I rarely watch MLS (I'm a hockey girl), but I always get goosebumps when their fans sing the National Anthem. Watch this and you'll see what I mean...

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

For your St. Patty's Day viewing pleasure here is last night's "Riverdance" performance by Chubby Checker and the Checkmates.  You'll have to wait a few seconds before the big polar bear comes out onto the ice.

Population Me

I've been slack with my blogging lately!  I pretty much had to work all of last weekend and so I've been spending every free moment NOT at the computer. :-) 

Lately I've been struggling with selfishness.....It's all about me.   I was driving home from work the other day and I heard a song that I had not heard in a while but needed to hear. It really spoke to me right there in my car.  Here are the lyrics and the video if you are interested.....

My Own Little World

In my own little world it hardly ever rains,
I’ve never gone hungry; always felt safe
I got some money in my pocket
shoes on my feet
In my own little world
Population me

I try to stay awake through the Sunday morning church
I throw a twenty in the plate but I never give ’til it hurts
and I turn off the news when I don’t like what I see
it’s easy to do when it’s population me


What if there’s a bigger picture?
What if I’m missing out?
What if there’s a greater purpose
I could be living right now,
outside my own little world?


Stopped at a red light, looked out my window
Outside the car, saw a sign, said “Help this homeless widow”
Just above this sign was the face of a human
I thought to myself, “God, what have I been doing?”


So I rolled down my window and I looked her in the eye
Oh how many times have I just passed her by?
I gave her some money then I drove on through
in my own little world there’s Population two...


Father break my heart for what breaks Yours
Give me open hands and open doors
Put Your light in my eyes and let me see
That my own little world is not about me

Happy Birthday Mom

Today is my mom's birthday!  I'll share pictures from our "party" later this week. But, for now, I wanted to share this video of Laura singing Happy Birthday to Nana. (PS. After the video it recommends several other videos for you to watch....I posted the ones of Sophie & Greta but not the other ones!) 

Sophie

It has been a while since I gave you an update on Sophie.  She is doing great!  Here are a couple of pictures I took of her yesterday.  She was sitting behind my dad's shed. 

Here she is cleaning her paw:

And here's "smiley" again:

Sophie is just a big ball of happy wherever she goes....

Love Week 2012

I can't believe that another year has passed and it is already Love Week 2012.  Love Week is an initiative that my church takes on to give at least 50,000 hours of community service in our city.  There are over 350 opporutnities to serve this week that include everything from serving in a nursing home, to ministering to sick children and helping the homeless.  Yesterday alone, there were 38 different options to sign up for.  My friend Deanna (you've met her here!) served at Crisis Assistance Ministry with her small group while my group served at a different ministry for those in need.  We cleaned bathrooms, picked up trash and did a little bit of landscaping.

Here are some of the members of my group: 

Even though there were over 38 different options to serve yesterday, we had 46 people at our location. Here are some photos from some of the other projects:  

Love Week is just getting started.  For more information go to www.loveweekcharlotte.com