My choice

I belong to a great good of woman on a great website. What makes the website so great is that there are so many women from so many areas of the US, religions, ethnic backgrounds, etc. They aren't afraid to speak their minds and voice their opinions, they are there for you and will encourage you when you are down.

However, there seems to be a revolution type thing going on with some of those women that I am closer to that I just don't seem to get or want to be a part of . I can understand where the women are coming from but I can't completely agree with them or the paths that they are taking to get there.

I also don't want to stand up and speak my peace on the matter for fear of upsetting anyone. I know that I am not the only one that feels the way I do. I admire anyone that has the courage to stand up and speak against the majority but thats not me most of the time.

I believe that the owner of a site or store has the right to make the rules and to enforce them. If I open a store and I want to say no cell phones allowed in the store, that is my right. If I see someone with a cell phone, I can ask them to leave and tell them that they are not permitted in my store. If a site wants to limit what can and cannot be said concerning their site, so be it. If they say, you can say something but you must label it Friends Only, that's fine too. It's their site, not mine. I am a customer there, whether I purchase anything or not, whether I pay a fee or not, I am still a customer and the site can remove me if they want. They can ask that I not do something if they want, it's their site.

If I read a post and don't like what it's saying, I can either chose to leave a message or not, I can chose to stop reading and leave the post. I don't have to read everything and I don't. Everyone has a right to not read what they don't want to. I read a post earlier today about the shopping experience of some lady and I was like, why is she getting her panties in an uproar over something so silly. Life is too short to spend it upset over every little thing.

Walk America/ March of Dimes

I'm spamming my own blog today looking for anyone interested in sponsering me on my walk next month for March of Dimes/Walk America.

I got involved with March of Dimes through Kmart, my employer. We participate each year in the walk. It's great fun and such a small thing to help save babies lives. Babies are our future, they are the next generation. They are all that we have. Our babies.

I say that you never know when you might be in need and need help so why not give to others that need the help now. I do my part by partipating in the walk and raising money for March of Dimes.

I set a rather small goal this year but would love to exceed my goal. If you would be interested in finding out more or would like to sponser me visit my page at http://www.walkamerica.org/jmheintzelman . I would love any dollar amount that you could provide. I also would love prayers for the babies and their families and also for my family and our team when we walk on April 29

Thank you all so much.

Today is my dh's birthday

This morning dh got up to go to work and was nice and brought me coffee, like I asked him to and the first words out of my mouth are, "Happy Birthday, old man". Okay, he's not really old but it is now 37, still just over 7 years older than me. Of course he moaned before he kissed me and went to work.

Every year growing up mom would allow us to pick what we wanted to eat on our birthdays so I have carried over that tradition to our family. Dh got to pick out what he wanted for dinner and dessert. He chose sausage stuffed shells and chocolate molten cakes. Sounds really good to me.

I just have to go to the store for chocolate and milk first though but that's okay because the cakes won't get made until dinner is done anyway. I can't wait to try this recipe, it's from Martha Stewart. She made it last week on her show with Merideth Viera and her son. It looked so yummy and I told dh that I wanted to try it so when I gave him his choices for dessert between his favorite chocolate cake with peanut butter icing and these he chose these (if I don't give dh choices he can never decide on what he wants). I think he would have chosen the chocolate cake with peanut butter icing but he's still afraid to eat peanut butter after the scare with the peanut butter last month, you know the big recall.

So I will be off the computer most of the day to catch up with laundry and making him his dinner and getting the cake together. The good thing is that once I get the shells and biscuits in the oven, I'll have plenty of time to get the cakes ready for the oven.

Life experiences

I tend to believe that my life is pretty boring. That I live a mundane life. Then something happens and I think wow, I do have some experience in my life that I can use to help someone else.

I believe to an online Bible Study group. We are currently going through the book Bad Girls of the Bible by Liz Curtis Higgs. We are only on the second chapter of it about Potipher's wife. If you have no idea who Potipher and Potipher's wife are, I would suggest reading Genesis 39.

I once did something that I am not very proud of but I was able to share my experience with the other moms online and I have one mom who sent me a message concerning what I shared on the group. She is currently going through a similar situation and she wanted to know how we handled ours. I told her that I would have to ask dh his thoughts on the situation and I'd get back to her.

God does work in miraculous ways. The song Our God is an Awesome God seems to be going through my head at the moment and it's so true, OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD, HE REIGNS FROM HEAVEN ABOVE WITH WISDOM POWER AND LOVE OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD.

Spring starts at 8:07pm

Spring is just around the corner and I can't wait. After last week's 8 inches of snow, I'm reading for the thaw and melting of it and spring to start.

At the beginning of last week, the snow was melting from last month and the flowers were starting to come. Thursday morning, I received my first shipment of flowers that I ordered in December and I was so excited. That excitement was short lived though because the meteorologist were forecasting for up to 18 inches of snow to arrive on Friday. Not a good thing for those beautiful flowers that were starting to come up.

Friday arrived with my sister at my door at 3:30 in the morning (she drove to my house after leaving work at 1 in the morning) but at that point it wasn't doing anything but drizzling outside. When we finally crawled out of bed Friday morning at 9 (we were up long before that but wanted to let sis and her bf sleep longer), there was snow on the ground and it was sleeting out. I did look out at the flowers in the backyard that had started to come up during the week and saw a beautiful purple iris blooming. So I quick ran out and got a picture before it was covered in snow and sleet.

After having breakfast, sis and I went to the grocery store to get some stuff for us and the roads were just starting to get a little slick but still drivable. Not long after we got home the sleet changed over to snow and within an hour we had our first inch on the ground and it just seemed to get worse from there. It was a classic Nor'easter. For those who don't live in the North East, Nor'easter are known to bring blizzard conditions and lots of snow. The storm comes from the south with all the moisture from the ocean and moves north and east. Luckily, for us the snow switched back and forth from sleet to snow to sleet to snow frequently throughout the late afternoon hours, which resulted in less snow than what we could have gotten.

Luckily, for me my sister and her boyfriend were nice and helped to shovel the snow, okay they did most of the shoveling while I played with the kids in it.

Saturday, we woke up and did shoveling again and then got ready to go to the outlets in Lancaster for some shopping. It turned into a great weekend and we had lots of fun despite the snow.

Monday was catch up day here and today is catch up day with work later on. You can bet at 8:07 tonight at work, I'll be doing a happy dance because spring will be here. Now to get old man winter to leave and not come back until November. Get mother nature to realize that spring is here and give us those warm temperatures that the flowers love so much.