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And The Heart Grows

by admin on March 24, 2010 in Bits Of My Personality, Life Keeps Changing, People In My Heart with No comments
There is always room in a persons heart.
The heart is strong and will easily grow.

This growth is fertilized by love and is there for unlimited.

For ever one involved, this weekend was important. For Dad this was a weekend of healing and hope. For sure his cancer diagnosis made meeting his daughters all the more vital! I can’t speak for my brothers but for me it felt like a piece of the puzzle put into place. There was no weird feelings, they just kinda clicked with the family. My sisters are clearly and obviously blood! I am so happy for all of us, that we can have these amazing women in our lives!

Love sprang forth so quickly. My Dad is not one to gush but he had to express over and over how he was proud of them and impressed with them and ultimately how his heart had grown so much in one weekend thanks to finally reconnecting with them. I know they easily fit right into my heart as well and when we took them to the airport this morning all I could think was how I already missed them.

How much can you say about a sibling before it crosses over to vanity and self flattery? Oh I would like to go to that line for them! As impossible as it is to really compare my brothers so it is with Amber and Kathleen. They are uncomparible. Each beautiful, strong and more then we could have hoped. Saying good bye at the airport brought the love gushing forth from my heart. When Kathleen hugged me good bye I didn’t want to let her go! She is so strong and inviting! When Amber cried I couldn’t help but cry too! She is so sweet and wise! Okay, officially gushing and smacking face first into that line!

I am so happy for my Dad.

TTFN

Waiting For A Plane

by admin on March 24, 2010 in Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Life Keeps Changing, People In My Heart with No comments
What do you do with all that energy while you wait for the airplane to land? You get your kids to color a sign. Not just any sign, THE sign that will welcome their long lost aunties into our world! ‘To show them we love them.’ said Big Girl. (she has already since taken the sign to school for show and tell!)Just Big Boy and Big Girl came to the airport with me. We where so nervous we got a drink and a donut at the airport Tim’s and sat down to watch the planes landing and departing.Big Boy was thrilled with the planes and we couldn’t believe it when he actually spotted THE plane land that carried his aunties. We all rushed to the arrival gate, sign in hand and hearts in our throats.Our reunion began. This picture is of my oldest brother meeting the actual oldest child of the clan!

(Here the kids are standing behind Papa and one of the long lost aunties. My kids where thrilled by the luggage pick up area and had to be pulled away.)

We where all full to bursting when Amber and Kathleen arrived. There where hugs and lots of talking as we all dealt with the initial confusion of actually being in one anothers midst. You see these reunions on tv all the time but to have ones own was surreal. We didn’t know how to do it or plan it but it all just went on around us… all of us just moved through it and let the reunion just come and happen.

WELCOME Amber and Kathleen to our clan!

TTFN

Sad

by admin on March 9, 2010 in Bits Of My Personality, People In My Heart with 3 Comments
(Look at that sunbeam! Wishing for such a glow on my rocker today…)

As soon as I got home from the mom’s group I go to I took off my nice outfit and put on the comfies… which apparently isn’t a word so how about frumpies…, reached for the ‘I’m sad’ comforting grey sweater because being sad always leaves me chilled. I wanted to make my favorite curry egg salad sandwich and have it with pickles but I was already too tired to make it and the chocolate bar was just sitting there in my fridge…where did you come from? Oh well, I know where you are going! A cup of tea and a bowl of cinnamon smothered granola is all I can handle preparing right now and then I have to hit the rocking chair… a nap is on the horizon… I am going to curl up in the fetal position and wish there was a sunbeam to warm me up instead of a cloudy damp day that encourages my mood.

It all comes from crying all morning…

Which resulted from another fight with my eldest…

Which makes my Mama heart want to break…

So emotional I kept tearing up at mom’s group over the littlest things… I cried on the way home because there was an emotional song on the radio (had nothing to do with my circumstances but he sure sounded passionate and sad).

It isn’t a crushed kinda sad, in fact I feel very far removed from depression… I just get tired when I cry hard and then the tears keep sneaking out the rest of the day sometimes. I saw the victory and the hope… before she left today we where able to hug and share kisses… The patch up job came from a strength beyond me, it came from Jesus and I am so grateful today for his direct interest in my family dynamics and relationships!

