Amazing Grace

Vote for the best Boss in the World! a new GMA thing!

The voting page is up. Alright Chapman fans, lets see you show up.  : )

You can cast your vote for Steven in the Artist of the Year category right now!

You may vote once online and once via text messaging.  

Vote Today!  

VOTE ONLINE by clicking here.

VOTE BY TEXT by texting DOVE SCCHAPMAN to 72648.  (vote codes are not case sensitive)

Did I mention vote today?!?!   : )

The voting page is up. Alright Chapman fans, lets see you show up.  : )

You can cast your vote for Steven in the Artist of the Year category right now!

You may vote once online and once via text messaging.  

Vote Today!  

VOTE ONLINE by clicking here.

VOTE BY TEXT by texting DOVE SCCHAPMAN to 72648.  (vote codes are not case sensitive)

Did I mention vote today?!?!   : )

I LOVE this time of year

This is the time of year that I LOVE.  The weather is still chilly some days BUT starting to warm up others.  The warm suns shines down and on a cold day--feels SO great.  I went for a run the other afternoon and although it was only in the 40s (brrrrr) it felt like it could've been in the 60s.  

Anyway, this morning I was driving in to work and as I reached to pull down my overhead visor...right in front of me was a vivid reminder of what I'm thankful for this morning.  Sorry the pictures aren't really clear but it's pretty cool to see the warm colors through the trees.  Man, God is an artist!  What a beautiful, amazing work that many days I miss.  Maybe this is a sunrise that God let Maria help out with :)  ...you know she's up there working at an art table fit for a Princess!!  She's got a grin from ear to ear and is eating anything and everything she wants to (my kinda girl ;).  

Just think...if this is the kinda sunrise we get down here...wait until we go to our REAL home!  

Woo-Hoo!!

Mary Beth here.....

OK, I normally don't post, but here it is.  These comments make me sad.  I am beginning to think that the Internet is not a good thing.  At any rate, here is the deal with the EBAY.....  We have begun the grueling task of cleaning out, purging, getting rid of....which is WAY over due.  My hubby is somewhat of a pack rat.  At any rate, when Maria went home in May of 2008, we knew at some point we would have the project of making Stevey Joy and Maria's room into just Stevey's room.  So, 9 months later we are doing just that.  In order to ease the pain a bit we have decided to more cleaning out than just Maria's.  Steven, who literally has not cleaned his closet out in.... I don't really know... decided it would help if he got rid of some things.  So...not that I owe anyone an explanation but.......  after giving many many things away to people who could benefit from them...  Family among them.....  we let Grace take what she wanted.....  Then the rest, yes to Good Will.  Then came the discussion of what we wanted to do with the money that would come in from EBAY.  I decided that it would be a good idea to try and offset some of our current expenses that we didn't see coming.  Some of those things include tons of counseling.... and re-doing Stevey Joy's room.  It is fun to re-do a room, but under these circumstances, you have no idea how hard it's been....    Unfortunately, I am sad that I even have to go into this.  I am so thankful for all of the LOVE and support from you awesome fans.  I had no idea that this would create drama...  We are so blessed.... way beyond what we deserve....  But I am also a firm believer in being a steward of what God has entrusted us with.  If you love someone then you trust them... I sure hope that you are included in that description.  Please hear me say this....  The Chapmans don't have to EBAY items to pay for counseling......but being wise does help.  Please, I am a normal mom trying to take care of what we have been entrusted with.  Nothing more than that.  As far as the money not going to SH.  Please know that our hearts, souls, life, and time belongs to Shaohannahs Hope...  That includes our personal giving as well, but again, sad that I need to say that.  Believe me, there are days when it is so hard to stay the course.  Orphan advocacy and care is not where the enemy wants us to spend our efforts so the attacks that can come....they can be HARD....kind of like the comments here.  Thanks for understanding my needing to say these things and for understanding why the comments on this discussion will be closed.  Like my blog said about Twittering.....   now it's   "To Ebay or not to Ebay"  that is the question....

"serious" SCC fans wanted

As you know from some of my recent posts...we've been cleanin out!  Call it pre-spring cleaning if you will ;)  That being said I've decided to list some of SCCs clothing items on ebay for auction...

For all of you serious fans out there check out SCCSTUFF if you'd like an opportunity to own some of Steven's clothing items that he may have worn in the past.  Most of these items are in very good condition.  I can personally guarantee that the items I've listed are authentic...I picked them out of the stash myself and listed them.  There are some auctions already in progress with more to come!

You may find this funny...I even checked the pockets of some of Steven's suit jackets...and, found some movies tickets stubs! Hah...bonus, I'll include those, too!  

Happy shopping :)

P.S. To find the items I've listed without this link you can:

Go to WWW.EBAY.COM

Along the top yellow bar choose ADVANCED SEARCH

On find items page, scroll down to 6th box...SELLERS

Check ONLY SHOW ITEMS FROM, and in blank type SCCSTUFF

Scroll to bottom of page and click SEARCH

Birthday boy makes appearance at 2009 Grammys!!

Hah! You never know who you may find...say over your LEFT SHOULDER at the 2009 Grammys!  In this interview with Jason Mraz (2009 Grammy Award Winner) there seems to be one Will Franklin Chapman (check out segment :15-:19, :24-:35, 1:03, 1:14, 1:55) all clean cut and ever so nonchalantly swaying to and fro in the background.  A coincidence you say??  ...I think not.  This isn't this boys' first parade, ya know...  More like careful and clever planning on Will's part.  I'd say a pretty creative birthday appearance for an 18 year old...

Steven revealed to me this morning that he and Will had amazing seats...right behind the Jonus Brothers and Jennifer Hudson.  Here's a pre-Grammy interview with Steven & Will  (thanks Linda! ;).  Gotta love that!  Check out this clip.  And, even though Steven didn't win a Grammy this year I'm sure you'll agree with me that he should have :)

Just wanted to share a hilarious moment with y'all...enjoy!

it's a BIRD...it's a PLANE...NO, it's CALEB??

For all of you Clark Kent (aka Superman!) fans...thought you'd like to see this.  Yeah, that's right...it's Caleb swooping in and saving Julia!  Cute, right?  And, can we say CREATIVE?  That's Caleb for ya...I cracked up when I got this Save-The-Date card for their upcoming big day in the mail last week :) Lookin' forward to this Chapman/Anderson wedding!  Yip Yip Yahoooooo