Friends unite to continue charity dream.

Friends for 30+ years, we met at pre natal class while pregnant with our 1st babies.

When our dear friend DAZZLING DEB was diagnosed with cancer she had been off the smokes for 18 months.
When Deb decided to give up the cigarettes, she wanted to do something to take her mind of smoking and she was an av ed eBay shopper. One day while perusing eBay she fell in love with the Cabbage Patch dolls and decided to buy any that she came across and ended up with around 150 dolls which she lovingly re dressed and re named.
After finding out that she had cancer a vision she had going around in the back of her mind came to the fore and that was to raise a million dollars for the needy children of her local area and around the world with all donations being made through her local church. Deb was hoping to see this dream through to the end but sadly she lost her brave fight on the 11/1/2011 and so leaving her friends and family to realise this dream for her.
Deb's goal was to sell tickets for $1 each and draw winners from the pool of entries, to purchase a ticket for the opportunity to adopt on of these quirky little dolls you can go to www.dazzlingdeb4kids.org.au
As well as spending $1 for the opportunity to win you can also help us raise the $1,0000000 by become an associate member for $3/yr or make a donation, just visit the web site above and choose from the tabs. You can also listen to Deb's song and see her full story.
Cheers
Rhonda

Volunteering to make a difference

Such a simple way of making a difference. Rhonda Keenan you're the BEST!! You make my heart sing! ♥ ♥
Thanks Deb....:-) it makes my heart sing too... to know I can make a difference with one or two simple phone calls each day. Thanks for the face book post, you ROCK.

For the past 20 years I have been doing volunteer work for the Red Cross by calling people(mostly the elderly)at home to make sure they are up and about for the day and that they are ok. It's a simple cheery 5 minute call to give them contact with someone first thing in the morning.
Then about 3 years ago my husband Ron decided he would get involved and do the same.
It gives us great pleasure to make the calls and to make a small difference to someones day.

Cheers
Rhonda
PS Thanks everyone for your lovely comments on FB

HOME MADE SPRINKLERS

The engineer in my Husband. Home made sprinklers.

These sprinklers have been in the making for a while,( I mean years) because he has back pain he is always thinking about how to make doing things, easier, so he doesn't have to bend. So we have gone to every ones favourite hardware store, got a length of conduit, had it cut into 3 equal pieces,(approx. 1mtr) fixed a sprinkler head to the top and a spike on the bottom (made from an old clothes airer), oh, and naturally somewhere to connect the hose as well. Total cost under $10.
Works just like a bought one, but when they are in use they flex from the preasure of the water and water the whole yard without moving them to many times.
By the way, the table the sprinklers are on, is also made by yours truely. WHAT A CLEVER MAN I MARRIED

Greetings everyone,
Earlier I posted that we were going to Peru with our primary business opportunity.
Well here is where we are going to be staying, at the beautiful Monisterio Hotel in Cuzco.
Our event will run from the 29th of May to the 2nd of June, during which time we will make the trek to Machu Picchu for an awe inspiring view of the ancient Inca's ruins.
We are looking forward to seeing all the friends we made in Fiji and all the new friends we have made since.
See you all in Peru.

Cheers
Rhonda

Hi Everyone,
I got this in my email box today and how true it is. Just thought I would share it.
We all think we are happy if we have all the materialistic things in life, when in actual fact we need to be happy in our hearts first and then no matter where you live and what you have you will always be happy.
Cheers
Rhonda


What will it take for you to be happy?

Benjamin Franklin pointed out that, "The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up to it yourself."

A lot of us pin our happiness to external factors...if only we had more money...or a better house...or whatever your latest "want" is, but our happiness has been...and always will be... right inside ourselves. That concept is liberating because it finally puts us in charge of our own happiness.

An excerpt from The Road to Happiness ~ by Mac Anderson and BJ Gallagher

When I travel on business, I like to talk to the taxi drivers who take me from the airport to my hotel, or to a convention center, or to a restaurant. Taxi drivers are often immigrants with interesting personal histories and unusual cultural backgrounds. I ask them how long they've been in America, how they chose which city to live in, and what they like best about where they live. Of course, I also ask them for advice on good local restaurants and any special attractions they'd recommend to a visitor. I've had some great experiences on my travels, thanks to the advice of taxi drivers!

