found up there.

I have changed my mind. Next time, I'll pay more attention to my seat cushion / flotation device!

No Longer a Stay-at-Home Mom

I've been a stay-at-home Mom since right about the time I found out we were going to have Abbie. And while I've never been one to really stay at home that much, I've enjoyed it.

But now that I'm subbing quite a bit, I'm hardly ever here. Today is my self-proclaimed "day off" and guess what I'm doing??

Cleaning the upstairs....

I'll come back and update you in a while, but here's what I've found so far:

• Kait's James Avery Bee charm -- no necklace in sight. Yet.
• Two shriveled pumpkins from Halloween.
• A pair of pajamas Abbie got for birthday, still in the gift bag. (And she's complained every night this week that she doesn't have any clean pajamas!)
• About 15,000 homemade "passports" for American Girl Dolls, Webkinz, etc. Where do they think we're going????
• My stapler.
• The chain from Kait's necklace, tied in a knot -- makes me think I'm the only one who has been missing it!
• About a bajillion dirty socks. (Abbie's also been short on clean socks in the mornings.)
• Enough books to run a Scholastic resale location.

And the number-one, oh-my-goodness thing?

A peed-in toilet that hadn't been flushed in a few days. YIKES!!!

Kaitlyn On American Idol's "Bikini Girl"

"That number was probably taped to her.

Because if it was stapled, that would HURT."

If You Call, Prepare to Leave a Message!!!

Idol starts tonight.

'Nuff said.

180 in 0 Seconds

I've been reading a lot of new blogs lately, and I've been going down a lot of rabbit trails.

One thing that has really struck me -- how some of these blogs have a couple of years or so of regular entries and then BOOM!!! A father dies, a child gets sick -- and it all changes.

Love your children. Live in the "now." It can all change so very, very fast.

Pray for Elise

My heart is so heavy this morning.

My cell phone rang with a sub call just as we were headed out the door this morning -- it put me about a minute behind in an already-behind morning, but I'm good with that. It's a Kinder class I love, and I'm looking forward to spending the afternoon with them.

Then Kait tripped & fell on the way to the bus stop this morning and hit her head on the concrete. So we missed the bus, and I brought her home and put ice on it. This wasn't a good morning for Kait to have an incident. She is testing for the GT program today, and we want her to do well. I'm hoping she can shake it off.

I took her up to the school, and was writing a note to her teacher when another mom came in -- Elise Goertz' across-the-street neighbor. Elise is in the hospital. Probably for the last time. They took her in last night and couldn't find any blood in her blood type. They finally got some this morning, but they've told the people who she loves dearly that they need to come see her.

Here I am, worried about a GT test and whether Kait will be in the GT program, and Bethany is saying goodbye to her baby girl. Long before it's time. It kind of puts everything in perspective, doesn't it???

Please pray for Elise and her family. A prayer of praise that they did get their trip to Disney World and the great memories that came from that. And a prayer for peace and strength and abounding love.

And please pray for the Kinder teacher I mentioned earlier. Lisa Sudtelgte was Elise's teacher last year, and once I heard the news about Elise that call really fell into place. Lisa is very close to Elise's family. It's going to be a tough week for her as well.

New 3-Day Theme Song

Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfqG0q2IzTI

One Teacher Who Had a Lasting Impact on My Life....

I gave the 4th graders a quiz this morning. As I was getting them started, I immediately thought of, "I want to know what you know and not what your neighbor knows. If you are caught cheating or looking on someone else's paper, you will receive a Zero."

Coach May.

And then my next thought: Wanting to throw up while running lines and jump-roping to that Van Halen "Jump!" song. Still can't stand that song after all these years.

Our 15 Minutes of Fame Aren't Up....

I've been a bit sad this week because our pictures were "replaced" on the 3-Day website. Our 15 minutes of fame were up. But I just saw the new Inspiration video and commercials.

Team Talent's legacy continues.

Check it out:
http://www.the3day.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Videos

If you are planning to crew in the DFW 2009 3-Day, please sign up ASAP. Crew is filling up fast.

Love ya!
- d.

T-Shirts Needed for Quilt

Michelle Olson, one of the Rockin' Tiaras, has a friend who is making a T-shirt quilt like this for us to include in our Silent Auction / Raffle. The tricky part? We need 12 T-shirts within the next week for her to have time to get it done. Can you help??