For Diana, my only reader

There are any number of things I can write about. How many of them are interesting though? That is the challenge. I will do my best to be entertaining.

Josh does not have to work on Saturday! (Hooray!) so we are going to go to Nashville and spend the night. We will probably do some "back to school" shopping so that I can have some new clothes for the first day of school. I am not a teacher, but I am an academic advisor and at University. If I want the kids to relate to me I have to have some sweet style. This is just the truth. We have to decide where we are going to eat... but we will probably enjoy some delicious frozen yogurt courtesy of Sweet Cece's. Diana, you must go here next time you are in Nashville. We had it when I got back from Canada two weeks ago. I have to say I have thought and talked about it many times since then. We are also probably going to go see a movie. We will probably see Eat, Pray, Love since it is my turn to pick.

We are going to Tampa, FL to see Josh's family for Labor Day. That is sure to be exciting. We get to be down there for three full days and then will leave early in the morning on Tuesday. We are both very excited. Josh needs a vacation in the worst way. He's a very hard worker!! I hope to do something fun like go to Busch Gardens. We never got to do that while we were living there.

I heard a good story at church last night. There was a little girl who was very sick and had a rare blood disease. She also had a very rare blood type (I don't know what it was) and the blood bank did not have enough to give her the transfusion. They tested this little girl's brother and he had the same blood type as she did. The doctor's asked the little boy if he would give blood to his sister to make her feel better. He, of course, said, "Yes!" They let the little girl and boy lay next to each other while they extracted the blood from the little boy. Towards the end the little boy became lightheaded and asked the doctors a very serious question. He said, "Will it hurt when I die?" the doctor's were astonished and quickly explained that he wasn't going to be giving his sister ALL of his blood, just enough to make her better. The little boy agreed to give his blood to his sister fully expecting that he was going to die. He was going to lose his life to save hers. I think this story brilliantly illustrates how much we underestimate children. They are unbiased, loving, little people. They are not jaded and wise beyond their years... but maybe that sentence doesn't make any sense... because it is when we grow older that we loose that sense of the childish heart. The children aren't tainted by life yet. Maybe they are the ones who know it all....

and so I leave you with that. What's that you say? you wanted a fun fact? well alright!

Abraham Lincoln had four children, Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Lincoln, Willie Lincoln, Tad Lincoln. Only Robert Todd Lincoln survived into adulthood.... and had a middle name. I don't know if that last part is true, but he is the only one listed with a middle name... so I win.

Fact taken from www.fun-facts.com