On one trip about ten years ago, I was making conversation with the taxi driver, asking him my usual questions about how he came to live where he lived. Then I asked him a hypothetical question: "If you could live anywhere in the world-and if money was no object-where would you live?"

Without hesitating even for a second, he replied, "I live in my heart. So it really doesn't matter where my body lives. If I am happy inside, then I live in paradise, no matter where my residence is."

I felt humbled and a little foolish for my question. Of course he was right-happiness is an inside job. He had reminded me of something I already knew, but had forgotten. If you can't find happiness inside yourself, you'll never find it in the outside world, no matter where you move. Wherever you go, there you are. You take yourself with you.

I am grateful for the wisdom of that taxi driver. And I'm grateful for all the wisdom others have shared with me about how to be happy. :)

Peru here we come

Hello One and all,
You've seen my post about when we went to Fiji for a conference for our home based business, well I'm here to tell you we are of again, in May, to another conference only this time we are gong to Machu Picchu, Peru, for a five day conference, and are looking forward to seeing all the people we met in Fiji and rekindling our friendship with them and making new friendships with some new people as well.
We are very excited about our up and coming adventure and are looking forward to what is in store for us because we know it will be an amazing event right down to the last little detail.
We also know there will an extraordinary line up of guest speakers, not to mention the challenges they have planed for us to reach our full potential.
I will be sure to keep you posted when we have more details, dates etc.
So till then take care and thank you for visiting my blog.
Feel free to leave a comment.

My year since my last post.

It's been 9 months since my last post on my blog, and a lot has happened personally and professionally.
But where to start....since our trip to Fiji in April 2010, I have had a bit of an emotional roller coaster ride in my personal life. I've struggled with not seeing our beautiful granddaughter on a regular basis, and with the loss of my father in September 2009,those 12 months were difficult and I didn't think it would affect me so much as it did. Then in August I lost my dear friend, Robyn, of 25 years, due to complications of ovarian cancer, she was diagnosed in June and the blessing is that she didn't suffer and we thank the Lord for that, also in August 2010 another dear friend, Dazzling Deb, of 31 years (we had our first babies together, who all turned 30 last year)was diagnosed with lung cancer and to put in her words she would say she bought this hideous disease on herself because of life choices, sadly on Tuesday 11/1/11 @ 8am she lost her battle as well and what a brave fight she fort, we fare welled her in true Dazzling style and she will be missed by us all.
But in her dying months she had a vision to create a legacy for the underprivileged children around the world including right here on the Central Coast of NSW in particular the Woy Woy Peninsular for her beloved Hope Church where we would all gather for our weekly dose of inspiration.
Just to wind the clock back a bit so you know what I mean when I say "we".......31 years ago a group of pregnant women (about 7/8) first met at a prenatal class in the early stages of their pregnancy 31 years later we are all still friends and our children are as well, but in particular 3 of us where even closer friends and it's those 3 friends I refer to as "we" Gaye, Dazzling and myself.
I've never been a church goer much on a regular basis until January 2010, Gaye and Daz, had been going for about 12 months before me, I went to support Gaye as she was getting Baptised and that Baptism just happened to be on my Fathers Birthday(Jan. 10), next thing you know I'm being Baptised too, and I have been a regular church goer ever since. Today we are going as it will be a special tribute to our dear Daz as well as our message from the Lord. Thank you Jesus for this day and all I have, my Family, Friends, my home and all that I receive.

My professional life has been a bit the same.......... first our trip to Fiji (in April 2010) which was truly amazing and our first trip over seas.
18 months ago we(my Husband & I) joined a wonderful company, Life Path Unlimited, a personal and professional development & prosperity company, we joined it as a way of means to earn an income from home with out having to go back to work for someone and have them dictate when we could and couldn't have time of.
Well I have to say that that was the best decision we have ever made. Not only have we become leaders in the business but we have got to meet so many wonderful people in the business but we get to help people change their lives as well. We get to give back to a Global community on many levels, financially, personally and professionally.
We host calls for the LPU community, me every other Monday and Ron every Tuesday.

In the last 9 months we have generated profits of $21,000, of which $15,000 was in the last 2 weeks and another $30,000 in the next month.
Come April will see us heading to Macho Piccho, Peru, for yet another awesome conference and what will be our second trip over seas. Can't wait!!!!!!
2011 is also going to be a year of prosperity and abundance for us in so many ways, it's going be a year of giving, of learning and being the best person I can be.
I promise I won't leave it so long between blogs this year.