Just so I don't forget....we have three days left on our "boo" coupon. Shop at www.giftsfromadistance.com until October 31st, type in "boo" at checkout and receive a 10% discount on your entire order! Stay tuned for our November coupon! Now on to Halloween. Halloween used to be my favorite holiday. You can dress up in a silly costume. You can visit all of your neighbors. You can carve a pumpkin and put a candle in it. You can see all the little kids in their costumes. You can decorate your front yard and your door or your house. It was a fun holiday! I used to go Trick or Treating for Unicef on Halloween too. That was part of my early training in "giving back". It's never ended. But Halloween is not the same anymore. Parents are afraid to let their kids trick or treat. We have a shopping center near by that sets up a "safe" Halloween for the kids between 3-5pm so, we don't get as many little kids as we used to. I'm not even giving candy this year - I bought little plastic rings so no one needs to be afraid of getting something that will make their child sick. But...people still enjoy Halloween and have or go to Halloween parties and they still dress up and still buy and carve pumpkins. Maybe I am just being nostalgic today.
I'm off to take Jack to Dog's Day Out for a day of pampering by sisters Kelly and Laurie. River is going tomorrow so I can pick him up clean and then we can go to Doggy Boot Camp where we are both learning the fine art of silent commands.
In case I don't get back before November 1st - Have a wonderful and fun Halloween!
Hugs,
Terry
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Time Really Does Fly
I just looked at the date of my last blog and realized it was just over 2 weeks ago. Do you realize that two weeks is 14 days and that 14 days is 336 hours and that 336 hours is 20,160 minutes and that 20,160 minutes is 1,209,600 seconds which is a boatload of seconds? Yes, time does fly....although it seems to fly faster when you are very young or over 50. Somewhere inbetween, it doesn't seem to fly as fast. You spend time as a teenager wishing you were out of high school or 21 or out from under your parents' control and it feels like time just drags - then you hit 20 and it seems like 21 will never get there...and then one day, you are 50! How did you get there?
But enough about time today, let me fill you in on some of the highlights of my life the last 1,209,600 seconds....well actually, 1,296,000 seconds!
Well, for one, compliments of Hal, we now have 1900 products listed on Sortprice.com! Yea, Hal! We also have more products listed on www.girlsofallages.com and are actually beginning to get some traffic on that site. Not sure how to create a coupon yet on girls of all ages but we do have one of www.giftsfromadistance.com this month and it is "boo". Type in "boo" at checkout and you will receive a 10% discount on your entire order. Our "hot" children's item this year seems to be the plush hamster in its carrying case. Another "hot hot" item is the puplight!
It has not been all work, work, work for me the last 1,296,000+ seconds. I enjoyed a long weekend with my best friend, her two sisters, my god-daughter, Vanessa (and her two children and husband), and my "adopted" god-daughter, Ariel in Utah the weekend of the 9th. The big highlights of our "seester" reunion, besides just spending some quality time together, were a trip to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (a must trip for all animal lovers - more later), a picnic and afternoon at Zion National Park (awesome!!! want to back for more hikes) and a trip to a store in Colorado City, Arizona - the polygamist community - felt like I had just stepped onto the compound on the set of Big Love.
A little bit about Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (www.bestfriends.org)
Best Friends Animal Society is guided by a simple philosophy: kindness to animals builds a better world for all of us. In the late 1980s, when Best Friends was in its early days, roughly 17 million dogs and cats were being killed in shelters every year. Despite the commitment of shelter workers to the animals in their care, the conventional belief was that little could be done to lower that terrible number.
Best Friends' No More Homeless Pets campaign created a new vision: A grassroots effort to place dogs and cats who were considered "unadoptable" into good homes, and to reduce the number of unwanted pets through effective spay and neuter programs. Since then, the number of dogs and cats being destroyed in shelters has fallen to approximately 5 million a year. There has been much progress,but there is still much more to do.
Best Friends has 800 cats, 400 dogs, bunnies, birds and horses on its 3800 acres in Kanab, Utah. Not all of their animals are adoptable. Some are old, some are injured and some are sick but none are turned away and all are treated with love.
If you are looking for a charity to contribute to or volunteer with and you love animals, you may want to look into Best Friends.
It's almost 7am and my two best friends, Jack and River, are telling me that the sun is coming up and it is time to start our daily walks. We are still doing separates because they both still react to kitties on the street and I can control them one at a time but not together plus, River is back in boot camp so, our walk is a practice session every day - some day I hope all this training will just kick in:-)
Until my next blog,
Hugs to all,
Terry
But enough about time today, let me fill you in on some of the highlights of my life the last 1,209,600 seconds....well actually, 1,296,000 seconds!
