Sandra J Colangelo

Wife, Mother, Singer/Songwriter, Health Enthusiast, Gardener, Conservative, Trump Supporter, Seeker of Truth & Follower of Jesus. Motto: Live to Inspire!

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

**FREE TO A GOOD HOME: KEVIN**

(I knew ya’ll need a 🤣🤣🤣)

Affectionately named after the screaming bird in the Disney Movie "UP". Now accepting applications for the privilege of removing him from our property.

Are you tired of sleeping past 4:00 a.m.? Do you worry that your neighbors might secretly like you? Are the small children in your life becoming a little too comfortable outdoors?

Kevin can help. 🤭

This premium Tractor Supply Special was sold as a “100% sexed female,” making him both a rooster and an excellent introduction to consumer fraud.

Kevin comes fully equipped with:

**A commercial-grade alarm system**
Activates around 4:00 a.m. and repeats every 2.5 minutes. No batteries, electricity, sunrise, emergency, or identifiable reason required. Cannot be disabled.

**Advanced property-security technology**
Deters mail carriers, visitors, toddlers, and any remaining goodwill between you and your neighbors.

**Selective predator response**
When a hawk attacked our flock, Kevin immediately took control of the situation by shoving past the hens and saving the chicken he values most: himself. 😝 The rest of the flock gained valuable independence and problem-solving experience.

**A youth enrichment program**
Kevin recently began chasing small children, helping them improve speed, agility, situational awareness, and respect for poultry. 😝 He is especially courageous when his opponent is under four feet tall and holding a juice box. 😝

**Executive-level leadership**
Kevin contributes no eggs, provides no protection, accepts no feedback, and spends most of the day loudly announcing accomplishments nobody witnessed. 😝
He is ready for upper management.

**Outstanding curb appeal**
He is, unfortunately, very handsome. This has allowed him to avoid consequences for much longer than his personality warrants.

Kevin would be perfect for an experienced rooster owner with plenty of land, no small children, distant neighbors, strong fencing, excellent health insurance, and a deep personal dislike of silence.

His rehoming fee is **$0**, reflecting both his market value and our level of desperation. 🤣🤣

We will include his complete service history, which is just a blank sheet of paper with “SCREAMING” written across it.

Please share. Somewhere out there is a person whose mornings are peaceful, whose children are fearless, and whose neighbors still wave to them.

Kevin is ready to fix all three.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bam. Lamb 🤭
🎩unknown

[Sandra J Colangelo @SandyColangelo]

@1Nicdar I agree! There are so many pharmaceutical ads it’s insane!

[DKelly 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

I'm old enough to remember when there were cigarette commercials on TV.

Then those commercials were outlawed.

Me thinks it's time to do the same thing with pharmaceutical commercials.

Who agrees? 🙋🏻‍♂️

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

My grandma kept her house clean, she cooked every day for all of us, so many days with fresh fish my great grandfather would bring home from the dock early in the morning. My grandmother raised children, she raised grandchildren, and she buried my grandfather.

The world has not given my grandmother any rewards, or praises. She never had a salary, she never wrote a resume in her entire life, she never got a raise, she never has clocked in for a job.

By today’s standards her life has been a complete and total waste of potential, all that she has done, all of it does not count.

But I have lived the life of a career woman, I have seen the inside of therapy offices, I have been inside the lives of women who by all standards are doing exactly what the world has told them they should do, I have lived it myself, and I have seen it all lived right next to me, I have seen what emptiness looks like up close. I have felt what emptiness is like, for many years it was a friend I myself kept close.

The work my grandmother did, by worldly standards is irrelevant, and yet it held our family together, it gave us a place to kill the loneliness, a place of comfort where we knew we belonged. She fed us, loved us, yelled at us for our nonsense some few times, and she sent all of us out with something solid in our hearts.

