As time passes by and you begin to get older it gets increasingly difficult to be comfortable with yourself, at least for some of us! However in the case that one of your children getting married then it’s even worse, it’s then much harder to feel comfortable in yourself!Bev was experiencing these exact feelings before her daughter’s wedding, so when she searched out the ‘Makover Guy’, called Christopher Hopkins she was really determined to get his help.
Christopher sat with Bev and they had a chat, she told him how she really felt almost she didn’t exist, invisible in fact for many years, she told him about the wedding too. With some color and a little snipping here and there Christopher was confident that she would feel amazing, and different again.
YouTubeWell, he was really able to transform her from an average middle-aged lady into a vivacious sexy lady! Bev looked and felt a whole new lady, she not only felt great but also she had the newfound self-esteem to go with her new look.Just looking at Bev’s reactions in the video is completely wonderful, she is so happy and vibrant! She is having a laugh with Christopher and chatting away like that are reunited, friends. She really can’t contain herself with everything that has happened.
YouTubeIn the wings, her family watches, excited with her to watch the transformation that Christopher lake a reality. You can see then in the video eagerly watching on over the whole process.
It really shows that a physical appearance change also completely changes your attitude too, confidence and your whole outlook on life.
The moment Christopher allows Bev to see her new look, she completely loses it! This was what she wanted all along and she couldn’t be more grateful for the magic he worked.YouTubeNow she has the chance to live it up at her daughter’s wedding and feel proud of who she is – and not feel invisible anymore! Her abundant beauty within is now visible for everyone to see on the outside.
Have a look at the video and see for yourself the complete transformation that happens to Bev, she finally gets to be the person that she feels is trapped inside.YouTubeShe has embraced her amazing new style, she will rock and roll at the wedding and reception for sure!
Sadly diagnosed with dementia around five years ago, Jessie Bell, a grandmother, was moved into a nursing home this year as her condition worsened, for her own safety and wellbeing.At a ripe old age of 94 she had done ok in life, but is now having a hard time in enjoying what’s left in life for her, Jessie’s daughter, Sandra, now 57 years old, described her mother as hardly ever smiling anymore.Sandra Said:
“She started doing the oddest things like going into the garden in the middle of the night to move around garden furniture or she’d try to cook her chips in washing-up liquid”
“It got to the point where my sister was going down there seven days a week and mom had carers too.
“She’d be getting up in the middle of the night and playing up so in the end we had no choice but to put her in a home.”
As her mother’s condition progressed it was inevitable that Jessie’s condition would become worse to the point that she couldn’t remember anymore that Sandra and Carol were her daughters.
One year Carol, Sandra’s sister bought a doll for Jessie for their mother from a charity store, they desperately wanted their mother to feel happy again. Jessie, when she saw the doll thought it was a real baby, the doll made real baby noises too, it was quite convincing if your sight wasn’t too great!
For the first time in a long time she started smiling again, she found some happiness!
Jessie called the doll ‘Gizzy’, which also was her dog’s name!
Sandra said:
“My mom will look into the doll’s face and say to me ‘isn’t she lovely? Look at her smile’ …then mom will smile too, she rarely smiles at anyone else”
Sandra after some refmection then said:
“She’s gone really downhill in the last few months and she can’t walk at all, but the baby is always with her”
“Every time we go in and see her the baby is always by her side,” she said. “When I visited last night, she was cuddling it in her arms.”
“She’ll feed it and if she’s eating something then the baby will have to eat too. She doesn’t change the baby’s nappy or clothes herself though because she kept pulling its arm out of the socket.”
Many of the residents at the nursing home took to the doll too, some of them, also with dementia will ask Sandra how the baby is doing when she comes to visit her mother.
Sandra said:
“There’s a few other residents in the home that like to take her doll when she’s not looking”
“They get a lot of comfort from holding the baby.”
Some of the residents who are ‘sound of mind’, as Sandra said, ask Jessie regularly how the baby is doing, these are some of the few interactions Jessie is able to understand.Would you believe it, but there is definitely something there, “doll therapy” is a controversial but growing thing; It’s been found to calm people with dementia and be a bright spot in their lives, but some people are not comfortable with it.Sandra and Carol get some comfort in knowing their mom’s mind will be occupied while she is playing with the baby and she will feel a sense of happiness.
“I think the dementia has been harder for us than it has been for mom, but now when we leave her the doll gives her comfort”
While this story might be heartbreaking it is also a little ray of light for sons, mothers, and daughters in these positions, and it gives happiness and comfort to someone who otherwise would live every day in confusion and despair.
The baby may not feel, look, or be real to us, but it is to Jessie! It brings peace to chaos, harmony to despair and confusion, and in the end, the result for Jessie is the most important thing of all!
