Seeds of Peace

If you are wise and understand God's ways prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don't cover up the truth with boasting and lying. For jealousy and selfishness are not God's kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind. But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere. And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness. James 3:13-18

My Day...

The earth has made 51 revolutions around the sun today… in my lifetime. I, along with Mattel’s Barbie, am 51 years young and life is good. The temperature is in the low 60’s today, the sun is shining, and there is a slight breeze. I still have a very hard time with the passing of my sister Janel last October, but I must keep going, stay busy, and look forward to tomorrow.

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Here are a couple pictures of Janel on the left in the top picture and the right on the bottom picture with her best friend Chelle and her sister Joy Shearer.

Thank you so much Chelle for posting the pictures of Janel. I hope you don’t mind that I copied them. They are such wonderful pictures and are so precious to me. God bless you!

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I love my husband! What would I do without him? He is such a hard worker and the greatest husband. He cleans house, washes clothes, works outside in the yard, cooks, pays the bills, etc, etc, etc. I cannot say enough about this man. It’s not that he does everything and I do nothing, it’s that we do things together as a team. He has such a great sense of humor and we have so much fun together. When we got married five years ago, the only thing I really wanted him to learn how to do was the checkbook. Not that he had to do it, because I enjoy doing it myself. I just wanted him to know how to take care of it in case something happened to me. Well, he does that now too… I’ve created a monster! Oh, and thanks for the birthday card honey!

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I find myself being a bit bored lately wishing I had a few children running around the house to chase after or interact with. Grandchildren are so much fun, but I don’t see them enough to satisfy my craving. I suppose us having children at our age is out of the question (though we have talked about it). So, I need to find something to fill the void. What can it be??? Carl says “No pets!” I feel a small dog would be a nice companion. Cats are fun, but I don’t like the smell of kitty litter. My parents say a bird is too messy and fish would be too much of a bother. I suppose I’ll just settle for watching the finches outside our window and trying to get the squirrels to eat out of my hand.

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The only misfortunate thing that has happened today is that I found one of my little buddies… a squirrel, apparently zapped by the transformer at the top of a pole out front of our house. I went to check the bushes and vines and there he lay. He might have been killed before the snowfalls that we have had and I just hadn’t noticed him. In any case, that is three squirrel deaths in the last two years by the same transformer. Can’t the electric company put anything up there, like a shield, to prevent their “death by electrocution?”

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Thanks mom and dad for the wonderful birthday celebration on Sunday and your rendition of Happy Birthday on the phone today. You both are SO very special to me. Thanks to my precious daughters, Ayesha and Megan and their “well wishes” today, and to my granddaughter Faith singing Happy Birthday over the phone this morning on her way to school. Also, my beautiful sister Elaine...I LOVE YOU!  I can’t forget my dearest friends, Laurie, Robin, Sheree, and Esther; Janel’s best friend Chelle for posting those great pictures; and all my Facebook friends. I love you all.  (Sounds like I just accepted an Oscar...Ha!)

Today was the first sign of Spring I have seen.  It was so wonderous to wake up this morning with the sunlight already peaking through the curtains.  At only 29 degrees outside, it will be another few weeks until I can wake to the sound of birds.  I am so looking forward to Spring.

Aveeno! Take me away...

Ya know, I think this is finally getting to me. I've been trying to figure this blog thing out, and I still aint got it! Copy and paste. Copy and paste some more, edit posts, page elements, fonts and colors, formatting, publishing, archiving, layouts, templates, widgets, gadgets, editing HTML.......AHHHHHHHH!

Topography Animation Project (Once again, you'll have to pause my music player.)

Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo.

Pause music on my music player first.

Drawing Heaven as seen on CNN

Faith out front of our house

Caden and Annika

This was the last BIG snowstorm we had in January. Another storm is supposed to hit this weekend. Yepee!!

 

Our Special Day

Today is our 5 year wedding anniversary!

My Blog

I've been trying to find a new background and learn how to design my blog page and I'm finding it to be a very diffictult task.  It's not only time consuming, but it's frustrating.  I will figure this thing out!

Mom's 70th Birthday

Dad, mom, Carl, Ayesha, Faith, and I all went to the Clarion Hotel in Shephardstown for brunch.  It was so nice, the nicest brunch around, between 11:00 and 2:00.  Mom enjoyed her birthday brunch, a good book, and a gift certificate to the mall.  Faith enjoyed throwing snowballs.

Oh, what a great day we had yesterday!

I asked my sister Janel to give me sign of her presence. When we went to church, one of the songs we sang were "Here I am Lord". That was the same song we sang at her memorial service. I couldn't sing a note.

Later, we had invited my parents over for dinner like we do on many Sundays and before I knew it we had Carl's two sisters, Nancy, with Mary and her husband John, over as well. We had HOGMAW! It was delicious, then we topped it off with Apple pie and ice cream. We then played a great game of dominos.

My sister Janel was so beautiful? One day we will be together again, but I miss her so much!

My husband Carl, and I are going to dinner this evening with mom and dad. I'm looking forward to it because I've only had a protein drink this morning.

I've talked to my daughter Ayesha and she was enjoying playing a game of golf with her three year old twin boys, Landon and Logan. Faith, who is six years old, is off school because of the weather. It's a bit icey outside this morning.

I lost my sister Janel Robinson to pancreatic cancer on October 26th, 2009. I miss her so much!!!