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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Memorial Card

Here is the prayer that will be on my Grandma's Memorial Card. I really like it. "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary but what is unseen is eternal. None of us lives to himself and none of us dies to himself. If we live, we... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

I will miss you, Grandma

Its been a long few days? A week? I'm not quite sure. My Grandmother passed away today after being sick in the hospital for a week. I am grateful to have made it down to see her last Friday while she was still somewhat alert. She was on some kind of very forceful oxygen mask so it was hard to understand what she was saying, but when I found myself alone with her for an hour or so, I felt like it was more important to take the mask off of her for a minute or so at a time to let her express what... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 13, 2009

A Slump

Feeling like my blogs are really boring and wondering if I should just totally quit this blog it thing. Problem is, it's paid for for the year. So I might as well keep it. I think I need to get a life, so that I have something to write about. What does everyone else do when they go through a slump like this? Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Lego Red and No Bed

Tomorrow we hit the paint again. But this time, Lego Red. In my son's room. We emptied his room out tonight. His dressers, shelves etc...We even took down his loft bed. He has decided that he likes sleeping bags and he doesn't want a bed anymore. Well, ok, we can store it in the shed. He's so excited that he's having a hard time sleeping tonight. I think it's really cute....and it makes me feel good to be able to help make these kinds of memories for him. The work of painting tomorrow will seem... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Delete It

My son and I were working on his math today. I wrote something...a mistake... and turned to pick up the eraser. My son said, "Yeah, mom...just delete it." It took me a second to realize what he had said. Wow-it's definitely the computer generation. Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, March 9, 2009

Lego Red

We were going to get up early to finish painting today. So much for that idea...its already 8:30 and we are just getting moving. The sun is out today...good lighting for painting. For seeing all those spots we miss. Hopefully we can finish up the dining room today, take a three day break and then start on my son's room on Friday. He chose Lego Red for his walls.... and a Lego border. My husband "balked" at the red idea at first, until I reminded him that Sam will only be a boy once. What neat... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 8, 2009

Painting and Talking

Painting the dining room was a lot of work over the past couple of days. But a lot of fun too. My husband and I kept the radio off and just painted and talked, painted and talked. A friend called and asked if she could take the three younger ones.... for the night. Of course!! Who would turn that down? So our older two girls were able to have some quiet time to themselves. And my husband and I had some quiet time to just paint and talk. And the dining room is turning out beautifully. We should... Sign in to see full entry.

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Muted Pear Green and Goose Eggs

Painting in our dining room is underway, and do you believe that just how the kids got sick when we painted the living room, they are sick again? OR injured? My husband's heavy keyboard fell on my 7 year old's toe. Her entire nail is black. She had me up last night because it was hurting so bad and I think we may take a trip to the E.R. this morning to see if we can have the pressure relieved in it. I hear they can poke a hot needle through the nail to make a hole? Also, she had an upset stomach... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 6, 2009

Decisions

Decisions to be made....which I thought I had already made. But I keep rethinking and rethinking and have even been "given permission" to tweak things and submit ideas that might be to my benefit. How many people ever get a chance like this? So my brain is pondering and thinking and creating -- to the point that I am exhausted. I feel like I need to just "set it down". I need to just leave it and let it unfold the way it is supposed to. I think it just may be pretty amazing, in the end, to look... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Looking toward Spring

It is March....the weather shrieks mid January. I walked out of the house this morning into a swirling windstorm of snow flurries, and frankly, it was quite depressing. Interesting how my mood changes over the Winter. When we first close the yard up in late Fall, I am excited. Excited about the upcoming coziness of long dark days, the silence of snow blanketed yards, the warmth of flickering candles, roasting fireplaces and heated blankets. I look forward to the sight of my 7 year old Elizabeth... Sign in to see full entry.

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My life often seems like a fragmented piece of fabric, all jumbled and mixed up. And yet, I realize that is because there are so many things that are important to me. Love for my kids, my desire to write, my "obsession" with the unexplainable and the sentimental, my desire to take "the road less traveled". All of these are threads of my life, each beautiful and simple in its own way. And all together, they make up the fabric of who I was, who I am and who I am becoming.

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