You Decide, youtube video made by Lindsey

Prom 1987

Prom 1987 with my then gregarious boyfriend.  He looks like he is about to devour me.  Awwwww, young love.

This past week I received a box from my mother-in-law's home.  When she died (August 4, 2010), I not only inherited a massive amount of photos and memorabilia of her precious baby boy (the boyfriend to the left), but I now possess a great deal of my own items which she has lovingly stored for me over the past 24 years.

My dear friend, who never tires of laughing at old photographs of me, was quick to respond to this photo when I posted it on facebook last week.  She told me that my daughter should "totally wear that dress, and fix her hair like mine, for Halloween this year."  Now, isn't that sweet.

Even I will admit that the big pink hairbow was a little much, but those were the 80's.  The bigger the better!  But to you my friend, the crazy frizzy hair belongs to me.  Ionic hairdryers and straightening gels had not been created yet for girls like me!

Rachel's Challenge this week

Schools across the country are promoting Rachel's Challenge this week, presenting a powerful video message to the students and sharing the brave young student's legacy of kindness, compassion, and courage.   My middle school daughter has been selected to assist as one of the ten youth in each grade level at her school, to be a part of the program and to demonstrate the outreach and care that personified Rachel Scott.  What the public schools are leaving out, one very important detail, is that Rachel Scott was a born-again believer who stood up for Jesus, in fact just before she died.  She had struggled with depression and her relationship with Christ changed her.  I believe this is the key reason that she was so effective as a witness.  Bullying is a big problem in the public schools especially, and I hope and I pray that Rachel's Challenge reaches the hearts of all students.

www.rachelschallenge.org

Movie "NeverWas"

Ian McKellan and Aaron Eckhart are awesome in this film.  Netflix promoted this movie as a psychological thriller, but I viewed it as more of a psychological and magical drama, with a strong element of fantasy.  It centers around a childrens storybook and the magical kingdom of "Neverwas."  Eckhart is a psychiatrist and McKellan is a delusional patient at the hospital Eckhart works at.  By the end of the movie, I was rooting for the "delusional" as the characters convincingly demonstrate that sometimes delusions are necessary to survive.