So often in life its every man or woman for himself or herself and especially in this hard and difficult world, there are many people who don’t or won’t make the time to help others. It feels like we could be destined for a future where less and less people care, well this story will restore your faith just a little…I wonder if that is the reason why the 2013 Super Bowl commercial for Ram Trucks is still strongly felt by many, many across American soil. The advert featured clips from decades old speeches that were recorded by renowned radio broadcaster Paul Harvey.The original speech that Harvey gave was in 1978, it was at the Future Farmers Of America Convention and very aptly entitled “So God Made a Farmer.”It all happened to start like just like this:
“And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker.’ So God made a farmer.”
Many were, perhaps not familiar at all with this speech, but it was somewhat possible that Van Brownlee’s neighbors, that reside in the rural parts of Saint Charles over in Iowa, could be a little vague but familiar with this speech…
Even though that was the case, it really didn’t stop them from living out the words, from Harvey, in real life. Coming from all the local townships, Truro, Saint Charles and Peru… just to take care of everything!
Sadly, back in May and not long after the farmer had planted all his crop, Brownlee, aged 58 years, died.
Lisa Brownlee, woke up one morning to a big surprise, there was a huge convoy of trucks, grain carts and combines spread across the family’s land.It happens that the community had resolved themselves to harvest her husband’s final crop before they had even dealt with their own crops in their own fields!The harvest was a huge 165 acres of soybeans and 235 acres of corn too, the news said that Brownlee had practiced something called “no-till farming” to minimize soil erosion, he was, of course, concerned about the crazy amount of chemicals used today.
Neighbors unite to harvest farmer’s final crops – Van Brownlee died shortly after planting crops in the spring…. https://t.co/UuDPlOJ7NF
Very active in the cattlemen and pork producers groups of Madison County, he had not only been on the Interstate 35 School Board, but he had sat on local cooperative farming boards.Everyone has passed the word around, and very fast, many of the neighbors had taken note of the harvest plan, good old word of mouth! Not a single person could believe the extent of the turnout.Steve Downs who organized all of the harvest, had known Brownlee since his junior high school, and he said that if Brownlee himself would do exactly the same for others, without a second thought.Steve also said that it wasn’t that long ago that Brownlee helped bring in a neighbors hay crop for a farmer that had been sadly killed in a farming accident.Other friends revered Brownlee as a guy committed to the land and real farming. He loved every single second that he got to be there, raising livestock and planting crops.
Steve said his friend is someone who:
“…always had a chew in and a hat on.”
This really does restore your faith in not just humankind but just goes to show how the hardworking farming community really do support each other, and have a true love of the work!
In life, there are many strange things that happen every day, to all sort of people, but for a teacher, in Seattle, he had a shock when he was put on paid leave, from the high school he worked at, for dressing up as Michael Jordan on Halloween.The teacher concerned, Peter Colino, was wearing a costume which had a rubber mask and a jersey with number 23 embossed on it, with black gloves, just like a full body head to toe, Michael Jordan copy outfit!Peter had worn the costume before, in fact, for the last 18 years, every single Halloween. He used it to encourage his students in the class, he thought it was a great thing…In his usual routine, and in his yearly excitement, he had told the class that Jordan was coming to visit the school to visit, on the very next day, in costume, he walked in, he also played a video of Jordan’s wonderful career.Peter said:“He is, to me, the greatest, I’m going to say, athlete of all time and my whole deal is to honor Michael Jordan”One of the parents made a formal complaint after a video was passed around the students at the school, the video featured Peter Colino. One mother who wanted to remain anonymous received the picture, screen-shotted image from the video, from her son at school.The woman said:
“He’s never texted me while he was at school, he sent me the picture and I was just floored,”
“I couldn’t even believe the lapse of judgment.”
The result was that the principal emailed the teacher to tell him to remove the mask for the remainder of the day.
Many of the students couldn’t see a problem with the costume their teacher was wearing, it seemed innocent and harmless to them.Dillon Mahone, KIRO, said:
“I laughed. It was funny. I didn’t mind it, seemed cool to me”
Peter felt very bad, his unfortunate incident sparked something he didn’t intend it to spark, so the very next day, after much thought he apologized to all the classes, then he discussed with them issues of race.This is what he said also:
“The difficult part for me is I’ve always done well with trying to bring people together. I teach kids of all backgrounds and I’ve been respected and liked as a teacher”
A letter was sent out to all parents, the principal had said quite descriptively, that how he acted is:
“…in opposition to Ingraham’s values of racial diversity and inclusivity and have impacted our students negatively.”
Peter also arranged to meet with the Black Students’ Union where he apologized profusely.
Vice president, Eden Gevremariam, of the Union said:
“We are all able to learn from this and now people know this kind of thing shouldn’t happen. I’m hoping it won’t happen again in the future”
Well, his intentions were perhaps thought out, but his delivery definitely offended some people and sparked a lot of anger. Should he have been treated this way when he meant no harm? Is the world going crazy? Or, should he feel the severe weight of his actions firmly fall on him?
