Month: May 2009

Heeeeeeeeey!

Im finally here!!! I know once I start writing this post, it probaly wont end anytime soon!!! I\’ve been busy, busy, busy. Since my job havent been hiring any new workers since before Christmas, they are giving us a lot of hours and long one too, so right now I am truly blessed to be working and doing some of the things that I want to do. Thank you Jesus for that!!

My car is down, been driving my momma\’s car to work, and its okay so far, but Im use to having my own. Ive got so many things planned and set that I really havent had the time to take it to be put on this machine so that my mechanic can see whats wrong, plus he\’s been busy with other things. I miss my lil piece of car too. I\’m really thinking about selling it as soon as I can save up some money because once I start getting things fixed on it, I feel that its going to break down for good. I need somthing bigger to pick my gurls up in, now I have a few other gurls to pick up because their moms don\’t have rides for them. I just hate the fact that I have to do drop offs them pick up other gurls. Everything will fall in place I just know it will. It\’s just a matter of time.

So much has happened where do I start? On May 17, when we had out Raisingurls To Women meeting, I announced to the gurls that Sunday May 30, we were going to have a candy sale to raise money for out T-shirts. Okay, let me go back……… On August 22, 2009 we are going to Cedarpointe. http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/park/rides/coasters/index.cfm For those of you who don\’t know its one of the best Amusement Parks ever!!! Its located in Sandusky Ohio, about 2 hours from Detroit. My best friends Charlene hooked me up with these people who charter buses I called them and liked the prices for the bus. But before this. I told the gurls that we were going August 15, but when I counted my check days and vacation days, I realized that I had checked off my days wrong. So I had to tell all my gurls that we moved the date up to August 22, which was cool for them, its just in time before school starts back.

Me and Neisha went to see the lady Ms. Wendy and she took us on a tour of the buses which we absolutly adored. We checked several sizes and decided to go with the 33 passenger. The only thing I DIDNT like about that one is that it didnt have a toliet room on it. Those things stank anyway!!!. But its NOT about Cree and so when I thought about the small price difference between a 33 passenger and a 57 passenger I realized that we may have to make several different stops at a truck stop and coming home at 11:00 am in the morning, I don\’t want my kids out there that late. So I called Ms. Wendy back the very next day which was last Thursday and ordered a 57 passenger. She had one available and so she wrote me up a contract and its on. So far we have over 33 people wanting to go. Not including most of the familes of my Raisingurls. Im excited about that. Im amazed at myself for how motivated I can be when I put my mind to something. Thats one thing that I\’ve always known about me, is that I can sit down write out my Vision and then go with it. Now if I think about it for days and days and don\’t write it down, not only would the thought leave me, but it won\’t move me as much as it would if it were to be written down.

To keep me motivated and excited about my gurls projects I make little post it signs all around my monitor. And since Im the kinda person that likes to write things down, once I do whats on the post it, I enjoy throwing it out. Which tells me that I completed a task.

As Im typing Neishia is making Cedarpointe fliers for the Parents, Family and Friends, I need to fill this bus up……BUT only people I know can go on this trip because this is for my gurls and I don\’t want any mess at all.

At our last meeting I passed out Scriptures to the gurls and told them to study them before our next meeting which will be this week. Im going to tell them also that before we go on this trip we will know 30 books of the Bible in order, by heart. We have also been calling on the gurls to start off in prayer, and these gurls can pray!!! Last week one of the gurls prayed and it bought me to tears, I can only imagine how God felt. Anotherthing Im really big on is group particpation, I do activities that allows me to group them up to see who are my Leaders, who has good ideas, and team players. Thats very important to me, because in order to get things done in life, you have to be a team player, even if you don\’t agree with everything. And they have shown themselves to be great players and Im very proud of that. I had an issue of the gurls being excited and speaking out of turn. So I had to break them off into 3 teams, and if someone is talking and another person from another team interupt, they had to give up a raffle ticket to that team. Boy did that stop a lot of laughing and talking. lol lollllllll. I tried it the following week, and they never not once talked out of line. lol

Im sorry Im getting sleepy, Im multi-tasking and I am wore out from 81/2 hours of work, and doing some group stuff today. I have so much more to blog about, so tommorrow I will be back.

