How God Chooses Mother's of Handicapped Children

Most women become mothers by accident, some by choice, a few by social pressures, and a couple by habit. This year, nearly 100,000 women will become mothers of handicapped children. Did you ever wonder how mothers of handicapped children are chosen? Somehow I visualize God hovering over Earth selecting his instruments for propagation with great care and deliberation. As he observes, he instructs his angels to make notes in a giant ledger.

"Armstrong, Beth; son; patron saint, Matthew.

"Forrest, Marjorie; daughter; patron saint, Cecelia.

"Rudledge, Carrie; twins; patron saint.... give her Gerard. He's used to profanity."

Finally, he passes a name to an angel and smiles, "Give her a handicapped child."

The angel is curious. "Why this one, God? She's so happy."

"Exactly," smiles God. "Could I give a handicapped child a mother who does not know laughter? That would be cruel."

"But has she patience?" asks the angel.

"I don't want her to have too much patience or she will drown in a sea of self-pity and despair. Once the shock and resentment wears off, she'll handle it. I watched her today. She has that feeling of self and independance. She'll have to teach the child to live in her world and that's not going to be easy."

"But, Lord, I don't think she even believes in you."

God smiles. "No matter. I can fix that. This one is perfect. She has just enough selfishness."

The angel gasps, "Selfishness? Is that a virtue?"

God nods. "If she can't seperate herself from the child occasionally, she'll never survive. Yes, there is a woman I will bless with a child less then perfect. She doesn't realize it yet, but she is to be envied. She will never take for granted a 'spoken word.' She will never consider a 'step' ordinary. When her child says 'Momma' for the first time, she will be present at a miracle and know it! When she describes a tree or a sunset to her blind child, she will see it as few people ever see my creations.

"I will permit her to see clearly the things I see --- ignorance, cruelty, prejudice --- and allow her to rise above them. She will never be alone. I will be at her side every minute of every day of her life because she is doing my work as surely as she is here by my side."

"And what about her patron saint?" asks the angel, his pen poised in midair.

God smiles. "A mirror will suffice."


This was written by Erma Bombeck

A New Grandbaby

My new grandbaby is here. He was born July 15th and weighed 5 lbs and 12 ozs. He is so sweet. But here is a quick look at him.

Today is my Birthday!

I have been hoping that my baby girl would have my grandson today. She is due any day now, but no such luck on sharing his Nanna's birthday.

I have not been on wow in a couple of days. I have been sick. Also, I have been working on my graphics for my scrapping blog and shop. I hope tonight I can get back to the game.

I bought myself a birthday present, some extra memory for my laptop, and hubby installed that for me. Maybe just maybe my game will run faster for me.

Other than Scrapping...

Aside from my scrapping and in Wow, I have now gotten my little gnome mage to level 41. She is so much fun to play. I have chosen to go frost spec and my best friend in wow has gotten his mage to level 41 too and has gone fire spec. Together we can freeze them in place and burn them down so to speak. I got my mount for her, I went with Darnassus rep and a cat. I just can't get into the noisy, clanking chicken to ride around on! We really have alot of fun questing with these guys. We have alot to learn and I haven't spent as much time reading blogs about mages (I really need to do that!). I hardly ever play my hunter anymore. She is just languishing waiting for the new expansion and level 80. Maybe by the time the expansion arrives I will have two characters to get to level 80. Here's hoping!

I have a new blog!

I have become addicted to digital scrapbooking lately and this has cut into my Wow time quite a bit! But, I love making graphics so along with my oldest daughter we have started making kits for digital scrapbookers to use in their own scrapbook pages. These items are for digital use but may also be printed for scrapbooking purposes as well. We offer premade kits, elements and much more. We also have a few freebies.


Please visit our store and blogs here:

Snappy Expressions (store)

Snap Scrap & Create (blog)

Snappy Expressions Blog

My Alts you ask? Yes, I have them!

Hello, My name is Cabriella and I am an altaholic!

I have way more alts than my friends. Probably more than anyone in the game, but hopefully not. I love to play the younger characters. They level so fast and I am addicted to the leveling process. Sometimes I just like to play alone. Not often, but sometimes. No offense to anyone, even my friends. Most of the time I like playing with my friends.

Nazgrel was my starting realm.

I made alts on Vek'nilash for my Cafemom group to play with those ladies.

Zangarmarsh was our guild horde experiment that has been put on hold.

Kirin Tor is a realm of a friend of my hubby and I play there as much as I can but not often enough!

The other realms, well I have no idea. Just made an alt and need to get back to them and will eventually.

Right now, I am leveling my mage alt on Nazgrel. I have leveled most of my alts on this realm to at least 20. I plan to level them all then start leveling the rest of my alts on the other realms.


