Consignment Store & SPIRIT!

---> Sunday afternoon has arrived...

this is the time of day that I always feel like re-capping my weekend,

making a yummy/warm meal for supper,

and going to bed early so I can start out Monday on a fresh note!

**Yesterday I set out on a mission... and I had success!!!**

I went to a FABULOUS consignment shop, and was SUPER excited when I found this top:

hello bathroom mirror/cell phone shot...

I spy with my little eye, Miss Thang's blonde locks coming to see what mommy is doing!

:)

I LOVE the buttons and satin ribbon that ties in back!!!

P.S. The tag on the shirt was this:

"wear it. declare it."

that's pretty much genius and darling and had me at hello!

why... hello there darling daughter!!!

her latest and greatest saying is entering a room, coming up to you and saying ..

"Hi Mama. What are you doing here?"

:)

I am trying to teach her to change it to ... "Whatchu talkin 'bout Willis?!" but she just furrows her brown, wrinkles her nose, whips her hair and walks away....

D to the R to the A to the M to the A

Drama Queen!

This just in:

- our warm meal for the evening will be Hamburgers on the grill and yummy, crispy, seasoned french fries! Not quite the homemade pot roast I was going for... but delicious!

- I just went and saw "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" ....

it was intense.

powerful.

sad.

real.

and by the time it was over i had hardly touched my popcorn. unheard of!

~ Remember a couple of weeks ago, when I told you that I was going to sing in church? Well, I did, I loved every minute of it (after I swallowed my fear and closed my eyes)... people were incredibly nice and complementary.... but the comment that has made me feel so special, you could say, is what I was told today....

after church an elderly woman approached me and said that "she felt my spirit" when I sang.

it gave me goosebumps...

and made all of the nervousness that i felt, completely worth it!!!

if one person can feel it... then it's worth it!

I sang Natalie Grant's "Your Great Name" and it is a powerful song, with a powerful message, and i felt so much love from this woman!!!

I can't wait to sing again during Lent!

:)

Happy Evening Friends,

Much love,

Maggie

A winner & today's agenda....

Good Morning sweet friends!!

Thank you ALL for entering the GIVEAWAY ...

The winner of was......

drum roll pleeeeaaaassseeee..........

VICKI at Joyful Whimsy

way to go girl!!!

I will e-mail you and get your information so you can sport your new earrings ASAP!!!

:)

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Today's agenda:

** begin the day with a delicious chocolate covered doughnut WITH sprinkles! **

after that...

reeeeelaxing on the couch...

which is now the home to half of josie's bedroom!

{girlfriend loves to bring stuff ot the living room!}

and then...

hitting up a consignment shop I discovered a few towns over

AND

a thrift store too!

Details coming this evening!! Tune in!

:)

oh, also picking up a new book that just arrived, for yours truly, at the library!

right now...

a hot bath, and perhaps some new toenail polish is calling my name!

Whatever you do today ... ENJOY!

much love,

Maggie

a best friend.

... so, last night a memory came into my head, and i felt a strong need to share it with all of you! it is a piece of me, a glimpse of my story, who i am and what has molded me into the person i am today....

let's rewind the tape back to middle school.... the very beginning of it... i am taller than all of the boys in my grade, all limbs and awkward, i am not in school a large amount because i have some health problems... chronic stomach aches and have to take many trips to clinics and hospitals for really uncomfortable procedures, scans, blood work..... not. fun.

i am crying to my mom one evening, because i have no friends.... i want a best friend! she is on the phone with my auntie deb, her older sister, and let's me talk and cry to her. my aunt hears my pain, and says "I'll be your best friend Maggie." she doesn't just say it to be nice, she means it! and honors it! we write each other letters, send cards, call each other, give each other gifts for birthdays and Christmas and it means the world to me! it sees me through a very rough patch of my adolescent years .... and i am grateful to my *DEB* for being there for me!!!!

... i will tell you this:

* eventually i was diagnosed with Esophageal Reflux and put on a strong medicine. i felt about a million times better within DAYS! :) Thank You PRILOSEC!

* the boys caught up to my height, and i found theatre!!!

* Deb was in the front row to see me in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"

**** my family has always been there for me - i am truly blessed!!! and without them i would not be me!!!

i am so incredibly grateful and though many tears were shed, i wouldn't change anything from those years - my family held me up, and continues to do so!

i wish you a BEAUTIFUL day friends,

and happy weekend!

sunshine, a hat, and Vanna White...

it is absolutely gorgous here today!

it was perfect weather to rock the todiefor darling hat my friend sara made!!!

it is THE WARMEST thing EV-AR

:)

perfect to wear while digging in the snow with a wooden spoon

and making snow angels!

thank you sweet sara!

i love you.

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Do not forget to enter my giveaway!!!!!

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Did you see the big news that Pat Sajak and Vanna White have performed the ever so popular

Wheel Of Fortune

drunk?!?

I mean, come on people.....

Really didn't need to know that....

Vanna, gotta say I'm a little dissapointed... do you have any idea how embarassing it would be to trip and fall flat on your face in some of your outfits!?

I'd like to buy a vowel, and something to sober up Miss White please!?

Whatever floats your boat, I guess!

:)

Much love to you all,

Maggie

tights rock!

for reals!

:)

mother!!!!!

give. me. that. camera.

happy thursday buttercups!!!

xoxoxoxoxo

It's GIVEAWAY time! *********

Good Morning my sweet sunshines!!!!

Here's

the

Scoop...

I am shaking in my boots excited, because my blog has been viewed

OVER

10,000 times!

This is reason to CELEBRATE my sweet, sweet friends!!!

So what better than to THANK YOU for checking out my blog,

then to give you a chance to WIN something sparkly and spectacular!!!???

Here's the dealie-o....

one of these 3 items could be yours....

remember my BeStiE BETH over at BrownSparrowStudio??

She's amazing and talented and has graced us with a few of her handmade items...

ONE of these items is all YOURS.. all you have to do is:

1. Become a Follower of my blog (or leave a comment saying so if you already are)

2. Leave a comment letting me know which one of the three items is your FAVE!!

3. Head on over to BrownSparrowStudio and follow Beth on her bloggy journey!

So there you have it .... 3 ways to enter ... get your name thrown in a hat 3 times!

WHOOOOOOOOPPPPP

:)

A winner will be announced SATURDAY morning over eggs and bacon!

kiss kiss,

maggie

s'more snow please!

guess what?

we woke up to snow!

glorious

powdery

white (duh!)

S*N*O*W

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i snapped the pic up above during a morning outing!

it actually feels like winter today!

we made snow angels

i pulled josie in the sled - around the house - my legs still burn - i am in horrible shape

-enough said-

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this just in:

TOMORROW morning... BRIGHT AND EARLY....

Tune in to my blog - if you dare - and you know you dare -

because there will be a....................

wait... for... it....

A GIVEAWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do not miss it!

:)

See you then!