OMG,yesterday, our friends 5 yr old fell through the window screen on the third floor of their home and landed face first on concrete. He is sedated and heavily medicated for pain, seizures etc. There doesn't seem to be any spinal concerns but brain swelling is the overriding factor and he is...

Lets have some Thanksgiving love here. :) We have no student loans. (We never did, just saying. :) ) Personal Property taxes are lower this year. (thanks to trading in my DH's truck for a paid for, but nice 2000 year wonderful Jeep) We won our child custody battle. That we didn't start. o.O...

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. -Dr. Wayne Dyer

In October my best friend was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. Her initial PET scan showed a few spots on her spine and liver as well. She completed a round of chemo in April and a lumpectomy mastectomy of her left breast in May. Of the 23 lymph nodes removed, 19 were cancerous. Her...

The other day we noticed a lump on her stomach :( Took her into the vet today. They did a biopsy and sent it off. Waiting to find out if cancerous or malignant. She is only 9 months old. We should have some news Monday.

Jobless claims drop more than expected - Business - Eye on the Economy - Stocks & economy - msnbc.com and: This time the growth in jobs looks to be real - Business - Eye on the Economy - msnbc.com I'll take slow-steady, sustainable growth over bubbles any day, personally. Things are still...

So I had a roomate who was my best friend for many years. In our last living situation, all of the utilities were in my name due to the fact that she has bad credit. Signifigant Other and I bought a house last December and moved out of the house we shared with her on not great terms. We are no...

Dfil will be having a major operation tomorrow morning & at his age (87) this is so very risky but must be done. He'll be having heart bypass and valve replacement surgery. He'll be in the hospital for at least a week & recovery lasts for months. If that's not enough, Dmil has ALZ, can't be...

So I know I'm not super active on this site, but if anyone has kept up with a few of my posts they would know that we are currently living in a toxic roommate situation and are trying to buy a house to move out. We found a house that is perfect for us. Not too big (1100 sq ft), in a mixed...

For this young man. His name is Chris I have known him since he was 3. He use to live next door to me. He also has 3 brothers. Both parents are druggies. They use to climb out their window and come to my house to eat. Their mom was locked up in ward B. She fried her brain. One day their dad...

Right now I make just about enough to live on, without much extra left over. The past week or so i've been fretting about this because Christmas is coming up, and I have to go to a conference on the other side of the country for school, and the thought of all those travel expenses was making me...

I read some threads here on FV about others getting rather snooty about your frugality, making fun of you, or being totally bewildered by your new decisions. But have you had positive influence on others? Has anyone taken note of your frugal efforts and tried to emulate you? Have you become a...

Please send prayers, blessings and positive thoughts to my daughter between 8:30 and 8:45 AM CMT time. She is racing a 1000m race. If she does well in this race (top 3 placings) she will probably be selected to the Canada Games team, and will have all her training and travel paid for the rest...

by Pauline Rowson -anybody read this booka or hear it in audio? im gonan start this one tomorrow. I really need this , too many negati:furious:ve outside forces pulling this way and that.

My husband is picking my daughter up from school in an hour and telling her to pack her bags she has a plane leaving tonight to take her back to NS. Not sure how she'll react or if we can get her on it, but we just can't have her here anymore. If anyone would care to think of us tonight, I...

Hard Learned Lessons We all have days from time to time when it feels like the world is against us or that the chaos we are experiencing will never end. One negative circumstance seems to lead to another. You may wonder, on a bad day, whether anything in your life will ever go right again. But...

Being positive can do wonders for your self-esteem. We all to often do the "negative self talk", and we need to learn how to replace those negative thoughts in to more positive thoughts. Affirmations can be really helpful, replacing all the negative self talk with a more positive affirmation...

Today my younger sister (35 years old) will be undergoing colon/liver cancer surgery.. The colon will be done lapriscopically, and should not take too long. The doctors are positive they can get all of that in one surgery.. The liver on the other hand is such a fragile organ, they always worry...

I have been visiting here for a few weeks now. Just from reading t he many posts I now have so many things I want to acomplish before the end of the year. I need to get my house back on track, so I thought I would set up a challenge to myself. These are just a few things I want to get done by...