HERE'S A LIST:


Nazgrel Realm:

Alliance Side

Cabriella - Level 70 Night Elf Hunter

Calyann- Level 31 Gnome Mage

Caybriella - Level 26 Night Elf Rogue

Pamella- Level 22 Human Paladin

Weelock- Level 21 Gnome Warlock

Liltank- Level 20 Gnome Warrior

Kelila - Level 20 Night Elf Priest

Flowerchild- Level 10 Draenei Paladin

Horde Side:

Shaydian Level 8 Blood Elf Rogue

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Zangarmarsh Realm:

Alliance Side

Carolina - Level 16 Dwarf Hunter

Misspryss - Level 7 Gnome Rogue

Horde Side

Wynter - Level 17 Blood Elf Priest

Reynes - Level 11 Blood Elf Hunter

Shadowspyrit - Level 9 Undead Mage

Darklass - Level 8 Undead Rogue

Whyspur- Level 7 Blood Elf Rogue

Shadowelf - Level 5 Blood Elf Rogue

Kittia - Level 2 Troll Hunter

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Vek' nilash Realm

Alliance Side

Caybe - Level 28 Night Elf Rogue

Cabryella - Level 16 Draenei Hunter

Cabriella - Level 10 Rogue

Wyllow - Level 6 Draenei Hunter

Moonchyld - Level 6 Night Elf Priest

Misspryss - Level 3 Human Priest

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Kirin Tor Realm

Alliance Side:

Cabriella - Level 30 Night Elf Hunter

Kelila - Level 25 Gnome Mage

Callyann - Level 9 Human Warlock

Shedevil- Level 6 Night Elf Rogue

Horde Side

Hedevil - Level 1 Blood Elf Rogue
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Cairne Realm

Alliance Side

Moonspirit - Level 1 Night Elf Priest

Cabe - Level 1 Gnome Rogue

Horde Side

Moonchyld- Level 2 Blood Elf Priest

Spyrit - Level 2 Blood Elf Hunter

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Ice Crown Realm:

Alliance Side

Kittia-Level 13 Human Priest

Cabriella - Level 9 Night Elf Hunter


Horde Side

Jessamia - Level 16 Troll Hunter

Warrie - Level 4 Tauren Warrior


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Sisters of Elune Realm

Alliance Side

Cabe - Level 12 Human Mage

Fanci - Level 6 Human Rogue


Horde Side

Alwynnora - Level 3 Blood Elf Hunter

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Anvilmar Realm

Horde Side

Moonchyld - Level 4 Priest


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Llane Realm

Alliance Side

Silentelf - Level 6 Night Elf Druid

Moonmyss - Level 1 Night Elf Hunter


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Cenarion Circle Realm


Mooina - Level 2 Tauren Shaman

This was for the Runnin of the Bulls Race



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Drenden Realm

Cabriella - Level 2 Gnome Rogue

This was for The Gnaked Gnome Race

Where Are You Now In The Game?

Since Cabriella hit level 70 I have found out quite a few things about my playing WOW. I do not play Cab very often. I only play her when:

* A guildie needs a run through of a dungeon or some help.
* A guildie needs an enchant.
* Our guild decides to run an old instance.
* I decide to run an old instance alone to collect some possible gear for one of my alts. and normally I find someone hanging out around an instance and they need help, I offer to run them through. NO CHARGE! and they get to collect all the loot. I do not mind helping and it makes me feel good about myself. I would feel badly to say ok, I ran you through you owe me!


I have not done any of the quests she has left in Outlands for the gold.

I have not ran any of the new instances nor have I done many of the old ones.
When Cab stopped getting XP, I pretty much stopped playing her. I have alot of quests left in Outlands for her to do when the expansion comes out and she can level again.

I have not done any of the dailies except maybe a few of the cooking/fishing ones for the recipes for her.

I have found that I like getting the xp. I did the Frostsaber mount rep grind, but there ya go, it was a reputation gain and almost like getting xp. I am not in the game for fabulous armor. Neither do I need alot of gold, nor do I want alot of gold. If I need gold on an alt, Cab can go grind for it, but mostly with all my alts I send all items and collected things to my bank alt and she sells them and she takes care of the money for the whole group.

I am not that competitive that I have to have great armor. I did do a few battlegrounds and got a few pieces for her, but that got old.

I AM a casual player. I know some folks say they are casual and maybe that means different things to different folks. But to me, casual means I play when I want to play, which alt I want to play and do what I want.

Stopping in the middle of what you are doing for a few minutes and it not being a problem is casual to me. In a dungeon, there is no stopping, you have to move on for the sake of the group and finish without dying if possible. I personally don't like dungeons. I can and will do them but I don't really like them. The ones my level 70 can blow through alone are fun to do but when I have to have a group I get a little antsy. My guild is great in groups, but we are hardly ever on at the same time and it is hard to get groups for a run in anything. I am not complaining just stating a fact. I love my guild and my guildies. They are a great bunch of people. I have managed to pass my altitus along to three more of them and they are leveling along with us. We are all about the same level right now, but my friend and I are gaining on them since they are on less often than we are.

I do not play alone. I have a good friend that plays with me every night. We quest together and have for a long time. His play style is very similar to mine. We are currently leveling our mage alts.

Playing a new character, learning its ins and outs, gaining levels, doing quests in a different area than before, is all like a whole new game. I guess after I have done it all, then I will have to find something new in the game to do. But, I have a long way to go to get to that point.

And that my friends is where I am in the game at this particular point!