Generosity

I am feeling thankful for a lady at our church, who has a set of girl twins and gives me one half of their clothes.  I have not had to buy one thing for Maizie in the last year b/c of her generosity.  I feel like I should buy them from her, some of the clothes have never been worn or worn very little.  It is all so very nice, and I am incredibly thankful that she is sharing.  On that note, I only take clothes from her and one other gal.  The first year of Maizie's life, I had people dumping clothes on me, like I'm a goodwill.  And while that is great, I don't want all the really worn out, um, "retro" clothes.  But these two women are really great.  The other woman is a great friend, and not only has she given me clothes for Maizie, but she's also given me maternity clothes, a cradle, and various other things.  I've been given so much for my kids, and then I feel like such a hypocrite, b/c it is hard for me to be that generous.  There is a family that is struggling to make ends meet who attends our church.  I know I need to give them something, but I can be so darn selfish!   And not like, "there is no way that they deserve anything," but more like "I need to spend all my money on our family."  There is a toy I REALLY want to buy Maizie, it's $30, (it's a PatPatRocket from Little Einsteins), and this family could really use that money for necessities.  And Maizie hasn't even asked for the toy!  

We'll see where this goes.  

Brownies-YUM!

I happen to like Brownies.  Not the little girl kind, but the chocolaty, gooey, warm, fudgey, three-WW-points-per-serving, YUMMY kind.  Other than brownies, the last name "Brown" has nothing cute associated with it.  It's pretty standard.  Well, I guess there's "Brown vs. board of education," which was an important court case, but did not convey exactly what I wanted the name of my Blog to convey.  I think that you could understand this.  And I almost named it "sockmonkeyland," just because I like sock monkeys, I think that they're funny, but before I hit "return" I realized I own not a one sock monkey.  Not even a miniature sock monkey.  So I was stuck trying to spin off of my last name.  "Brown."  Pretty ho-hum.  And Brownies, unless made well, can also be ho-hum. 

So, not sure what the point of this Blog is, just wanted to make sure that we were all on the same page.  I'm not eating little Girl Scouts, okay?