Seasons of Life

Here I go again about changes in life...maybe it just because so many changes have taken place in the last year or so...Everett retiring, granddaughter getting married another one starting college.. the babies being 6 mo's.already,just how fast everything goes.
Sometimes I just want to stop and hang on, I want to look at things once again through the eyes of a child. Don't get me wrong I don't want to go back, I just would like to have some of those feelings. Feelings that I had when I thought my Mom would always be here to take care of me, to send home some freshly baked cinnamon rolls or a freshly made apple pie..how quickly that time passed. She has been gone 13
years already. This time of the year reminds me of how she baked, peppernuts, sugar cookies, bon bons, peanut clusters etc. I haven't made anything this year yet...I have two that can't eat the stuff and me that doesn't want it around to tempt me. But I need to do something...if nothing else for the ones that can eat it and so my house smells good...
Everything just seems so different......not bad just different...

Grandkiddos

We went to Abe's first piano recital last night and he did amazing..he has only been taking lessons for 2 month. All of my grandkiddos amaze me. Each and everyone is talented in one way or another. Each one is such an individual in his or her own way. It so interesting to see each one develop their own personality. Some you can tell right away how they are going to be and others it takes awhile to see how they are developing.

God is truly amazing in how each one of us is created differently yet with such similarities within the family. It will be exciting to see how these 9 little ones turn out. Our two little twins are going to be 6mo. the 18th, and how sweet they are now each time I see them they have started doing something different. We are so blessed to have each and everyone of them...

Mice in the Attic

A dear friend of mine was telling me this story yesterday and it was hilarious.
She had been cleaning out her attic, and she is terrified of mice...she could tell there had been mice up there, they had left clues here and there. She looked up and saw two mice hanging in the corner of the attic...she was petrified and went down to get her son to come up and get them out...he didn't really want to but to save his mom he did. When he got up and into the corner he removed a blanket and out of the blanket were two teddy bear ears sticking out that looked like mice from where my fiend was at.
And it was her teddy bear that she had as a little girl..we got a good laugh out of it...

Words of Comfort

There is a song that I love, and some of the words go like this.
Talking about Heaven, this is how it goes:
There is a place somewhere beyond the blue
That is prepared for me and you
Somewhere beyond the skies
Some call it heaven
Some call it Paradise
But I call it Home

This morning that is a very comforting thought for me knowing that I have a Home that is prepared just for me....

Maybe this is comforting to me because I know how quickly this life passes...and we just don't know when He will call us home...this is not a morbid thought but a glorious thought to know that a King came down here as a babe grew to manhood and loved me so much that He died for me...What greater love has He that lays down His life for me....and you....so that we can have eternal life.....

You Just Never Know

We are invited to a wedding today in Lyons. Everett's niece is getting married, really she's already married has been for 2 yrs but because they are catholic they have to be married in the church (which they weren't) in order to take communion.
So when I woke up this morning I told Everett I had 3 hours to do what I had to do before we left for the wedding but my phone rang about then and it was Everett's brother from Dallas telling us some really bad news. That his wife had passed away late yesterday from complications from surgery..We were totally shocked to say the least. We talked for about a hour he explained to us what had went wrong and how so unexpected this was for them...plans had been made for trips, Christmas etc... ....Please pray for Bob....for him to feel God's peace.

In the mean time while I was talking to another SIL I had a beep in and it was Everett's first cousin saying that Uncle Jake had passed away. He was the one that had a heart attack the day before Thanksgiving...we were expecting that death...he was going to be 97 in February and had lived a long and healthy life. Cousin Bonnie was telling us that she never had to do anything for him...he still drove and still had a girlfriend and they had just celebrated 15 years of dating. They had a date on Sunday and Wednesdays....

My saying is that we can go to bed and expect everything to be the same when we wake up and a lot of times it is not...I just received a CD today that I had ordered by Doyle Lawson and they is a song on there that says here in this life we have a lot of choices that the world wants us to make and choices that we just make some right some not...but for eternity there are just 2 choices we either choose Jesus or we don't there is no other choice in our life that we can make as important as this one..and this might be the last day we have to make it tomorrow might just be to late...Have you made you choice...I have...I will serve Him.....

2 became 1 and then there were How Many??

This is my family minus Abby, Jeff and Stella, who are in Chicago..(WE MISS YOU).
I am so proud of all of these big ones and little ones...this was our Thanksgiving day. Thought that I would share them with you...

Each and everyone is a special gift from God...Thank you!

Song

Song, where is my song today..
I have lost it along the way,

I am taking it back and putting a new song in my heart..
Knowing that today I can make a brand new start..

Lord keep those I love hold them close to your breast
Comfort them and please give them rest...

The season is here for love
That you gave to us from above..

From the cradle to the grave
Your life for us you gave...

I thank you Lord