Happy Day

<span style="font-size: large;">With the historic flood that hit Nashville over the weekend, I never thought today would be a happy day, but I was wrong. For a couple of hours this morning, I got the opportunity to help someone in need. Someone I didn't even know. I couldn't do much in the short time I had - just helped haul out some soaked carpet. But it truly puts things in perspective. People's entire lives were sitting out on the curb. Makes you count your blessings.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Then when I got home, some mail arrived that made me smile . . .</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_wCzAtsfo4pMEP9gyepgSgL86CLonc6SP2-0YdhnOUOpGAmkgewfyNly8Io7hJJjpNcz_yPtG9AW2FPio0ljwO8GeQKKsM_FZWnNG6yRILL8xnqwqkEY7jIdEHDspxc_Oq0sXVcSSXi0/s1600/IMG_4970.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_wCzAtsfo4pMEP9gyepgSgL86CLonc6SP2-0YdhnOUOpGAmkgewfyNly8Io7hJJjpNcz_yPtG9AW2FPio0ljwO8GeQKKsM_FZWnNG6yRILL8xnqwqkEY7jIdEHDspxc_Oq0sXVcSSXi0/s400/IMG_4970.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5K4MkUT_iw6eRbeDNiKBQAxFJ22e6awbt77ba6l2bOjBqzppVlu3jgyCcxVcJfmGO0iIpaxFFiLjC5iitmBLVp65Muky_9Wk3jtusYy6tYz2aUbPAVZ_hf4INZ-fXT8muQY2qHeUWNf0/s1600/IMG_4971.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5K4MkUT_iw6eRbeDNiKBQAxFJ22e6awbt77ba6l2bOjBqzppVlu3jgyCcxVcJfmGO0iIpaxFFiLjC5iitmBLVp65Muky_9Wk3jtusYy6tYz2aUbPAVZ_hf4INZ-fXT8muQY2qHeUWNf0/s400/IMG_4971.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">This sweet little birthday card - complete with a candle necklace - from <a href="http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/index.jsp">Anthropologie</a> offering me 15% off any purchase in May (my birthday's at the end of the month). Isn't it cute?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">And this skirt that I ordered from <a href="http://www.sevierskirts.com/Main.aspx">Sevier Skirts</a> arrived too . . . </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD_1v6s5lS4UgewVTPYFFiUB9IXD_2Zo167GOwkmgsT8s4pSdUMw9o1wc2bG_AkIXuJ2_9FvbE-kxnjG_MPYHCPLxclR2pZHEZ94qOUPTc0ZfJxBoplL-grguKsTL2z0GP67OT0LinBGw/s1600/IMG_4978.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD_1v6s5lS4UgewVTPYFFiUB9IXD_2Zo167GOwkmgsT8s4pSdUMw9o1wc2bG_AkIXuJ2_9FvbE-kxnjG_MPYHCPLxclR2pZHEZ94qOUPTc0ZfJxBoplL-grguKsTL2z0GP67OT0LinBGw/s400/IMG_4978.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">just in time for me to wear to my son's pre-school Mother's Day Tea tomorrow!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then, out of the blue, my husband came home with these . . .</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfClEOYOqjVuhUgG0b_-S-2AWm6Keelq0hPSOD1pqwW_f89uksWUbq1FsHxSw0U0d1hYRe5V5g8VVhVd-nQztEE2h6burlECZP4ShaU4xqZAXrnvne_y72-LT4nm18BDRVvEDbEr_yqDI/s1600/IMG_4972.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfClEOYOqjVuhUgG0b_-S-2AWm6Keelq0hPSOD1pqwW_f89uksWUbq1FsHxSw0U0d1hYRe5V5g8VVhVd-nQztEE2h6burlECZP4ShaU4xqZAXrnvne_y72-LT4nm18BDRVvEDbEr_yqDI/s400/IMG_4972.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">just because he knows I love peonies and that they're blooming now. They are beautiful and smell wonderful. Thanks, honey!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am very lucky indeed. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Sidenote: If you are interested in spiffing up your (or your child's) wardrobe this spring and helping out Nashville at the same time, check out <a href="http://kaycehughes.blogspot.com/">Kayce Hughes blog/store</a>. She's donating 50% of all sales made over the next week to the American Red Cross for flood relief efforts in Nashville. </i></span></div>

Happy Day

With the historic flood that hit Nashville over the weekend, I never thought today would be a happy day, but I was wrong. For a couple of ho...

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