Good night

Cree

Come back now!

Good Monday Morning!!!

Thank you Jesus for such a wonderful day. You always know how to soothe me when you know Im bout at my end. Today you told me to keep going when you know I wanted to throw my hands up. The on the spot strength you give me is so amazing, like craaaazy for real. Its like you know when Im thinking about saying. ……naw I can\’t do it. But then hear this whisper and you say……yes you can, you got too, this is who you are, you can do this, you know you want too. And its amazing, its so worth it. So again Lord, Thank you for my gurls group Raisingurls To Women!

Today my day started off @ 90 miles per hour. Phone ringing off the hook, my gurls needing rides, had to go to the ATM, gotta set up chairs, clean up a little, and I did it!!! I had to pick up 4 gurls today, and then I got call to pick up 2 more. I promise I need a truck. I just do. Sometimes I have to come home drop off a few, then go back out and get more gurls. And the thing is I don\’t mind at all. Only problem Im having is that most of my gurls go to Church, and a 3-5 meeting is kinda pushing it. So, I asked them should we move it to 4-6 some said no, some said yes. I dunno. I know that we need to work on being on time. There are a few things that I got to get my gurls on doing decent and in order.

Today we played a group game and it turned out nice. They enjoy brainstorming with each other in a group setting. Most of the gurls come with their Sisters or friends, and I had to do a raffle and put them into groups with those they dont know well. I don\’t want no clicks and all that mess. Today they shocked me. LOL They did a project together, and they asked ME could they be in that same group in 2 weeks? I was blown away!!! I said yes…. so how it can be when you get to know others instead of the everyday people you see daily? I was happy about that, very happy.

We took group photos and also indivdual photos too. They all came out so pretty. We are having a candy sale in 2 weeks so that we can raise money for our T-shirts. When we go to Cedarpointe in August I want us all to wear the same shirts * in purple*, and jeans. We are going to feed the Homeless in November. I have to brainstorm some other things. I mean really brainstorm…….gotta lot of things I want to do in the future, so Imma be quiet on that part.

I made sure all my gurls got home, came home and had dinner. Then I took me a nap whilke Neisha scream and holla at the Orlando Magic. She glad they won. I wanted Boston to win. But after that Im for Denver……Chauncy Billups team…ex Piston. Yea….

Well, Imma turn in, gotta go back to work tomorrow. Dang….. when Im going to retire, be rich and RAISEGURLS TO WOMEN for life? LOL

Good Night and Be Blessed!

Lacrease

Whats up?! Not too long got off work, sitting at the computer nodding! I always get caught by Neisha. lol Dont you hate getting caught sleeping? lol I do. Its this feeling of denial that I go into. Dont want to be tired, but at the same time…need a nap. lol

So whats going on? Well, I have a Twitter page my name is MsVirgoCree. I started twitting about 3 weeks ago, and I love it. I know I mentioned this before but some of those celebs have me cracking up. Someone wrote in their blog that some of them just tweet to feed their egos. At first I was like nooooooooooo they don\’t. But yep its true. LOL Funny but true. I think people get caught up in it, celebs are people too and want to be treated normal. Twitter is a way for them to communicate with their fans, people like Tyler Perry like to write his fans and probaly wouldnt like the more personal one on one twitter.

Last night Missy threatend to close her twitter account because of some clown knew her mom\’s address, and her address. Man people sure know how to mess it up for others. Me, personally, I like to know whats going on with them, latest movies, concerts, music, everything. Ive always been a person up on those kinds of things, and in today\’s world its more easier than before. This one gurl was pretending to be Fantasia recently. One night the real Fantasia was on stage and this * Fake* Fantasia was on the Twitter chatting it up. She got busted by some fans, and OMGOODNESS, she deleted her page. People just don\’t know how to act. I really appreciate people like Tyrese he keeps us updated on his new movie the Terminater, he took photos at the Kentucky Derby. Shaq, and Stephen A. Smith keeps me up to date on the NBA. See I love that kinda stuff. Maxwell keeps us updated with everything. All of his radio appearances, concert information, he even streamed lived at his Album/CD Listening Party. I really really appreciate celebs like that. Im a person who will spend money on good stuff. I SPEND MONEY! I love music, I love concerts, I love to READ, I love people period. lol They don\’t let the fans talk about other celebs, Thats whats up!

