PoSsEsSiOn's blog: "Blogs"

http://www.jesuscampthemovie.com/ A growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a revival underway in America that requires Christian youth to assume leadership roles in advocating the cause of their religious movement. Jesus Camp follows a group of young children to Pastor Becky Fisher's "Kids on Fire Summer Camp" where kids are taught to become dedicated Christian Soldiers in God's Army and are schooled in how to take back America for Christ. This film is a first ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born again Christian children to become an active part of America's political future.

I was sitting here thinking about my travels and where I've been. Important and not so important.The most moving places I've been to was NYC after 911 shanksville after 911 seeing where the trade towers once stood . seeing a huge hole in the ground looking at the surrounding buildings with glass broken out.you could feel the difference in the city a erie calm.Sitting in a restaurant in little Italy the day of John Gotti's funeral looking around wondering about being there on 911. Then shanksville in a field where a plane crashed on 911 seeing all the memorials and things people left.I realize how precious life is and don't sweat the small stuff. I've gone to lots of places and these two are at the top of my list. The place that i went to and felt bad was Baja Mexico I was really humbled to realize how good we have it.Children being made to beg for pesos.They follow you down the street just for pesos. Canada is beautiful Toronto and Niagara falls very nice. Austin TX is da bomb if you like music I loved it there wanted to move there ! Calif. San Diego& L.A. very nice but odd for me. I felt Calif. is so outta touch with the rest of the US. Conn. Liked it alot very quaint. Florida loved Disney world kicks ass better than Disney land hands down. Ghettysburg I loved it great to walk around the battle fields.Learning about the civil war. O.C. Maryland like it alot love the beach and all the things to do. Been to ohio west virginia georgia kentucky just to visit all nice :) so there my travels the ones i can remember. OPPPS yes and Auckland NZ beauty is all i can say just takes your breath away.

This past Sunday was Fathers Day here. Amanda went to a B day Party. So Mark & I took Alison to a place put by the airport called Butterfly Creek. Located on Tom Pearce Drive just one minute from Auckland International Airport, Butterfly Creek is Auckland`s hottest new attraction hosting Australasia`s premier Tropical Butterfly House with over 700 free flying exotic butterflies, tropical fish, birds and lizards. Butterfly Creek offers a great family day out in Auckland. With things to do for both children and parents, everyone will have a relaxing fun day. But before we went to Butterfly Creek we took a ride so Alison would sleep a little before we got there. Web took a ride around the bays on the way to the airport. The we went to the Airport watched the huge planes come in. We found a good spot no one knows it but you are right next to the runways. Alison was still sleeping so we sat drinking our diet cokes. The planes had a great day to land. They came in really smooth. We left and went to Butterfly Creek, woke Alison up she was ready to go rested and all full of energy. We go in to buy tickets and wouldn't ya know it was in the middle of the gift shop well Alison hands were on everything she could touch. We got our tickets and walk in first the had huge fish tanks down the narrow hall way to the butterfly house. there wasn't many there so we let her walk on her own. Picking her up to show her the fish. she'd look but then wanted down to walk. we go into the first door to see the butterflies and you're hit with a heatwave. Then into the second door through strip of plastic to get into the enclosure. Hit again with an even more humid heatwave. Once you get in it's awesome butterflies EVERYWHERE! Something to experience. Flowers everywhere too so pretty and quiet you could hear water rushing and just butterflies flying by. You feel the urge to touch them. I was afraid Alison would squash one but NO she's more concerned with the puddle of water on the ground and playing in it. We try to get her attention to the turtles in the water and the butterflies.Then she realizes she can run down the walk ways. So she starts doing her thing. after chasing her in 80humidity we decided to go look at the farm animals outside. You walk out and it's a wonderful feeling walking out into the colder air. We walk over to some baby chicks Alison finds sticks to carry LOL. She did notice the baby sheep showed her birds, rabbits & geaunipigs. We couldn't get the sticks away with out a fight. She also found the garden hose wonderful too. After that we decided to get a drink and have a seat well Alison had other ideas we spent it chasing after her he & I taking turns. You could just see people watching us and laughing at us chasing her around. One man said to Mark she's a busy little girl. By this time we headed out went to show Ali what we saw while she was sleeping she got a bit scared so we shuffled off got a bite to eat then picked up Amanda from her party. Got home around 7 pm i bathed Alison and by 8 she was fast a sleep. I hope all of you had a good weekend. The weather is finally broken getting warmer it's beautiful. take care..... cathie

I think I told you all about my husbands best friend Mike and his wife from Russia. Over all very nice people but they have a new baby and she's a first time mom.she buy all organic baby food and only the best clothes from America. They are teaching their daughter to talk Russia , English and also sign language. Poor kid is not even a year old.She's a beautiful baby her name is Maria a name both in Russian & English. Well we figured out a little secret that just dawned on us meeting my oldest daughters teacher. Mark & I went to pick amanda up at camp awhile back. Mark finally met her I had met her several times she is great with the kids really down to earth.Mark said to me I think I know her. so she came over to chat with us again. Mark said are you so in so's sister? She said yes thats my older sister.they chatted and she remember Mark also. they finished talking about the old times. It was getting late and we were waiting for amanda to get her things Mark smiles at me and says I'll tell you something when we get to the car. I was dying to know. we got in the car we're not even out of the camp drive. I looked at Mark and said what is it? He said you know Amanda's teachers sister? well Mike had a huge crush on her. I said yeah and? he looked at me with a grin and said " do you know what her names is?" I said no he laughed and said Maria. I said no freaking way you mean to tell me he named his daughter after a school girl crush? He said yup!!! So now we know why Mike loves the name Maria now :) I hear that happens a lot.

Most of you know I'm a hairdresser by trade I've done hair over 25 years working in high end salons to local neighborhood salons. I have a few stories to tell. My next few blogs I'm going to tell you a few. The first that comes to mind is the Los Vegas Hooker story. This high class hooker use to have clients that would fly her to them for a bonk. Very pretty woman she would come in once every six weeks to get her hair Highlighted. She came in from the redeye from Vegas where she met up with a client. I could tell she was tired. she always dressed very nice usually a skirt and nice blouse or sweater. After putting her foils in her hair I put her under the dryer to process her hair. I was the only one in the salon at the time working.I strted to do and other client while she was under the dryer. I see her nodding off to sleep. I think nothing of it I start to cut my next clients hair. The client in my chairs say to me " you better check on her under the dryer" I figure she's fine then my client said something to me to look in the mirror. Well I looked across to the dryer chair need less to say Robyn I'll say her name is , is sliding down the chair her legs wide open to see all her glory!!! I quickly pulled her cape and draped it ever so carefully across her lap to cover her exposed area so to speak. The client in my chair and I could stop laughing quietly. Robyn soon awoke quickly to the timer going off. She never realized what happened or she just didn't say anything. I finished her hair and she was very happy. I did her hair for years after until she married one of her clients. I have a lot of stories to tell so stay tuned :)