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Post by lindac on Dec 11, 2005 19:39:25 GMT -5
I feel sure we must have had some happy moments in the last month. It dawned on me that we have been remiss in keeping this up. Happy moment for today, a nice pot of homemade chili. Nice and warming with the snow coming down again. Nowhere to travel tonight except the chat room. Hope the snow doesn't keep me from getting there. Come on and join in. What made you feel a little warm today?
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Post by missingjason on Dec 11, 2005 20:12:08 GMT -5
I had chili last Sunday and a hot bowl of veggie soup today. No snow though!! Have fun in chat, ya'll type way to fast for me to keep up My happy moment today. Little Miss Jadon grinning her toothless grin at me. Me thinks shes beginning to like me!! ;D
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Post by Corinne on Dec 12, 2005 8:08:55 GMT -5
Ok, my happy moment is bittersweet. I held my 13 day old great nephew for quite awhile yesterday. I marveled at the innocence of this young life, so precious, so sweet. Bittersweet because now I am envious of my sisters. They are both grandmothers now, and I must admit ....I am a bit jealous
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Post by missingjason on Dec 12, 2005 17:53:21 GMT -5
(((Corinne)))
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Post by trinabobina on Dec 13, 2005 19:59:25 GMT -5
Happy moment: today at school one of my big, strapping senior boys needed help on his project and called out "Mom!" to me -- the whole classed laughed and he blushed, then said I am like his mom here at school. It made me feel sooo warm inside.
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Post by missingjason on Dec 13, 2005 20:21:20 GMT -5
Trina, now thats a happy story ;D
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Post by lindac on Dec 13, 2005 20:34:20 GMT -5
We finished stuffing gift cards for our Christmas food assistance. I have paper cuts and hangnails galore. 4,700 families will be having a Christmas dinner thanks to the salvation Army. I am proud of where I work.
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Post by missingjason on Dec 13, 2005 23:39:52 GMT -5
We finished stuffing gift cards for our Christmas food assistance. I have paper cuts and hangnails galore. 4,700 families will be having a Christmas dinner thanks to the salvation Army. I am proud of where I work. [/quote You go girl ;D You are a Godsend
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Post by MomofBuilder on Dec 14, 2005 13:58:48 GMT -5
My happy moment came yesterday. My husband had told someone he used to work with that I made memory bears from Aaron's clothing. She told him her brother had died last year. She had one BIG shirt and wants me to make two bears. I have decided to work on bears while I am unemployed. I feel so wonderful to help someone else to have something that will give comfort. I call my little business "A Bear to Remember". This person is SO excited about the bears that it made my day. I didn't know how I would feel making one from clothing from someone I didn't know who had died...and I feel that it is so important that it makes me happy. Carol
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Post by lindac on Dec 14, 2005 16:33:43 GMT -5
Carol, That is just great and has to make you feel very good! My happy moment for today is dh will be home tonight. He is headed for Buffalo, NY and this will be a sleep break. He just called and is in Lexington, will get here when I am at choir but we will have time. ;D Also someone found a wallet across the street from our building today and brought it in to us to try to find the owner. This was a very honest person, God bless them! The woman's credit cards and cash were still in the wallet. There are good people out there. The woman's employer has been called and she will be reunited with her wallet. What a blessing. And yet another happy moment was a call I answered this afternoon from a former emplyee who had moved to Ma. It was so nice to hear his voice again. We all miss him very much. Hope everyone else is having a great day. ((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))
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Post by MomofBuilder on Dec 14, 2005 16:46:25 GMT -5
Hi Linda, It does feel good. I am sure that everyone here will understand that as I worked on the 13 bears from Aaron's shirts I kept thinking that I needed to get them done because in the back of my mind, I thought Aaron would come home and ask where his shirts are. I kept thinking I would say, we can get you lots MORE shirts, Aaron.
It sounds like you had a lot of things to be happy about. I think the more of the things we appreciate the more that come to us; well, sometimes it works but I do think it helps us. Carol
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Post by trinabobina on Dec 14, 2005 20:10:09 GMT -5
Carol -- I LOVe the idea of the memory bear! Could you post a picture? Maybe that could be a little business for you?
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Post by MomofBuilder on Dec 14, 2005 20:19:32 GMT -5
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Post by heartsore on Dec 15, 2005 5:30:30 GMT -5
Oh Carol, they're adorable! I loved the two that said "Lowe's" and "DeWalt" . . . I'm sure those were Aaron's. I love the idea - it's such a precious thing to do with our son's shirts.
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Post by MomofBuilder on Dec 15, 2005 9:20:31 GMT -5
Thank you, Margot. The shirts were Aaron's but the logos were not. I got a painter's cap from Lowe's and made an applique. The people in that huge store remembered him months later when his wife went in to return new items for homes that he didn't have a chance to use. The person told her that they had his picture up in their break room. He used lots of DeWalt tools but I could locate nothing vinyl or cloth to use. I made the design like a patch on my embroidery machine and glued it on. I hadn't planned to do that but when I got the bear (my first one!) done he just looked like DeWalt. It makes me happy that you like them and understand that it is a loving thing to make them. Carol
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