This Sunday with my Raisingurls we are going to talk about Taking Responsibilites for your Actions. At a young age is where we begin to finger point and do things that cause us to face our responsibilites. With kids these days, I found that they do what they want to do now, and then think about the consequences later. And when it comes down to the punishment they want the quick way out. They feel that they should get a break!! Se, it works like that at home, they may have the power to bribe their parents, pass out candy to their big sister, black male their big brother, but when they leave the house for good for adult life, they find that people are not that friendly or easy to forgive. This Sunday we will be doing excercises and questionaires. Im real good at giving examples, and they really get them too. LOL Im excited.

Im off to bed, gotta go to work in the morning. Talk to you later!

Be Blessed!

Lacrease

Whatssssssss upppp. In the words of Kyle from College Hill! lol That boy is so funny. Anyway…… hahaha

Today was a good day. Thank you Jesus for a change to do it all over again. Sometimes I feel as tho Im not being all I can be. I think too much, thats not good. But when I write down what it is I want to do, I ALWAYS do it. But when I *Think* about what I want to do I don\’t. Im 41 years old and Im still learning about myself. Seem like at this age, I should have mastered me. lol

Ive been watching Oprah and the days I work when she\’s on I DVR her show. She is so funny. I love her hair too. I love to see her and Gail talk because they both try to get their conversation in and its so funny. I dunno if I can handle those 2 together, I know I would bust my stomach wide open. I can already tell they are too funny.

Anyway, today Monique, Dane Cook, and George Lopez was on her show and they all had me cracking up. Some white comedians I just cant follow. Hell, I cant feel Chris Rock * ugh*. But today they had me hollering through the house. When Dane was marking Oprah on how she announces her guest was FUNNA. She was laughing too cause she knew it was true. But the big part was when they showed the clip to a movie called Precious. Now, I had already seen the first trailer on youtube a while ago, Ive been waiting for the movie to drop but seems as if it wont until November. I hope these movie studios plan their movies closely because when it comes out, its going to be #1. And white folks * the funny acting ones* can sit up and talk about it all they want too, but what we\’re going to see in this movie is what happens to families all over the world. This story does\’nt have a color to it, it doesnt discriminate. This is real life people. This kinda stuff is happening in your families, in your neighborhood to children all over the world. Im taking my gurls group *Raisingurls To Women* to see as a group and then we are going to have a discussion on it. It should be therapy for someone in the group. I know Satan is going to sick about it, because once he\’s expose in this movie the blinders will be taken off folk eyes. When we go to the movies, I want to gather a group of about 50 people. If I can pull 15-20 for a THURSDAY MIDNIGHT SHOWING OF ALL TYLER\’S movie I can do this one. This is really important to me. I talk to kids every, every, every day!! I love them, and I care about their welfare. I think about kids all day everyday. They are my life.

Here is the Trailer without further due. http://www.oprah.com/media/20090506-tows-precious-trailer

My car is still down………..aghhhhhh. I wish I had a new truck, and Imma keep saying that until I get one. lol Its gonna happen its just a matter of when!

My daughter got her * report* card today on line. She is 10 credits away from completing her Bachelor\’s Degree in Crimal Justice! * Science*. She got

• A Investigations
• B Social Development
• B Police Society
• C Spanish

Im so proud of her. She doesnt have a car to get to school, so I have to adjust my schedule so that she can have a way. And God is working it out for us. Im not the kinda person who stresses, I just like to know what I have to do and ask God to work it out for me. I know he has our back. I tell her all the time, that Im here for her all the way, and I will make the sacrifice for her, because when she finish her schooling, she is going to be a great Leader. She also helps me with my group, they love when she speak, its like everybody stop in their tracks and listen to her. She\’s so shy tho. I ask her all the time, how are you going to stand in front of people to present a case and your shy. She said momma, when Im taking about cases, Im not shy at all. She says it just flow freely. And it does too. She looooooooooooooves what she do, and Im just so proud of her, she\’s so smart. She watches every show that has to do with Lawyers, cops, and she\’s not sentive like I am. Ill cry and let the killer geta second change, shes tough!! lol

The photo above is My baby Mar\’Neishia!

