Christmas in July!!!

My sister is always reading magazines....always! She usually donates them but this time she was leaving to Egypt and Jordan so she didn't have time and I took them to give to my homeless friends in the area where I work.

I love these people. They appreciate everything, they are humorous, loving, and most of all giving. They beg people for money and then always offer to buy me lunch...lol

Well, every morning when I get here they are fighting over the morning paper that people leave at Starbucks. Believe me, they read more of that paper than George Bush ever has! Anyhow, so I come in today and tell them to come pick out some magazines and they are literally little kids in a candy store. They went wild...screaming at the pictures of Prince William, Sandra Bullock, and Jennifer Aniston. It was a sight. I never thought they would enjoy those magazines so much. We got them passed out and they all settled at Starbucks, with their donated cold drinks in hand, to read from their new magazines.

I had so much fun watching them yelp and holler with excitement. Man, it was fun. I am going to make sure that they get their fix everytime my sister has any more of these things.

I finally finished my last class on Sunday. I get final grades turned in tomorrow and I am home free and on my way to Dallas on Friday! I am so happy to finally get some time off. Jeneane is settled at A&M. She says boys are allowed in the girl dorms and Osama and I freaked out. He almost went to pick her up after she made the announcement. He is not thrilled for her to be there with a bunch of older college boys and girls. I trust her. I know that I can't be a nut case about this. I mean how am I supposed to teach her right from wrong if she does not get to make decisions. I told her to be careful and that she knew our expectations...she laughed, "OKAY MOM...I KNOW MOM..."

Well, you know the drill with kids. That is her college of choice. Osama and I kept driving around the campus on Sunday admiring it and praying she gets a nice scholarship there when she graduates high school. My beautiful cousin Arwa received her PhD from there and when I took Jeneane up to take a science class there about 2 years ago we went to lunch with Arwa and they were both discussing genetics or something. Since that day she looks up to Arwa so much and when we dropped her off she said, "Mom, I am going to get my PhD from here, like Arwa."

The thing is with Jeneane is that she does not look 13 because she is so tall. She is about 5'8''- yes, my height and she is curvy. We could tell when we dropped her off that she was a little intimidated...so maybe that will be a good thing. That evening when I called she sounded like she was having a party in her room. She already made friends. Thank you God, and please God, keep the boys away.

I just received an email about an hour ago from DUKE letting me know that she was accepted into a writing program and the woman who is teaching it is was an assistant to Henry Kissinger and her resume is exactly what Jeneane needs to get her foot in the writing door so to speak. Plus, Duke knocking can't hurt either.