Thursday, March 19, 2009

Help Abused Children

Hey everyone,

I have teamed up with the child advocacy center located in Dothan. They service 7 counties in southeast Alabama, including Covington County. April is child abuse awareness month. I know not a single one of us wants to hear about child abuse but lets face the facts folks it does exist, and these little angels need our help. I am taking T-shirt orders for Blue Ribbon Friday for kids. They are only $10.00. All proceeds go to the Child advocacy center. It is a kid friendly center that uses play to interview children and give them the therapy they deserve. They service children who have been sexually abused and/or severly physically abused. They really need our help. Please get up with me to order your T-Shirt. Orders and money are due by April 8, I will then go to Dothan and pick up the shirts and have them ready for pick-up the next week, so we can all wear our Blue Ribbon T-Shirts on Friday April 24, 2009. Lets show everyone how much Covington county cares about these children.

a few statistics:

last year the child advocacy center serviced a total of 1114 kids. I know what your thinking that is 1114 too many, and boy do I agree. We can't stop abuse but we can do our part to help these children who are unfortunate enough to have to deal with this. Together we can give them the help, love, and care they deserve.

Just let me know you can email me at tammytharper@yahoo.com, or you can call my office 1-800-372-1391, or you can call my cell 334-804-1967. Spread the word too, get the people in your office to give you orders or your friends, family, and neighbors.

Thank you for helping me help a great cause!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

broken cell phone

Hey everyone,

LOL my cell phone finally broke...its been coming. Anyway, I let it get so bad that they could not retrieve my numbers off it. So, to make a long story short I have lost everyone's numbers. Please email me your numbers. My email address is tammytharper@yahoo.com. Thank you soo much. See you all later

Tammy

Thursday, March 12, 2009

My 4-year old is turning in to a mess

Hey everyone

I need help!!! Please, I am recently having the hardest time with Annaclaire. All of a sudden she has gone from me sweet, precious, innocent, well-behaving, well-mannered baby to a sweet, sometimes precious, not so much innocent anymore, not so well behaved, talking back, sassying me and my word we must have sent our manners to the moon! I dont know what to do with her. For example: we talk with food in our mouth now, and yes ma'am and sir and please and thank you are just all together gone most of the time, if I ask her to do something in goes in one ear and out the other, if Im talking to her sometimes it looks like shes looking right through me, and when i ask her to do something like get dressed she has 15 things to tell me all of a sudden and she finds 10 things to do before she actually gets dressed. Its driving me insane! I am all about lettting a child be who a child wants to be and I know she has a little OCD and that is fine with me but its driving me nuts that shes not listening to me and not using her manners anymore its like shes a completely different child in the past 2 months! Any suggestions on how to combat this i will be more than open to them. I never went through terrible twos with her so I guess were making up for it and its called ferocious fours! LOL. Anywho anyone who has been through this I will love to hear how you did it. Thank you so much.

Tammy

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

wow!

I know two blogs in the same day....wow! Guess what I just learned? I just found that some of you have left comments on my blog! LOL. See you can teach an old dog new tricks....now if i can just figure out how to find out when you all post new blogs and if I can figure out how to comment on them! Whoo! Hoo! I feel accomplished. LOL. Have a great day everyone.

wow!

I know two blogs in the same day....wow! Guess what I just learned? I just found that some of you have left comments on my blog! LOL. See you can teach an old dog new tricks....now if i can just figure out how to find out when you all post new blogs and if I can figure out how to comment on them! Whoo! Hoo! I feel accomplished. LOL. Have a great day everyone.

Remington

Hey everyone,



Just wanted to let you all know Kevin and I have adopted another baby to add to the bunch. I have been wanting a miniture schnauzer for a long time. We started talking about getting one about a year ago....and yesterday when I got home from work Kevin suprised me with one! He is sooo cute. He was born December 5, 2008 so he is a little over 12 weeks old. He is salt and pepper and his name is Remington von Hellnick. (Theres a joke behind it) Anyway we will call him Remi for short. He is absolutely precious and I know this sounds stupid but it took everything I had to leave him this morning to come to work. It just broke my heart. The good thing is Kevin is home and when he gets done with his running will get him out and let him play. Anyone that wants to come see him can and I will be posting pictures as soon as I figure out how too. Max is really good with him so far...a little jealous of me giving my attention to someone else but he's adjusting. Its hilarious Remi is only as big as Max's head! He gets up on his hind legs and tries too kiss Max....so cute so cute. Anyway Just wanted to let you all know.



Have a great day!~

Sunday, March 8, 2009

What we can learn from children

Wow,

Ok so Annaclaire had a beauty pageant last night. She did very very well but did not place...fine by me she had a blast playing cinderella yet once again. And it was also perfectly fine by her that she did not place. We were on the way home and she said to me in her little innocent voice mommy I looked at my feet one time while I was on stage. I simply said Baby thats ok you did a wonderful job and looked beautiful up there. She said mommy do you wanna know why I looked at my feet. I said why and she said here it goes a direct quote from my four year old "Mommy, I've won so many I wanted to give another little girl a chance to win" My heart stopped, my mouth dropped and my eyes watered. I have never been so proud and shocked at the same time before like that in my life. I could not believe what my four year old just said. Later on last night I got to thinking about it. First of all Sister and I needed to have a talk to make sure she wanted to do these pageants and not me (which she does) Second of all we needed to talk so that she knew if she worked really hard for something it was ok to win. Third of all, and this is the reason im writing this, I needed to reflect on what she had just said. How many times in my life do I not stop to think of how bad someone else may want or need something. Is it bred in us to think strictly of ourselves winning (or accomplishing) that we run people over to get it, Not realizing someone else may need it worse than we do. You know we have all got a little bit of a competitor in us but do we let it rule our lives to the point of walking over other people or worse stabbing them in the back to get what we want. All of you can take this anyway that you would like to but it really made me sit back and reflect and also reflect on what I was teaching my children. I like to think that I am teaching them the right things (after all she had to come up with that somehow) But, am I teaching them by example or by just words.

Anyway, Just wanted to give you all something to reflect on in the upcoming week. I don't know if it makes any sense or not. Maybe I just needed to get all this off and it doesn't make one lick of sense and if it doesnt forgive me and thank you for letting me babble.

Love you all
Tammy