You Know It's Cold Outside when...

They say the temp high is going to be 35 degrees and you think there is a heatwave rolling through

You have to wear 2-3 layers just to stay warm going between your house and the car

When all you want to do is run from place to place (from the house to the car, from the car to the store, from the store to the car) to get out of the cold quicker

When you have to give yourself extra minutes just to put on your outwear before leaving the house in the morning

When you won't wear certian hair styles because your winter hat does not fit well over them

You bundle up (put on hat, gloves, scarf) just to roll down the window to pay for your fast food in the drive through

It takes 20-30min after entering inside from the cold to "warm up"

With my sister living down in AZ I understand that cold is very relative...so how do you know when it's cold outside?

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Life & Mother's Day

What would a man give in exchange for his soul? - Job (i think)

So I haven't updated in a very long time. Much has happened since my last post and they are good things!!! I am very thankful for God's faithfulness to me! God has blessed me to be on the "other side" of a very extreme test of my faith and I am truly thankful for the V-I-C-T-O-R-Y! GLORY BE TO GOD!

We have revival next weekend and am glad about it. I hope the weather stays nice, we have been having nice (hot) weather recently (with the exception of today - it only is getting up to 60 deg). I am GLAD summer is (almost) here, I may not get to experience it like when I was a child (no school, etc) but I love the weather!

I had a nice Mother's Day. I am truly thankful for my mother, I notice that as I get older I appreciate her more and more! I love you MOM!! After church, we went to a nice vegetarian restaurant. We hadn't been there before and they had very good vegan food!! My parents had gone to Karyn's Raw food restaurant before but not to her cooked. When we go to a vegetarian restaurant (once every couple of years - we are not a big restaurant family) we usually go to Blind Faith Cafe-which is not vegan. So this was a nice change. I had a "jerk" tofu sandwich and a salad (of course!). We then went to visit my grandma, she was visiting with my uncle, so we ended up going to my uncle's house. They had just completed a MAJOR remodeling job on their house. We saw the pictures before, what a change! We all missed my sister though...she had a nice day in AZ.

Heat Wave...

I went out today during lunch time...it feels like spring is coming!! It was about 40 degrees and it felt so very warm, I didn't even have to button up my coat and the hat was almost too much! I know my blood is thick after all the intense cold we've been having...if I were to feel this same weather in October I would be freezing.

We had a wonderful youth event on Saturday...attended by Fredrick Douglass, Rosa Parks, Ruth, Eve, Mary, The Black Panthers, Esther, Madame C. J. Walker...ummm Babe Ruth, I mean Jackie Robinson, lol, and some various saints (and saints children)...hopefully I will get some pictures up soon. We dressed up (or came as) a character in history or a Bible character. It really turned out to be alot of fun and very enlightening. We had historical trivia and Bible trivia. Now for those who are not aware, February is Black History Month...unfortunately most education of this specific type of American history is squeezed in this month (I am also guilty). I would like to say to those of you who think "what does Black History have to do with me, I'm not black...", black history (as I see it) is a part of American history so if you like know the history of our nation you should learn about all those whom are a part.

So here is a little DID YOU KNOW about Black History for everyone.

DID YOU KNOW?

November 1945 was when the well known Ebony magazine went on sale. (those who don't know...this is one of the most widely read Black magazines in the nation, along with Jet and Essence (for women))

Garrett A. Morgan invented the gas mask used by fire fighters and the traffic light.

Richard B. Spikes invented the automatic car wash.

Wilma Rudolph overcame crippling polio when she was young and won 3 gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.

Tuskegee Institute, a college, was founded by Booker T Washington in 1881.

Benjamin Banneker was a black mathematician and astronomer who published ten almanacs between 1792 and 1802 and measured the boundaries for Washington D.C.

W.E.B. DuBois was the first black man to get his PhD from Harvard University.

Thurgood Marshall was the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. He worked on and argued the Brown vs. Board of Education case before the Supreme court (1954 case that outlawed racial segregation in schools).

Howard University is the nations largest, oldest Black Colleges still open.

Harriet Tubman, the "black Moses" helped 300 slaves escape from slavery.

Dr. Martin Luther King graduated from Morehouse College (he started there when he was ONLY 15 - what a great example!)

Juan Baptist DuSable founded the city of Chicago in 1773. (he settled the area on March 12)

Add some interesting history to the guestbook!

There is alot more to learn about Black History...Check it out!!

Black History.com

Know Your Black History

USA History: Black History

I saw this picture on the Internet concerning that little girl that is still living (four months later) after being in the womb for only 21 weeks... that is a pen lying next to her!