Oh well, Im rambling now, and time to go to bed. Gotta dream big like Tyler Perry said. Tomorrow Im going to blog about him.

Be Blessed!

Lacrease * Cree*

Hey!

Happy Mother\’s Day to all reading my blog entry on this day. Today was a quiet day for me. I have gas in my back so bad, and its off the hook. My Sister called me and asked me to go out to dinner with her husband and his family to Ruby Tuesday\’s, but I just wasnt feeling it today. I finally made it up from lying on the couch watching movies and went to the kitchen to cook dinner for myself. I made some collard greens, fried chicken, and corn bread, it was soo good. Imma bad chick when it comes to cooking some greens………..yall betta ask somebody! lol I made a few phone calls to wish people happy Mother\’s Day.

Neisha is in Cincinnatti with her dad\’s family, her grandmother, cousins and great aunts. They lost their mom a few years ago and they always go to visit her grave site on this day. I love the fact that my daughter * Neisha* knows and loves both sides of her family. Her dad is just like me when it comes to family….. I love my friends, but aint nothing like family…..the bad, ugly, and the good. She loves her family so much she is thinking about moving to Ohio to go to Law School. I would miss her, but if she goes, Im moving to Atlanta, a place where I have wanted to move since going to a Family Reunion 18 YEARS AGO. Its been in my heart to live there for so long. When I go to that city something grabs me and take hold of me, and I love the feeling. I cant wait to go with my family for a week next June. We have already made our plans. This time if everything goes well, I want to move there. Detroit is a good city, but I see no movement. I wake up everyday just to *feel* like there is something more, but Im cold.

My favorite cousin\’s wife text message me friday and said that she was giving him a Fish Fry on Saturday which was yesterday. My back was on fiyah , so I wasnt for sure if I was going. When I came in from work yesterday around 3ish, I went right to the couch to lay down. Daddy\’s Little gurl was on Cinemax but I feel asleep for 3 hours off and on. I was so sleepy, and my back was off the hook that I went to sleep. Then about 7ish my sister Peedie called me after she woke up from her 3 hour nap, and asked me did I want to go. WE are so funny because we always make an issue out of who is going to drive, no matter if its around the corner we would make excuses to why we dont want to drive. lol She knew once she called me, she was going to drive. lol I got up and got dressed, then my brother called and he said that he was going and we all met over there. We had soooooo, soooooo, sooooooooo much fun. We ate fish, played cards, talked junk, debated, laughed, drank beer, we had a ball. There were a lot of people there and we were the last to leave in the late 2:00 am hour playing spades rise and fly. Im so happy that I went. Im always being invited to functions, sometimes I have to push myself to go……….. sometimes I just don\’t want to be bothered. Is that bad to say? This year I promise myself to get better with it. I think Im going to plan a Chicken and Fries Fry at the very end of the Summer! LOL I can pull that off.

Im realizing that I am really different. I know we are all different. But I am very different. The way I see things and view people trips me out sometimes. I cant stand people who gossip and say stuff just because it seem right at the time. I will diss you in a heartbeat for that mess. I may call you and I may email, because I care and want to know how you are doing, but Im not dealing with people who are just plain messy. I know I make a lot of mistakes, but somethings done to me or said about me, I just dont feel the need to have a friendship with those people. I don\’t have too.

