Busy as A Beaver!

Can you believe that it is September 8th already? Where did summer go? This was by far the best summer upstate NY has had in years. We had more days of sunshine than rain, a fairly good growing season for the crops and farmers and now we get to contend with GOLDENROD allergies! Ah mother nature how you toy with us!
Soon the leaves will light the sky in a rainbow of colors, a favorite time of year for me. HArvesting apples, fesh pumpkin homemade pies, and oh the butter squash, sccorn squash and Thanksgiving only 21/2 months away!

I even started Christmas shopping this year in JUNE!~ forget about Christmas in JULY!

Monday I labored in love baking over 12 dozen cookies and cookie bars to send to my son Joey A US marine serving in Afghanistan. Please visit my other blog Cans for Cookies US Troops to see how you can   join our charity event and help support our troops serving so others and you may live free!

I also am nearly finished with a long over due swap with my new friend Melinda. I am so excited how everything came out... waiting for the craft glue to dry and then shipping it to her! I'll post pictures after she receives the package! Melinda thank you for understanding my lateness, it has been a summer of hospital stays and illnesses but I will survivie!

I am having a swap called The Leaves of Fall! If you would like to join in the event PLEASE email me with your name, address and phone. The theme is "leaves of fall" and any art form is acceptable. Try to keep your creations under  a $25 in materials budget, use natural fibers if possible, and let your creative juices flow! The swap is open to join until September30th and all packages should be mailed by October 15th! I look forward to you joining in the fun! Grab this  button 

 and post it on your blog with a  link back here! Be sure to let me know if you do so I can add you to my blog roll for Leaves of Fall. This will be so much fun... cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin spice and everything nice!
Copy and paste the code:  http://poemsmyway-valrie.blogspot.com/2010/09/busy-as-beaver.html
Well, off to the races so to speak, read, write, research, lesson  plans, grade exams, and teach 3 courses at college, maybe squeeze in a nail appointment and browse for ideas for this SWAP!

Be sure to check back often and I am having a giveaway this SATURDAY and you will not want to miss it! Something VANILLA and Thinking of YOU!

HINT: visit here to see whatever they might be!

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Typing away and refilling my cup to JUMPSTART this brisk autumn-like day!

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Poems Are Alive

Good Morning!

       Poems are Alive

Poetry, like a dream feels unreal at times
But it is real, and it is alive within me.
My heart beats every time I invision new words
To pen to paper and resonate off the walls of silence...

Escaping from the realm of discontent and fear
As I enter the world I want to live in...
Poetry the muse of the lofty headed ancient gods,
The rhythmic patterns of rhyming and unrhymed syllables,

Music to one's ears and perhaps not so to another...
Poetry to me is the language of love, expresses emotions,
Brings to life all that lies hidden within your soul.
The uncertainty of the words as they roll off my tongue

Can't help but make me wonder their intent and affect
On your life's happenings, do you relate, transact
With the feelings I have laid down on vellum paper
Or do you run from lack of understanding my intent?

No fears, no worries, poetry is very personal -
And so it should be, at times confusing, lost
In hte murky lines and hidden meaning, left to discern
Your own understanding of the written word.

It is not the only word, not an authority yet merely
One's expressions of thoughts, events, and happenings
In life... connect, feel, react and interact with it
For poetry is what you want it to be, it is yours!

Poems My Way -Valrie 09/07/2010

Today would have been my children's father's 57th birthday. Joe died at the age of 48 after a nearly 2 year courageous battle with cancer. We miss you Joe and love you. You live in our hearts forever! Please remember my children Jenni &Joey as they reflect on the love they have for their DAD. After 20 years of sharing my life with him, we parted friends and I sent him to the Lord. Joe you have 2 beautiful Gems of a children who are making us both quite proud!

Make it a powerful day! Today is the first day of the rest of your life!

This is a treasure hunt! Please visit my new blog!

I somehow posted my PS blog on my Reading Doctor Connections  blog and I would love for you to see the beautiful PS post I have created here! I admit last night when I posted I was a bit delirious from a long week and so much work! I have recovered from 5 hospital stays since July 4th! Praise GOD! I am doing much better. I  Have the love of my life BOB supporting me in all that I do. He has made me so happy! I never knew true love until I met this awesome wonderful man! He has made my dreams come true, supported me emotionally through these last 6 weeks, in the hospital, helped me get back on my feet. And loved me unconditionally. He is the King of the Jungle  & I am his Queen! He told me this recently. He has such a beautiful influence on my life and has brought me as a mature woman into the realm of happiness of which I have never experienced at such a high consistent levelever before. We are in the 7th month of our committed relationship and I feel like I am love for the very first time! I never knew I could feel this way, and I thank GOD and BOB for bringing me such joy!

