April 29, 2009

  • MY HOW TIME FLIES!

    I've been getting graduation gifts ready to mail. You know you are getting old when you start getting graduation invitations from the kids your kids used to babysit!  Where does the time go, and when did those rambunctious preschoolers grow into such good looking young men and women... seems they should only be about 13 or so by now....

    Spring has sprung, but it is still dry as a bone here in our part of West Texas. We have been teased with moist humid air that smells like rain and cloudy skies all week long, but the rain seems to stay East of us. I have had my windows wide open! We could sure use some rain! Even if if means we have to postpone the cement pour again. I took this photo of a meadowlark on the gate near my office window this morning. As the kids used to say, they are twitter-pated. (Can you tell we watched Bambi alot?)

    Meadowlark

    I got to talk to a precious lady from the church we went to when we lived in Arkansas this morning. Just hearing her voice made my heart smile. She was my spiritual mother so to speak. Someone I could always go to when I felt stuck or needed some godly advice... the kind of spirit-filled godly woman I hope to grow up to be like someday.... I'll never forget what she did shortly after she found out we were moving to West Texas last Spring..... We were at  a birthday party of a mutual friend and she took my face in her hands, looked me straight in the eye, called me by whole name and said, "I am going to miss you!"  

    Soon it will be Mother's Day and the last of my painful firsts will be behind me. It won't be my first without my mother, but it will be my first since becoming a mother to not have even one of my own children present. I struggle with envy when I think of my SiL, the closest friend I have here, who has never had to spend even a single holiday without all her kids and/or grandkids around, while mine are far, far away.... But then, I bet she sometimes wishes for a bit of my solitude. 

    I'm praying that I can find joy in the moment rather than wishing for things that once were, or cannot be.

Comments (5)

  • I know what you mean.  I really felt old when I saw Patrick propose to Mandy.  I was thinking he ought to be asking her on a date.  Steve really felt old.

    MY boys are really getting excited  They will be hre June 21.  Just in time for my birthday.  What a great gift.

    Today the repairman comes to fix the fridge. 

    My iris sure are pretty.  I haven't done anything with the rest of the flowerbeds yet.  It is still early here.

    Dalton and Ari just came in.  He says "hi!  I turned your sprinkler off."

    This swine flu is scary.

    Better go see what Sherri needs.

  • kids i used to babysit are now getting married. seems crazy, especially since i've only been married five years.

    you can have some of the rain we're getting. we're going camping this weekend, rain or shine.

    i miss people from our old churches... and it makes me sad to talk to them. i want more time with them! ;)

  • Boy, you sure can have some of our rain!!  Yesterday we even had schools close because of the rain and flooding!  It hasn't rained yet today, but is supposed to!

    My baby girl is getting married on Mother's Day weekend, so will be off on her honeymoon on M.D.  I am determined not to let it, but sometimes the pain sneaks up on me and almost chokes me.  I am truly happy for her, and want her to experience the love I have shared with my honey for 29 years now, so I am NOT going to spoil her last days with us by my "weeping and gnashing of teeth"!

    Praying right now for joy to flood you at this time!

  • You know what's funny? When I read your posts I can hear your voice like your reading them to me...And I too miss you :o ( (Ok, I'm tearing up gotta stop)

    BTW: Alex is going to be a Junior and is starting to drive....Your one of the few that remember when my babies were still...well babies!

  • @RebeccasPortfolio - I miss you too! Okay now I am the one tearing up.... How sweet that you remember my voice that well.... But then, you did listen to me talk alot at Ladies Bible Study back in the day. Yes, I remember you as a young mother with babies. AND I had the privilege of watching you grow in faith into a woman who uses her giftings and abilities to further the Kingdom, busy about the Master's business.

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