Aggie Christmas Lights

Hope you enjoy and have yourselves a very Merry Christmas!

Missing Mama

I am sure no one ever reads this blog but thought I would write a few lines anyway.....if for no one else...just for me! Today would be my Mama's 74th birthday. Hard to believe she has been gone over 2 years now. I never thought about what life would be like when she was gone and now I know why. I've always thought of myself as strong and independent but not so much so the last couple of years. I did not realize how much I depended on my Mama to help keep me going. She was my cheerleader, my confidant, my encourager, my teacher! I miss her so much. So I am gonna take today to be a little sad but tomorrow I am going to remember my Mama's "gotta get it done" attitude and keep going, keep living, keep praying and keep hoping that I am influencing my daughter as much as my sweet Mama influenced me!

Yes!

The answer is YES!

YES, I am still alive!

YES, I am very busy!


YES, my family is doing well.


YES, I do need to write a Post!



but NO, I am not going to do so today!

April

It's April now and I am happy to report I have gotten off the Roller Coaster! We are still at the Amusement Park though....just on the Merry Go Round! Even though this picture doesn't show them....there are lots of pretty colors and interesting characters here but not as fast paced as the Roller Coaster was. Don't get me wrong, we still have plenty of queezy moments but definitely a smoother ride going on!

Hope life is going smoothly for all of you these days!

February's Rollercoaster Ride

February is such a roller coaster ride in our family. So many good and bad memories surround this month. We have birthdays, holidays, anniversaries of marriage and of deaths. We go up and down on the emotions scale and by the time this short month is over we are all exhausted.

Our experiences are what mold and shape us into the people we become and are. As hard as these life trials are, they are necessary. The good things help us get through the not so good ones. It is easy for me to say this (especially since we are close to a happy holiday now) but much harder to live these words (as the anniversary of Mom's death approaches).

Praying For Jenny!

Please Pray for Jenny

Thanks!

Safely Through Another Year!

There is an old church hymn that says.....Safely through another week, God has brought us on our way. Well, we are almost (just a few more hours)through another year. This has been the year of change here with the most changes coming to the house. We replaced the hot water heaters, the two air conditioners, almost all the flooring in the entire house and remodeled a bathroom. We still need to have the house painted but it is looking much better.

I pray that 2010 will be another year of change for us, as we strive to become better Christians, better parents, better friends and better co-workers. May the Lord bless us all with the ability to change for the better.

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Serenity Prayer

I am not sure I had ever seen this poem in its entirety before but ran across it today and thought I would share:

The Serenity Prayer
Path

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

Twelve years ago, I woke early in the morning....took a picture of my big swollen belly and headed to the hospital for a C-section. A few hours later she was here....a beautiful little girl, the answer to many prayers.

She had a pumpkin head, perfectly round (it measured in the 95%) and a red mark between her eyes (we have always said that is where the angel kissed her goodbye). From the very beginning she captured her Mama and Daddy's heart and especially the hearts of her grandparents. As the days progressed she really did become our little pumpkin as she suffered from jaundice but soon she was back to a more pinkish coloring.

It is hard to believe it has been 12 years since she came into our lives in some ways it seems the blink of an eye and in other ways it seems she has always been with us.

I hope she knows how much her Mama and Daddy love her. I hope she knows that we will always be there for her no matter what. I hope she knows that God loves her more and that He will always be there for her too! I hope she understands that tough times never last but tough people do. I hope she knows that being tough isn't being mean. I hope she loves and laughs hard.

She is a beautiful girl with an equally beautiful heart and in case you don't know:


WE LOVE HER A LOT!

Football Season Continues

Looks like the Cowboys are trying to get out of the vacuum business....Good for them but the Aggies are trying for a Vacuum Superstore or something! Come on Ags!!!

Boo Hoo

Come on Guys! You are breaking a Texas Aggie's heart here!

Rejoice!

If you follow me on FB, you have already heard this but for those of you that are not on FB. Today as I was engaging in some retail therapy to help celebrate that Sept. is my birthday month, I lost one of my favorite earrings. It was a silver dangle with a purple stone. My husband and I had purchased them in Hawaii and gave them to my Mom. When Mom passed away, I started wearing the earrings...every time I wore anything purple. Both my Mom and I loved the color purple, so it makes me really happy to wear these earrings....even though I don't usually wear silver. Anyway, while trying on clothes I realized I had lost one of them. We looked all over the store and when we did not discover the earring, I left my name and phone number in case it turned up.

I was really pretty depressed because I was not 100% sure I had lost it in that particular store and knew it was gone forever if I had lost it in the Mall that I had visited just before going to this store. The family went out to the hardware store to pick up some paint tonight and when I got home there was a message on the answering machine saying they had found my earring.

So...Rejoice with me, for that which was lost has been found!

Just Monkeying Around!

Thought a change was in order. We are all crazier than a barrel of monkeys so thought the blog should reflect that! Hope to get my last two rooms of carpet completed tomorrow afternoon, so we can finally get everything put back where it belongs. School begins here on Monday. Daughter is not happy but Mama is very happy! Daughter is high maintenance and Mama is rather laid back.....it has been a long summer!

Tomorrow AM we take a tour of the Middle school and learn all the ends and outs of having a 6th grader.

All the other Monkeys have gone to bed so it's my turn now. C U L8R!

Just Monkeying

Oldie but Goodie!

We have two ends with a common link,
with one we sit, with one we think.
Success depends on which we use,
Heads we win, tails we lose!

Life Goes On.....Even When It's 100+ Outside

I don't know how it is where you are but here it is HOT, HOT, HOT! Did I meantion that is is HOT here?

It has been a busy few weeks housewise here. We have had ceramic tile placed in our laundry room, garage entry way, guest bath and upstairs bath. I can now say there is no vinyl in my house. We had the dry wall guy come out and patch several holes in the wall. We found a huge on behind the cabinet in the guest bath when we removed it to have the tile installed, since the new sink vanity sits up on legs we needed to have the wall fixed and we finally had the hole from the dryer vent problem repaired. Lastly we had new carpet installed all the house. Except that they measured wrong and did not have enough carpet to finish the job, so we are waiting on ordered carpet so they can finish up.

We still have a lot of work to do to put the house back together and finish the renovations to the guest bath but things are looking much better around here. It makes me SMILE!

Praying for Stellan!

Poor little Stellan is back in the hospital again and not doing well, please pray for him and his family!

In Case You Were Wondering.....

Those of you who follow me on Facebook, already know that last week my totally well behaved and trained dog, Maggie chewed up my $6000 Cochlear Implant Processor! Fortunately when I got the implant they gave me two different processors....a dark brown one to match my hair (at the time at least) and a lighter colored one that was closer to my skin color. The first picture is my remaining processor, so you can see what it looks like when it is in one piece.


The next two pictures are what we found on the floor.







GRRRRRRRRR!

Jon and Kate plus 8

It all just makes me so sad!