One of the worse things is cancer, even more so when it’s concerning children.
Jonathan and Shelby thought that their daughter, Sophie, who is two years old, was suffering from allergies. She was finding it hard to breathe and her doctor thought it might be asthma. Unfortunately, it was soon going to be evident that it was much worse!
The little girl, Sophie was set to have an allergy test a few day later, but she didn’t get to take that test.
One night she stopped breathing…
For every parent it’s a worse case scenario, Her parents ran to call an ambulance and within minutes they were on their way to the hospital.
It was just at that moment that doctors finally confirmed that Sophie had a condition that was much worse than just asthma or allergies. She had developed cancer, a T-cell lymphoma.
Sophie has since then spent many months in hospital having chemotherapy, even though fighting it hard the cancer spread.
The treatment affected her ability to talk, walk, use her hands to eat, her tiny body is going through the preparations for a stem cell operation.
Shelby is keeping a constant watch over her daughter and is by her side constantly. So many times Shelby forgets to take care of herself, it’s just the only thought she has, to get Sophie better!
Jonathan and Shelby have created a Facebook page to record Sophie’s fight against the disease, they want friends and family alike to have an easy method to see updates on how Sophie is getting along. The page is called Sophie The Brave.
It’s not just family that follows the page, there are over 12,000 people following Sophie’s fight.
There is one post on the page that has especially been welcomed. Moms with sick children will also relate, very likely, to what Shelby’s said.
Shelby wrote:
“I see you. I sit on this couch all day long and, I see you. You try so hard to be unnoticed by me and my child. I see your face drop a little when she sees you and cries. You try so many ways to ease her fears and win her over. I see you hesitate to stick her or pull bandaids off. You say ‘No owies’ and ‘I’m sorry’ more times in one day than most people say ‘thank you’..”
“I see all of those rubber bracelets on your arms and wrapped around your stethoscope, each one for a child that you’ve cared for and loved. I see you stroke her little bald head and tuck her covers around her tightly. I see you holding the crying mom that got bad news.I see you trying to chart on the computer while holding the baby whose mom can’t-or won’t be at the hospital with her.”
“You put aside what’s happening in your life for 12 hours straight to care for very sick and something’s dying children. You go into each room with a smile no matter what’s happening in there. You see Sophie’s name on the schedule and come to check on us even when she isn’t your patient. You call the doctor, blood bank, and pharmacy as many times as necessary to get my child what she needs in a timely manner. You check on me as often as you check on her. You sit and listen to me ramble for 10 minutes even though your phone is buzzing and your to do list is a mile long.
“I see you. We all see you. No amount of snack baskets or cards can fully express how appreciated you are. You are Jesus to us every single day. Our children wouldn’t get what they need without you. Moms like me wouldn’t feel sane or heard without you. You save our babies and we couldn’t do this without you.”
Shelby got 26,000 likes on her post, its easy to see and understand why, all the amazing people at the hospital, the nurses, all deserve to be thanked and recognized for their great work.
Let’s all hope and pray that Sophie makes a fast recovery, and as it happens the family got some really great news, Sophie’s cancer is almost all gone!
Let’s also share Shelby’s words about the nursery and hospital staff so that more and more people can hear about the amazing work they do.
Sometimes children are children, but rules are also rules, so when this one mom found her son using his phone after bedtime, even though he knew it was again the rules. He then had to ‘earn points’ to end his punishment… 500 points!He was allowed to choose how to earn points, and his mom came up with an ingenious mix of household jobs for him to do it, each different job with a different amount of points.Twitter/sophiemcbride_This is what she wrote:
Congratulations! – You got grounded!!!
To get rid of your penalty, you must earn _500_ points.
Offense: _ Playing on the mobile phone after bedtime _
Write a nice letter to a family member = 10 points
Prepare and cook dinner = 50 points
1 load of laundry (get started, hang up, fold) = 100 points
Clean and organize a kitchen cupboard = 50 points per shelf
Empty the dishwasher = 25 points
Load the dishwasher = 25 points
Clean and wash off counters = 25 points
Clean out microwave = 40 points
Clean and vacuum the living room = 30 points
Sweep and mop kitchen = 30 points
Wash windows = 10 points per window
Water houseplants = 10 points
Dust living room = 25 points
Clean bathroom (sink, toilet and floor) = 50 points
Take out trash (and rebag) = 10 points per garbage bag
Clean the litter box = 10 points
Magic MumThere is one absolute certainty here, the house is going to be very, very clean, by the time he earns enough points!What do think about this kind of punishment, I know I’ve done this before with my kids and it’s a great way to teach responsibility for actions!Share this if you agree that mom’s clever way to teach her son a lesson was great!
