Happy Friday!!! I hope everyone is ready for the weekend.

Don't tell anyone, lest it changes but I have a blissfully unscheduled Saturday!! I don't have to get up early, I don't have to be anywhere, I don't have to do anything. Well, Ok I do have stuff to do. I need to work on getting ready for my show next weekend and the house always needs cleaning and I have to finish getting my fall decorations out but at least I can do it on my schedule. LOL

My original idea for new tags for earrings are not going to work, :::sniff:::sniff::: but I can use elements of the design to punch up my usual tags so it's not a total loss. I hope to have all my jewelry tagged and read this weekend, next week is going to be busy.

Tuesday I am going to a veiwing for Pammy. Pammy was someone who I knew and yet really had no way of knowing. Back in the 80's she was dumped from a mental institution and landed at a group home in Leesburg, Va. were my sister worked.

With downs syndrome and a variety of other health issues, my first introduction to Pammy was at a family dinner where she sat in a chair and screamed most of the time. With a hole in the top of her mouth her food had to be blended and usually ran out her nose when she was fed. With no one to speak for her my sister became Pammy's legal gaurdian. She saw something in Pammy that most people probably would not have taken the time to even look for.

It's amazing what time, love and care can accomplish. Over the years Pammy was able to hold a very simple job, would pick out her own clothes and when you tried to suggest a better match of clothes she would get very mad. She knew what she liked, and one thing she liked was her occasional glass of beer. When new staff came to the group home, Pammy would pretend to be helpless so they would wait on her hand and foot.

Pammy came to this earth to live a life in a body and brain the didn't work like everyone elses. We will never know all the challenges she faced everyday but if you took the time she was a person worth knowing and maybe that's a lesson for all of us. Some people are easier to know than others but we are all Heavenly Fathers children. There is value in each of us and sometimes you just need to take the time to find it.

Pammy passed away on Wednesday at 58 years old. she will leave a hole in many people hearts.