Well my tea is ready and the granola is calling my name…

TTFN

Victoria Awake (the album)

by admin on March 8, 2010 in Better Check Out Links, Music Flavor, People In My Heart with No comments

How can I not announce this for my big brother and gush a bit! I am so proud of Aaron (my brother) and Mike, a long time family friend, they are just so creative and passionate about their music!

Check out the above link and then feel free to support my older brother and his pal Mike by purchasing the new Victoria Awake album “High Hopes & Half Smiles”. The album is a minimum $6 purchase, but this site allows you to name your price and tip if you’re feeling generous. You also get to chose from several high quality audio formats. Don’t feel like buying …right now, you can stream the entire album from beginning to end online for free! Avoiding iTunes for the time being in order to avoid excessive admin costs.

TTFN

Sisters

by admin on February 23, 2010 in Bits Of My Personality, Life Keeps Changing, People In My Heart with 3 Comments
This winter will for ever be the winter that my sisters found us.

My Dad had not been in contact with them for almost 35 years. They didn’t even know we existed (we being my brothers and I, their half siblings). A call to the right Al and they found him. That lead them to connecting with Aaron, Jesse and I on facebook and it has all lead to us planning to get together!

There have been many emails, instant message chats and long phone calls as we all get to know one another. There has even been skypeing!

You walk around thinking you live a boring kinda life compared to others and then something like this happens. I didn’t know if I would ever meet them. Always hoped but didn’t try to believe to much…

At first you think, wow life is complicated, and then you realize perhaps it was more complicated to not have this all worked out… maybe this is JUST RIGHT!

p.s. Related to this post weeks ago: Two new people, important people, have appeared in my world and they come with questions and emotions and we, who are involved, are all trying to digest it all slowly and embrace the wonder of it all. Perhaps I will share more in the future but right now it still feels bigger then life!

TTFN

Thoughts From My Cozy Spot

by admin on February 2, 2010 in Bits Of My Personality, People In My Heart with 1 Comment


My rocking chair and ottoman are waiting for me… waiting for me to put my feet up and drink my creamy tea, eat my sandwich and just sit! Started reading ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ yesterday. I love classic novels and there are so many I haven’t read yet! I might sit and read about Tess or I might continue reading the chapter in Leviticus I am trying to work through… I might just fall asleep.

Don’t worry about tomorrow for today has troubles of its own… Tomorrow is my monthly trip to Costco, thankfully the kids are having a play date while I go. The next day I need to make 8 loaves of bread… today… today I am gonna sit (now that I am done wee college for the day).

I am so tired that every time I sit down to blog about the important stuff going on my eyes start to hurt. I have been staying up late way to often lately, and missing my naps… Two new people, important people, have appeared in my world and they come with questions and emotions and we, who are involved, are all trying to digest it all slowly and embrace the wonder of it all. Perhaps I will share more in the future but right now it still feels bigger then life!

But for now I will sit in my cozy spot, snack, read perhaps, and think quiet thoughts (kids are napping and the phone turned off) until I drift off into a delicious nap!

TTFN

B.F.F. Cook Books!

by admin on January 26, 2010 in Bits Of My Personality, Domestic Damsel, People In My Heart with 2 Comments

If you find the right cook book it can complete you (wink). I have a few old faithfuls, warn and stained but so loved! Amongst this respected collection is a work put together by the woman’s ministry team at my old church in Waldheim, and another is from Grandma Hicks, made by an organization she was part of. I adore my ‘Meno‘ books; one was sold at Ten Thousand Villages years ago and is called ‘More With Less’, the second was my Grandma Smith’s and it is called ‘Food that Really Schmecks‘. Company’s Coming series is always great too! I have many prettier books but these ones have proven themselves above and beyond!

