Happy Birthday Selah

On March 22, 2000 God blessed me with a new purpose, a deeper faith in him, and unyielding joy when our daughter Selah Skye was born. For the past twelve years she has been and continues to be my best thing and the best gift God gave to me. She's sweet, full of empathy, helpful to others, and lives to make people happy. She's also an all A student, a Bronze award Girl Scout, first chair Clarinet for her middle school band, and believes that Christ is her Savior. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, baby. I love you with all I have

Help Selah and I end our Mommy/Daughter Summer Staycation in Style!

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me and girlee(above on my back)

Okay. If you don't know. Girlee(my daughter) & I have planned  a Mommy/Daughter Summer Staycation this year for her summer vacation. We've been everywhere. Last Sunday we participated in The Great Cupcake Smackdown. The week before that she went to The Aquarium, The Atlanta Zoo and The Coke Museum via Girl Scouts of Atlanta, and that's just a bit of all we've done.

But this next thing is free for me, but depends all on you.

We want to end our Staycation by attending a fancy dinner at one of the top Atl restaurants. DiningOut Atlanta Magazine is offering a free $50 gift certificate, if we get 50 people to like their Facebook Page before anyone else.

All you have to do is visit Dining Out http://www.facebook.com/DiningOutMagazineAtlanta?ref=ts at  and like their page.

Then come back here and let me know in comments, so I can calculate who liked them. And use this page as a reference.

Thanks.

Now I guess I owe you all a note on my wall. (lol)

The Halloween Treaty and Glampire Selah, Not

For the past nine years my daughter, Selah and I have lived a peaceful life abiding by our Halloween treaty until now. This year we both find ourselves at an impasse, and neither party wants to concede or compromise. But I’m the Queen Bee of Kingdom Stewart, so by default what I say goes. Yet, as a parent I find myself mulling over the situation. I want Selah to understand why Halloween—rather the unHalloweening-- matter to the Kingdom and to her. I want us both to win, so I sit here today the crossroads of rewriting a new treaty and with good reason.

I was brought up not to celebrate anything related to Darkness except my tin Kiss lunch box I had in third grade. So Halloween was not spoken of in our house until a few days before and usually came down more as a Don’t even Think about Trick or Treating Edict from my mother, grandmothers, and the church motherboard.

In fact, one of the mothers often said, “Trick-or-treating ain’t nothing but the devil. People dressing their children like witches. If they really knew what a witch looked like, they’d be hard pressed to celebrate it.”

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