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copied this post from my daughter’s blog.. since many of you probably don’t visit it. He was a great President, in my opinion.

Remembering President Ronald Reagan On His Birthday

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 06:31 AM PST

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 2011 in Tampico Illinois and became America’s 40th president on January 20, 1981. He died on June 5, 2004 at the age of 93.

Did you know?

• In college, Ronald Reagan served tables and washed dishes in exchange for his meals.
• In addition to being an actor, he was also a construction worker, lifeguard and sports announcer.
• At age 69, Ronald Reagan was the oldest elected President.
• He was the first president to have been divorced.
• He was longest living president.
• He appointed the first woman to the Supreme Court -Sandra Day O’Connor.

Would you like to learn more about President Reagan?

Websites And Free Educational Resources About President Reagan

• The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library –Administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, the repository of presidential records for President Reagan’s administration.
• Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library –The 99th Birthday Celebration will be streamed live on Saturday, February 6th from 10:30am-12:30pm PST.
• Ronald Reagan Quotes
• The Heritage Foundation Remembers Ronald Reagan –A collection of thoughts, images and remembrances.
• Presidential Speech Archive –Free transcripts, audio and video of speeches by America’s Presidents.
• President Ronald Reagan Lesson –Students read about the life of President Ronald Reagan and his accomplishments. The reading is accompanied by multiple choice questions.
• 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall Curriculum –4th grade and higher.
• Ronald Wilson Reagan: A Presidential Unit –Online mini-unit study.
• President Ronald Reagan Coloring Pages
• Ronald Reagan Interactive Word Find

If you missed out ordering the new Shimmer paints.. you can still get them!!

Due to the popularity of our shimmer paint offered in the Mini Catalog, we will continue to offer it as a catalog write-in after the Holiday Mini sales period ends. Starting January 5, 2010, you can order the following products:

I will be giving away BLOG CANDY to one happy commenter!!

Got your attention with that line didn’t I??

This year is the dawn of a new Year….and era in our country.. bet you wonder how this figures into stamping. Well, it does on a round about way…let me try to explain…

Our country and it’s citizens are going through a rough time. We don’t have it as good as in days past…things are harder to acheive, sales are harder to come by,  even paying everyday bills for basic necessities is getting harder to do.  So we all have to tighten our belts a bit, get a little “greener”, use and re-use, recycle, re-purpose items and learn to do more with less.  My last few years working for the government, we were being given more and more work, less time to do it in, and less people to do the work. There was no overtime authorized most of the time. It was considered “contributed comp time” or some term like that. In other words, we put in the hours to get the job done, whether it was 40 or 60 a wk and weekends, and we “contributed” our time for the good of the organization.  Guess that was good training for “RETIREMENT”!!!

I recently had my knee replaced and have had some difficulty getting up and down my stairs to my stamp studio. I did manage to have a Mini Stamp a Stack last week (with the help of my daughter who helped me cut all the cardstock).. for some of my faithful customers. …sooo… I thought while I was getting all my pictures taken of the pretty cards and such.. I’d do a poll with those of you who read my blog regularly. I will pick a random number using random number generator to give BLOG CANDY to one commentor.  All you have to do is leave a comment, answering my question:

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1. How is the economy impacting my standard of living? Is your family doing as well, are you struggling and having a hard time, are you having to go out and get another job?

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2. If you had to get another job, are you working out of your home (such as an independent contractor for Stampin Up!,  Avon, Mary Kay, Pampered Chef), or are you working outside the home at a local store, hamburger joint, cleaning houses, babysitting??…what all are you doing to help out?

3. Are you going back to school to change your career?     Here is my response to this poll… to give you an example.

1. My family is temporarily worse off than it was 1 yr ago. My bills have gone up, my expenses have gone up, food prices have increased, and of course there are always “the refrigerator conks out”, “the car quits (a new computer had to be installed), medical bills , etc..My daughter who is going to school to be a nurse, quit one job that was not working with her schooling and finally got a job working at a local big box store. They promised full time hours, but due to decline in retail sales, no one has been getting “full time hours”. This is impacting whether she can go into her nursing clinicals when the time comes.

2. What are we doing about it? Well….I’m cleaning out stashes of supplies, selling my retired stamps (even though I wanted to keep some of them), and trying to scale down as much as possible. I am going to be having more Specialty classes using my Stampin’ UP! training, once I can get up and down the stairs better!!  My daughter is also looking for a 2nd part time job to help fill the gap.  We don’t eat out, we cook from scratch, we use renewable products (in other words use GREEN products) instead of using a lot of disposable items. We recycle everything we can, donate a lot, and try not to throw out anything that can be re-used or re-purposed.  I have used cloth napkins since the 70’s before it was popular to “go green and use cloth napkins”!!!

What are you doing to help the economy??  Here’s a blog where the lady has some things to say about how to have a good home, live modestly,   and some just good plain common sense approach to life.    Go to Penny Raine.  I’ll warn you, Penny Raine is a Christian lady who home schools her children and her philosphy on life is built around her love of Jesus and the Christian lifestyle.