Obama Hustle

I'm from Detroit and yes we have a hustle for everything!!!! But I ain't mad, in fact gone ladies work it out!!!!

I've been working out and eating better...

So do you see a change. I do. I am posting this because I hurt my knee while I was working out and I have not been as deligent as I was before with working out. I would like to be down to a 16 or a 14 by the end of the year . I am wearing an 18 now, I was wearing a 22 heading quickly too a 24.

So second photo was taken on December 31, 2007 our 3rd wedding anniversary and the first photo was taken on July 26, 2008 at a friend's birthday party. As you see I got my hair cut off and am thinking about going natural. Also been working on skin care and trying to put on a little bit of makeup every day. I think I even look younger!!!

More Digi-Scraping

Here is a new digital scrapbook layout I did of the Kids.

If you want to learn more about Senator Obama...

Love this post on Daily Kos. Please read



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/7/223421/7382/6/547142



Read this one too!!!http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/7/165439/7919/327/547838#c192

Looking for a new church home

This has been a goal of mine for a while. When we first moved out here to the 'burbs we were still going to the church were we got married. But soon for a variety of reason both hubby and I became dissatisfied with the church we were attending in the City. I still love the people that go there and unlike hubby I have no real beef with the leadership of that church and if hubby had not been so passionate about it I would still be going but not as frequently. Anyway I decided that I needed to make a list of what I am looking for in a new spiritual home some of it is surface stuff some of it is super important.

1. A place that I feel comfortable in, I don't won't to be the only darky up in there and if I am I don't need it pointed out to me every week. Also not looking for a place where I have to dress up every Sunday at first I found that strange growing up in the AME church now I love it.

2. I know this is lame but I would love a church with a good choir. My last church had a small but good choir with a diverse song selection. A good example would be Lakewood Church in Houston,TX and the music ministry of Israel Houghton and Cindy Cruse-Ratcliff. I love gospel music but rock gospel not so much.

3. I don't want to feel like a weirdo for not having kids. I know I have Sarah and Milan but they are not with me us all the time, and at this point I am tired of explaining why hubby and I don't have kids together. Just accept me as I am as far as motherhood is concerned.

4. Stop begging and get out of my pocket. I don't mind giving to the church but hearing that I am headed to hell because I don't tithe does not make me a cheerful giver, sorry. Times is tight so if Rev gots to give up his Bentley and go back old school and drive a Cadillac or Lincoln so be it.

5. Clicques are normal and don't bother me too much but this ain't high school so at least be friendly and polite, let me eat at your lunch table sometimes ok?

6. Don't try to work me to death, this is how hubby and I kinda got burned out in our old church. I know how to sit my butt down but for some folks like hubby they just end up walking away hurt and angry.

7. Let me see you out in the community doing good deeds, but at the same time remember you have to take care of your members.

8. Everybody does not want to go to a mega church. As much as I love Joel Olsteen, I ain't trying to move to Houston and go to Lakewood. If I was to go to Houston I would visit Lakewood and I love the diversity I see there but dang it has more people going there than people that attend my Alma Matter CMU! Again no beef with Mega Churches I just like the idea of at least my pastor knows my face, if not my name.

9. A sense of community. I want to know that people are praying for me, my marriage, my family, and I want to be in turn doing the same for them.

Well that's it for now will add more when I think of it. Feel free to mention anything you think I am missing.

This is What we Did on the 4th

Milan became an offical member (is that the correct term?) of the Mason about two weeks ago, and so this year he got to march in the local 4th of July parade. This parade starts at like 7:30 in the morning and I have to say it was kinda cute in an all American corny kinda way. Well anyhoo here are some photos enjoy!!! Can you guess which one is hubby? LOL!!!

The Democratic Nominee for President of the United States

What you won’t hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon – that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to demonize. Because we may call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first. We are always Americans first.

AMEN!!!!

My Father turned 80 this year, his beloved grandfather Thomas Sadler was born in 1865 a year after the end of slavery. It brings tears to my eyes just thinking about how proud grandpa Sadler would be on this day. How proud my Daddy is today.

41

Yes I am 41 years old this year. Milan hired a limo and took me and the kids and my parents out to dinner at my fav mexican resturant.

YES WE CAN!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHA_ZTvOgUM

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Merry Christmas!!!

Snow Day!!!!

I got the best phone call one can get from your boss at 7:30 this morning. The library is closed today. Whooho!!!!

