When I was at the post office yesterday … 

(I go there everyday to ship orders from my business)

there were three boxes for me, two returns and one was filled with SEASHELLS FROM FLORIDA !!!

I was talking to a customer from Florida about a week ago - right when I posted about Sanibel island..  and I joked that I would trade seashells for product!

I got a box of beautiful seashells!  How nice is that?  There are GREAT, NICE, WONDERFUL, people in this world!

He sent me the site to identify my shells - SEASHELLS

Made my day!

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Just cracks me up!

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Aren’t Daffodils so pretty?  My Mom-in-Law brought some to my daughter Heather’s house for Sunday dinner.  Heather blogged them the next day after they had opened.  I was at Trader Joes and they sell them in a bunch, about 10 for only $1.50 or something …  So I bought 4 bunches.

In our previous home, Daffodils were planted in a front planter and when they all came up and bloomed it was beautiful.  I need to plant some Daffodils!

The next morning -

A few days later -

How Happy are these flower?

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8 am - Reserve America - Book September Campsites!

I had my camping sites picked, my finger on the mouse and when the computer clock hit 8:00 am “CLICK” …. then I waited to see if I was fast enough to get the spot. NO …. yikes !! Hurry and find another spot… UGG … all the front row is gone. So, I got a non-front-row-beach-bluff spot… oh well … It’s all good because I’m camping in September!

Then… I had an appointment at 8:20 with my “shrink”. You see, I have been going to a grief counselor to help me through my parent’s deaths. I show up and she says the appointment is for Thursday. She has someone in her office. I come home, check my e-mail and nope, it was for TODAY, 8:20 !!!!

I ask my 18 year old if she would listen to me every two weeks for one hour talk about anything that is bugging me, I would pay her $20 (my co-pay). She said “no way” … $40? I said “What?”. She said she didn’t want to listen to my problems for an hour!! ha ha ha

So … I know what I will talk about with my shrink the next time … about how frustrated I am that she got my appointment wrong and that it drove me crazy! HA HA HA

Now go make it a good Monday!!

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I was talking to a customer in Florida today and we were talking about the different parts of Florida, what the weather was like, when he moved there, and then I brought up the beach on an island off of Florida that is full of shells.  He said “Sanibel Island”?  Yes, that’s the one.

Then I remembered.  I remembered that my Mom and I had talked about going to Sanibel Island and collecting shells.   I have a newspaper article that I have saved about this island.  We just had to see that beach, some day.

It’s been about a year and a half since my Mom died.  The tears came when I remembered this.  I had forgotten.

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