Aahhh.

I am digging the new blog template feature. Or maybe it isn't new but just newly discovered by me. A breath of fresh air it is.

Now

I love this time of day on a Saturday - Brantley is napping peacefully, Matt is at the farm getting some pent up stir craziness out, and I get me time. Thanks to my neighbor Abby I now have *i*Tunes* to keep me happy during me time. I have had an *i*Pod* for years now with a whopping 7 songs on it - 7 songs that we played over and over again. Now a whole new world has opened up and I am lovin' it! Abby left me with a stack of CDs to download - most of the music I would never purchase on my own but I am so happy to get to add it to my growing collection. Currently getting mushy listening to Marc Cohn's True Companion - ahhhh.

My other newly discovered love are books on CD- at least this book on CD: The Help. I cannot wait to get in the car by myself so I can listen to it. Bliss.

With the weather hot as blazes, about the only thing we can do outside is eat popsicles on the front porch. We were using popsicles as a reward for pooping on the potty but I swear she started creating poop from nothing just to get one. And now that I am fully addicted to them myself, the only thing she has to do to get one is pass a bathroom. Oh, B walked by a potty? Popsicles all around!! I seriously love this time on the front porch with the dogs running around and B constantly asking me to make her more juice. Bare feet, sweating, the pure joy on her face. Sometimes we get lucky and a massive thunderstorm will roll through. Then we get the added bonus of screaming every time a big boomer roars. Yesterday I literally jumped 2 feet in the air - kind of like that time with Doug and the armadillo...

Now is good.

These Faces

These little people...

reminded us all of what this man...

helped create. And spread a little joy when our hearts were breaking from having to say good-bye to him too soon.

I've learned that some of my best memories are made during the saddest times of my life. Maybe because that is one of the two circumstances when my whole family gathers together. This picture, for instance, is one of my all time favorites - taken on the playground of Houston Hospice.

Nammy really needed that kiss right then. I'm glad B was there to give it to her.

Easter

Glorious weather, glorious time with family, glorious time sowing some seeds, glory be to God.

The Beautiful and The EEEEKK!!

The Beautiful:

The EEEEKKK!

Brantley found this guy enjoying his dinner on our front walk. I am trying to find my big girl panties but am not having much luck.

I Will Not Be Discouraged, It Does Not Have To Be Perfect

So, I posted an old draft of a post and this Blog thing is smart enough to put it in the order in which it was created. However, it isn't smart enough to put a space where I enter a space. Or change the font size when I change the font size. Whatever, Blog. You are not going to get me down when I've only just begun - again.

Let's Back This Bus Up.

I have been shamed (very thankfully so!) into vamping this blog up again. So we're off! Again!

I've spent a few moments reading some old posts and I will admit a few tears have been shed. Take for instance the 18 month update - I had completely forgotten all of those little tidbits. You think you will remember. But you don't. Thus the beauty of the blog.

And I had started some posts that were never posted so I'll get those up shortly. They are old but I'm in charge here and we're throwing sensibility and order out the window! Crazy, I know.

Here we go...
xoxo