Just fooling around...

Rememberace of our Sister

We Will Miss You Julia!!

As our hearts break at the loss of our Wonderful Sister and Friend, we also know that she is our Guardian Angel now.

She will be watching over us to make sure that we enjoy every minute of our lives and family.

That we remember to laugh a lot and have fun, to do fun and goofy programs, get homemade treats from Hy-Vee, that any secret sister gift can be made if you have glue and that being "Queen" is the best.

But the most important thing that I will always remember is to "Have the Courage to stay strong and positive when life gets you down" and to
"Never Give Up"!

Wishing you comfort.
Lois

Summer Book Club Selection

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.

The Glass Castle is truly astonishing -- a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar, but loyal, family. Jeannette Walls has a story to tell, and tells it brilliantly, without an ounce of self-pity.

Sisters, you're gonna love this book. I've finished it and it was fantastic! I bought my copy at Target for about twelve bucks. It's also available at Amazon for nine dollars. This is a great book for the beach. Now just to find a beach...Lake Storey? Nah, I'd prefer Daytona!

Have a great summer, Cindy

Sit, Relax, Enjoy Your Life

Occasionally, we need to set aside some "me time". Take a few minutes, an hour, whatever and reflect. I like to go to my favorite coffee shop and sit, relax and just daydream. I found the following on the 'net this week. It's from the magazine, Body & Soul. It really made me think. Feel free to print it off and put it on your fridge. It's a keeper.

Ten Thoughts on Whole Living

1. Your home is more than the sum of its walls. Make it a sacred space.
2. Creativity is a lifestyle, not simply an activity. Let is expand you.
3. True forgiveness springs from love, not regret.
4. Learn something new. Emphasize the trying, not the succeeding.
5. Spend some time in the dirt. You'll be amazed at what nature can inspire.
6. You don't have to have a perfect body to feel great in it.
7. Define yourself by who you are, not the roles you play.
8. Find rejuvenation in five minutes of silence.
9. Contribute to abundance. If you no longer need something, pass it on.
10. Find direction in your life by looking where you want to go, not where you don't.

Have a good week,
Cindy

Founder's Day Dinner

We ladies we pulled it off!!

Other than a few snags things went pretty well that day. We had a lot of good comments and that was good to hear. The cakes were a big hit, especially the raspberry one.

There is one thing that we did not get that day and that is OUR chapter's group photo. All of the dinner photos are posted now on our web site.

The only thing that is depressing about Founder's Day is that is means our year is almost up and our summer chores are upon us. Ha. But we have our summer socials to look forward to and of course that involves more eating. Ha.

See Ya soon

Lois

Happy Easter Peeps!

Best flavor in 2008! They never get old!



Peeps on the Barbie - this is so, so, bad; don't tell Karan!



The Evolution of Peeps

Oh Baby! It's 1970 again!

You know you're a child of the 70's if...

• You wore that rainbow shirt that was half-sleeves, and the rainbow went up one sleeve, across your chest, and down the other.

• You made baby chocolate cakes in your Easy Bake Oven. You washed them down with snow cones from your Snoopy Snow Cone Machine.

• You owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a basket. You even owned roller skates with metal wheels.

• You thought Gopher from Love Boat was cute.

• You had either a "bowl cut" or a "pixie", not to mention the "Dorothy Hamill" because your mom was sick of braiding your hair.

• You wore a poncho, gauchos, and knickers.

• You begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon.

• You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple shredded outfits.

• You had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable color.

• You even had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole & the buckle).

• You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad; you wore that Little House on the Prairie-inspired plaid, ruffle shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture; and you despised Nellie Olson!

• Your hairstyle was described as having "wings" and you kept it "pretty" with the comb you kept in your back pocket.

• You and Your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazzard was your boyfriend.

• Every now and then "It's A Hard Knock Life" from the movie, "Annie" will pop into Your brain and you can't stop singing it the whole day.

• You had Star Wars action figures and you made Shrinky-Dinks too!

• You even asked Your Magic-8 Ball the question: "Who will I marry...David Cassidy, Bobby Sherman, or Rick Springfield?"

• You completely wore out your Partridge Family, The Monkees, and Carole King albums.

• You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape recorder up to the speaker.

• You thought Olivia Newton John's song, "Physical" was about aerobics.

• You wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer.

• You had subscriptions to Dynamite and TigerBeat.