School for many children is a scary affair, there are tests in school, bullies at play time and simply fitting in is a challenge in itself. All in all it’s a lot of anxiety!A particular student, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, who is only 8 years old, had a recent fear come true. ON 23rd October he was left at school until the end of the day.That in in itself wasn’t to bad, but there was more, it was the boy’s birthday.
He only had one patent recorded on his file, and that parent was in jail., the school didn’t even have someone listed as an emergency contact for him.
The boys position was an awful and seemingly impossible combination of family circumstances.The Staff at the school did the only thing they could and called the police department.
Yesterday Officer Robinson responded to a local elementary school for a child that was not picked up at the end of the…
Right at that moment the story could have ended in tears, but thankfully and thanks to the officer who arrived, it didn’t. Darryl Robinson the officer there knew just what to do, and soon the situation turned around.
He realized that the young man had no-one to celebrate his birthday with, so having put the boy into his cruiser, he headed for the nearest Golden Arches.
Robinson explained:
“We did have a phone number for his grandfather”
“I asked his grandfather if it was okay to take him to McDonald’s before bringing him home. He said, ‘Yes.’”
The Police department said on it’s Facebook page;
“Thanks to the owners of our local McDonald’s, we were given free cheeseburger coupons to hand out in certain situations. Officer Robinson took the child for a meal at McDonald’s and a ride around in the police car for his birthday. Family was eventually located and the child was dropped off.”
The actions of the officer, Robinson, had greatly impressed the boy and the community!
One citizen commented on Facebook, he said:
“Thank you Officer Robinson for treating that young boy like a human being even though his parents are having a hard time right now.”
Most of us, in general, have our office jobs, even some of us work from home, but some of us have to deal with dirtier harder jobs! One person who has one of these challenging and dirty elements in their work is Jimmie Cox.
Just outside of Fort Worth, Texas, Jimmy is a utilities employee who regularly has to overcome problems most of us wouldn’t even think of. Recently when he went to service a broken water pipe in someones home, he encountered one of these problems.
The water just kept going, he couldn’t work out where the leak was. He decided then, to do the only thing that was left to do… He dove deep into the hole!He did it just to look after his customer, like he does for all his customers, this guy is not only dedicated to his job but he really goes above and beyond for all his customers.The owner of the house, a woman, came outside to see Jimmie’s torso, deep in the mucky water! After she checked to see that he was really ok, and he wasn’t in trouble, she took a picture of him (with his permission of course).
Jimmie wasn’t paying any attention to the woman taking the photo, he was busy on the job. Gladly Jimmie was able to repair the broken pipe, he really didn’t realize how the picture would go viral!
Jimmie’s picture was even noticed by “Dirty Jobs” master, Mike Rowe.Mike saw the picture of Jimmie’s body totally submerged in the murky water and contacted him directly.
There was just one question he wanted answering; ‘was it a water main or a sewage main?’ Laughing Jimmi confirmed it was just a water pipe!’Not only that, but Jimmy got a surprise from Wrangler (the jeans brand he was wearing) who sent him a year’s supply of jeans!
It just goes to show that it really does pay to go above and beyond!
Peter said:
“He is, to me, the greatest, I’m going to say, athlete of all time and my whole deal is to honor Michael Jordan”
One of the parents made a formal complaint after a video was passed around the students at the school, the video featured Peter Colino. One mother who wanted to remain anonymous received the picture, screen-shotted image from the video, from her son at school.
The woman said:
Many of the students couldn’t see a problem with the costume their teacher was wearing, it seemed innocent and harmless to them.
Dillon Mahone, KIRO, said:
The water just kept going, he couldn’t work out where the leak was. He decided then, to do the only thing that was left to do… He dove deep into the hole!
He did it just to look after his customer, like he does for all his customers, this guy is not only dedicated to his job but he really goes above and beyond for all his customers.
The owner of the house, a woman, came outside to see Jimmie’s torso, deep in the mucky water! After she checked to see that he was really ok, and he wasn’t in trouble, she took a picture of him (with his permission of course).
Jimmie wasn’t paying any attention to the woman taking the photo, he was busy on the job. Gladly Jimmie was able to repair the broken pipe, he really didn’t realize how the picture would go viral!
Jimmie’s picture was even noticed by “Dirty Jobs” master, Mike Rowe.
Mike saw the picture of Jimmie’s body totally submerged in the murky water and contacted him directly.
There was just one question he wanted answering; ‘was it a water main or a sewage main?’ Laughing Jimmi confirmed it was just a water pipe!’
Not only that, but Jimmy got a surprise from Wrangler (the jeans brand he was wearing) who sent him a year’s supply of jeans!
It just goes to show that it really does pay to go above and beyond!
