Look! We're in Colorado

No, wait. Maybe we're still in Arkansas. Thanks, Ruthie and Jana, for sending us some of your snow. It's beautiful.

Happy Holiday

Upon reading an article from Zig Ziglar about some ideas to build relationships with potential customers, I learned that some random holidays provide creative ideas. For instance, you could take a bucket of popcorn to an office during National Popcorn Month. I found a website that gave some REALLY creative... and real... holidays. Check it out. Find a new way to greet the people you love.
http://www.holidayinsights.com/
Today is National Beer Can Appreciation Day. And National Compliment Day. Hey, by the way. You don't look so bad today...

The Bucket List

Keith, Mom and I went to see The Bucket List yesterday. I've seen some lukewarm reviews of the movie but determined, since we're probably older than some of those critics, that maybe I would have a different opinion. Well I was right. I loved it. It really made me think..and laugh. Keith and I had a date night afterward, grilling steaks and eating by candlelight and the movie subject was brought up, just as he thought it would be. One of the things Carter (Morgan Freeman) brought up, as he and Edward (Jack Nicholson) were sitting atop a pyramid in Egypt, was how the ancients were told that they were allowed into their reward. At the door of heaven, they were asked two questions and the right answer to one of them was the determining factor. "Do you have joy in your life? Have you brought joy into the lives of others?" It really makes one think. I love my life as it is, but I told Keith that one of the things I would like to do before I die (other than the most inportant: see our kids walk with God) is to travel. We agreed we'd like to see more mountains (the Alps), see some castles, and go to Hawaii.

So tell me, not that I'm planning to die any time soon:
Have I brought joy into your life in some way?
What would you like to do before you die?