can I please have a moment of your time....

So here I am down with a cold.  Squish came down first, then Daddy and now finally the last two hold outs....Bug and I. 

I've been spending this down time along with lots of other time I really don't have searching the Internet high and low and then again through the various stores trying to find the "right" gift for Squish's first Christmas.   Let's face it----having a brother exactly 25 months older doesn't really make things easy in trying to buy something new and different for him that I don't already have saved from Bug.  Plus, I am super-duper conscious about what I buy for my kids.  We aren't the type to throw money or possessions at our kids for the sake of fulfilling some need within ourselves. 

Tonight, my plan was to sit here and complain up the wazoo about how our kids are being poisoned in the name of cheap plastic toys which really are not as cheap as they should be considering the mass amounts of lead, BPA, PVC, Phthalates, and Fire-retardants that are in them.  But as I sat down to log into Blogger tonight an image of a baby girl all snuggled up came into my mind.  It is an image that I think about often.  It is an image that I wanted to share with you tonight...

http://aniandmatttaylor.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-sunshine.html

After you read the above post I suggest you click on their family photo at the top---that will take you to the "home" page of this blog and then you can start reading all of the posts from most recent back to the beginning. 

It's humbling...very humbling! 

 I hope this post that I am writing will land on your computer desktop before the midnight rush of Black Friday starts. 

Yes, we all want the great deals. 

Yes, I really want to buy good healthy toys for my boys.

But do you know what? 

 I have two happy and healthy (and sometimes one is a little too rambunctious) boys here with me tonight.  After I "hit" the publish key I'm going to drink one more cup of hot tea and then I am going to crawl into bed where Squish will nuzzle right up against my body and Bug will only be a reach away.  

I don't want to call anyone out here tonight but I do have a few friends that are finding themselves in some tough situations and try as I might to convince them that the good will prevail they can't hear it and I am holding back in vain to not send them the above blog.  When I need to check things I think about Ruby.  I think about my own Squish who is slightly younger then Ruby. 

I hope you'll spend some time thinking about Ruby, too!