Its been almost a year since I went to Atlanta with some friends, and I hate that I even went on that trip. Sometimes I hate I even met a few of those people, I feel that deeply about it. Someone told me all the things that were happening, and it happened!!!! Everything!! I don\’t feel dumb or stupid, but I feel like Wow…….. like really Wow. How can someone totally out of our circle see all that was to see, and be right on point? How could that happen. Im tired of talking about it, reading about it, its over said and done.I\’m tired of the emails, just leave Cree the heck alone. Please!!! Pearls of Wisdom are done,we are no more. We spent a lot of time over the phone, emailing, and in person. We realized that we dont know each other well, and that we were all on another page in our lives. I will admit I am a die hard Tyler Perry fan, and will always be. Im loyal to the people I see and deal with daily, and Im loyal to Tyler\’s work. This is who I am, this is me….Lacrease. I know sooooooooooooooooooooooooo much, and it will never leave my heart and soul. Thank God can\’t nobody cut me open and get it out of me. THANK YOU JESUS FOR THAT! LOL And on that sentence….Im moving this conversation right along.

At my job weve been doing so well in sales that we\’ve gotten almost $500.00 bonuses EVERY 3 MONTHS FOR THE LAST YEAR STRAIGHT! Well we were told that if we do good and continue to keep up sales, keep the store clean, be friendly and have good customer service that we would qualify for the big bonus * on our check May 14th* which is the yearly bonus of up to $1800.00. Weve gotten $1000.00 a few years ago and we have been on a roll ever since. When we received our last bonus in March we were told that in 45 days we would know if, and how much the big bonus would be. Well when the 45 days came and went, we were all asking questions to the store manager and assistant mangers. They claim they didnt know, but one time when I asked the store manager she said somewhere between $95.00 and up. We were like $95.00 WHAT? Then she said well Im not sure, we\’ll see when the 45 days was up. Guess that was said to buy time to have to xplain this TOMORROW! Today is the day that we can go on line and find out just how much we will receive. I logged into the Walmart site when I got home from the Fish Fry, and guess how much my bonus was? Ready? $41.83. Am I mad? YES! They toyed with us for 45 days knowing full well how much we were getting. My co worker just called me and told me that our other co-worker got $6.00. My thing is this. ITS OKAY IF WERE NOT GETTING THAT MUCH, * cause next month in June we are getting another almost $500.00 bonus. But why say you dont know how much it is? Why do us like that? They knew just like they know how much the one in June is going to be. Thats just bold, and out of order. Now tomorrow morning everyone is going to go to the store manager and demand answers. We had the best inventory report in our store history last month, we are breaking records and showing increase in all areas * except customer service, lines are toooo long*. And its alllllll okay, but just explain to us, talk to us, communicate to us, what happened. Now folks are mad come tomorrow morning and don\’t want to hear anything about improving the store at this point. The 2 stores around us got huge yearly bonuses. As far as me, I really dont have any feelings about it, I already know God is in control and its whateva. . IM GOOD! LOL

My car is still down……….huh……. .. I need a new one, my car is an 1991 Lumina Chevy. I dont even see one in sight. I have to pick up my gurls for the meet, but God always work things out for me. Ill be patience……something good is one the way. I promise you I see a truck in my drive way with a yellow * not even my favorite color* bow around it. I dunno why I see yellow. lol My sister truck is back up, and so is my moms car. Cars been sick just as much as people. lol

Well, Im off to bed gotta be at work at 8:30 am. My gas back * hehe* is feeling much better, so thats good. Chat with yall lata.

Lacrease

Hey,

Whats up? Yall are not gonna believe this? Ok, why my other car broke down yesterday? Remember I had to get pushed home in my other car yesterday while on my way to work, but good thing I was still on my block when it started tripping. Yesterday, I went to pay my phone bill and got back in the car and it wouldnt start. Mannn, all I could do is laugh, cause I trust God totally. Sometimes he does this to slow me down, especially for my thinking. I need that shut down time too. I had to get pushed back home again!!!! LOL. My sister had to take me to work this morning and pick me up. When I got home her boyfriend was at my home fixing one of the cars, all it needed was a starter. Now thats fixed right? My sister calls me tonight and says that her truck will not start and that she needs a starter !!! Now she needs a ride to work tomorrow. Good thing her boyfriend is a master mechanic and he\’s taking her to work in the morning. This is really something. lol Its funny but its not. My dad needs to go and take care of some business tomorrow, now thats cancelled. Whew we gon be alright tho. I WANT A TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. GOD PLEASE GET ME ONE. PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSE!!!

