Cold Rainy Day

It's cold rainy day here in Northeast Ohio, just 44 decrees. I'm holding out on turning the heat on. Normally don't touch that thermostat til November 1. So much for global warming. I thought I would share a little bit today about my girls.                                                                                                

Downtown Cleveland after Indians game

  I'm blessed with two girls, Rachel who will soon be 20, who we call Sunshine or Rae most days. And Shannon who is 18, who was christened Sweet Pea from day one.                                                                                                

 Sunshine

Sweet Pea

 Rachel works in a local Chiropractic office in our area, and is going to school for Medical Assistant. Sweet Pea is life guard, swim instructor, coach and assist to all things her boss needs. Sweet Pea loves kids and looks to work with them in some form in the future.

Sweet Pea all set to run a relay in the Akron Marathon last weekend.

Here's just a glimpse of why we call her Sunshine.

All the best to you:)

Kind, Smart, Important...

     We saw The Help. Few laughs and many tears later, it was a great movie. The ugliness of people hatred is still surprising to me. I guess that's a good thing after all these years. One of the things that stands out to me from the movie is Aibileen's words to the baby girl she's raising "'you is kind, you is smart, you is important". Aibileen lived out life everyday in a world that told her as a black woman in the 60's south she had no value, yet she instilled  love and confidence in each child she care for. Do you show the people in your life that they have value and worth? The Help is a must see!