So much so that after years living in the vast loneliness of the world, after years of living what the world told me to do, I looked back on my life to find where I last had peace, comfort and meaning, and I’ll tell you what, it has never been in a cold office working long hours, dealing with office politics, deadlines and pressure, it has always been my grandma’s kitchen where the food smelled like love, and a kiss on my forehead felt like rest.

The world might have nothing to show for my grandmother, but I do.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

It is nearly an impossible task to convey just how amazing kids are to someone who doesn’t have any.

The best way I can describe it is this:

You spend your whole life thinking you understand love.

Then one night, you’ll find yourself standing in a room at 2 a.m., just watching your newborn baby breathe, just to make sure they are still alive.

And you realize in that moment that you would burn the entire world to the ground for the slow rise and fall of that tiny chest.

You become braver and absolutely terrified at the same time.

You start looking for exits in restaurants and worrying about that weird stranger in the parking lot.

You discover a capacity for anger and violence you never knew lived in you until you think you might need it because someone might hurt your kid.

The first time you see your kid, the entire world changes.

You realize you are meant to live for them… not for you.

And it feels good. It feels right.

Like a key to a door you have always been looking at but could never open.

And one ordinary afternoon probably while you’re folding socks or something dumb, it will hit you…

This is how your parents loved you.

This is what she felt watching you sleep.
This is what your dad felt every time he watched you walk out the door.

And you had no idea.

You spent your entire childhood with no idea.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

It’s so beautiful, words fail to describe it.

It’s just right, it was always meant to be this way. ❤️

[Sandra J Colangelo @SandyColangelo]

Beautiful story! ❤️

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

A little girl in Kentucky was given 3 DAYS TO LIVE, her mom was told to call the funeral home and start making arrangements.

Then a 10-year-old boy in Ohio was hit by a car... and his liver saved her life.

Now, 20 years later, she is MARRYING HIS LITTLE BROTHER. ❤️

Her name is Brooklyn Dotson. She's 24, from Letcher County, Kentucky.

She was diagnosed with a rare liver condition when she was just a few months old. Doctors gave her 3 days.

Her mother refused to give up on her.

In 2003, at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Brooklyn got a new liver.

She has no memory of it. She was a baby.

That liver came from a 10-year-old boy in Dayton, Ohio named Michael.

Michael was the kind of kid who would do ANYTHING for anybody. He taught his little brother how to ride a bike. He sat with him through his surgeries.

His family says he was more mature than a boy that age had any business being.

And somewhere along the way, as a CHILD, Michael told his family he wanted to be an organ donor.

Then he was hit by a car and killed.

And his parents, in the worst moment of their entire lives, honored what their little boy asked for.

His heart. His eyes. His lungs. His kidneys.

And his liver went to a baby girl in Kentucky.

Now here's where God shows up.

That little brother? The one Michael taught to ride a bike?

His name is Noah Waters. And decades later, he and Brooklyn became friends. Then best friends. Then they were FaceTiming 8 hours a day.

Brooklyn's own mom is the one who finally told Noah: I think Brooke likes you.

He drove down that same weekend.

They're getting married THIS SEPTEMBER in Monticello, Kentucky, on a hill overlooking Lake Cumberland.

Noah on his brother: "my brother was gonna save my wife's life 20 years later."

He had no idea. NONE.

And when Brooklyn talks about honoring Michael's memory the best way she knows how, Noah just says:

And you get his last name.

SHE IS GOING TO CARRY HIS NAME!!! 😭

The woman that boy saved is about to become a Waters.

Noah's cousin Beth is the one who called the news station, because she knew this story had to be told. She says God always had a plan, for them to be together and to carry the family's legacy forward through Michael.

She believes Michael had a hand in getting them together.

I believe it too.

Brooklyn says people keep telling them they should have a Hallmark movie.

Noah says they're just regular people who met in an extraordinary way.

Regular people, brother? A 10-year-old boy said YES to something most grown adults never even fill out on their license... and that YES is walking down an aisle in September wearing a wedding dress.

