Happy Thanksgiving

Posted on 11/18/07 at 2:56 am to Clipping's

Hi ya’ll.  Sorry for being mia.  I think it is pretty understandable where I have been though.  A lot going on.  Finally got Mom’s stuff all moved out and into a storage unit.  It is so hard.  Holidays are going to be plumb awful.  I am tyring not to think like that but I cannot seem to help it.  Just the other day I realized that I did not have Mom’s stuffing recipe.  I have been upset since.  It is just a plain jane recipie but we liked it.  And she made it special for her and I every year.  It still seems so unreal sometimes and others it feels like I litterally have the breath knocked out of me.  Then I think of Pat and how Christmas Eve we always went over there and all…it is just going to be so weird this year.  I am going to try and make Christmas really special this year for the kids.  But Thanksgiving is just too much to ask.  So I begged Allan to not make me cook or go anywhere…I just do not feel like it.  Aren’t I awful?  We ARE going to go to Gatlinburgh (for the first time in 15 years since our honeymoon so I am actually looking forward to that and taking the kids to Dixie Stampede and Comedy Barn and all those neato places) and then Georgia to visit Allan’s Aunt and Uncle and to minister there.  So we will take a week off and just ‘vacate’.  LOL  Please pray for us.

I saw this the other day and it truly made me laugh.  I want to share it.  It did my heart good…

ROTFLMBO and ROTFLMBO some more

Wasn’t that cute????

Ok, gonna get.  I dunno when I will post again.  Lots been going on…Love to you all and thanks again for your understanding and your emails and tags.  I truly appreciate it.  Makes me smile when I see your tag and comment.  God bless.

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Still here…

Posted on 11/01/07 at 9:12 pm to Clipping's

Thanks for all the well wishes.  I sure need it.  Trying to get things settled here.  Mom’s funeral was nice.  I made up a slide show.  If I can figure out how to put it on here I would show you.  But I have no clue how to do that nor the time to research how to do it. 

   

I also had a couple of songs played…here is one…

How You LIve

Wish you were here and lyrics here.

I did daisies everywhere.  I got pics but they are too morbid for some folks.  I was hesitant taking them but I totally regreat not taking pics at Pat (my mother in law) at her funeral in August.  I wish I would have so very badly.  I am glad I took pics at moms too.  Even though she looked so different.  She looked nice. 

I am having rough days and ok days.  I would appreciate your prayers.  I just feel so awful.  Tired.  Worn out.  Relieved she is not suffering…but guilty that she is gone.   Trying to get her estate settled and her apartment stuff moved into storage.  And you know what???  I just do not feel like doing anything.  I realize I need to get myself out of this funk but I just cannot seem to right now.

I think we are going to go on a vacation here soon.  The girls need it.  Poor things.  They have had such an awful year too.  Bless their hearts.

Saturday we are planning on moving quite a bit.  I am not looking forward to it at all.

Anywho, I have a ton of cards from co-workers of moms and things.  It is so nice.  The hospice facility had 3 contributors on moms behalf and that is really touching as well.  That center was such a Godsend.  I appreciate them so much.  Everyone was above and beyond nice and talk about swanky!!!!!  Mom deserved that.

You know who made the most impact on me besides my uncle and my two cousins?  My Father in Law.  Allan’s dad.  He came to the showing with Leah, my mother in law’s daughter.  That really touched me.  Leah also came to the hospital way back when I had Shekinah…see, we were pregnant together then.  Both with girls.  She lost her baby with the same thing that happened with my Silas.  About 3 days before I had Shekinah but yet she came to the hospital to see us!!!!!  Now she came to my mom’s showing when she just lost her mother.  How sweet is that?  Anywho, Floyd…(Allan’s Dad)  He came and cried with me and held me.  It just meant so much.  I guess because he just went through this and knew how much I loved Pat and how now I lost both my moms within 2 months of each other.  Both of them sick and dying at the same time and all…horrible stuff to say the least.

Mom’s best friends have been there as well.  What great people.  People ALL say mom was a good listener and friend.  She told my girls and I in letters that shw wrote to be opened upon her death to be good friends to others.  To listen.  Oma (her mother) taught her that.

Anywho, thar ya go.  My life in a nutshell so far.  I am talking all over the place…

The holidays are going to be really hard to say the least.

I gotta get.  Have a meeting in a few minutes and Shekinah has to resume piano lessons in a couple of hours.  As they say, Life goes on whether we want it to or not…

Thank heavens I know the Lord.  And better yet, He knows me.

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