This is the purse I'm carrying now. Got this idea from "That Girl"

Random Acts of Kindness

This is "Random Acts of Kindness" Week

Here are a few things to think on:

Write a note to the boss of someone who has helped you, thanking him or her for having such a great employee.

Spend half an hour in a hospital emergency room and do one random act of kindness that presents itself.

Buy a roll of brightly colored stickers and stick them on kids' shirts as you walk down the street.

Open the phone book and select a name at random and send that person a greeting card.

When someone is trying to merge into your lane in traffic, let him in......and why not smile and wave while doing it.

Give another driver your parking spot.

Send a letter to a teacher you once had letting her know about the difference she made in your life.

Buy a cold drink for your entire row at a baseball game.

Ask an older pers to tell you a story about his or her youth, such as what her favorite song was and why or how he or she met their spouse.

Let the person behind you in line at the grocery store go ahead of you.

Next time you go over a toll bridge pay the toll for the car behind you and don't forget to take the poll taker.

Make a dedication on your local radio station to all those people who smiled at strangers today.

Send Josh Ackerman's family a card!

This is as exciting as it gets for me!

Being a stay-at-home person most of the time, this past week was so exciting for me. I posted earlier about my trip with Carli to WF and then on Friday, I went to the ballgames. I like to go early because I always sit in seat # 22......SEAT # t*w*e*n*t*y t*w*o!!!!!!!! I don't know why there isn't a pink ribbon on it with "Honeyma". If I'm ever late, and someone is in my seat, I hyper-ventilate. Of course I'm always on time. The games were good....the Friona boys coach is...............something else. Our girls lost but played their little hearts out. JV girls won

On Saturday, I went to Lacy's baby shower and it was so much fun. Young people are just tons of entertainment. Saturday night I went to the CASA event and enjoyed a good meal and entertainment. Dale Rabe gave good speech and David Davidson is absolutely the best and funniest auctioneer ever.

Josh Ackerman is on my calendar today. Please pray for his family.

"Sometimes the Lord calms the storm: sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms his child"

Huggin' Honeyma signing off....................

WHAT EXACTLY IS "PERMANENT"

Yesterday, I took Carli to Wichita Falls to have her "permanent" retainer replaced. When we took her braces off a couple of months ago, Dr. Johnson put a "permanent"retainer on her upper teeth. I must have been foolish in thinking it would last.She has a night time plastic one for her lower teeth. ( permanent- adj: continuing without marked change in status or condition or PLACE). Well, since it did come out or break or what ever it did, I just assumed it would be replaced free of charge. WRONG. But whatever, she has a temporary one now to keep the teeth from shifting until she can get another "permanent" one. Have any of you had this problem and am I just stupid. But we had a great time anyway. We ate at Cheddars and went to Hobby Lobby for some things and messed around in the mall. Normally I don't do much walking since I'm home most of the time, but I wore my step meter yesterday and I took 14,060 steps. 14,060!!!!!!! The ideal number of steps a person should take a day is 10,000 at least. It's easy to fall short of that. I even had on loafers. Have felt great today.

'Reason to smile: Every seven minutes of every day, someone in an aerobics class pulls a hamstring."

Hugging Honeyma signing off..............

25 Random things about me

1. I am crazy about my grandkids. They make me proud.

2. I will be 72 on my birthday, March 20........bring presents.

3. Most of my mother's side of the family lived to their mid 90's.

4. I stay home most of the time, now.

5. I love my computer even tho I don't understand everything. Just ask my kids.

6. I was very shy in high school. Believe that if you want to.

7. I went to school with Hoyt Axton and his mother was my English teacher (she wrote "Heartbreak Hotel" for Elvis presley, you know.

8. I went to North Texas University for ONE year

9. I worked in the district office of the WTU company for one year.

10. I lived in Florida for a while after we married as Don was in the Air Force.

11. Lana was born in Roswell, NM

12. My other three kids were born in Wellington.

13. I graduated Childress high school..........MANY years ago.

14. I had pneumonia when I was in the first grade and missed the last 6 weeks of school. I knocked on Heaven's gate and St. Peter wouldn't let me in. Whew!!!!!

15. I have lost 5 of my best friends, so it may not be safe to be my friend. I still miss them.

16. I sang in a quartet in high school.......the Harmonettes. The other girls couldn't sing a lick................and I didn't even sing that well. But oh, we had fun

17. Not a single one of my grandkids was named after me.

18. I never knew my biological father or even saw his picture.

19. I used to french braid Lacy's long black hair for Kindergarten everyday.

20. I eat Reese's cookies with a glass of milk every night at 8:00 PM

21. I sold shoes for 22 years, but have sorta retired now and stay home with Kara.

22. I went on the wheat harvest with the Lacy Custom Combining and cooked one year for about 20 people. Hated that. You couldn't fill that young boys up with a shovel.

23. My second son was born quickly........I was in labor 59 minutes. That's the way to do it.

24. I can text on my cell

25. In April, we will have been married for 52 years!

My Calendar

In my bathroom I have a calendar on the wall. Each day I write "I love.......(their name) on the space. If they have a birthday, then I write their name, if someone is sick, I write their name................a ballgame, a meeting, a call from someone I haven't heard from in a while, if someone comes by.......their name is put in the place of honor. Now if I can think of no thing that anyone is doing that day, I just start with the oldest of my kids. (That would be Lana). If any of you call me or come by, then I will put your name in that day's space. Sometimes I get in trouble for not putting a name that my kids think should go there. But it is MY calendar, and they should know that I love them all. This is something I started last year and it kinda takes place of the days I forget to write in my journal. I've been keeping journals since...........well, I found one last year that was dated 1972. There wasn't much in it, but maybe someday the kids will read them and remember. Or maybe I should just burn them in a few years. Everyone should keep a journal of their daily life. Don's grandmother kept one for years and hers was very informative and so interesting to read. Alas, mine won't be, but......................anyway!



"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."



Hugging Honeyma signing off..................

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

DR. SEUSS:

Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes! The chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed ,I've not been told!

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR:

I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

GRANDAPA:

In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.

RONALD REAGAN:

What chicken?

EINSTEIN:

Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken?

BILL CLINTON:

I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What do you mean by chicken? Could you define chicken please?

CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK:

To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

RICHARD NIXON:

The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did not cross the road. I don't know any chickens. I have never known any chickens.

And my favorite one of all...............................

COLONEL SANDERS:

"I missed one?"