Life With Boys

OK — you know it is time to post something when your Dad calls.

The SPQ trip to Jackson, MS was a ton of fun. Only downfall was catching Mindy’s cold on the way home and I’m still not quite over it.

Speaking of Mindy — her true calling is NOT as a travel agent. She and Peter managed to miss every single one of their flights to and from Jackson. You’ll have to ask her for the details.

I’m working on getting the photos together, I’ve just been preoccupied as usual.

Here are some links to some of the craziness until I can get mine up — (From Her Royal Highness herself, Jill Conner Browne)

Dearest Darlin’ Y’all,

Oh, mercy, do we REALLY have to wait another WHOLE YEAR to do it AGAIN? This Parade was truly THE BIGGEST AND BEST yet. And there is soooo much proof available. Just don’t even plan on pretending to work the rest of the day—go to these links and re-live it all! Click here for DUANE’S FABULOUS 2009 SPQ™ PARADE WEEKEND PHOTOS and don’t forget that he’s donating 20% of all his sales to Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children; so, buy tons!

And CLICK HERE where you can find about 7 different videos of us!

And while you’re there, go to WALT GRAYSON’S LOOK AROUND MISSISSIPPI and see the latest edition of that—which is … all about US! Hey! We’re on CNN.COM today—CLICK HERE TO SEE! AND we’re on MSNBC too—CLICK HERE.

CLICK HERE—the CLARION-LEDGER has some fantastic photos of y’all online—go check ‘em out!

As most of you know, we focused our efforts this year on raising money to buy wheelchairs for the Children’s Hospital. A basic child’s wheelchair costs $900—but the much-needed tilt-in-space chairs, for the most severely ill kids, cost $5,000—per chair. Keep in mind that NO CHILD is ever denied treatment due to inability to pay—and if they need a chair, they get one, period the end. A shocking number of these chairs are needed every year—that’s what drove our fund-raising efforts this year—Chairs for the Chirren. And y’all really came through. (Here’s a link to some more wonderful work that Batson does.)We don’t have firm numbers yet, but it’s looking like y’all raised at least $25,000 for Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital this weekend!

And one last video that captures a bit more of the fun — yes I know it is out of focus — but you’ll get it anyway — Presenting OCTOMOM