HE IS THE MOST AWESOME PERFECT MAN! HE PUTS A SMILE ON MY FACE!

I await the day we join forever in HOLY matrimony. This time it will be forever!

My PS is in pusuit of a new PINK ring. Please join me at the reading doctor connections until I get it reposted here.

Yes, sometimes I am...

However, I know this is THE REAL LOVE of MY LIFE and BLESSED by GOD!

Here's the scoop! I posted PS to the wrong BLOG. Am I bad?  And I do not have time on this holiday weekend to repost.... SO PLEASE go HERE to share my PS post!

I would love to hear from you here! Please leave a comment on either post to be entered in my PINK SATURDAY SURPRISE GIVEAWAY!

Have a blessed PS and Labor Day Weekend. Please drive safe and if you live on the EAST COAST watch out for EARL!

I love you PS bloggers!

May God Bless you and keep you safe in all that you do!

Please keep my son Joey, US Marine Lance Corporal in your prayers! He is serving our country in Afghanistan!He is my only son and his father is deceased! I fear for him and pray for him daily! Such a labor to be overseas serving his country!

He and Renee my beautiful oving daughter-in-law to be will be married on Mother's Day weelkend 2011!

He puts a smile on the face of everyone who knows him... To know him is to love him!

On the go in my pink bubble!

my website click here!

I have a very special PINKALICIOUS makeover for you at 50% off this weekend only! EMAIL ME HERE!

Be sure to go see BEV!  AT How Sweet the Sound for more  fab PS bloggers and lots of giveaways!

I love your comments they put a smile on my face!

Congrats to SUZANNE she won the Satin Hands and I am featuring her today! She is one cool mom, and I think she would make a great PS blogger too! Visit her here lots of beautiful shabby cottage all year through!

                  Is this READING DOCTOR CONNECTIONS or POEMS MY WAY?

How many of you have more than one blog and feel like you... umh, get a bit CONFUSED?

Here's the scoop today is all about my search for a new PINK ring!

AHHHH! So beautiful!

Happy PS & Happy  PINK Labor Day weekend PINK ladies and fellow bloggers, followers. Today I am honoring myself with a labor of love in pink! Pink Sapphires to be exact! I want a new PINK  ring and I want to design it myself. The first step is selecting the cut of the stone, then the carat size, the clarity, and the color of PINK! Oh my it has been so much fun surfing the web for styles and stone cutters, suppliers, natural gemstones or man-made. Natural just seem well, NATURAL! AS long as it is Naturally PINK!

SO for some fun, when you post your comments guess which one I chose and let me know your favorite too! Whomever has a correct guess of the one I chose goes into a drawing for a surprise PINK giveaway! Now this wasn't announced on Bev's blog today, so if you want to spread the fun, grab my button, and pass on the link! Everyone has until the end of Labor  Day at EST midnight to enter my pink surprise giveaway!

        Here they all are in no special order! Emeralds, ovals, marquis, and more! How to choose?

                                All gems featured here can be found at this website I am not endorsing       them,............................they  just are some of the prettiest ones I found while surfing!

AND since I chose my ring,  when it arrives, I am steppin' out with a hot pink dress, a beautiful boa, and  PINK platforms!

When the night is through painting the town PINK, I am going to slide into my favorite pink nightie and slippers and lounge awhile...

As my love blossoms, I grow beautiful pink flowers to wear in my hair!

Love like a bud blosssoms when it is nurtured!

A rainbow of flowers in  my field of happiness today!

SO I tip my cup to my followers, and fellow bloggers...

I hook up my cable and DSL, and time to surf my friends...

Shop  here this weekend for a 50% discount fo ALL your hard LABOR!

Congrats to SUZANNE! She won last week's giveaway! Please stop over to her blog  for some shabby cottage ideas all year through Her other blog Confessions of a Cool Mom, is inspiring too! Let me tell you she IS one cool MOM! Please stop in today or this weekend and leave her a comment, and let her know Valrie sent you! I think she would make a great PS blogger too!

Waiting to hear from you via email or a call!

SO PICK up your phone, Mine is PINK! AND call or email me with your order now and enter to  WIN a  FABULOUS PINKALICIOUS FREE makeover !                                                        

Do not forget to visit my other PINK blogging friends and enter their giveaways here!

Please visit my sister's blog Stitches'n Stuff and be sure to tell her too that I sent you for  a visit, she is my guardian angel and the reason I have survived! She is the most talented person I know!

I love your comments they make me smile!

Leave yours today and you are entered to win my PINK surprise giveaway!

Leave yours today and you are entered to win my PINK surprise giveaway!