Confession: Addicted to Pinterest!

Yes. It is official. I am addicted to Pinterest. I don't want to be, but look what I found today:

It's a tough, but heartwarming story...with a picture of John Gebhardt in Iraq John Gebhardt's wife, Mindy, said that this little girl's entire family was executed. The insurgents intended to execute the little girl also, and shot her in the head...but they failed to kill her. She was cared for in John's hospital and is healing up, but continues to cry and moan. The nurses said John is the only one who seems to calm her down, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both slept in that chair. The girl is coming along with her healing. He is a real Star of the war, and represents what the Western world is trying to do. This, my friends, is worth sharing with the WORLD! Go for it!! You'll never see things like this in the news. Please keep this going. Nothing will happen if you don't, but the public needs to see pictures like this and needs to realize that we're making a difference. Even if it is just one little girl at a time.

I love this story... Twin girls, Brielle and Kyrie, were born 12 weeks ahead of their due date. Needing intensive care, they were placed in separate incubators. Kyrie began to gain weight and her health stabilized. But Brielle, born only 2 lbs, had trouble breathing, heart problems and other complications. She was not expected to live. Their nurse did everything she could to make Brielle’s health better, but nothing she did was helping her. With nothing else to do, their nurse went against hospital policy and decided to place both babies in the same incubator. She left the twin girls to sleep and when when she returned she found a sight she could not believe. She called all the nurses and doctors and this is what they saw (refer to the picture above). As Brielle got closer to her sister, Kyrie put her small little arm around her, as if to hug and support her sister. From that moment on, Brielle’s breathing and heart rate stabilized and her health became normal. From then on, they decided to keep both babies together, because when they were together they kept each other alive.

I avoided even looking at this amazing thing for months.

I deleted invite after invite in my email.

But to no avail, my Madie discovered it!

We had an amazing finale to 2011! ( I will blog about all our adventures starting tomorrow!)

John took two weeks off of work, and we played.

We played and played and played.

We also relaxed, slept, ate goodies, made amazing memories, started new traditions, improved the ones we had, and we explored PINTEREST!

Every day, Madie and I would allow ourselves a little downtime and discover the amazing world of Pinterest.

I love it!

I used it to plan New Beginnings.

I used it to plan a re-design of one of our main rooms.

I searched it for quotes I would love to have my children believe in.

I searched it for sayings that make me want to be a better mother and friend.

I even searched it for organization tips to improve my heapsorhappiness blog. (I mean, why re-invent the wheel?)

I am in love with it, but now I only give it 15 minutes a day.

15 minutes.

Doesn't sound like too much time, but the above pictures were the inspirations that I found today.

Enjoy them, but delete your invites now!

Or, if you are going to give in to peer pressure anyway, join me in the fun! Click HERE to see what I have found so far, but remember I warned you! :)