Monday, April 27, 2009

House Tour


Introduction



The beginning



The Middle





The End!

Ps. This took me 2 hours to upload so don't expect many more videos...

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Mother's Day

I stole this text from Wikipedia and thought it was interesting but also kinda sad...this is just a part of the story...

"Ann Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker who, starting in 1858, had attempted to improve sanitation through what she called Mother's Work Days. She organized women throughout the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and in 1868 she began work to reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors."

"When Jarvis died in 1905, her daughter, named Anna Jarvis, started the crusade to found a memorial day for women. In 1907, she passed out 500 white carnations at her mother’s church, St. Andrew’s Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia—one for each mother in the congregation. Anna chose Sunday to be Mother's Day because she intended the day to be commemorated and treated as a Holy Day."

"Nine years after the first official Mother's Day, commercialization of the U.S. holiday became so rampant that Anna Jarvis herself became a major opponent of what the holiday had become and spent all her inheritance and the rest of her life fighting what she saw as an abuse of the celebration."

"Later commercial and other exploitations of the use of Mother's Day infuriated Anna and she made her criticisms explicitly known throughout her time. She criticized the practice of purchasing greeting cards, which she saw as a sign of being too lazy to write a personal letter. She was arrested in 1948 for disturbing the peace while protesting against the commercialization of Mother's Day, and she finally said that she "wished she would have never started the day because it became so out of control ..."."

Now I will think twice about purchasing an already made greeting card

This ones for my ladies...Amanda and Tiffany

Amanda and Tiffany have sent out strong requests for me to blog something. I kinda feel like I don't have anything interesting to say so I am just going to post pictures for now...
p.s. I already put them on facebook so you might have already seen them.


This is at Tori's engagement party..she is one of the senior interns. It was an unbearably hot day in Richmond so we are all a little shiny faced.

These are the rings they had on the dessert table for decoration so Miranda and I took the opportunity to become engaged...Can you tell which hand is mine?


This was at a party one of our managers had. He had all this delicious food but I had already eaten a hamburger...But I found a way to eat some anyway...Even the big shirt couldn't hide all the cannoli and shrimp cocktail.