Musing while sitting in the school parking lot...

I love spring. The temperature are not too cold and not too hot. There is a breeze off the water you can feel anywhere in the city. Another thing you can see and smell is the marsh. Oh well, it is all a part of Charleston.

With spring comes spring break. I was sitting in my car waiting for Natasha, and idly watching the kids come out from school. Observation is priceless.

I saw one little girl pigtails flying run and hop into her mom’s car, her mom gave her a big hug. I also saw a little boy run to his mom happily calling out

“Hi Mommy!” a very big smile of excitement at seeing her, and his mom in grabbed his arm and hissed at him to get in the car. Dashing his joy instantly. You have to feel sorry for the kid, aslo though I have to remember I don’t know what problems his mom was dealing with at that time.

While spring break is happily anticipated by most kids, some dread it. Some hate the thought of not being at school for ten days. Why? Because school besides learning means food. School lunch and breakfast are the only meals they get. The thought of going through 10 days not knowing where their next meal is coming from is scary. One in 15 children in Charleston County are hungry.

The little munchkin’s class has had lots of theft of food lately. The teacher has not been able to ascertain which child or which children are stealing snacks. It is heartbreaking to know someone in this class steals food to take home.

We don’t know who they are.

Tasha came home from school very upset one day. Her friend at school was not going to be able to purchase her school pictures, her mom couldn't afford them.

“Can we buy them for her? Nanny?” she pleaded.

No problem I told her. I worried about other things, but to the munchkin the thought of her friend not having her pictures was devastating.

I am glad she has a heart. We sometimes forget this in the everyday living stuff.

When she is begging for a toy, and has so many we think “she is being selfish” we forget the day she spent her lunch money to buy a treat for a friend that didn’t have any.

Or all the times she shared her snack with kids who do not or cannot bring any so they will not be hungry.

I worry she does not understand the lack of having simple things…like food, shelter then she turns around and proves she has deep concern for those very things in others. So Spring Break we are going to be doing some things for the hungry kids. I have been a long time member of No Kid Hungry.

We are working at the church and we are praying for the hungry.Besides, of course the usual spring break fracas
What are your plans this week? Please share for those of us flat out of ideas...:)

Happy Monday...

Welcome to the Great American Bake Sale on Not me Monday!

So once again it is time for "Not Me Monday" 

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Today is a special Monday for a couple of reasons:A it is my confession Monday, better known as Not Me! Monday and it is the day of the VGABS Virtual Great America Bake sale for Share our Strenghth the great organization that works to feed hungry kids in American. No child should ever go hungry.

So without any more ado...

I did not enter Carey:Life in the carpool lane's giveaway this week. This is the first giveaway I have ever entered and I am excited to take the chance.Mainly because it is a $50.00 gift card from Target. Yep, That's right. If you have not read Carey's blog, Read it. Her boys are destined to be great politicians. She herself is a wonderful writer and mom.You just have to read how she came about deciding and getting the gift certificate. The end of the giveaway is the 17th which I already mentioned to her is my birthday, and it is my first giveaway, and I am not twisting her arm :) You are great Carey, just kidding. She leaves comments! wow!

Hint Hint..

I did not enter a new blogs giveaway learning together hand in hand's giveaway. It was the second one I entered in my life, I was on a roll this weekend. I have to confess this is a new one I found it through SITS, making my Saturday visit and there she had a great recipe, I am supposed to leave another recipe for her to swap which will be under this note which is why this is a long blog. When I go visiting on SITS day, I like to poke around and read the blogs which makes the 75 percent of the time I spend on the computer more like 90, which is ok:I don't have little kids just a grand kid, but this one is fun, I like th picture of the family they look user friendly and the blog is well laid out. Be sure to stop by Say hi, tell her angel sent you. Just kidding she'll say who is Angel???? but stop by anyway.

I did not snarl at my friend Barb Jacabucci when she snidely sent me an Email telling me she was watching the A's and the Mariners right that minute on TV in Seattle. Knowing I love my A's that wasn't fair! Sniff Sniff. Barb is due to get it from me. This week. Yep. Someday the A's will be playing the Braves and, no two different leagues, no matter watch out Barb, by the way ow badly did the A's beat the Mariners

I did not join in the fight for hunger by joining in with Kate over at Cooking during stolen moment. Now if you haven't seen her blog well, it is amazing. You get hungry looking at it for one thing, and for another she herself is just plain cute. She has three blogs, I follow all of them which just goes to show you why Tasha is always eating cold cereal and bologna.

So much for Not Me Monday moving onWelcome to the Virtual Great American Bake Sale. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of these ebooks will go toward Share Our Strength's Great American Bake Sale program. Funds raised through Great American Bake Sale are donated to after-school and summer feeding programs--food programs that many kids depend on when school is not in session. Great American Bake Sale is a program of Share Our Strength, a national organization working to make sure no kid in America grows up hungry.
The ebooks are a compilation of recipes from submitters across the blogosphere and beyond. The ebooks are available for purchase based on any donation amount of the buyer's choosing.

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The Complete 2009 VGABS Recipes Ebook

Features all 170 of the submitted recipes. Many of the recipes include pictures.

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Because we know file size may be an issue for some, the below ebooks have split the 170 recipes into 4 categorized ebooks so that you can choose just 1 or 2 of your favorites, if you'd prefer. Just like for the Complete ebook, many of these recipes include pictures. And again, they are available for purchase based on any donation amount of the buyer's choosing.

Muffins & Breads

Features 24 recipes.

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Cookies, Candy, Cakes, Bars & Brownies

Features 50 recipes.

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Desserts

Features 49 recipes.

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Beyond Baked Goods (Appetizers, Breakfast, Main Dishes, etc.)

Features 47 recipes.

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And thats how it is.