Some people ruin it for others

Ok.. so last week or so, I was in the Walmart (NE) Parking lot getting in my car when a girl, probably late 20's or so, approached me and said her car was over at the gas station and she needed a couple bucks to get gas. Well for some reason I was in a generous mood and so I reached in my purse and pulled out a dollar and handed it to her. After doing so I really started to wonder if I had done the right thing. Now every so often there is a couple that will stand by the entrance to the plaza and ask for food money also.

Well today, Ken and the boys and I had just gone through the Burger King Drive through and pulled over in the parking lot to go through our food when I look up and I see the same girl walking with the couple that beg for food money. They set up by the curb in the PL and stood there talking for a few seconds. I tried to talk Ken in to driving over so I could ask her if her car was still at the gas station needing gas but, no go. As we watch them I notice that she has on those shape up sketchers that cost a pretty penny. I'm still trying to talk myself into spending that much for a pair of those. She starts to walk away from the couple as they get comfy with their sign, and heads to the Dollar tree parking lot.As she heading over there, she pulls out a cell phone. I'm thinking, ok if you've been out of gas this long, you could have called someone by now you have a cell.

My point being, this really didn't look good. I was really believing that when I gave her a dollar before, I didn't do the right thing. I should have offered to take her over to the gas station, or meet her there and put a few bucks of gas in it myself. Then see what her reaction was. The people wanting money for food, Give them a burger or fries, or offer to take them into BK and buy then a meal.

Tanner said it himself, The bad thing about people like that is, they ruin it for some of the people that really need help. You just never know when someone is really telling the truth.

You see I have no problem in helping someone in need, Christ said "what you do to the least of these you do to me."I just think they need to help themselves first.

We had a long discussion about this as a family and what we can do... like the things mentioned above that I should have done. The boys also pointed out that we can look at what they are actually asking for on the sign,If it's money, than be leery but if they actually ask for clothing or food or jobs or a tent to sleep in, (like we saw once) Then they are more than likely a person really in need.

I guess If we are really really unsure about what to do when we see a person that says they are in need , we can pray for them. After all who doesn't need prayer.

I'm a Winner over at Trying to Stay Calm

Do you remember when I entered this Give away over at Trying to Stay Calm?  I even Blogged about it. Who wouldn't love a free pair of shoes ?  Well guess what??

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Do you believe I just won these shoes? How cool is that?

THANKS SHAUNA

I just had to enter another one

Well lately I have entered a few giveaways that I have come across on here. 3 of them are still going on right now , this one I just entered, and 1 of them I didn't win. This newest one is for The Flip Ultra ™ Camcorder you can learn more about it here at Posh on a Budget

Check it out

Great Day to Be Outside

Well today was just a Beautiful Day. The Sun was shining, the trees were beautiful shades of Reds Oranges and Yellows and the temperature was around 70 degrees. Tanner had a soccer game so we went to that. They won I think it was 6 to 0

When we got back home, we finally got some yard work done that we had been wanting to do. I trimmed back some bushes in the front of the house. I like to keep them below the windows and far enough away from the house that they don't touch.

I also got a couple of mums planted that had kept falling over in their pots and were starting to look a little ragged. One of them is in a wooden basket lawn ornament that we have.

Bottom left is one of the mums we planted

Ken did dig the holes for me to plant them, and took care of all the branches from the bushes I cut, and he cut the grass.
All in all it was a pretty productive Day

Wordless Wednesday

My Mom and Pop, They're the best

All 10 of their Grandchildren together, Who knows when this will happen again,( 6 of them live out on the West coast, 4 on the East)

Hayride fun

These are just a few pictures from this past weekend. My brother got married so my sister from California and her family (total: 8 of them) flew in for the wedding. They were here almost a total of 2 weeks. The wedding was a fall theme so for rehearsal dinner they had a hayride and Bonfire at my parents. It was a really nice weekend.

My nephew Vance

my niece Keely

My niece Brynna

My sister Erica and Sadie my niece

My niece Ryleigh

Jace my nephew

Jordan, Tanner and my nephew Jace

Ken and me

All 10 grand kids together at once. Who knows when it will happen again.

I love hayrides in the fall .

Cool Coffee Maker

Back in the summer of 2009, our son Jordan was in A. I.  hospital for 8 days. A. I.   had a room where Families of children that were staying in the hospital could go just to relax and get away for awhile. It has couches, tables, books, computers, and a little kitchen that we had access too. This is where we first came across the Keurig  Coffee maker. We thought it was the neatest thing and there were so many different flavors to pick from. We would pass up a regular cup of coffee that we could get right in the room when they brought the courtesy cart around and go down to another floor just to get one of those Keurig cups.
 Well now, over at Thanks Mail Carrier  you have a chance to win one of these wonderful machines. Just hop on over and find out how.

Wordless Wednesday

My Sister Erica and her family are in from California for my brother's wedding.

My niece Sadie

my Nieces Sadie and Keely

My sisters and me Erica and Karen , me

My Niece Ryleigh

Taco Bowls

My family and I have Taco's pretty frequently for dinner. It's one of my boys favorite foods. I like Tacos too but I prefer to break my shells up and make a Taco salad. Recently I found these little baking tins in a magazine. You take a Tortilla and place them in these things and bake them, then you have a bowl you can eat. Then we added all of our Taco fixings. I love them. I think I would probably try a corn Tortilla next time though instead of a flour one but all in all they were pretty tasty.

Aren't they neat? They had small ones too .

Flour Tortillas, going to try Corn next time.

The baked bowl, ready to be filled.

All filled up.

Another Giveaway

Well again, Shauna has a pretty cool giveaway over at Trying to stay calm .
I just can't wait to see what she has on there when I visit.
Kushyfoot is the Company and they have all kinds of different socks and more. Shauna tells her thoughts on them and you can go to the website yourself and learn more. They seem really comfy to me so I'm going for it. You never know....