Jasmina's Story

I ran across an article today about a six year old beauty named Jasmina. She has a rare and aggressive form of leukemia. The future of her life is dependent on someone's bone marrow to match with her own. Jasmina's story gripped my heart, and I found myself online at One for Jasmina, a website dedicated to sharing her story, which led me to DKMS, a website that is dedicated to raising awareness for the need of bone marrow donations. The thought struck me that this is something so simple, something that could potentially be life changing for someone who is facing the end of their life. Not to mention a beautiful gift to be able to present to their family. I'm doing research on the procedure that would be done, if I decided to donate, and though I haven't committed 100% to becoming a bone marrow donor, I can tell you that it's close to all I've thought about since reading the article, and seeing her beautiful face. Check out her website, and talk about it with those around you. Though we may not donate, we could at least raise awareness on her behalf.

quoteable quotes

"happiness is possible even if you're 33 and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls." - Bridget Jones Diary

meet becky, the green sand

So apparently I've been all about photo/video entries lately. Just tonight, I've fallen in love with Landon Pigg, a musician out of Nashville with an out-of-this-world voice. As I was looking at his facebook fan page, I came across this photo. And it intrigued me. I've often wondered why we call things what we do - who came up with the name, and why can't I decide that to me, it's something else? Maybe I'm the only person whose ever had that idea (well, obviously not), and maybe it makes me a dork. I'm okay with both of those. It's just a really interesting concept to think about...

Coca Cola

the best commercial yet!!

the beauty of spring!

I've gotten to see this every day out my window. Oh, how I love spring!

the real meaning of easter

Before leaving Arkansas yesterday, I went to my niece's school and had lunch with her. I was interrogated by little Waverly, who seemed to be quite the inquisitor at the age of 5. Thinking she was just curious about me, I answered her questions, which always seemed to start with "Hey, Becky, guess...." It didn't take long before I got tired of "guessing," and Cristina got tired of whispering the answers in my ear. Waverly turned to Cristina and said "Hey Cristina, ask me some questions." Cristina seemed to like it when the game was in her favor, so she started asking her random questions. One question/answer made me laugh, though. Cristina asked why we celebrated Easter, to which Waverly replied "I don't know. To have Easter?" I'm smiling at this point, because I'm thinking Cristina, being the little church girl she is (not to mention her dad is a youth pastor), is going to whip out some answer about celebrating Jesus at Easter. I laughed when she replied "no, silly. It's to celebrate bunnies."

school blunders

Yesterday, at the end of the day, I walked into my favorite kindergarten classroom to find that one of the students (not Arturo), had pulled part of the trash can liner off the trash can and was found eating it "because he was hungry."

Perhaps we should reinstate afternoon snacks.