When I cook...well....

No matter how hard I try I make the biggest mess in the kitchen preparing my food....but the end result...yummy...

Chicken Tortilla Soup on one of the coldest days that we have had here in Kansas in 6 years!!

Why me Lord

The last couple of weeks God has allowed me to spend a great deal of time with all my family.

The children and grandchildren and my 2 Great grandchildren are more of a blessing and joy to me then I could ever put in words what lies in my heart when I am with them and thinking about them now.

I want to thank God for what He has allowed me to love and what He has given me in my family.

The warmth, the laughter, the sense of humor, the love they have for each other and their love for God and respect they have for their father and me is incrediable. Each one of them is a bright and shining star in my life!

What am I thinking??

Ok I am the worlds very worst when it comes to this computer. I can not do anything...and I mean anything. I have been trying to put a different back ground on my blog and I can't. Other blogs I look at have cute pictures, cute back grounds and I can do nothing.

Tonight the Walker family was here, Abby got onto my facebbook page logged me out and then when I tried to get back in I could not...

Christmas my boys got on my computer and now I can not down load my pictures from my camara onto my computer...I hate it...I hate it I am so dumb....I can't stand it....I hate it....what is wrong with me???

Two of my boys are in the computer business...so what is wrong with me????

HELP, before I lose my mind....

October

Seems like it is the last rose of summer...and where did it go? Some days it makes me very lonesome to look over my life amd see just how fast time goes by. A lot of things happened this summer. We have been to Lebonon Mo. we have been to Branson we have been to Tulsa Ok. to Kansas City a couple of times, we have been to Colorado and in a week and a half we are flying to Chicago. I became a greatgrandma this Sept. I can't wait to see that little girl.

Our band has been playing out a lot more...it has been fun....God has given us some beautiful fall days...

Found out this past week my oldest sister has cancer....it saddens me to think that now I am in the generations that my parents were in when I was younger and that time seemed so far away....but young or old we are not promised tomorrow....and again we never know what tomorrow will bring...

On a brighter note....God is good, He provides our every need....the roses that bloom, the sunsets and sunrises....baby's cry.....I love where I am in life....go and come when the urge hits...bike riding, the grandchildren....so I am saying we need to stop and smell the last rose of summer....inhale the sweet, sweet fragrance...admire the beauty of the changing colors of autumn..get out your warm cozy blankets and snuggle up....drink up some pumpkin spice coffee...and enjoy and be thankful for what we have....

Things I have Learned

Recently again changes have taken place in my life. I have become a Greatgrandma or as I am going to be called by the little one GG. This in all reality does not bother me one bit. Some women cringe at the thought of becoming a Grandma. I did not...I was a grandma at the age of 38. It was one of the most blessed times of my life. I remember the day just like it was yesterday and now my first grandbaby has a little girl of her own.
Lucy Irene...named after me...now I have always not like the middle name Irene...don't ask me why, but I would have rather had, oh, maybe Ann, Sue, Jo, Nicole, but Irene???? My sisters named me...my dad wanted Rose Irene I have been told, but my sisters wanted Evelyn....but now that my first GG is named Lucy Irene I love it.....yes you read right I really do....

So here are some things that I have learned......not in order and not everything but some that come to me right now...

1. Nothing EVER stays the same....you go on vacation, you have to come back to work...you get older each day you live and your body changes...etc....

2. Never say Never....because that just does not stand...( remember I said I would never like the name Irene and now I love it....Never say you will never do anything or could do that....as long as you are breathing it could happen....

3. Friends you thought would be your friends for life, through thick and thin...and no matter what you could share everything with them....they would always stand by you...hey, it just doesn't happen...maybe once in a blue moon...but it doesn't happen often...especially if people are honest...

4. Families part, they move, they have there own families wanting to start their own traditions and somewhere someone gets left out....

5. The older I get the more changes there are....things that were so cotton pickin important no longer are...

6. Things that I use to fear and kept me at times from doing something that I really wanted to do I want to fear no more...one of them is flying...and I am flying to see my new GG in 2 weeks and I can't wait...

7. You can not hang on to anything...the only thing we can hang on to is Jesus...He is always here for us....and someday we if we believe will be with Him forever and ever....

8. You can not make some people like you or be nice to you no matter what you do for them or how you try if they don't like you they just plain don't like you .....and to try after you have tried and then to fret about it is just a plain waste of time...

9. I don't know everything and never will.....(at one time I thought that I did)...

10. The days go by faster then a speeding bullet....and what I do today will affect my tomorrow.....one way or the other....

Love like you have never loved, laugh as you have never laughed, pray like you have never prayed...take in the beauty that God has surrounded you by and thank Him for it....a new baby's cry, a beautiful sunset, a beautiful sunrise, a slobbery kiss from a 2 year old, a "I love you"....

Seasons

I love the the transition of the changing of the seasons. This past week with all the cooler weather has made me excited for fall. Getting out the hoodie sweatshirts, sweaters, jeans etc. The snuggling up under a blanket in the coolness of the night or morning. Love it....the changing colors of the leaves, bond fires....

It is like the seasons of our lives. Going from being single to married to being a parent to having your children start school to graduation to them getting married and then the empty nest. Everett and I have been had the empty nest for quite a few years now. We are used to it now. This season in life is more carefree then any other one we have had. God has blessed us. We have a lot of freedom to do things we like to do or do nothing at all. The stress level has dropped. We can enjoy each other and our family. Since Everett has retired and I only work 4 days a week instead of 5 we have more time and I have more time because he pretty much does all the work in our home.I have read more books this past year then I can count. And I thank God that I have made it this far and that we have this time. Growing older right now has not been bad.

I am ready for the start of the next season which for me will be retirement. Down the road a little ways yet.
But what God has in store between now and then I don't know. I know the seasons are getting closer together and things will probaby happen that will not be as easy to cope with.

I think in this blog today what I want to say it that looking back and ahead most of the things that happen to us are out of our control. Yes there is a lot that is in our control, our choices in life that we make will make a big differance in the end. One of the best choice we can make is to accept Jesus as our savior and follow Him! I now rest in the promise He makes that He will be there for me when things that happen are not in my control to see me through. So through the seasons I have left I am going to trust Him to lead me.
I am heading for the winter of my life, maybe even have started it, but winter is good, there is not as much work to do...more time to relax and read or whatever...the cozy fires..and laying in my sweet baby's arms..

Whatever

It's been a long time since I have been here. A number of different reasons I guess. First of all since I had my computer updated haven't figured out how to get back on here..but my wonderful son came and fixed me back up. Then I really haven't had anything worth while to say..oh I could talk about getting older, I could talk about the heat, but then I think that everyone already knows that it has been hot..I could talk about all my grandkiddos and how I think that all of them are the smartest and cutest but then I think all of you already know that...I could share that I am going to be a greatgrandma...(GG) in Sept but then those of you that  don't know me would thing "man that must be a old lady writting this blog and those that know me already know that I am going to be GG in Sept to a little girl and that I am so excited about it and can't wait...this 1st grandaughter of mine is having the baby along with her hubby and daughter Stella...I could talk about my job but there might be one or 2 might read this and I can't really write what I really would want to say..so I just haven't been here. I am not quite as witty of writer as my daughter and some of her friends whom I love to read their blogs but maybe I will come up with something witty soon..

I have missed blogging...really have but one thing that has not changed for me is the fact that God has been faithful..and even though things are happening all around us and tradgey still happens He is still faithful and even though we don't understand all that is going on we know that He has a plan....

Until next time...

Chow...