Alabama Foster Parent project donations

Posted on February 12th, 2008 by admin.
Categories: My Thoughts, Uncategorized.

Last year so many of you supported Alabama’s foster children by participating in the 2007 Shoe Drive. What an exciting event that was. This year the group is at it again and so I pass along the 2008 Spring Project – Sock It To Us! 

Please help where you can and please pass along this information to others that might be interested.

Sock it to Us! 

It’s the 2nd Annual Spring Alabama Foster and Adoptive Parent project benefitting the 7,000 foster children in Alabama. This year’s project will collect your donations of new socks and school supplies beginning February 15 through May 2, 2008.

We need your help by donating items, as a collection drop off point in your area, and spreading the word in your local community.

Monetary donations will also be appreciated and are tax deductible.

For more information, please contact:

  •                          afapa@afapa.org
  •                          www.afapa.org
  •                          1-888-545-2372 or
  •                          205-655-7658

Alabama’s foster children thank you!

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A Different Christmas Poem

Posted on November 30th, 2007 by wwaddell.
Categories: Uncategorized.

At this special time of year, I was so glad to receive this wonderful poem. Read – Enjoy – Pass it on! Merry Christmas! – Kathy and Wes

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A Different Christmas Poem

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.

Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn’t loud, and it wasn’t too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn’t quite know, Then the
sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.

My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.

A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

“What are you doing?” I asked without fear,
“Come in this moment, it’s freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!”

For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..
To the window that danced with a warm fire’s light
Then he sighed and he said “It’s really all right,
I’m out here by choice. I’m here every night.”

“It’s my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I’m proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at ‘ Pearl on a day in December,”
Then he sighed, “That’s a Christmas ‘Gram always remembers.”

My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ‘ Nam ‘,
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I’ve not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he’s sure got her smile.

Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue… an American flag.
I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.

I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..

Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall.”
“So go back inside,” he said, “harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I’ll be all right.”

“But isn’t there something I can do, at the least,
“Give you money,” I asked, “or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you’ve done,
For being away from your wife and your son.”

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
“Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we’re gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.

For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.”

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PLEASE, Would you do me the kind favor of sending this to as many people as you can? Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to our U.S. servicemen and women for our being able to celebrate these festivities. Let’s try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we owe. Make people stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves for us.

LCDR Jeff Giles, SC, USN
30th Naval Construction Regiment
OIC, Logistics Cell One
Al Taqqadum , Iraq.

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The Inspirational Story of The Wooden Bowl

Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by wwaddell.
Categories: My Thoughts, Scrapbook Tips, Uncategorized.

Hi Digital Scrapbook Friend,

Just a quick note for you today.  We recently talked about using the FREE digital stationeries from www.1-Computer-Stationery.com to create our Halloween and Christmas Holiday party invitations and/or holiday family news letters.  We also mentioned that they make great digital as well as printed hand scrapped scrapbook backgrounds.

That said, I wanted to show you what I did today with one of the really great inspirational eMails that I get from time to time.  I think it makes it much more fun to pass this one around than just the plain old text message… don’t you.

The Wooden Bowl

I guarantee you will remember the tale of the Wooden Bowl tomorrow, a week from now, a month from now, even several years from now.

A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year old grandson…

The_Wooden_Bowl.pdf

Feel free to “Right Click” on the link above to save it to your own computer and to pass it along to everyone you know.  You can also just send them the link to this page and let them download it for themselves.

There’s lots of other FREE Inspirational Stories, Jokes and Funnies on the FREE Digital Staionery Website. 

Kathy & Wes

www.PrincessCrafts.com

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Bob Dylan Talks About PrincessCrafts Scrapbooking…

Posted on September 17th, 2007 by wwaddell.
Categories: Site Information, Uncategorized.

Hi Digital Scrapbook Friend,

The new Bob Dylan album comes out 1 October 2007.  With it, he’s created a new web site that you can add your own message to his video into.  Here’s what we had Bob Dylan tell you about PrincessCrafts.com digital computer scrapbooking membership:

It’s really cool… isn’t it!?

If you would like to create and send your own Bob Dylan message, choose the “Respond to this Message” option above.  It will take you to the Dylan site where you can create and send your own message.  By using the Respond option instead of creating your own, it lets me know that you tried it out.  It doesn’t give me your eMail or anything, just tells me you checked it out.

Happy Scrappin’

Kathy & Wes

www.MyPrincessCrafts.com

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