Today I was blessed by a package in the mail box! I love receiving packages, especially surprise ones! Inside was a lovely copy of ‘Deceptively Delicious’ from my sister Casey. I had been eyeing up this lovely book for a while now but kept putting off buying it, so I was thrilled to receive a copy. The concept is simple, mix in surprise elements to your cooking that make the meal delicious but very healthy! With Baby Boys anti-veggie-super-powered-tongue in full gear of late I have become very sneaky already… grating carrots into tomato sauce or meat loaf, even gone as far as adding pureed veggie soups to his smoothies! However, I am always in need of more ideas so I am excited to crack open this book and learn some new tricks! It is like welcoming a new friend into my home. If it proves faithful the book can remain on the self of respect along with my other ‘bff‘ cook books

THANK YOU so very much dearest CASEY! I appreciate your thoughtfulness so very much!

TTFN

I Am From!

by admin on January 26, 2010 in Better Check Out Blogs, Better Check Out Links, Bits Of My Personality, Life Keeps Changing, People In My Heart with 5 Comments

For E-Mom… This is the best I could do, thought about it for a few days and when you commented today I thought I should just put it up…

I am from cheese cloth, from co-op freshie and early’s seeds.

I am from the forest; a sleepy, weedy creek meandering towards my future.

I am from the bed rock, the wild pink rose.

I am from evening family Bible studies, days full of milking goats, chopping wood, harvesting corn and fire-y tempers;

From Robin and Katherine and Nanny.

I am from big talkers, and bigger singing voices!

From ‘you alone decide you will be happy’ and ‘family must work and play together’.

I am from Holy Ghost filled folk, revival tent meetings and Bible thump’n, Jesus lov’n parents!

I’m from the great white north, Scottish pride, Irish wit, Welsh respect and a little English that they will not admit, shortbread like grandma always made it and pans of venison lasagna from my mom’s heart to our stomachs shined at every occasion, especially my wedding!

From the grandmother who was the first in town to wear pants and the mother who traded in her high heals and comfy bank job for the army. Grandmother was a feminine tomboy and down right practical. Her garden boots just went better with pants! Mother had a lot to prove due to her small size and reputation as a girly-girl, no one would dare call either that now!

I am from Grandma Smith’s quilt on my couch, Her earrings in my jewelry box, Mom’s red dress coat in my closet and anything else that speaks to me of the strong women in my line. They speak, reminding me to be as brave and determined as my grandmother, as open and true as my mom and as beautiful in spirit as my daughters.

TTFN

Love/Heart/Cake

by admin on January 24, 2010 in People In My Heart with No comments
Yesterday my mother in law dropped off two batches of these beauties! Made, with love, for my Big Girl! Just in time for her first sleep over party. She and her guest enjoyed them immensely! This love act for my daughter was greatly appreciated and I considered it an act of love towards me as well! THANKS GRAMS!


TTFN

Contentment; A Train Of Thought Sprung From A Visit

by admin on January 22, 2010 in Life Keeps Changing, My Year of Right Sacrifice-TIME, People In My Heart with No comments
(Nanny and Papa, at the beach with all of the kids and grand-kids, this past summer!)

My folks where in town the last two days. A pretty quick trip, kind of an unexpected trip, due to some appointments they had in my city. I will take what ever I can get where visits with them are concerned. Living so far away from them is a constant prick at my heart. I adore my mom and dad!

I think everyone has things in their life that where not what they planned and perhaps where exactly what they where determined wouldn’t happen but LIFE HAPPENS. The grass is always greener in our unfulfilled dreams! We have to realise we romanticize our dreams, or I wanted to’s, and then because of that can fall into brooding in an unfairly harsh way about our present situation. Every time, step, stage, in life has its good things and its negatives. Likewise, every dream we have will have great things and hard things. Whether we get our way or not we will face good and bad and must find a way to be content.

Contented — gratified, pleased, happy.

1TIMOTHY 6:6 “But godliness with contentment is great gain”

I try hard to enjoy every stage I am in in my life. Many of the treasures it had will not be found in next and new stages and I will miss them, especially if I took them for granted! I love to move on in life with a heart full of memories, because I embraced the last step on the road of life and enjoyed it, with this load of happy memories there is no room for regrets!

TTFN

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