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Weekend Happenings

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Saturday was rainy and chilly. My mom took me out to lunch and shopping for my birthday, which is tomorrow. We went to a primitive shop and spent hours in there! It's a big store with lots of booths with different vendors. We walked around…

A Gift From Diego

Early Sunday morning winter storm Diego decided to stop by and stay all day long. It snowed and snowed and snowed! I didn't think it was ever going to stop. It was pretty coming down at times with the big huge flakes. By the time it was over we had 15 inches of snow at…

“16 Days of Activism : No Violence Against Women & Children”

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Five days into South Africa’s “16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children” and I have become acutely aware, almost hyper sensitive of the mounting cases of violence against women and children.

This international awareness-raising campaign takes place every year from 25 November (International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women) to 10 December (International Human Rights Day).

South Africa adopted the campaign in 1998 with the aim of creating a safer society devoid of violence. Awareness is to be raised amongst South Africans about the about the plight of women and children who have been violated and abused. The motto is : “Count me in : Together moving to a non-violent South Africa forward.”

South Africans are advised to :

• Wear a white ribbon (a symbol of peace and commitment) during the 16-day period.
• Participate in the event…

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Happy Monday

Hi there! I missed you all last week. I was just way too busy! Hopefully things will be a tad calmer this week.  Thanksgiving was very nice. It was great to spend time with family. Not a lot of family made it to dinner this year. We still had a ton of food - turkey,…

Excuse Me

Recently my family and I were shopping when something on the other side of the aisle caught my eleven-year old daughter's eye. She rushed over to look at it and rushed back to tell me what it was. While on her way back she walked right in front of a lady who had to stop…

Sick Day

My daughter hasn't been feeling too well the past couple of nights so we have been awake most of the night. She was diagnosed with asthma when she was younger and I thought she had grown out of it. She has not had to use her inhaler for almost two years. We stopped her medicine…

Crazy Michael

  Hurricane Michael was supposed to hit Florida, go up a couple of states and then zoom back off into the ocean. However, Michael decided to stay a strong tropical storm and come right up over us here in Virginia. We are okay, but our small town could not handle all that rain and the…

EWomen Conference

This past weekend my mom and I attended the EWomen's Conference. It is a two day conference with speakers and performers. Usually there is a mini concert on Friday night and the speakers are all day Saturday. This year the line-up was amazing! This year's conference theme was Be Fearless. How extremely difficult that can…

Goodbye Sam

  Every morning when I get up Sam is curling himself around my feet. I can barely make it to the bathroom because he's right under me the whole time I'm trying to walk. However, Saturday morning I woke up and didn't see his little feet standing at the bedroom door. I opened the door…