ARUGH! A Pirate's Life for ME!

o.k. I am sure you are all thinking i have lost my mind with the title of this blog, but alas I have not (at least not yet!)

Here is the story in a round about way!

A few weeks ago my husbands Great Aunt passed away. She was 93. She was a wonderful lady whom served the Lord all of the days of her life. She was saved when she was 5 years old. I had known her for my enitre life as I went to the same church as she did as a young child. She watched me as a baby in the church nursery, I was one of her bible quizzing students when I was about 11 years old, then I went and married her sister's husband's great grand-son. So she became family. The one thing I remember the most about Aunt Lela was her smile and her laugh, she always seemed to be happy. I can still picture it today even though she is gone and I had not seen her in over 15 years. She will be dearly missed, but we all know she is most happy now with Jesus.

Well at her visitation and funeral we saw both friends and family, some of which we had not seen in 15 years. All of them asked about our family, the kids and wanted to see pictures. The bad mom I am, I had none with me. So I made it a point to print some up and keep with me at all times for just such an event. I also uploaded a bunch to my facebook for my family and friends to see. I discovered that many of the people I had lost touch with were on Facebook, so I now talk to them and see them through that.

Well as I was going through the pictures I came across one of my youngest son, Michael who is almost 11. He is the baby and well he is a tiny little peanut. He wears a size 7, he is in third grade and about the size of an average 1st grader. He is obessed with Pirates, and wanted to be one for Halloween last year. I came across a cute costume, added a bit of accent pieces and well this is what he looked like. I remember this day so well. He came home from school and wanted to play outside in his costume. He did not know I was watching him,and taking pictures (eventually he figured it out) and it was so cute to see him "fight" the other pirates. The two of us love to sit on the couch and "snuggle" and watch Pirates-3-I love Jonny Depp as an actor and well he just loves the whole thing. So today that it was I decided to blog about-A Pirate's Life for Me!

ARUGH!

Christy

Is it just me or is Winter hanging on forever??

This is going to be one of those random post, the ones where I really just need to "get it off my chest!"

I am offically done with Winter. Mother nature did you hear me? I am finished! I have had my fill and now I am ready to move on to Spring. I heard the birdies cheerping today for the first time, that is a good sign. Maybe they were just happy to see Mr. Sunshine as he had not made and appearence in how many days????? I do not know I lost track! The cold is now mundane, the snow is well useless, and I am ready for warmer weather. Yeah, I know I hear some of you saying well take a vacation, or it's not cold here where I live. If you have ever suffered through a Winter in Michigan than you know what I am talking about.

I need warm (not hot) just warm like 65 degrees, the sun shinning, the birds singing, the grass green, the daffidols up, the garage sales starting, get the idea?

Hopefully all of my wishes and drerams will come true. I have re-read this and I must say it sounds like it is all about me and well I admit it does, but somedays it needs to be.

As a whole though this is not the kind of person I am, but today it is.
The next post will be diffrent, I promise!
Till next time,
Christy

Living in a Winter Wonderland

BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE!

Yes folks it sure is cold here in the Winter Wonderland of MIchigan. They cancelled school today because the temps were so cold! With the wind chill we were at negative 25. Even us Michiganders who may love the winter, do not like it when it is this cold out. However, when always trying to find a bright spot in everything, it sure can be beautiful. I have taken a picture from my front porch for you all to see. It was taken eailer this week and it was so beautiful, all white, quite and pristine looking. It is on mornings like this when you know God is close to you. He is showing you His beauty, it is up to us to stop, realize this and take it in and reflect.

So I leave you with this beautiful picture, God's handiwork, not Mother Nature's.

Till next time,

Christy