Down Right Perfect

My copy of Down Right Perfect by Kristina Bewley came in the mail just this morning. I was super excited to have received it so quickly after having just ordered it only just a couple of days ago.

I happened to have been outside when the UPS man delivered it so I was able to quickly get to the box and take a look at this one of a kind book. I'm not going to give you any sneak peeks, you'l just have to take my word for it, that this book is worth the purchase! It is filled with beautifully stunning colored photographs of babes with Ds. Their stories are shared and they are amazing and the quotes throughout are nothing short of inspiring! This would make a fantastic gift to a new parent of a child with Ds, for a loved one or for anyone in general. It is a must have for your personal library! You can order the Down Right Perfect through Amazon and if your on Facebook, check out the photographers page Giselle Evelyn Photography. Then, if you would, 'share' her page and 'like' it. 

Oh, and if you do order the book, leave me a message, I want to hear your thoughts on it!

Riding A Rollercoaster

I love Sundays, I really do but today has been like a roller coaster ride from you know where! 

I started off on the highest peek of my ride because I love going to church and today was extra special for me because it was my week to work in the preschool room and my Jazzy girl began helping me with it as well.

After the preschool room and then following the Sunday school hour my blood sugar plummeted. I quickly began to feel dizzy, shaky and in general, I felt pretty crappy so I went into the church kitchen and had some bread and wine, eerrr.. I mean orange juice and that seemed to help. 

Climbing back up another peek, I walked into the sanctuary to be pleasantly surprised with a guest speaker who I enjoyed listening to immensely. He was young, funny and kept my interest the whole time, not that I loose interest in our church services, because I don't.., well most of the time I stay pretty focused but sometimes it is hard to stay on track. Im just being honest here, I dont think that i'm gonna go to Hell for it or anything, ;) but that whole bread and wine comment, well, Jesus may give me a little slap on the hands for that one. Ya never know.

Anyway, I felt good for about an hour and then I went through all of the same hypoglycemic feelings that I had felt early in the morning. It didnt last too long since we were heading to lunch any how. So there was another high/low/high point.

Once we all got home it was at-ti-tude from the oldest, feeling shaking again from me but then I got the bonus of feeling like I was going to throw up as well and then laminating. Yes, you read that correctly, through all of this I started to laminate Vada's preschool curriculum "stuff". And I am sure I looked pretty pathetic doing do too! I laid on my dining room floor, next to my laminator and with my blanky (what-evah!) covering my cold spots.

While I was laminating, Kiliegh and Vada played with some play-doh.

This was V's first time playing with play-doh for a prolonged amount of time and she really seemed to enjoy it.

You could totally tell that she wasn't overly confident in what the colored goop was actually for but none the less, she kept playing with it.

Kiliegh is an old play-doh pro, however.

And she is a good play-doh teacher as well.

Vada got her in some Daddy time tonight as well. They played on the iPad and did some of her learning apps together.

I however am still feeling sick. The ups and downs are coming and going and I feel so uncomfortable from all that I have ate throughout the day! Im hoping that I will wake up feeling refreshed and me again!

Really though, besides feeling sick, and the attitude that comes with a preteen, today was a beautiful day because we were all together!

From Blah to Oh La La

I have always wanted a picnic basket. That may age me a bit but it's true. Our church often gets together for pot lucks where we not only bring a dish to share we also bring our own place settings (which in my opinion is such a great idea).  

My firend Kathee brings hers in a picnic basket and I often admire it's cuteness and think of what I would do to it to make it more me. That's why when Justin and I began scoping out the "junk" at our yearly neighborhood yard sales I was really excited to have found not one but five different picnic baskets to choose from. 

Each basket had something wrong with it, like a hole, a broken handle or a stain like on the one that I chose to buy but this is the one that I fancied the most and I had a plan.

I got out the primer.

Then I got out the paint and I changed a old picnic basket into a new one!

Please Help

For the last two years I have saved up all of the change I have found lying around the house and what I find our jeans pockets when I am doing laundry. Last year I just added it to the large amount of donations and didnt pay much attention to it. last year I was on a mission to get V's photo on the window of GiGi's Playhouse! So the amount of change didnt matter to me. 

This year I decided to count it. I wanted to again donate it to GiGi's put I wanted to do it online and I didn't want to wait until the bank opened today to do so.

The exact amount was donated to GiGi's, however, the exact amount doesn't really matter here but let me just say that there was over two hundred dollars! This got me thinking about my goal this year. I wanted to earn three thousand dollars in total. I now that may sound unreasonable but last year I (with the help of my husband and his parents) raised almost five thousand dollars and that didn't include the walk registrations! I'm going to be honest, its not looking so good this year. Donations seem scarce this year and I get that, I do, it's just that I think we can al do something even if it is only using the change from our change jars. So Whats in your change jar and are you willing to put it towards a good cause?

Here is the direct link to "Team Vada's" donation page. Wont you please help? The link is quick and secure, plus you can do it anonymously and again, its for a great cause, promoting Down syndrome awareness and to fund GiGi's Playhouse of the QC"s. ;) 

Thanks friends!

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