“Are you still blogging?” My husband would ask with a sneer. For almost a year he has been asking me this question with a negative attitude. Last night was different. “Are you still doing that blog?” He asked with genuine intrest. “Proof Positivity? Yes, I do my personnal blog when ever and Proof Positivity Monday- Friday except today because it’s Thanksgiving.” I said. “I want you to keep doing that.” I looked at him in shock and asked if he was ok. I have gone all this time without my husband’s support. He says “Nothing’s wrong with me. You are doing a good thing and the world doesn’t have enough of that.” My husband has a tendency to think negative first so this was a real surprise to me that he suggest PP goes on. It made me feel good that finally, he acknowledges what I do.
Anyhow, I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I most certainly did. Last night I watched a special presentation of “The Incredibles” on NBC. It seems to me that things like that used to begin at a decent hour like 6:00 PM and end at the latest 9:00. No, this started at 8PM and ended at 10:30 PM. I wanted to send my kids to bed and there was no way I could they would have gone kicking and screaming.
Hoop Dreams
2,057 Children are orphaned by the AIDS epidemic every day. Nine year old Austin Gutwein wanted to play on a basketball team. He didn’t make the team.
Austin had a pen pal from Africa and decided to learn as much as he could about Africa. This includes educating himself about AIDS.
“I know it is a disease that when it gets to parents it kills them,” says Austin.
“I really started to think about what it would be like if I lost my parents,” he says.
He began to shoot basketball for charity. On his first go he earned $3,000.
“I was shocked,” says his father Dan Gutwein. “People donated that we never met before.”
Austin got in touch with World Vision and he and 1,000 other children raised $38,000. One person can make a difference. It has to start with one before more can help.