I just got hooked on Twitter. Its really cool too……. get to see what some of my favorite Celebs are doing. I follow people like Shaq, Oprah, Deshawn Snow, Terrell Owns, that crazy boy Diddy * lol*, Tyrese, Eva, Neffe, Nicholas Cage, Fantasia,Sherri Shepard, MissKeribaby, Souljaboy * this boy tweets all day*. Just to name a few. Facebook is cool too. Guess my main thing is my gurls * Raisingurls To Women! Oprah has KFC sewed up with all the free meals. My sister went today and she said all of them in the area was OFF THE CHAIN!!!! LOL. Imma wait to use my coupon. I really want to see how that chicken taste.

Im going to come up with some activities for my gurls for the 17th. Our theme will be Attitudes. Got some paper work to do on them, and then Ill do my 2nd Syllibus for the 17th. Yea got lots of work to do and come up with. Its so easy for me, because this is what I like to do. It comes natural.

Well bout to get off and do some regrouping.

Be Blessed

Lacrease

Hey,

Its late, but its alright because Im off from work tomorrow. Everything is all good with me and my family. As a matter of fact we all got together this weekend at my house for chatting, laughing, and eating as we always do. I love my family so much its really crazy. We have out debates and we have our moments but we always make sure we make up before we leave each other presense. When one of my sisters come ova, my other sister could be riding by and see her truck in the drive way, and then she\’ll get out come and and ask * why yall didnt call me ova*? LOL Then after time passes, my brother would pop up. My momma is so happy when all her kids are in her presense. She enjoys us and we enjoy her. My brother-n-laws come ova just as much as my sisters. We have fun.

When we sit up and talk we all realize that we have something in common. When we were growing up we always had to kiss and make up right after an argument. WE HATED THAT! Why couldnt we argu be mad and make up when we wanted too? We had to hug and kiss each other right after the argument. So now that we are older, people ask me how do I like to taalk it out and make friends so quickly. I never knew really why until we were talking about it together. My sisters friends ask them the same things. Thats how we were raised. I can\’t hold a grudge long at all, I have to make peace when Im at odds with someone. We don\’t have to be bestfriends, but we can surely part ways in a adult fashion. We had a good talk. WE even talked about how haunted our old house was. It was so spooky that I wouldnt drive or walk down that street to this day for nothing in the world. Neva!!! Its a funny story too because me and my sister who is under me, remebers all the scary stuff about that house, and my sister and brother we are younger *35-36* now, didnt see any thing creepy about the house. I even still have dreams and creepy night mares about it. Ughhhhh, lemme change the subject. lol

Let me tell yall what happened to me today. I was on my way to work, and me Im always pushing it. I can have to be at a movie @ 1 and I will leave out the house at 12:45. I dunno I do that. But let it be a concert, Church, or something Im the first one there. When it comes to work, Im always workng off my grace period minutes, which is 14 mintues. Anyway……… Im pulling out the house this morning, round bout 11:ish had to be there @ 11:30. I start driving down the street and my car cuts down, just like that………… just like that. So I get this strange look on my face, my heart starts pumping faster, and Im like okay, let me try this again. I cranked it up and start driving. Keep in mind Im still on my block. Then it stops again…….so Im like WTH is wrong with my car? I reverse it all the way back to my house…..all the way. no cars where coming or anything. So I pulled up in my drive way and sat there for a moment. Thinking should I try this again? Should I try to drive this to work? Will it stop on me, will it start smoking or something? Even though the voice inside of me was saying, nope dont do it, I decided to pull out and drive to work. Shoooooe I got to that next block, it cut off and when I FINALLY got it to turn back on, I turned around in soneone\’s drive way and tried to gun it home. lol That thing wouldnt go for nothing in the world. I had to call my momma to push me home. I almost forgot my cellphone at home. I called my mechanic and while I was @ work he come right ova and drove my car in my drive way, it was really hard sterring, so I left it on the streets. Come to find out, I need a fuel filter. So thats a good thing.

I wish that I had a truck. When my gurls meet on Sundays I have to take home at least 4-7 gurls and sometimes I have to make 2 trips. I dont mind picking them up at all, I just need somethng bigger. When we have our movie days and bowling party, I want to be able to pick up all my gurls who mom don\’t have a car and take them.

