Madison Sanders Writes

My oldest nephew is three and he keeps me laughing. I've often posted things on my personal Facebook page, but I thought all of you could use a laugh also. Some things he's said recently are: "I love this wed(red) pillow. I don't like the purple one." This was news to me because he usually requests the purple pi-yo (pillow) anytime he climbs up to watch movies on the computer with me. I said, "You do?" He said, "Uh huh. It's soft." He then lays back on the pillow, puts his hands behind his head, and says, "Ah." So precious! Today, I told him I had been walking some. He said, "Du(You) get bigger and bigger." I said, "Really?" "Yeah. Du are a giant in Gram's big house!" Okay, then. I guess I am a giant. Haha! One night, I was playing with Mason and all of a sudden, he said, "Du(You) busted du face!" Curious as to what he meant, I asked him where. Rig

Man with a megaphone 2  Bartek Ambrozik via freeimages.com I understand. It's a phrase that I hear quite often. As someone who has to take it day by day, you don't understand. You don't understand what I go through. You don't understand what it's like to be fine in the morning and be zapped of all energy by mid-afternoon. You don't understand what it's like to be woken up out of a somewhat good night's sleep by waves of nausea that come and go. You don't understand what it's like to feel tingling and aches sometimes all throughout the day. You don't understand what it's like to say you're coming to an event and then have to postpone it indefinitely because you just can't go. You don't understand what it's like not being able to play certain things with my nephews. You don't understand what it's like to not be able to pick up my nephews. Now, some people DO understand. Those who have help

Today, I took a second donation to CHOA - Scottish Rite. In all, I took 238 journals and 60 lip balms! The beige and pink journals in the bottom right of the box came courtesy of Hammerpress Letter Press & Design Studio . They were so kind to send 50 journals. The lip balms were donated by EcoLips , an organic and natural lip balm company.  NightOwl Paper Goods located in Birmingham, Alabama donated ten of these cute journals. I love the animals!   Ex Libris Anonymous donated fifteen of their super cool journals made from old textbooks and books. What a great way to reuse books!   In Blue Handmade was gracious enough to donate five of their small, handmade leather journals. I got to pick out the stamps for each one, so that was a lot of fun!  Sitara Collections sent six of their exquisite handmade leather journals made by women in India. These were stunning! They are not lined. Thistle Farms  totally floored me with their response to my email. Pen