101%

101%

From a strictly mathematical viewpoint:

What Equals 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?

We have all been in situations where someone wants you to GIVE OVER
100%.

How about ACHIEVING 101%?


What equals 100% in life?


Here's a little mathematical formula that might help answer these
questions:


If:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


Is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.


If:


H-A-R-D-W-O- R- K

8+1+18+4+23 + 15+18+11 = 98%


And:

K-N-O-W-L-E- D-G-E

11+14+15+23+ 12+5+4+7+ 5 = 96%


But:

A-T-T-I-T-U- D-E

1+20+20+9+20+ 21+4+5 = 100%

THEN, look how far the love of God will take you:

L-O-V-E- O-F-G-O-D

12+15+22+5+15+ 6+7+15+4 = 101%

Therefore, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that:

While Hard Work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will
get you there, It's the Love of God that will put you over the top!

It's up to you if you share this with your friends & loved ones just
the way I did.

Have a nice day & God bless!

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HOW TO OBSERVE THANKSGIVING...

HOW TO OBSERVE THANKSGIVING...

Count your blessings instead of your crosses;
Count your gains instead of your losses.
Count your joys instead of your woes;
Count your friends instead of your foes.
Count your smiles instead of your tears;
Count your courage instead of your fears.
Count your full years instead of your lean;
Count your kind deeds instead of your mean.
Count your health instead of your wealth;
Count on God instead of yourself.
~unknown~

HISTORY of the wishbone

If you believe your wish will come true when you win the break in a
wishbone contest, then you're following in the footsteps of civilizations
dating back to the Etruscans, 322 B.C. And -- it started with a hen, not a
turkey.

In those days, when a man wanted an egg he waited for the hen to announce
the coming of her product. This made the animal mystical in that it could
tell the future -- and that led to what became known as the "hen oracles."

If you lived back then, and wanted to receive an answer to an important
question from these oracles, you would draw a circle on the ground and divide
it into the twenty-four letters of the alphabet. Grains of corn were placed
in each section, and the cock or hen was led into the circle and then set
free. It was believed that the fowl would spell out words or symbols by
picking up kernels of corn from the different sections. For example, the
first letter of a future husband's name would be the first kernel of corn
picked. After writing the message, the fowl was sacrificed to a special deity
and its collarbone was hung out to dry.

Then, you'd get to make a wish on the bone. Then two other people got a
chance to make a wish by snapping the dried bone in the same way we do now,
with each one pulling on an end. The person with the larger end of the bone
got the wish -- and it became known as a "lucky break."

The Romans brought the wishbone tradition with them when they conquered
England, and that's how we got it.

God's Gold

God's Gold

Oh, the glory of this autumn day,
When the trees unfold their gold!
Oh, how lifted is my spirit, Lord,
When such beauty I behold!
Like precious coins, each leaf holds on
Through sunshine, fog, or haze;
The memory of this rich display
Will warm my winter days.
~~author unknown to me~~

THANKSGIVING IDEAS

Print this poem on a pretty card or layout and give it attached to a Pumpkin Scented
candle for a gift this time of year. Makes a great hostess gift for your Thanksgiving
Dinner if you're going to another person's house!

Harvest Time at Home
When the pumpkin pie is cooling
and it's spicey scent is drifting,
may that cozy, comfty feeling be especially uplifting ...

When the table looks its best
and the turkey's in the oven,
may you have heaping blessings
of hugs and family lovin'!

May this pumpkin scented candle
light your way
to a heavenly harvest of blessings!

-author unknown

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Here's a cute poem for a baggie filled with jelly beans:

Colors of Thanksgiving

Orange is a pumpkin.
Yellow is the corn.
Brown is the turkey
With stuffing to adorn.
Red are the cranberries.
Green are the beans.
Five delicious colors
In a feast of my dreams.

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Thanksgiving Dinner Table Favor:

Corn
Wrap up 5 pieces of corn (or candy corn) in netting.
Print out the following verse on paper,
cut to size and attach to wrapped corn.
Tie with ribbon and put at each place setting at
Thanksgiving dinner.

The first kernel reminds us of the autumn beauty around us.
The second kernel reminds us of our love for each other.
The third kernel reminds us of God's love and care for us.
The fourth kernel reminds us of our friends.
The fifth kernel reminds us we are free people.

*I have made this with colored popcorn kernels.

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Here are a few HOME DECORATION ideas for FALL and/or Thanskgiving Time


~Brightly colored leaves nestled in a woven basket~
~Pumpkins, gourds, dried corn and acorns~
~Bowls of nuts with nut cracker~
~Baskets or bowls filled with apples and pears~
~Stacked magazines tied with raffia~
~Pinecones in decorative buckets or baskets~
~Eucalyptus swags~
~Dried flowers in canning jars or vases~
~Birdhouses~
~Pussywillow branches and cattails~
~Quilts and throws~
~Simmering potpourri~
~Candles and/or oil lamps~


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Standardized TOU Initiative ???

