NEW YEARS EVE 2011

Wow! 20011.....Looking back,anticipating the future,but only guaranteed the moment...

Thinking on my favorite poem,"THE ROAD NOT TAKEN", I know we all have a different journey,a different,path,a different road we take in life,but one thing that is the same for each of us,"life is but a vapor only here for a short time then vanishes away."

This year as years past are vanishing away quickly.It just seems like yesterday I was fretting about turning 50, soon I will be 51.I have come to realize 50 is no different than 49.Life still bestows joys and sorrows no matter what age I am.

It's been a year of blessings and adventures.I took on a new adventure, gardening and canning, something I've always wanted to do.Carring on traditions passed down.I hope my children carry these tradition on.I believe that by carrying on traditions,you live on through the memories.

This year I have had the joy of watching Bryan purchase his second home.I have had the joy of watching my children and grandchildren grow a year older.Grandchildren put an extra beat in my heart,they love unconditionally.They can make you laugh until you cry.To have a heart like a child,something I wish I could obtain once more.

I have been blessed with good health this year,only a few colds. I have a job I love.I find myself preparing  for retirement.I had my first job at 13,just a child.Looking back I was but a child in most things in my life.I married my best friend of 34 years at the age of 16.I gave birth to my first son at 18,second son at 21 and w a Nawna by 40.No wonder life seems like it is slipping away.The reality is ,I have enjoyed every minute and would change nothing.If I only had this day,I could say I have lived a full life with the ones I love.

The year as years past has also brought sorrow.There are those who have pass from this life,Deloris Hicks,which has been very difficult for me.So unexpected and so, not understood.  I love the Hicks family so much and I know God put me in their lives long ago and has kept me there for a purpose.They have made such a difference in my life.A very good friend whom I have come to love is dieing of cancer. Soon she too will pass from this life and it will be difficult.She is such an inspiration to me as many others.She is an amazing Godly lady.Mrs.Cruit.

It's always hard to watch your family go through difficulties in life,it keeps me on my knees.I spend a lot of time on my knees. God has shown me I am not in control and just pray and trust him.

I am blessed with a God who loves me.A savior who died for me  and a family whom I love very much.

And God has so blessed me with my best friend and husband,Paul,who I know God put in my life for a reason. I am Blessed....

I pray in 2012 God's Shalom for my life....And a heart that beats more and more like his everyday...

Glory always to Him..Grace and Peace in our Lord and Savior...Happy New year 2012.

Another Christmas,2011 has come to pass.Time spent with family was such a blessing.We started out arriving at Bradley's house,waking the boys and watching them enjoy Santa.Then we proceeded to the Mt.Vernon House to give Vicki her gifts.Finally we were off to Highland Village arriving to  see all that Santa had brought Brynnan and Bryce.Anne prepared a wonderful lunch.We spent the night and had a wonderful time.I actually did my first after Christmas shopping.We bought lights,maybe,just maybe I will get in the Christmas spirit early next year.I am so blessed with a wonderful family.

The Night Before Christmas

This is the Night Before Christmas and as we watch our grandsons so excited and full of such joy,just waiting for Santa soon to come.It takes me back to myself as a child.Christmas spirit,children know it well.As adults we lose some of the spirit for one reason or another.Oh,what it would be like to have that spirit again.This time of year as we focus on the birth of Jesus,it reminds me of something Jesus talked about long ago,and it was the heart of a child.He said the kingdom belongs to those who are like these children.Children,love,forgive and live life unconditionally.I pray I could have that child like spirit again.Tomorrow we will get up early and travel to have a little bit of Christmas with our families.We are blessed so much and are thankful for the time we get to spend with our family.
Thank you God for our lives and all the blessing you continually give us.Thank you for Jesus,His birth and his death and ressurection.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

LIFE AT 50

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

ROBERT FROST

Two Roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler,long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other,just as fair

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as far as the passing there

Had worn them really about the same.

And both that  morning equally lay

In leave no steps had trodden black.

Oh,I kept the first for another day!

Yet know how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence;

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

At 50 as I look back and review my life,I've always traveled a path different than most. Some understand and I am appreciated,some will never understand.