Yesterdays Daily Prompt

You’re given a plot of land and have the financial resources to do what you please. What’s the plan?

So I am not able to write every day due to my schedule and I just saw this post and knew I had to write about it!!

First of all let me just say this would be a dream come true!!

My dream would be a combination of many different things. If I had enough land and unlimited resources I would put a 3-4 story building on it.

The first story of the building would be an awesome comfy eclectic coffeehouse that sold only fair trade coffee and tea. This coffeehouse would have only healthy but oh so yummy baked goods from my mom’s cookbook. This coffeehouse would be decorated with local art work, have comfy sitting areas and have a large enough room for conference meeting room type accommodation. There would be a stage so that there could be mic nights for local artists. And there would be a gift shop with gifts from all over the world. The sales of the gifts would go towards an orphanage in which ever country the gift coordinated with.

On the second floor of this building would be an art studio. It would offer classes for people interested in learning a hobby and growing their gift. It would also offer after school classes to children who want to expand their artistic abilities. The art work would then be sold down in the coffeehouse area.

AND…

Last but definitely NOT least.. the third floor would be apartments and housing for women that are coming out of rehabs or transitional housing. It would be for women whose past is marked by what society would say is a red letter permanent flaw whether it be past addictions or felonies. This would give them a place to stay and offer them a job to be able to get experience  This ministry would help the women get back on their feet, dream for themselves and then help each women to fulfill their dreams.

This is a huge undertaking! But it would be a dream come true!!

Daily Prompt #3

Write a summary of the book you’ve always wanted to write for the back cover of its dust jacket.

Have you ever made a mistake and wondered what the long-lasting effects would be?

Kierra made such a mistake when she met and fell for the bad guy. Her parents had always warned her against someone like him but she was rebelling against everything that they had said to prove them wrong… or was she? Keirra just wanted to learn from life and to find someone that would love her as much as she wanted to pour her love out on them. She was always having to learn from life the hard way, the painful way…

Travel down this journey with Keirra and find out how one night of excruciating pain and lose of her innocence changed her life forever. Learn how a choice can effect your life 2, 5, or even 10 years later.

How did she find herself in this trouble?

When did it all start?

And how does she get herself out of this twist of events that could put her in prison for 20 years?

Daily prompt #2

Tell us about something you’ve done that you would advise a friend never to do.

I have had some very heavy, emotional blogs lately and so when reading this I wanted to write on something light and funny… Hope this accomplishes just that!

I would tell my friends to NEVER cut their younger brothers hair into a spike like he wants without permission from your mom!

I was 14 years old and one of the many things I aspired to be was a cosmetologist ..

My brother was 4 years old and all he wanted at the time was a cool looking spike hair cut like all his little friends!

I remember money being tight like it always seemed to be though my parents always worked so hard! So I thought maybe that was why mom didn’t want to take him to get his spiky cut like he was asking for! As my mom left us home so that she could go run errands her last words to us kids was… “Be good, don’t do anything I wouldn’t do!!… That didn’t leave us much to do! =)

And as we were sitting around like kids do trying to figure out what they are going to do with these few precious hours of freedom from the parents… A brilliant idea popped into my head!! I jumped up off the couch and pointed to my brother and said, “I got the best idea EVER!!!”

His innocent little eyes looked up at me with such trust!

I told him how mom and dad didn’t have the money to get his hair cut into a spike but that I would do it for him and then mom would be so happy when it was cut nice and styled all handsomely… I remember starting to say cute.. but for the only boy surrounded by a bunch of women… cute was not cool even for a 4 year old!!

I set him on the toilet in the bathroom, put a towel around his shoulders like I had seen other hair cutters do, and as I sprayed his hair down with the squirt bottle, I straightened his head with my hands and  told him… “Now HOLD STILL!!”

Well…. that’s like telling a kid at Christmas to just look when standing in front of a tree full of presents they know are all theirs!!

He did good for a little bit and then..  I was combing up a group of hair between my fingers and positioned the scissors to cut. As I started snipping that section my brother popped his head up and moved…. Just as the scissors closed over the last inch of hair!

As I looked down, all I saw was his scalp!! OOOOOHHHHH NOOOO!! The scissors had cut a huge chunk of hair with the last snip and there was no hair left in this spot right on the top of his head. Of course it wasn’t on the side where I could easily hide the mistake. Nope right on the top left side of his head!

My heart sank! How was I going to fix this! I yelled at my poor little brother for not holding still and now his spike was all messed up! Tears sprang to his eyes and I said I was sorry for yelling. I tried fixing it… well attempted to make it less noticeable!

And the next thing I know, my mom is walking in the front door, instructing us to come down and help her carry in groceries!

Of course what does my sweet precious little brother do?!

Run down the stairs and yell, “Mom look at my spike! Manda messed it up when I moved my head!”

Oh boy, you can just imagine the look on my mom’s face, shock turned to tears turned to anger as the emotions worked their way through the cycle!

Needless to say I was grounded for a week and never allowed to touch hair cutting scissors again during my growing up years… well at least not that they knew of! =)

SO definitely do not attempt to cut your brothers hair if you have no experience!

My first attempt at the Daily Prompt!!

I just started following the http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/daily-prompt-9/ and today’s prompt was…

You have 300 words to justify the existence of your favorite person, place or thing. Failure to convince will result in it vanishing without a trace…

For me I am going to tell you about my experience at an orphanage in India and why I feel it was the best and most favorite place and time in my life. I feel every person should visit a 3rd world country at some point in their lives! It grants a person so much perspective on how your life could be and a thankfulness of what it really is!

When I went to India to volunteer at an orphanage for 6 months I had just been through some very trying times in my life. My 4 month old marriage ended in shambles to the point that I fled to a women’s shelter. I had just miscarried our baby at 9 weeks and I was devastated! The hopes and dreams that I had created for our life was gone in the blink of an eye. I was left heartbroken, bruised and scarred feeling that I wasn’t worthy enough to have a husband that loved me enough to get the help he needed to stop his addictions to cocaine and alcohol.

SO I hopped on a plane and found a way to minister to toddlers and infants! I would sit there and cry over these sweet babies whose lives were as messed up as mine. I would spend sweet moments rocking babies that would have been the same age as my baby should she have lived, I saing them lullabies, and I got angry at the injustice that was done to them. And ultimately I healed my hurts and wounds by pouring my love and time into others. It took my focus off of my circumstances and placed it on helping others.

If anyone is in need of healing then I highly recommend going to this beautiful, exotic, aromatic, colorful place! It is a sad place with much poverty but it helps to put your own life into perspective and know that if could always be worse! You will find a lasting joy knowing you made a moment in their life happy!

I went over 300 words!!! Hopefully I still past the challenge as I would never want India to disappear!