Celebrating our Freedom – Happy Memorial Day!
Our Memorial Day weekend has been consumed with graduation activities, and that means the end of a school year and the beginning of a summer of FREEDOM. Freedom is a word thrown around that means WE WANT OUR RIGHTS and OUR FREEDOM to live like we want to live; FREEDOM to know we are safe…
Living – Laughing – Loving
I am in my sweet spot. I have all my family together here in Austin, and if that weren’t enough, Shawntel’s family is here too! I said, yesterday, that my blogs about graduation had come to an end since Brennan’s graduation commencement was last night. Today I am talking about the aftermath of graduation! The…
Dear Bright Eyes
For my godson who is graduating today, my grandson who graduates next week and all graduates:Dear Bright Eyes!You are about to graduate. It feels like you know everything. But what is actually true, you know a little, so it is really important to keep learning. Make every new day a learning experience – learning about…
MAY it Be
We celebrated May 1st as the start of a very full month of activities. What a blessing it was to kick it off with attending our Texas Governor’s Prayer Breakfast. May 2nd, Brennan’s exciting baseball season ended. We were happy they won their district playoffs. Next baseball season will be at University of Mary Hardin…
Keep On Keeping On
This precious man’s photo is my inspiration for today. Just a month ago, yesterday, his Mama joined him in heaven. What a celebration that must have been! Heaven is a wonderful place. It seems to get sweeter every time I hear of someone’s loved one getting to go there. Faith & Grief support groups serve…
This Love Seems Cray Cray!
I am still enjoying all the graduation and award photos being posted by proud parents and grandparents. But let’s be real! Those parents deserve plenty of acclamation! Their photos should be posted for the sacrifices they made in getting their children here: so much time commitment with car rides, early morning lunch prep, nightly homework…
Congrats Grads 🎈🎈Oh the Places You Will Go!
I have thoroughly enjoyed the photos of kindergartners to college graduates, along with the accolades that you moms and dads, friends and family members have been posting. No question — Graduation Day is exciting, sweet and, oftentimes, combined with fear and trepidation about what the future holds. “Where are they going? What are they going…
When All is Said and Done
I just finished updating the “Important ‘After the Fact’ documents to make matters easier to be closed and dispersed” for my children. No, I am not planning a sooner than later departure from earth to heaven, but in the grand scheme of God’s plans, I want to help alleviate family concerns should the “sooner” come…
This is OUR Season
I drove by this graduation-decorated car at McDonald’s yesterday. I turned around to take the photo of it as I knew a blog would be forthcoming! What a way to start a graduation day — having a hearty meal at McDonald’s! I can only imagine what else this day would hold for their student. My…
Living in the Land of the Living
It is the 16th of November, and the year is 2010. A gentle breeze comes in our bedroom window as if to say: “It’s a wonderful world out here!” The melodious sounds of Oklahoma’s many varieties of birds capture our attention. In the near distance, we see the fish doing back-flips in our little lake,…