In my surfing last night, I came across this link/site and find it all very interesting. But I am wondering what everyone "out there" thinks of it because this is the first time I've seen or heard of it and I just happened to come across it by accident I guess you could say. I know on a blog, it is not easy to get discussion groups going at all, but maybe if you see this and want to discuss it or share it, you can start a discussion within whatever groups or sites you do frequent and maybe more will come to have knowledge of it then. This is intriguing to me, but I'm not stating right now if I agree yet or not... But I am seriously giving it thought!


http://dsd-professionals.com/stoui

I'd love to know what more of you think! RhondaSue

THANKSGIVING PLACECARDS

Two more Thanksgiving Day ideas to make your dinner table complete. Decorate these place cards and cut out round the hat or the turkey feathers but fold on each side of the hat/turkey to make the hat/tails pop up. You can laminate them if you want to save them to use from year to year. NOTE: Turkey cards are already decorated. Fingerprint cards need your touch!




Snag these printables
Thumbprint Faces
Multicolored Turkeys

THANKSGIVING TURKEY TEMPLATES

On Sunday, Sept 14, 2008, I posted these as well. But now we are closer to Thanksgiving and I thought I should repost them so those of you that are NOW in the mood for TURKEY DAY can snag these templates.






Download link is here

Our Kids in 2007...

Just put together this scrap page. The layout itself was done on a yahoo group I'm in and she shared it with me... I only put in the pics of the kids and the date... I think it looks pretty darn good! But this was last year and SO MUCH has happened in this year! WOW!!!!!!

SMUGGLES,
RhondaSue

More Halloween Printables

I promised a few more Halloween Printables...Here they are folks! I hope you like them!
SMUGGLES,
RhondaSue

download here:

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SMUGGLES
RhondaSue

CandeeCorn Templates for Halloween

I had promised a whole set of CandeeCorn themed templates for Halloween. I apologize for them being so late in getting here. Time is not my own any more and it has been one thing after another around here. Then to top it off, my youngest only had half a day of school today, so then a she and a friend were here all afternoon ... We all enjoyed a good playtime in the pool!

This zip file ONLY has jpg files in it. I am not sure what I was thinking when I did all of it, but I didn't save it as png or psp so all I can share are jpgs. But I did test them all in PSP7 and all the jpgs work fine. Lines are clear and able to select if your tolerance is set correctly. It was fun making these and I sure hope you have fun decorating them into completed projects!

This is also going to be my last Halloween Post... I am going to focus on Thanksgiving now for a few weeks. Then we get into Christmas. That is my most favorite holiday for many reasons! Jesus is the Reason for the Season is the primary one...but it is also so fun to see happiness in kids faces and share the joy of it all with everyone!

Here is the download:  LINK REMOVED


SMUGGLES TO ALL....
RhondaSue

Halloween TAGS

Halloween TAGS
You could give these individually or give gifts for the 13 Days of Halloween. Or some of these TAGS could be attached to any item that is orange.

~Brew yourself a Halloween Spell ( attach tag to a large black or orange sack filled with the ingredients to make homemade rootbeer.)

~Hope you have a bootiful Halloween ( attach to a bouquet of wildflowers)

~Hey Tootsie: Hope your Halloween is rolled up in fun! ( attach to a basket filled with tootsie rolls)

~Best "witches" for a spooky Halloween (attach to a black sack with goodies)

~A phantom hopes your Halloween is really delicious ( attach to a basket of red delicious apples or a plate of carmeled apples)

~Make no bones about it - I hope your Halloween is scary! (attach to skeleton candy or skeleton bones)

~Have a totally tubular Halloween ( attach to a painted tube ( orange & black) and fill tube with goodies)

~A bite of something good to velcome you home from a vatchful vampire ( attach to any vampire related idea)

~let me be quite frank... I hope your Halloween is monstrously fun!! (attach to anything monster related, green, Halloween item, or how about the frankie claypot?)

~Just poppin by with a corny Halloween Hi ( attach to a bag of popcorn or popcorn balls)

~Witches brew just for you from: a secret spook ( attach to a liter bottle of rootbeer, or how about witches brew)

~From a spook who thins you are special ( attach to a orange sheet of paper and write a letter to your secret person and tell them the the things you really admire about them. Roll it up and tie it with ribbon)

~Morsels from your mysterious messenger ( attach to a plate of toll house cookies)

~To lift your spirits this Halloween! ( attach to a large bouquet of orange and black balloons)

~a treat for you from the ghost with the most! (attach to some Halloween cookies or a basket of oranges)

~Your are bound to have a Terrific Halloween (attach to mummy stuff)

~soak you bones from: a secret spook ( attach to a bottle of bubble bath)
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Halloween Treat Bag

Halloween Treat Bag


For each bag you need:

a brown paper lunch bag
novelty glasses with nose, eyebrows, and moustach (Groucho Marks kind)
hole punch
decorating stuff: could be stamps, demensional paint, markers etc.

To make:

1. Use paint or markers to write "Halloween Kit" on front of flattened bag. Use black pen to write "A COSTUME AND A TREAT!" on bag and draw arrow pointed up.
2. Place gift or candy in bag.

3. Fold top of bag about 2" to front. Punch a hole close to top at each side of bag. Insert earpieces of novelty glasses through holes and fold them at the bag.

This makes the cutest, fun treat bag. Everyone always loves them.
Happy Halloween!