Well, for one, compliments of Hal, we now have 1900 products listed on Sortprice.com! Yea, Hal! We also have more products listed on www.girlsofallages.com and are actually beginning to get some traffic on that site. Not sure how to create a coupon yet on girls of all ages but we do have one of www.giftsfromadistance.com this month and it is "boo". Type in "boo" at checkout and you will receive a 10% discount on your entire order. Our "hot" children's item this year seems to be the plush hamster in its carrying case. Another "hot hot" item is the puplight!
It has not been all work, work, work for me the last 1,296,000+ seconds. I enjoyed a long weekend with my best friend, her two sisters, my god-daughter, Vanessa (and her two children and husband), and my "adopted" god-daughter, Ariel in Utah the weekend of the 9th. The big highlights of our "seester" reunion, besides just spending some quality time together, were a trip to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (a must trip for all animal lovers - more later), a picnic and afternoon at Zion National Park (awesome!!! want to back for more hikes) and a trip to a store in Colorado City, Arizona - the polygamist community - felt like I had just stepped onto the compound on the set of Big Love.
A little bit about Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (www.bestfriends.org)
Best Friends Animal Society is guided by a simple philosophy: kindness to animals builds a better world for all of us. In the late 1980s, when Best Friends was in its early days, roughly 17 million dogs and cats were being killed in shelters every year. Despite the commitment of shelter workers to the animals in their care, the conventional belief was that little could be done to lower that terrible number.
Best Friends' No More Homeless Pets campaign created a new vision: A grassroots effort to place dogs and cats who were considered "unadoptable" into good homes, and to reduce the number of unwanted pets through effective spay and neuter programs. Since then, the number of dogs and cats being destroyed in shelters has fallen to approximately 5 million a year. There has been much progress,but there is still much more to do.
Best Friends has 800 cats, 400 dogs, bunnies, birds and horses on its 3800 acres in Kanab, Utah. Not all of their animals are adoptable. Some are old, some are injured and some are sick but none are turned away and all are treated with love.
If you are looking for a charity to contribute to or volunteer with and you love animals, you may want to look into Best Friends.
It's almost 7am and my two best friends, Jack and River, are telling me that the sun is coming up and it is time to start our daily walks. We are still doing separates because they both still react to kitties on the street and I can control them one at a time but not together plus, River is back in boot camp so, our walk is a practice session every day - some day I hope all this training will just kick in:-)
Until my next blog,
Hugs to all,
Terry
Sunday, October 4, 2009
When the tables turn and children become parents to their parents
Greetings! It's been a few days since I last blogged. We have been working hard at spiffing up www.giftsfromadistance.com while growing www.girlsofallages and our Amazon offerings. You know it is coming into the season of giving, right? We have a Halloween coupon this month. Type in "boo" at checkout and your entire order will be reduced by 10% but...enough about business and on to my subject for the day, When children become parents to their parents. It is predicted that children born now will live to be 100. Whew! That is great as long as their quality of life is good and they are not rocking or rotting away in a nursing home with no one to visit them or not knowing their loved ones when they come to visit. We are going through the role reversal right now with my husband's mom and step dad. They own their own home but are really unable to care for themselves completely anymore. They don't drive - although my mother-in-law does try to walk about 3 miles a day with her walker - and she does when she is feeling well but, they don't eat well - well, at least they didn't. They want to stay in their home so, we have hired a caregiving service which allows them to be more independent while having help. The folks that help out do the grocery shopping - take Jack to Nifty After 50 so he can get some excercise, clean and cook for them plus more. There is a really good article regarding keeping your aging parents at home that was in US News and World Report back in November, 2007. I am including the link here: http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2007/11/02/15-things-you-can-do-to-keep-mom-and-dad-at-home.html. You don't realize how much there is to do and I found this article helpful. I hope you do too!
On to get ready to go out - Hal and I are going to charity fundraising event for Working Wardrobes (www.workingwardrobes.org) called Blue Jeans and the Blues. Should be fun. I will let you know all about it later.
Hugs,
Terry
On to get ready to go out - Hal and I are going to charity fundraising event for Working Wardrobes (www.workingwardrobes.org) called Blue Jeans and the Blues. Should be fun. I will let you know all about it later.
Hugs,
Terry
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