Merry Christmas to you and yours

Giveaway Time

I think it's about time I had another giveaway, don't you?  You've been so patient with my absence lately (and I love you for it!) so I would like to reward you (great-big-grin)

I call it my "schlepping bag" because it's good for anything.  Roomy enough to carry your books, beach/gym gear... but most of all everybody's telling me they're using it as their market bag (grocery store, farmer's market, flea market...)   

and, just to dress it up a bit, I'm including a "purse pin" to use with it or not....

So the details:
Leave a comment and tell me how you would use your new bag.  
The "winner" will be chosen on January 1st.  (sort of a post-Christmas present)
AND.... though totally not necessary, Get an extra entry if you tweet about it
Extra entry for mentioning on facebook and liking SweetJeanette on facebook gets you another.

***You don't need to have a blog to win!***

The Election That Broke My Heart

Yes, I said broke my heart.  Oh, not because of the outcome.  Not that one person won or that the other person didn't.  It wasn't even the nasty campaigning and debates that we endured (even though they were quite disgusting).  What surprised me and then broke my heart, was the "we the people".

We all had our favorite.  We all stood up on soap boxes from time to time.  But this election, more than any other elections I've witnessed was different.  I'd see tweets for one candidate or the other that would be met with a fire storm of hateful tweets.  I'd see comments on facebook that some were going to un-friend people because they didn't vote for their guy.  In all fairness, I need to say that some were kidding, and I knew who they were but others, well, they were not.  I couldn't help thinking about the 90's and Sarajevo/ Bosnia. The article didn't talk about politics behind the upheaval, but rather the way the people treated each other during this time.  It broke my heart the same way this election did.  The interviewee was speaking how people who had been neighbors and friends turned to enemies simply because one believed one way and the other did not.  And I felt so bad for the poor actress that dared support one man and soon bore the brunt of vicious words. I just wanted to yell, "People!  Stop it!"  Our country is great because we can respect each other's beliefs even if they're not like ours.  We can (at least I think we can) agree to disagree.   I just had to share my heart today.   My heart is still aching...and I really do wish I could "teach the world to sing in perfect harmony"

Let's all be sweet, okay?