Month: April 2006


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  • GAH! If I hear the phrase "that old" used one more time I think I'll implode.  What exactly is old?

    Old is a state of mind not an age to me. I'm 40 years old and I'm here to tell you that I am not "that old" 

    I don't feel old, I don't act old, I don't dress old because I'm not that old yet!

    No.. I'm not mad at anyone, annoyed or otherwise. I just want people to understand that when you say "that old" you run the chance of offending many. I am the mother of a 15 year old and 12 year old and I'm 40. I didn't have my kids until I was 24 and 26. I have friends that are 34 and are mother's of soon to be 15 year olds. I have a friend who is 37 and the mother of a 17 year old. Is she old? I don't think so. Mother's of teens come in all ages.. we may be older.. but we're not that old heehee

    There's a whole generation of us that just aren't that old Don't forget heehee according to Hugh Hefner.. 80 is the new 40 I like his way of thinking heehee

    This was all typed in good humor so please do not take it any other way .. ok!

  •        More things
    are wrought by prayer
             than
    this world dreams of.
           Wherefore let thy
    voice rise like
             a fountain
    for me night and day.
           For what are men
    better than sheeps
             or goats
    that nourish a blind
             life
    within the brain,
           If, knowing God, they
    lift not hands
             of prayer not
    only for themselves
             but for
    those who call them
            
    friend?
           For so this whole round earth
    is
             every way bound by gold
    chains
             about the feet of
    God.
     
                                
    - Tennyson

    I love Tennyson and the way he lyrically wrote his poetry. I haven't written much lately  and wish I could tap back into that part of my brain. It seems like it's a dried up river and there is no stream flowing in to refill it.

    I spoke with my brother the other day and it was yet again a wonderful conversation. He told me how he has never felt better and how months ago he'd have liked to have taken his own life but now.. now he has the will to live, and thrive in this life. He has a purpose again. His life has purpose again.

    So by way of the power of prayer I feel as if not only time helped heal him but so did prayer. Despite not attending mass as much as I should I'm still a prayerful person. I pray on the way to work, while I'm at work and sometimes on the way home.

    Then again, there are times that our prayers go unanswered and those are also gifts we may not always recognize. There's a Garth Brooks song "Unanswered Prayers" in which he is thanking God for not answering the prayer in which he hopes to marry his high school sweetheart but doesn't. In the end he gets married to someone else and he's thankful for her.

    I remember thinking that when I was dating right after high school. I was so in love with this boy and he broke my heart into a thousand peices. I thought then that I wouldn't find another like him, another who made me feel special and loved. I thought he was the one who would hold my hand until I was gone.

    Next Sunday, a week from today Steve and I will celebrate our 18th wedding anniversary. If I had married the other one who knows what would have happened. I'm thankful for my unanswered prayer because it brought me to Steve. Some pain and suffering occured before I found him that left me wounded and bruised. He took his time and worked to heal those wounds.

    Our 18 years haven't been picture perfect or peaceful always. We've had our moments and times when I wondered what the heck we were doing. There are no guarantees that there is a tomorrow and I'm grateful for my today and my yesterdays. 

    There is such beauty in the smallest of moments that it is those I hold onto longest. The tense more frustrating moments, they get me down, but it is those small golden moments that I'm thankful for.  Those are the moments which get us through.

    So I pray and I know that not all will be answered but that is ok.

     

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  • Creative Memories storage.. ahhh it's a good thing

    So awhile ago I purchased the large carryall bag and the large photo sorter box. It took me awhile to work up the courage to begin putting it together and organizing it all into the bag and box. I'm still sorting photo's but the bag is all set. Now if I ever want to crop outside of home I can take it all with ease! I crop on a semi regular basis but just don't share it all here because by the time I remember to take a photo of a layout I've done I've already got it back in the album and eh.. it's more fun to see it standing alone I think. Anyway, I am finishing up my wedding album, Jessica's first year album and am going to begin the daunting task of a through the years album for both girls, a military service album for Steve and a travel album to document all our travels.

    I know , you are thinking "What the hell is she thinking starting so many different albums at one time?" But it is easier for me to have several projects to work on because I may not be in the mood to do  one but would like to do the other lol It's the ADD in me.

    Now that I've organized the boxes that were in my room (that doesn't include baskets of photo's or the boxes in the attic heehee don't worry they are protected up there in the attic) It's on to another daunting task.. laying out a new flower bed for my side yard.  My bartlett pear tree we put in last year is getting large enough that it will soon disguise the unsightly satalite dish. So now I want to put in a flower bed around the tree since it's on a slope and has a lot of wash off issues. This way we preserve the area and make it look pretty too. In the back I'm putting in a flower bed around another tree that has issues with grass growing around it lol

    It's been very satisfying these past two years making this yard ours and knowing we put a lot of sweat and sometimes tears  into it . I look out and know I helped do this, helped create some beauty on earth. I like that, but then again digging in the dirt has always been soothing for me. There is something so primal and pure about smelling freshly dug up earth and knowing that you are creating something in it.

    I'm off to shower and head to the local flower gardens... Happy diggin or relaxin this weekend!

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