Allergies!!

Allergies in Full Bloom

Now that you have seen that beautiful Lavender tree, you can only imagine the overkill of Pollen in the air this past week. My Spring allergies are in FULL BLOOM, almost to a point of becoming non-functional. One bright spot was a lovely Thank You from Dewey builders (Extreme Makeover Builders) with a link to their site and a blog. Check it out, quite interesting on how life changing this project was to so many of us. http://deweyextreme.blogspot.com/ check out the volunteer comments. This episode will air on Sunday April 30th 7-9PM eastern time. Enjoy!

Ny Lavender Magnolia in Bloom!!

A great day yesterday (Tues) I assisted my boss @ a fundraiser for Children's Hospital and walked away with 2 awesome raffle prizes. A $50.00 ceramic platter, and a just beautiful pink stoned necklace and earings witha value of $75.00. It still shows me that those who 'give' recieve as well..it is just so nice to win and what a pleasant surprise..Now I am smiling a little wider as I dive into my 'wedding sruff' today!! Have a great day, I know I will!! 

Fast Forward

Passover and Wedding stuff....

Ok, It has been a while, maybe that is because I had to prepare dinner (Passover Seder) for a small army last week, which took me 2 weeks to prepare for. Then it took me 3 days to get the china,crystal and linen put away. Now it is back to Wedding mode 101....One month from now I will alrady be in NAPA, does that tel you a bit about the clock ticking a bit too fast for me right now??
So time to sit and blog is a luxury..doesn't make the top 10 things on my list. At the top of that list is, doing the embroidery for the Chupa, getting my dress fitted, sewing stuff for my 'out of towners' and just trying to stay focused..so I'll be back to write more when my list gets a bit shorter...till then
Happy Spring to all!!

Extreme Volunteer Gig of a Lifetime!!

Sandy & Julie Volunteering for the Extreme Makeover Home Edition on the day of the "Big Reveal" 

EXTREME EXHAUSTION!!

The Ultimate Volunteer GIG!!
I know, I have been MIA for the past week ½, but for a good reason. I was lucky enough to be a volunteer on the Extreme Makeover 'Home Edition' house that was built in Northeast Philadelphia last week. I worked 38 our of 48 hours straight from Mon 3/27 @ noon through Wed. 3/29 @ 6PM with one 20 hour day from tues thru wed. I had the opportunity to meet some amazing people and to help build an amazing house. I was a food runner, planted a garden, sanded furniture and cooked and served food to the crew,construction workers and the production co. It was an experience of a lifetime. I have certainly done my share of volunteer work over the years, but this was a life changing experience. Julie volunteered with me on Wed and also had an awesome experience. In the middle of all the excitement I did get over to sign the papers for my new car and Elliot drove it home as I went back for another shift of work at the "work site" It was Extremely exhausting, but even more satisfying to have helped to accomplish so much. I had the pleasure of meeting (and feeding) Pauly and Preston and Paige & Ty too! I was assigned to the 50 foot mobile kitchen the last 2 days, It was a gourmet restaurant on wheels. How awesome was that..Elliot even hooked up the chef with Filets for his "wrap party luncheon on Thurs" just being in the right place at the right time. It was an experience of a lifetime and thanks to WAWA coffee and tastykakes I made it through the nights. The local builders "Dewey" were amazing in their organizational skills..what team work..from everyone!!
Now it is back to wedding mode and preparing for Passover next week.Time to start cooking, and cooking. We will be 30 for dinner for the 1st Seder..so I must get back to sewng wedding stuff and cooking..till then...