One little boy in Ohio. One grieving family who kept their son's word. One mother in Kentucky who wouldn't call the funeral home.

Michael's story started with a "yes."

It ends with an "I do."

What an INCREDIBLE love story ❤️❤️❤️

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Horse doesn't refuse the invitation of a baby who calls him to pet him

[Dale Partridge @dalepartridge]

Mothers,

It's not that you're not worthy of a job, it's that a job is not worthy of you.

God made you irreplaceable.

Your children need you more than any employer. Society needs you to raise godly children more than any career.

You’re vital—at home

You’re disposable—at work.

[Sandra J Colangelo @SandyColangelo]

🤣🤣🤣

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I used to be entirely in the camp that said you should kick your kids out at 18 and force them to live independently and make their own way in the world. I don’t feel that way at all anymore. I want all my kids to live with us until they get married. Even after they’re married, if they want to live on our property, or close by, my wife and I would love that.

The important thing is to teach your kids responsibility, which we’re doing. They need to contribute and help around the house, which all of our kids do from a very young age. Provided you aren’t raising ungrateful useless moochers, why kick them out? Why drive them away from your family home? I don’t see the point in it anymore. I actually like my kids and like being around them.

Maybe they’ll all end up scattered to the wind. But I’d prefer to keep the family together. Why wouldn’t I?

[Sophia @Sophiaapmo]

Empathy doesn’t come naturally—it’s built by learning and repeated practice

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has successfully gotten over 50 U.S. medical schools to SURGE nutrition education

This fall, students will need 40 hours of comprehensive nutrition education training

MAHA VICTORY! Thank you Bobby! 🇺🇸👏�

[Among the Wildflowers @deaflibertarian]

Homeschooling in the U.S. hit a new high, with around 3.4 million kids learning at home in 2024–2025.

[RobLogic @RobLogic]

This phenomenon happens only a few days of the year. ⛰️

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

He wasn’t supposed to be strong enough.

Not this tiny. Not this early. Not at just 5 months in the womb — born 16 weeks too soon, weighing barely more than a bottle of water.

But then came the moment no machine could replace.

His father laid back, pulled his shirt aside, and placed that fragile little body on his chest — skin to skin, heartbeat to heartbeat.

Kangaroo care, the doctors called it.

A lifeline made of warmth, breath, love. A method created for premature babies… but perfected by parents who refuse to give up.

Look at them now.

A giant of a man… and a warrior the size of his palm.

A father offering the safest place in the universe — his own heartbeat.

A son fighting with everything he has, because he knows he is not alone.

This photo isn’t just a moment.

It’s a promise.

[DS | Wild Bloom 🌿 @DSWildBloom86]

Long before automobiles,
Studebaker was one of the largest wagon builders in North America.
Their wagons hauled settlers, grain, and supplies across the Prairies, and many frontier towns depended on them to survive harsh travel and long distances. By the time Studebaker began building cars in the early 1900s, they had already spent decades moving the West - one wagon at a time.
#Studebaker

[Giggling Gannon @GigglingGanon]

This is so smart. The future of chicken farming is here and it's so impressive. This would have been a great early investment opportunity.

[G-MA @GmaIndiana]

Arkansas' oldest police officer, L.C. "Buckshot" Smith, has officially retired at 93 after an extraordinary 65-year career in law enforcement . He began serving with the Camden Police Department, initially without pay, and later retired from the Ouachita County Sheriff's Office, only to return because his knowledge and experience were too valuable to lose. In his final years, he continued to serve by mentoring younger officers, leaving behind a legacy of dedication, humility, and service that will not be forgotten 🙏

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

These two African brothers run into the arms of their new parents. They had waited three long years for this moment. 😭😭

The mother showers them with kisses. The father breaks down, sobbing. Their hugs say everything: “We finally have a place to belong.” This is adoption. And yes, it changes everything. ❤️

[Sandra J Colangelo @SandyColangelo]

This is brilliant!

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The electric walking bike that replaces pedals with a treadmill