We had so much fun yesterday * Sunday*. Every meet I have to come up with something very interesting to do as a group. They really like to team up and do the group things. Im happy that they do because I know that when they get out there in the work force, there are going to me times when you have to work together as a group. You have to be able to follow, lead, and sometimes just fall in place. Im teaching them this and they are really catching on. We played this game called The Prom Dress, and what I did was break the teams off into 3 and they had to make a Prom Dress out of 3 rolls of toliet paper, having only 10 mintues to complete the project. Before we started they were told to decide who would be the dress model, who would design, and who would be the over seeing in their groups. They all decided and when it was time to do their dresses, they did the thang!!!! I made a mistake tho. I had one group of gurls go to the basement so that the others would peek at their dresses, not thinking that once the model walk up the stairs that she would ruin her dress!!! I felt so bad. I felt they were cheated. Even tho I let them have a few extra mintues to fix the dress, it still should have been thought out throughly. But I learned something from that, and our next group project *which is coming soon* will all be done on the same floor.

Each week we focus on a different topic and we do role playing, and this one I really love. I made it up too. What I did was bought some long wooden sticks and made 2 big squares on the floor out of them. One gurl stands in one while the other stand in the other. I gave one of the gurls a question to ask the other, and if she agrees with the question, she will LEAVE HER OWN SQAURE and stand in the square of the person who read the question off. For example: Here are one of the questions: One gurl turns to the other and ask: Lets call some people and play on the phone? On this question the one gurl walked into her square . The gurls cracked up, so I went to each and everyone of them and asked them would you do this? They all said yesssss, because its fun!!! It was funny, because I was the Queen of playing on the phone. So then after a few questions I got down to some serious questions. I chose 2 more gurls to take the square. The question was: \”You tell your friend that you forgot to give your aunt her $27.00 back in change when she went to the store …. the question is should she spend it? A few of the gurls said yea….. I\’ll spend it. When I asked them why would they spend their own aunt\’s money, they said because she MAY have other money, and she wont miss it. So I said well, let me ask you this………. suppose your bestfriend * nell- who was there* sent you to the store and came back and told you, that she spent your money because she needed it, would you be mad? She was like no. I told her that the reason why she wouldnt be mad at nell is because she dont want her auntie to be mad at her if she did it to her. lol It was a game to really challenge their thinking about things in life. They really need that. Kids do things a lot of times without thinking about the consequences. And thats an area that Im going to be hitting hard ………..along with attidudes.

Every time we need that get Quizzes, because it tells me a lot about the person and how they think. I did this one called Character Traits Inventory, and it ask many different questions. For example: —- I have positive attitudes. — I\’d like to have better attitudes. They would check off which one best describe them. Im finding that many of them admit and want to:

• work on their attitudes
• be more kinder and more caring
• want to learn how to accept responsibility
• more tolerant and fair
• want to beco
  me more calm and peaceful
• be more respectful and courteous
• more cautious and safety conscious
• want to be a better citizen and more involved in the community
• need to conserve and save better
• need to be a better follower
• more self discipline.

I was really blown away when I read some of the entries these young gurls want to improve in. Im going to really have to step my game up with them. They really enjoy the group and I think they love to learn about themselves. A lot of the questions I ask they would have never thought to think about it really does challenge their thinking.

We are trying to raise money to go to Cedarpointe Amusment Park in Ohio for August 15. 2009. I want to take my gurls to Disney World Florida for a week!!! Ive been 2 times and I really want them to experience the world as travelers. When kids sit on the porch, sit in the house, and swing at the park is so not where its at. Ive been to a lot of places and I think that kids should get to know other cities, things, and places. They are lovely young ladies and Im really excited to be working with them. I want them to visit The King Home, the wax museum with interesting african American figures. There is so much I want them to do ,and yes its going to take hard hard work. Im willing to do it. These gurls deserve it.

Well, Im closing for now, its 3:53 and I have a few things to do before I turn in. I have so much to share with you all, I just have to put it in the right words so that it could come out right. I have a way with words……….and Im working on that. lolll

Be Blessed!