I Have Great News!!

I am so excited & happy about my news. Can you guess what it might be???




I AM GOING TO BE A GRANA AGAIN!!

Yes, you read me right. Cody, Jenny & Corbin are having a baby.

Corbin called me a few days ago and told me, 'I'm going to be a big brother, Grana.' All I could think of was the Big Brothers, Big Sisters organization. I thought, 'is Corbin old enough to be a big brother in that organization?' Then it dawned on me what he was talking about. Oh my gosh! I was so surprised and I am so happy about it.

A new baby in our family. Such great news.

Corbin's Bike Show

Yesterday Corbin told me he and his friends were having a bike show on his street today from 3:00 to 4:05. He and his friends had put flyers on doors of several of the neighbors. He asked Pa & I to come and then asked if we could bring some brownies to sell. Sure, we could! So this morning I baked some brownies and we drove over there to watch the show. They set up a table to sell brownies and lemonade that Jenny made.

They plan to donote the money they made to St. Jude Children's Hospital.

We were quite surprised that several neighbors came out to watch the show and buy refreshments.



The boys did great!



There was only one little mishap:



Here are the stars of the show:

Good Advice From PAJ

Always keep yourself in a position financially to where, if you lost your job tomorrow, you would still be OK.

PAJ, (my Daddy) told me this many times and I think it is such good advice. I keep hearing all the stories in the news about people loosing their jobs and are now in such financial trouble. I just have to wonder if maybe they didn't create some of this trouble themselves. If, when they had good jobs, they had lived as if they might loose their job tomorrow, surely they wouldn't be in such financial trouble now. I know there are exceptions to this. Some people have a bad illness, or some other hardship, and I'm not talking about those cases. I know that happens, but I do believe it is the exception and not the rule.

If, when someone is making good money, they spend wisely and live below their means, saving money, doubling up on house or car pmts and such, and they loose their job, they can go get a job at McDonalds if need be, and still be OK for a while.

Don't buy houses with house payments you can barely afford, the best vehicles with big car payments, and run up lots of credit card debt. Then of course, if you loose your job, you will be in big trouble fast.

I just believe this must be what has happened with so many people that are in such financial trouble now because they have lost their jobs. (Certainly not all). And we are asked to bale them out. We, who have tried hard to live within our means. ---I just don't get it.

What happened to suffering the consequences of our actions? We are never promised a life without hardships. Loosing a job is always a possibility. No one is immune to it. Why not think ahead when we HAVE the job and make wise decisions?

Just doesn't make sense to me.