What About Our Daughters: Why Isn't the Studio Promoting "The Great Debaters"- It's a CONSPIRACY I Tell Ya'- Making My Debut As an MC

What About Our Daughters: Why Isn't the Studio Promoting "The Great Debaters"- It's a CONSPIRACY I Tell Ya'- Making My Debut As an MC

Milan at 9

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He is getting to be such a handsome young man. And he is so nice to. A little silly, will eat just about anything, loves video games, starting to become interested in sports,still bossed around by his sister but learning to stand up for himself. I think he is the best 9 year old boy ever!!!!

I am Me

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When I was in college I found this essay on a poster. And I kept it until I bought the house I used to live in. This poster is one of the things that I used on the long hard path of saving and healing myself. My self esteem when I was in college was so so low and I just was in so much pain then for silly stuff and serious stuff. But belive it or not this essay helped me find my joy. I am putting it here for safe keeping. For the young ladies in my life might just need to read this one day.
I Am Me
by Virginia Satir
Virginia came to write this poem when she was working with an angry fifteen-year-old girl who had a lot of questions about herself and what life meant.
I am me.
In all the world, there is no one exactly like me.
There are persons who have some parts like me,
but no one adds up exactly like me.

Therefore, everything that comes out of me
is authentically mine because I alone choose it.
I own everything about me
My Body including everything it does;
My Mind including all its thoughts and ideas;
MY Eyes including the images of all they behold;
My Feelings they may be...
anger,
joy,
frustration,
love,
disappointment,
excitement
My Mouth and all the words that come out of it
polite,
sweet or rough,
correct or incorrect;
My Voice loud or soft.
And all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself.

I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears.
I own all my triumphs and successes,
all my failures and mistakes.
Because I own all of me I can become intimately acquainted with me.
By doing so I can love me and be friendly with me in all parts.
I can then make it possible for all of me to work in my best interests.

I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me,
and other aspects that I do not know.
But as long as I am friendly and loving to myself,
I can courageously and hopefully, look for solutions to the puzzles
and for ways to find out more about me.

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think
and feel at a given moment in time is me.
This is authentic and represents where I am in that moment in time.
When I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did, and how I
thought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfitting.
I can discard that which is unfitting, and keep that which proved fitting,
And invent something new for that which I discarded.

I can see, hear, feel, think, say and do.
I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive,
and to make sense and order out of the world of people
and things outside of me.
I own me, and therefore I can engineer me.

I AM ME AND I AM OKAY.

Charlie and Kids

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I love these pictures and I plan on scrappin' em soon.

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Memories of my time at the branch before . I move on to Duffield next week.

Out and About

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We went to the Ann Arbor Art Fair for a couple of hours on Saturday. My husband is a horible shopper. He does not know how to linger or browse. He just marches through. So I have discovered that it is best for me to shop alone or with one of my girl friends if I want to linger. The only reason that I agreed to go with him was that we had the kids with us for only the second time this summer. (That is a long story and my period started Friday so I am kinda in a 'mood' right now). The kids especially my step-daughter enjoy getting out of the house and seeing new things. My husband tends to be a homebody and would like nothing better than to spend the whole weekend in the house, in front of the TV. I can't complain too much because he knows that I like to be out having adventures and seeing things. He does try to take me out and he is working on being more patient when I just have to get out of the house. I love our house and one of the reasons we picked it was because of the beautiful backyard and deck. But summer in Michigan is so short I hate to spend it just sitting on our back deck.

The nerve of some people

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I can't belive that those two big teenagers standing next to my longtime buddy Jacquie used to be these sweet little babies. How dare they grow up and get bigger!!! LOL.

I do scrapbook on occasion

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Here is the scrapbook picture frame I made for my Daddy for Father's Day. It is a photo of him outside of Bethel AME Church, with the kids. My Daddy has been working in the Lord's vineyard for over 60 years at Bethel. (I love that expression, "working in the Lord's vineyard", and you have to pronounce it vin not vine in order for it to sound right. LOL)

I have mentioned before that one of my Sista scrapheros is fellow native Detroit Keshia Campbell and I took this picture with flowers in the background just like she would!!!! Ok one day I will be original but I am sure she won't mind.

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I made this for Milan for Father's day. He said he liked it, but he has been super depressed with all the goings on with his ex wife and not being able to see the kids. I printed it out at Ritz Camera and I like the quality and will add them to my list of places to print. Oh and what places do I like to print.
Target
Costco
Scrapbook Pictures
Shutterfly.