30 years ago today...
my father passed away.

Although never seeing his children grow,
He gave us wonderful footsteps to follow.

He couldn't be here and that makes me sad,
Although he left us with Jehovah I am glad.

He didn't see us in our lives,
Yet his love for us we feel inside.

He never met his grandkids 3,
But proud of them I'm sure he'd be.

Loosing dad, I deeply felt robbed,
And at times even now it makes my heart sob.

It was often hard and I felt empty and alone,
yet Jehovah never left me by the lov...
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Today, I just can't feel like I can wake up.  I don't know what is going no with me. but augh, i'm tired!

Steph just walked in with my mug of ice water.  Hang on while I take a sip... *gulp gulp gulp*.  Ok, so that was more than a sip.  I really love having such great tasting water here.  i would hate to think if we had to pay for bottled water... I mean really, i drink 2 liters a day, that would be so hard to handle.  Plus, I love ice in my water.  Wow, how boring... water?

I don't really reme...
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Today was Steph's Purse Party.  Right after we did all the scheduling and rescheduling to pic a date, and sent out emails & post cards... we get news that Todd & Julia's going away party is the same day.  We couldn't reschedule again, because it was just to hard to... so we bumped up the time to 1:30-4:   We were so worried because so many said they couldn't come because they had so much cooking to do for the party.  I had cooking to do for the party too, but i did it ahead of time. 

Anyway, ...
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ok, i thought it had been a long time since i last posted... but now, it went from Feb 10 to March 4th.  augh....
where have i been this time????

i really don't know.... lets see what i can remember

one day, the girls & i were hauling wood to the deck, but it had been very warm and a lot of snow melted, but then it got cold again, so our yard & driveway is all ice.  then it snowed a little on top of that ice. i took one hard fall and two close calls, the wood i was carrying went flying, but i s...
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