Re: / Naranja OT

[Guest guest]

Welcome back . YES, you were missed.

And as always...Love hearing of your Naranja

moments. These kinds of things don't " just "

happen but are driven by a higher power. I

refer to these as Godincidences but enjoy

the Naranja title just as much! It seems it

is now your time for R & R and you have a

higher approval as well. What a blessing it

is to receive this gift from caregiving. I married

my soul mate - what a blessing and gift from my

years as a caregiver!!

Many hugs to you -

Sandie

Des Moines, IA

-- I'm baaaaaaaaack OT

Hey everybody! I'm back! The auction is over... Whew! It wasn't as

successful as previous years, but knowing all the obstacles we had

with this years auction I'd say we were a success. We're still

figuring out the final #s, but I'll guess that each charity will get

at least $10,000 each (and there's four of them). Last year each

charity got $19,000 each (so obviously we didn't do as well this

year) BUT the # of obstacles we had to deal with was huge this year

in comparison (from my leaving the company that hosts the auction; to

a chairperson stepping down; to donators passing on helping w/ things

like printing the program, etc. and trying to find new donators to

take over; to the donator who was to donate gift bag contents sending

us crap + brochures as the " gift " ; etc......) we were SUCCESSFUL

dammit LOL and it's $10,000 (+/- ??) that the charities wouldn't get

had we not done the auction at all... So there!!

So.... did ya miss me?

I missed all of you! Isn't it funny how most of us have never met IRL

(in real life) yet we KNOW each other so well?! We're 'Friends

Forever' Isn't that great?!

Here's a NARANJA moment for you... My sister & I were discussing that

the two of us should take a train ride to Maine for a weekend getaway

for some R & R and do a 'spa thing' while there. Since neither of us

drive a train ride is the way to go... Days after we discussed this

and actually made tentative plans on going -- two roundtrip tickets

on Amtrak Downeaster was donated (train tickets to Maine from Boston)

I took it as a " sign " from Mumsie and was the highest bidder and now

our weekend getaway is that much closer to becoming a reality. Isn't

that cool?!

Now to do some back reading...

; loving daughter of Maureen of Boston, MA; diagnosed with

LBD on 2/2006; was victim to rapid decline from Risperidone; Mom

became my Guardian Angel on Sept. 30th, 2006; Mom is out of her

wheelchair, dancing again... " Shall we dance? One, two, three and? On

a bright cloud of music shall we fly? One, two, three and? "

Welcome to LBDcaregivers.